Word: darman
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...gunners were three White House aides: Budget Director Richard Darman, White House chief of staff John Sununu and Michael Boskin, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. The troika treated most measures that would compel conservation as unwarranted government interference in the free market. "Watkins' proposals just got blasted by Sununu, Darman and Boskin," says a White House official. "They just tore them apart...
Despite his sometimes shirty demeanor, Richard Darman, George Bush's Budget Director, is known around the White House as an accomplished comedian. After all, a knack for cutting up goes naturally with the job; last year when Bush asked for the impossible -- a budget that lowered the deficit without raising taxes -- Darman responded with a 15-page essay rife with references to Wonderland, Pac-Man and Cookie Monster. Given the cooked books that were expected of him, humor was Darman's best defense...
This year silly stratagems have been set aside. Darman's budget for 1992 is a more sober reflection of the nation's fiscal health than most budgets of the past decade. Its economic assumptions, with some exceptions, are unusually flinty eyed. Its priorities, if not always laudable, are clear. And for Bush and Darman, both of whom were wounded in last fall's budget fight, it is a smooth political recovery act that last week met with generally favorable reviews from both right and left...
...White House aide, James Pinkerton, has proposed the "New Paradigm" as the overarching idea, the signature, of the Bush years. We shall see. The President has used the phrase New Paradigm a few times in a glancing way, but the phrase may not be his style. Budget Director Richard Darman mocked Pinkerton's New Paradigm in a speech a few weeks ago ("Brother, can you paradigm...
Bush's retreat on taxes simply affirmed the right wing's long-held suspicion that he is not an ideological soul mate. Gingrich led House Republicans in opposing the Bush-backed budget agreement with Democrats, a deal that was negotiated by Darman and Sununu and that left the Republican right seething. Complains Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus: "The Republican Party no longer articulates conservatives' concerns...