Bye bipartisanship
Baruch, Jeremiah
status of women in the church, or the role of the church in the face of social oppression. Nonetheless, the chances of facing such differences, thoughtfully, prayerfully, and in ultimate unity,...
...Polemic breeds sourness and self-righteousness...
...1957), states that in evaluating the extent to which bipartisanship is possible in foreign policy, "it must be remembered that the case for two-party cooperation rests in large measure upon a myth . . . . The myth alluded to here is that the problems confronting the nation may be clearly divided into foreign and domestic questions, and that while the former must be approached on a bipartisan basis, the latter are properly left to the interplay of partisan influences...
...11, 1949...
...Is this the underground fantasy life of another generation growing up absurd, or merely the attention-grabbing projection of jaded promoters in Hollywood and New York suites...
...581, 609 (1888...
...Salvadoran refugees SEEKING SANCTUARY A SPECIAL DUTY FOR THE U.S...
...Reagan did not point out that a crucial component of the Central American Commission's highly touted bipartisan consensus was the strongly conditional language affecting aid to E1 Salvador...
...Reagan belted Congress over Lebanon, stating that "the subsequent second-guessing about whether we ought to keep our men there severely undermined our policy...
...Fears of arbitrary Vatican actions inhibit candid criticism and thoroughgoing discussion of controversial authors or lines of thought that are under fire from Rome...
...United Press reporter Iohn Steele, who later helped edit Vandenberg's diary, stated that the price of the senator's bipartisanship "was very high indeed...
...The list of refugee admissions and grants of asylum are still dominated by those from Communist countries...
...history where individual citizens have carried out their own alien admission system for reasons other than economic gain...
...According to Time, sixty-three percent of the video audience is under twenty-five, but other surveys suggest the majority is under twelve...
...Catholicism has always been tragically, but also gloriously, messy -- not least of all in its contests of ideas that matter...
...But it would also be dangerously counter-productive...
...As the Supreme Court reasoned in one of the earliest immigration cases, "The power of exclusion of foreigners being an incident of sovereignty belonging to the government of the United States, as a part of those sovereign powers delegated by the Constitution, the fight to its exercise at any time when, in the judgment of the government, the interests of the country re18 May 1984:295...
...For example, the seventh preference for refugees in the 1965 Immigration Act limited its humanitarian scope to those fleeing Communist nations or countries in the Middle East...
...In this January 24, 1975, speech in Los Angeles, Kissinger also kept up the executive/legislative sparring by complaining about congressional interference with ,,..1 ...1-2-~-~...~"~ trade amendments while promising that the administration would "make every effort to mee t ""ngressional concerns...
...He further claimed that "congressional wavering" on support for the recommendations of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America "can only encourage the enemies of democracy...
...Nowhere is this clearer than in the case of Salvadorans...
...Reagan...
...Another key element in the commission's recommendations, a proposed Central American Development Organization, has been substanOally weakened from its original proposed form...
...It could serve some of their short'run purposes...
...Further on in his remarks at Georgetown's Center, no doubt to ensure that he got his point across, the president repeated his principle of bipartisanship, this time as "our fourth great challenge"- "We must restore America's honorable tradition of partisan politics stopping at the water's edge...
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...and in many cases they must be preserved irrespective of whether they are true or false...
...Perhaps the bitterest and least constructive turmoil in the American church occurred in the years after Humanae Vitae, when alienation from Rome was greatest...
...quire it, cannot be granted away or restrained on behalf of anyone...
...As observed by Speaker O'Neill, among others, Ronald Reagan made his reputation "and advanced his political career" not as"a bipartisan supporter of our foreign policy but as perennial critic" on a whole range of issues from the Panama Canal to the strategic arms limitation treaty...
...As a result, Mr...
...Moreover, the recommendations have lost their consensus packaging by being incorporated into the House and Senate's annual foreign aid legislative rituals -- efforts in which members of Mr...
...Arthur Krock noted the damage bipartisanship inflicted upon the Republican party during the Truman administration, precluding Republicans from freely attacking budgetarY and tax policies: "This situation robs an opposition party of a definite program to deal with an alarming condition, and of an effective claim for being returned to office" (New York Times, Nov...
...foreign policy has been pendulum swings between congressional and executive dominance in foreign affairs), but Senator Vandenberg's views contrast Significantly with the interpretation posed by Mr...
...Authoritarian responses to disputed questions finally discredit authority...
...Have we been remiss in trying to get on with other things rather than rebutting the endless stream of accusations that comes from the angry right...
...Perhaps that battle will have to be joined...
