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As Corny as Kansas in August Now we take you to the great Republican state of Kansas, where Democrats went kind of bonkers trying to defeat Republican House candidates. Seems that freshman...
...THERE'S MORE...
...I just don't think you—we may tie our hands more than we will achieve...
...A "professor of social welfare" at the University of Kansas denounced the Ryuns as "extremely controlling" and "very patriarchal...
...I mean, we just know that's going to happen...
...Bill Clinton is a bore...
...That's the organization whose purpose is to help men take responsibility for their wives and children by, in part, honoring "Jesus Christ through worship prayer, and obedience to God's word...
...That's what I'm worried about...
...Then you could actually wind up making the deficit worse...
...Ryun his views and intentions—as in marital intentions...
...That's how far ahead of the curve we are...
...The photographs, to put it mildly, were far from "provocative"—though the voters would have no reason to know that...
...I actually think it's cruel to send a young person to a regular college with these kinds of interdictions," said the shrimpy sexologist...
...Ruth was hauled out...
...Last summer, when Campbell was being talked up for vice president, Hollings sought to undermine him by telling reporters in which Campbell closets they might find a skeleton or two...
...My voice counts, presumably, but I don't have a vote...
...We'll find a way to deal with the amendment if the amendment—the thing I want us to do is, if you look at this global economy, look how much more economic activity was generated in America when we lowered the deficit and lowered interest rates, and it totally overwhelmed the contractionary effects of reducing the deficit by holding spending down...
...Ryun and the suitor must pray together...
...President, and those approval ratings you love so much are going to go down, down, down...
...Elsewhere in Kansas, the Olympic runner Jim Ryun ran again—for the House, as a Republican...
...So that's why I'm telling you, I'm going to be working on putting a balanced budget in there...
...The ADL Never Rests_ Congratulations to the Anti-Defamation League, which is now taking its noble mission against anti-Semitism to new heights—of arrant absurdity...
...Tiahrt won...
...If it sets a framework and says that in the 21st century in the economy we're going to be living in, other things being equal, we ought always to be balancing our books, I agree with that...
...WAIT...
...Say Bye-Bye, John and Fritz Sick though everybody is of election talk, we here at The Weekly Standard will never tire in our effort to bring you, our loyal readers, the voting news—even if it involves a vote that will take place two years from now...
...It takes a while to ratify...
...Does the ADL have nothing better to do...
...Campbell vowed to get even with Hollings by going mano a mano with the veteran senator...
...He's back to his pre-Dick Morris habit of blathering endlessly and turgidly about issues he is desperate not to discuss...
...But I don't have ?crapbook a vote in the Congress...
...Dalton, of course, immediately backed off and the Navy issued a statement reassuring all concerned that there would be no "Navy speakers, no uniforms," and no encouragement given to the event...
...And even Dr...
...But my belief is that you—I don't believe that we need it, but if we have it, it ought to be able to be implemented in a way that actually works and gives the country what it needs to manage a recession because, you know, we won't always have—someday down the road we'll have another bad patch in the economy...
...Keep talking this way, Mr...
...The ADL wrote a letter to Navy Secretary John Dalton expressing concern about "constitutional issues" raised by a "branch of the Armed Forces' involvement with an explicitly Christian men's movement...
...In a recession you would never raise taxes, and you wouldn't throw people who are unemployed through no fault of their own off of health-care eligibility because you were trying to balance the budget...
...David Brinkley Was Right...
...So what I'm going to focus my energies on is getting the balanced budget...
...I don't believe we need it, and it can't be an excuse—for a long time I was afraid it would be an excuse to throw the burden on somebody else, by the Congress, because by definition you have to have it down the road...
...So that's the only thing I'm—if the escape hatch is good, then we'll manage it the best way we can...
...Frieden charged that Ryun was "out of the mainstream...
...After this, the two sets of parents share a visit...
...Its target: the U.S...
...His Democratic opponent, John Frieden, tried to make an issue out of that...
...Last week, at a press conference, he gave an answer about his stand on a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution that was a masterpiece of windbaggery and so confusing that his treasury secretary, Robert Rubin, had to come out two days later and clarify the president's views...
...An article Ryun and his wife published in Focus on the Family magazine was circulated by Democrats in the district...
...Not only do the Democrats have more seats up, but two key Democratic senators are considering retirement...
...But I do have the responsibility to help the American people get the balanced budget, and that's what I'm going to focus my energies on...
...The American people—we're a very practical people...
...No matter...
...My problems with a constitutional amendment were always more a question of how to manage the larger economic problems of the country—the nation's budget is different from a state, and I just want to make sure that if we have one, it needs to be clear in terms of how—and it needs to really give us the possibility of dealing with a recession...
...Turns out that Tiahrt's daughter had in fact been photographed—four years earlier, and by a run-of-the-mill children's portrait studio...
...You know," the president continued, "you don't have— no one has a total trouble-free life, no country has a trouble-free economy...
...So here's the buzz around the Senate: After picking up two seats in 1996, Republicans may be positioned to make even larger gains in 1998...
...Ryun won, too...
...Someday down the road—and we just don't want an amendment to wind up making our recession worse and causing us to do things that are counterproductive that you would never do in a recession...
...Voters received anonymous phone calls informing them that Tiahrt had allowed his 15-year-old daughter to pose in "provocative" photographs...
...Finally, if the young couple proves to have mutual feelings, the suitor might be included in various family outings...
...Clinton is still against the amendment, it turns out, but you would never really know that from listening to the president himself...
...Thank God those Navy men are being protected from the pernicious doctrines of self-restraint, fidelity, and chivalry...
...Pre-election, Louisiana senator John Breaux told friends that if the Republicans held the Senate, he would not run in 1998...
...He wants to be appointed ambassador to France...
...And the rest of us from a dangerously Christian military...
...Navy, which had the gall to agree to help with a rally to be held by Promise Keepers...
...And it looks like Fritz Hollings of South Carolina is retiring, most likely to avoid being knocked off by the popular former governor of the state, Carroll Campbell...
...If we get it, if we can get the Congress to pass a plan that will achieve that, we'll have the desired economic effect, short term and long term, and then whatever happens with the amendment will happen...
...Seems that freshman Republican House member Todd Tiahrt found himself in a close race against Democrat Randy Rathbun...
...So Hollings apparently plans to duck the fight...
...You don't want to wind up with a Congress someday in a recession raising taxes or throwing unemployed people off health care because they're trying to get to a balanced budget...
...And we would be better off in this kind of economy always targeting a balanced budget unless there is a substantial recession, in which case we don't want to raise taxes on people when they don't have as much money as they should anyway...
...Either that or we don't have a life...
...His answer, in full: "You know, my problems with [the balanced-budget amendment] always were—you know, I lived under one as a governor, and we produced 12 balanced budgets and I'm trying to get back to a balanced budget system here...
...The piece described the Ryun family approach to dating: A prospective suitor must sit down and discuss with Mr...
...Ryun is a serious, social-conservative Republican...
Vol. 2 • November 1996 • No. 11
