Word: blob
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creature this blob, an amoeboid that has taken on a new shape that belies its original form. Defense contractors, businessmen, and the wealthy now mold its front, while minority groups, unions, the poor and others have been squished into the background. Money, bureaucracy, and connections make up its trident...
Legislators are often powerless in this three pronged grasp. They need PAC money to run their campaigns and PAC connections to help them with logrolling. The blob's organizational strength pressures congressmen, ever sensitive to popular opinion, into the slimy grasp of its politics. The creature knows its creators' weak spots...
...latest attempt to destory the blob by Phil Gramm (R-Texas) and Warren Rudman (R-N.H.) has fallen short. They had hoped to turn the fight over to one man, President Reagan. "He will save us from the monster," they cried while hiding under their desks from lobbyists knocking at their doors...
Congress approved their bill, which destroyed its power to control the budget, and transferred the rest to the President. The bill neutralized the organizational weapon of the blob by mandating budget reductions into law. No longer would congressmen be subject to popular pressure; PACs could no longer attack them for voting down the funding of a project dear to the heart of some special interest group...
...AMERICANS CAN cheer the recent federal appeals court decision declaring the Gramm-Rudman law unconstitutional. Federal judges decided that the Gramm-Rudman script to end the real-life version of "The Blob" was the wimps way out. Congress had run from the lobbyists...