...Will the church really gain by returning to that strife...
...The powers of the government are delegated in trust to the United States, and are incapr n.- of transfer to any other parties...
...Many Saivadorans do not seek asylum, with good reason...
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...JEREMIAH BARUCH (Jeremiah Baruch is th e pseudonym of a Washington writer with a position in government...
...Of which there is already too much in the church, like a bad hangover from a decade ago...
...He was quoted in London as warning the British about the American government's capacity to conduct foreign policy "in the face of unprecedentedly far-reaching congressional interference and obstruction," particularly citing congressional refusal to send more aid to Cambodia...
...What, besides an apparently irresistible sales pitch, are the children being fed...
...Last year the State Department granted asylum status to only 200 Salvadorans...
...In a subsequent briefing to explain Mr...
...has not...
...Notwithstanding this less than flattering characterization of his predecessor's policies, the president's call, before Geoi, getown University's Center for International and Strategic Studies on April 6, for a bipartisan foreign policy consensus has generated considerable debate not only over the role of partisanship in foreign policy, but also over the role of Congress -- if you eliminate party, who is to speak for the state...
...then Kissinger hit hard in March...
...He lamented the "rash of congressional initiatives to limit the president's authority in the areas of trade, human rights, arms sales, foreign assistance, intelligence operations, and the dispatch of troops in time of crisis...
...Individuals fleeing from non-Communist countries have not fared nearly as well...
...There are essentially two legal avenues that Salvadorans could follow in their efforts to stay in the U.S...
...Reagan's call to restore the "honorable tradition" of partisan politics stopping at the water's edge echoes Mr...
...foreign policy...
...lawfully -- asylum and extended voluntary departure...
...It was essentially a trade-off of some important executive branch prerogatives in foreign and defense policies in return for Republican support in the legislative branch . . . . . Vandenberg always drove a hard bargain...
...they sniff heresy, they want it exposed, and they want it out...
...It is in that context that the current displays of Roman authority are so troubling...
...citizens, to follow the illegal route has been the fact that the legal channels have all been closed...
...Reagan's own party have often been the spoilers...
...Within a world of interdependent communication, financing, and trade, the myth of the separation of foreign and domestic issues cannot be easily preserved...
...Unfortunately for bipartisanship, Mr...
...They cannot be abandoneo or surrendered...
...Contrary to this, the stated purpose of the Refugee Act was to look at "the plight of the refugee" herself...
...But the costs could be high...
...It was slightly less than a decade ago that, ironically, the Commission's chairman, Henry Kissinger, then Secretary of State, invited Congress to a "new national partnership" in foreign policy...
...And what of those who feel themselves, directly or indirectly, the objects of a new regimentation...
...What has forced so many Salvadorans, and also so many _9 law-abiding U.S...
...The danger of bipartisanship devitalizing the opposition was not one faced by Mr...
...McFarlane, when remintted of ] eagan's partisan past, Commonweal: 294 was quoted as saying, " I think there's been a certain evolution in his thinking...
...Senator Vandenberg, on the other hand, emphasized that foreign policy "be totally debated...
...Washington report BYE BIPARTISANSHIP MR...
...Nonetheless, the chances of facing such differences, thoughtfully, prayerfully, and in ultimate unity, have seemed to grow in recent years...
...REAGAN'S 'HONORABLE TRADITION' Then none was for a party...
...Reagan, practically within the same breath, noted that through renewed attention to this and seven other "vital principles" (realism, strength, economic growth, intelligence, shared responsibility with allies, nonaggression, and dialogue with adversaries) America has been steadily rebuilding its capacity to advance foreign policy goals, "and we will not return to the days of hand-wringing, defeatism, decline, and despair...
...18 May 1984:293 But then, in keeping with the "one-two" boxing cadence of his speech, Mr...
...Then all were for the state...
...Crabb notes that "myths are not always false...
...In this observation, Mr...
...In his April 4 televised news conference, the president's second since formally announcing his candidacy for reelection, Mr...
...Otherwise law-abiding citizens are risking upwards of five years in jail and maximum fines of $2000 in order to provide humanitarian assistance to these Salvadorans...
...For the ultra-conservatives mentioned above, the polarization that may result can only be cleansing...
...We don't know, but either way it's another form of environmental pollution...
...Reagan's call for a bipartisan consensus, national security adviser Robert McFarlane was described by the New York Times as saying that "this meant once a foreign policy is set, Congress should not publicly attack it, but express members' concern privately...
...Salvadorans have not fared any better under what is known A N ESTIMATED half million Salvadorans are currently in the United States illegally...
