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...comfort from the fact that this whole fight is making his party uncomfortable. The more threatening Forbes seems, particularly to devout pro-lifers, the more likely they will be to choose a pragmatist like Dole over a purist like Buchanan. Likewise, the more ground Buchanan gains with his anti-NAFTA, anti-Big Business salvos, the more willing traditional G.O.P. allies will be to send Dole their cash and their votes. And because he is being besieged from right and left, Dole may no longer have to blow away the competition to triumph in the devilish expectations game. Now, the party...
...These anti-tax, anti-big spending voters--both Democratic and Republican--formed the core of the Reagan-Bush coalition. Bush's broken pledge on taxes damages this coalition more than any other deviation from the conservative agenda. A second strike against Bush is the 10 percent average annual increase in budget expenditures that have occurred in each year of his administration. These increases represent the fastest rate of spending growth since the FDR years...
...advisers say he has toughened his rhetoric and has truly "undergone a metamorphosis." But the Yale Law School grad and son of a quite different California governor sports quite the same anti-big government, anti-Big Brother, anti-Big Mac rhetoric that won him two terms in California...
...elected to the powerful job of environmental advocate. One group of Big Green opponents is airing radio spots in which a woman sarcastically intones, "Hey, call it what it really is: the Hayden initiative. You know -- Tom Hayden." The forces arrayed against Big Green say their funding comes from California agricultural, chemical and business sources. But the proposal's supporters charge that pesticide companies are trying to mask their contributions behind ambiguously named front groups. Last week Los Angeles city attorney James Hahn filed suit against one anti-Big Green group, alleging that it violated a new law requiring disclosure...
Professor of Government, Michael J. Sandel put the state's troubles within a national context. He said the fusion of three major trends--a sense of frustration from 1970s politics, former President Ronald Reagan's anti-big government rhetoric and the "unraveling" of inter-generational agreements--helped create the rancorous climate of state politics...