Word: bipartisanism
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...surface, the speech sounded accommodating, even statesmanlike. Instead of a partisan pitch to "stay the course," it stressed the need for a "bipartisan spirit" of unity. It offered compassion rather than rigid ideology to those suffering from the recession, and it had soothing words for women, blacks, the elderly and others who have felt slighted by the Administration. There was even what seemed a bold cure for the dozen-digit deficit plaguing the economy: a "freeze" on the overall level of Government spending...
...spoke of fairness," said House Speaker Tip O'Neill, "but insisted on retaining the third year of his unfair tax program and insisted on protecting the defense industry from the same level of austerity that he wants to impose on domestic programs." Indeed, if there was any bipartisan spirit, it was one of shared displeasure over the centerpiece of Reagan's State of the Union address: the budget he has submitted for fiscal 1984, which begins next October (see following story...
...rates from rising with inflation. Finance Committee Chairman Dole, however, defends indexing as "the best idea" of the 1981 Congress, and he could make its repeal very difficult. Nor is there a realistic chance for a tax increase this year if Reagan opposes it. Indeed, the only shred of bipartisan agreement is over Reagan's plan for a stand-by tax increase: almost everyone agrees it will not fly. Said Louisiana Senator Russell Long, ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee: "I don't think we should vote for a tax increase or a tax cut for somebody else...
...cost of $120,000, they put on a 28-min. film, filled with razzle-dazzle graphics and tightly edited statements. The program, narrated by Lawyer Harry McPherson (see box), was prepared days before the President gave his speech and thus reflected little of Reagan's effort to achieve bipartisan unity. It argued, not all that persuasively, that the Democrats are brimming with alternative programs. "It's time we put up or shut up," said Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware, one of a host of officeholders who appeared on the show. On some issues they put up. After McPherson...
...many of the questions and most of the doubts were removed. After six months of deliberation, a blue-ribbon British inquiry into the causes of the war specifically exonerated Thatcher and her government from any blame for failing to foresee or prevent the Argentine invasion. Stressed the six-man bipartisan panel headed by Lord Franks, 77, an Oxford academic and former British Ambassador to Washington. "Our account demonstrates conclusively that the government had no reason to believe before March 31 that an invasion of the Falkland Islands would take place at the beginning of April...