Word: bipartisanism
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...leave Washington," he predicted, "word of our impotence will precede us. We have put special interests on notice that we can be pushed around. We have confessed to an already doubting nation that we are ruled by political fear, rather than economic courage." The self-criticism was both bipartisan and bicameral. Declared Missouri Republican Senator John Danforth: "We're in a catatonic state. We're immobile. We're unable...
...continued existence is in question. Berry and Ramirez sued in federal court for an injunction forbidding their removal. The Judiciary Committee postponed its meeting, but the 45-member Senate Democratic Caucus formally denounced the firings. More than 30 Senators and 19 Representatives lined up to sponsor a dramatic bipartisan resolution to convert the commission into a body whose members would be appointed by legislative leaders rather than by the President...
...bipartisan Kissinger group, the White House hopes, will pound out a working consensus on Central American policy. But optimism is not rampant. Kis singer said that close up, the situation looked "far graver than most of us had expected." Democratic Representative Michael Barnes traveled with the commission. "I'm very depressed," he said, because events "seem headed almost in exorably toward a regional...
...democracy. It is in pursuit of both of these objectives that we have come to look at the situation." So declared former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as he arrived at San Salvador's Ilopango airport last week accompanied by the eleven other members of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America. Kissinger had posed the essential dilemma for U.S. policy in the region: how to halt Marxist subversion while securing democratic rule for nations plagued with dictatorships of both the left and the right...
...President Reagan have yet to move on it. It would seem unwise to summarily dismantle existing deterrent systems before equally effective replacements are assured. Also, verification of Soviet compliance with any "build-down" scheme would be extremely difficult. Finally, "build-down" has become an instant symbol of so-called bipartisan cooperation in support of arms control, when in fact it is merely an artificial contrivance to allow congressmen to sleep well after they approve MX. But the MX is the root of the problem. It sticks out like a sore thumb and is obviously the reason for the President...