Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probably the most amusing man in the Cabinet but sometimes is considered a bit of a joke, is going to go back home and, perhaps, run for Governor of South Carolina. Reagan often ridiculed the Energy Department during his campaign, saying that it had never produced a barrel of oil. He has pledged to abolish the agency and get the Government out of the energy business...
...most carefully reasoned dissections of the New Federalism came from Vermont's Republican Governor Richard Snelling, chairman of the National Governors' Association. While the U.S. should not return to "the pork barrel and grant-in-aid grab bag" that had characterized federal-state relations in the 1970s, Snelling said, neither should "our sacred union of states become a confederation of competitors in which only the footloose can flourish." He assailed Reagan's contention that a person who does not like governmental programs in one state should "vote with his feet" by moving to another. He also criticized...
...beyond the political damage to Ronald Reagan. A close reading of Stockman's remarks reveals what the most cynical political observers have always maintained: that political expediency, not theory or fair-minded, judgment, dictates the shaping of economic policy. Stockman painted a lurid picture of unprincipled compromise, pork-barrel greed, and cowardice in the face of interest group pressure. As he neatly summed it up. Washington is a place where it doesn't make too much sense to "believe in the momentum theory...I believe in institutional inertia. Two months of response can't beat fifteen years of political infrastructure...
...around. Haig's aides agree that the Secretary harbors a pent-up frustration toward Reagan's top advisers, who lack foreign policy expertise and often constrain his actions. In a recent outburst to three of his close aides, Haig declared that the White House is a "rain barrel" of reverberating noise and that he is the only official prepared for action...
...Lehrer says and, in keeping with that assumption, he has seen a recent mini-renaissance of his work. A revue of his songs called Tomfoolery played London for a year ("Every song-writer in the world has had a revue and they finally got to the bottom of the barrel," he says) and the show, with its cast of four, is coming to New York in December. He also has published a new collection of his songs called Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer (Pantheon; $16.50), with improved piano arrangements and two songs that he wrote for public television...