...As introduced by the administration, the development organization is to be headed by the administrator of the Agency of International Development (AID) -- exactly what the Commission did not want, which was a multilateral alternative to traditional government-to-government assistance, as exemplified by AID...
...If this episode is to balance out on the glorious side of the scale, it will be necessary for those under pressure to resist, yes, but to nourish that resistance out of an increasingly deep and serene attachment to the mystery of the church...
...M ACAULAY'S LINES could serve as a motto for President Ronald Reagan's call for "bipartisanship at home" as a key principle guiding U.S...
...Republican opposition to the Truman administration's foreign policy was confined "largely to the plane of generalities," according to John Campbell in his study of the period...
...Sanctuary" seems to be the first crack in this assumption...
...In accordance with this new approach, these geographical restrictions were eliminated...
...The consequence of this "activism" of the past decade, according to the president, is that "bipartisan consensus-building has become a central responsibility of congressional leadership as well a: :ecutive leadership...
...Cecil V. Crabb, Jr., in his classic study, Bipartisan Foreign Policy: Myth or Reality...
...The changes in legislative language, however, have not brought about any changes in policy practice...
...Party lines harden...
...And there's much in the videos to overdramatize the Sturm und Drang of the teenage crisis f o r younger brothers and sisters, with what effect we can only guess -- glittery limelight performers and adoring fans, raw erotic energy, images of powerlessness and rebellion, gang warfare, and parodies of the adult world...
...There are those who maintain that the high price of bipartisanship was a cost borne by the Republican party...
...The U.S...
...True, there's nothing here that Shakespeare didn't portray in Romeo and Juliet...
...With the passage of the Refugee Act of 1980 Congress made an ostensible effort to get away from the ideologically dominated refugee policies of the past...
...This is how our president has begun his call for bipartisanship...
...But th,~r,~ are also the "sick" videos: a lot of neo-Nazi strutting and dress, rampant paranoia, an image of the adult, public world as, a conspiracy to defraud and maim --~1 fantasies of women as eithercastratingfemmesfatales or degraded sex objects...
...But they walked away from it," according to commission member and former Democratic National Committee chairman Robert Strauss in an interview by the National Journal...
...videos vibrate with thwarted expectation and premature cynicism...
...A sizable portion have been aided or housed by a growing number of church groups in this country who are participating in a program known as "Sanctuary...
...Strauss states that he has refused to speak out for the administration's legislative package, the Central American Democracy, Peace, and Development Initiative Act of 1984...
...Reagan has not yet made a convincing case that it should...
...It hindered the ability of our diplomats to negotiate, encouraged more intransigence from the Syrians, and prolonged the violence...
...Once you've seen some of this (and it's not __ af it), the figures on teenage violence and suicide should come as no surprise...
...Ford's earlier nostalgia for the post-World War II bipartisan consensus embodied in Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg's oft-cited words, "I raise the fervent prayer that we may ever strive for an unpartisan American foreign policy -not Republican, not Democratic, but American -- which substantially unites our people at the water's edge in behalf of p e a c e . . . " Yet not only did this consensus fall apart during the Korean War (and recognizing that, on the contrary, the honorable tradition in the history of U.S...
...Neither has offered a glimmer of hope...
...Compare this with the 67 percent acceptance rate for Afghanis...
...Reagan...
...How willing other conservatives will be to encourage such an attitude remains to be seen...
...What should be our attitude...
...Well, for one thing, the darker side of Erik Erikson's adolescent identity confusion, which rock has always been in the business of glamorizing...
...The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has recognized Salvadorans as a group as refugees, and so have our neighbors to the north and south, Canada and Mexico...
...The second unique aspect present in this social phenomenon is that it represents one of the few instances in U.S...
...9 "Videos" may be reviving weary record and film industries, contributing their part to the current economic recovery, but Frank McConnell's question in a recent issue's "Media" column ("Infant Art," April 6) is certainly pertinent: When does "art" become a waste...
...Krock also points to a further problem of bipartisanship, namely, that foreign policy issues necessarily entail domestic policy concerns as well...
...Reagan cleared his way for a call to bipartisan consensus by attacking congressional debate over his commitment of troops to Lebanon: "You have rendered them ineffective when you conduct that kind of debate in public...
...INS data show that in 1983 only 6 percent of the Salvadorans who applied for asylum were granted it...
...President Gerald Ford followed ~ -~xt month, softening up Congress with a plea for a restoration of the bipartisan foreign policy of the forties...
Vol. 111 • May 1984 • No. 10
