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During the debate on granting the President authority to use force against Iraq, Gerald B.H. Solomon, the ranking Republican on the House Rules Committee, lambasted antiwar protesters. They are, Solomon intoned, "unshaven, shaggy-haired, drug-culture poor excuses for Americans." Then Solomon aimed his rhetorical blunderbuss at Bryant Gumbel, of NBC's Today show, who had expressed surprise at polls showing that most Americans felt the government was telling the press all they needed to know about the war. Quoth Solomon: "Evidently, ((Gumbel)) can't bear the idea of an American victory. He wants another American humiliation, another Vietnam...
...Government may have been right to take this terrible RICO blunderbuss and use it to scare the living daylights out of Wall Street, because Wall Street's level of greed and immorality in the '80s had reached a cyclical peak...
...that could be applied to "nonmarket" (read Communist) economies. But Reagan did not propose any specific new legislation. The burden of his talk: Yes, there is discrimination against U.S. trade abroad and unfair penetration of the American market, but it is best countered "through negotiation" and administrative action, not blunderbuss curbs on imports. Those "would invite retaliation by our trading partners abroad, would in turn lose jobs for those American workers in (export) industries that would be the victims of such retaliation, would rekindle inflation (by raising prices of imports and the domestic products that compete against them), would strain...
...dozen years ago, the late Olympic blunderbuss Avery Brundage took such umbrage at the profit motives of skiers like Austrian Karl Schranz that he contemplated downgrading the Games' skiing events to mere world championships...
Even if the economy had not overwhelmed the New Right's agenda for a return to "traditional values," the purge of 1980 would have been nearly impossible to repeat. NCPAC, which had carefully targeted high profile liberals in 1980, touched off a blunderbuss in this election, attacking too many candidates too soon. The New Right organization, while highly funded, did not have enough candidates ready to run. And this time the movement's targets were not complacently ignoring the threat. They fought back...