Word: bushes
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Quayle insists he never distorts Bush's basic themes. His more controversial statements, he argues, are part of the "rhetorical role that a Vice President can have. The Vice President can say and do things the President shouldn...
...tendency when one is very confident to be verbose," he explains. "It's a matter of discipline." Verbosity is also a dodge for anxious politicians who lack thoughtful things to say. Nonetheless, the Vice President's newly restored confidence seems genuine. It is based, he says, on Bush's strong support of him and on his age: "I'm going to have time to cast the true identification of Dan Quayle out to the general public." In five months as Vice President, Quayle has demonstrated to fellow insiders that he is an effective Administration operator. But it will take more...
When renegade House Republicans made a last-ditch attempt to soften President Bush's tough savings-and-loan bailout bill last week, there was nothing wimpy about his response. As the House debated the legislation, the President corralled congressional leaders and took his cause to the people. "It is time for the American public and our Administration to say that enough is enough," Bush said. If the House weakened the stringent new regulations of the bill, the President warned, he would veto it. By week's end Bush prevailed when the House approved a strong bailout bill by a vote...
...current bill by pushing an amendment, sponsored by Illinois Republican Henry Hyde, that would have allowed S & Ls a regulatory hearing before they could be forced to comply with the new standards. Hyde, the industry's most vociferous advocate, is a leading recipient of S & L PAC contributions. After Bush threatened to veto the bill if capital standards were weakened, the amendment was firmly defeated...
...Bush did suffer one setback. He had hoped to finance $50 billion of the cost of the bailout with 30-year bonds issued by a new Government agency, the Resolution Trust Corporation, which will handle the sale of the assets of the 500 insolvent thrifts. Since the bonds will be sold by the RTC rather than the Treasury, Bush hoped they would be classified "off budget," meaning they would not be counted as part of the federal deficit. But by carrying that designation, they would have paid a higher interest rate than Government bonds. That extra interest expense would increase...