Word: buchananism
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...could not understand how Congressmen making $125,100 a year had so much difficulty balancing their checkbooks. Republicans seized on the issue, knowing that public contempt for Congress would be especially damaging to the Democrats, who enjoy a 102-seat majority in the House. Maverick G.O.P. presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, for example, began blasting "those check-kiting boodling Congressmen" and called for appointment of a special prosecutor...
...Desert, Calif., digs, awaiting an artificial right knee to match the left knee he had inserted two years ago. Unable to get to his native Michigan to plug Bush for this week's primary, he boomed his message over the phone to several old friends in the media. "Pat Buchanan has had his run," said Ford. "It's time for him to get out of the race so the President can spend more time dealing with a Congress that is in total disarray." If the economy is improving, then Bush will win handily, insisted Ford...
...Buchanan isn't just gunning for Bush. He also wants control of the conservative movement...
...Give Pat Buchanan this much: he has propelled himself out of the Crossfire thunderdome and into the first tier of G.O.P. hopefuls for 1996. He has jerked a nervous President hard to starboard and roused the Bush-Quayle campaign from groggy complacency. And he has singlehandedly destroyed the incipient threat Bush faced from Louisiana's David Duke. Not bad for 13 weeks' work...
Republican Party elders say it is nonetheless time for Buchanan to do the ! right thing. They will bombard the TV commentator with calls to get out of the race this week no matter how he fares in the Michigan primary. But Buchanan is likely to ignore pleas for party loyalty, vowing to stay in until the California primary on June 2. From now on, however, it will be a race with a difference: instead of running against Bush, Buchanan will increasingly oppose rival conservatives who he feels hijacked the movement years ago. "At this point," says Burton Pines...