Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...storm may be brewing. Reflected a presidential aide: "Forbearance doesn't elicit a more cooperative Congress." Still smarting from the House vote on gas rationing, Carter dashed off sharp notes to Congressmen. To New York Democrat James Hanley, who had explained his vote in a letter described by a White House official as "snotty and insulting," the President answered, "What should I do, put my head in the sand, ignore the problems, or look for a scapegoat...
...stand-by gasoline rationing. The Speaker also realized that the voters were fed up with the oil companies. "I've never seen the public so mad," O'Neill told reporters. "You take away gasoline and you destroy the family. That's the way they feel." Indiana Democrat John Brademas saw another reason for the vote, urged along by persuasive conservationist lobbying: "There is a feeling of protecting the great natural legacy of Alaska. It's a triumph for the environmental ethic...
...Jersey Democrat Bill Bradley, the former basketball star, who said he was worth between $1.1 million and $3.1 million...
...members of the Senate, however, were not rolling in clover. Alabama Democrat Donald W. Stewart said that he had assets of between $355,000 and $890,000, but that he owed between $505,000 and $1.1 million. Massachusetts Democrat Paul E. Tsongas has assets of about $50,000 more than his liabilities, including a debt to Yale Law School...
...primary elections next February, joblessness will be rising and the rate of inflation, though declining, will still be high. If the recession is mild, White House aides insist that they will not follow the usual practice of trying to expand the economy in a bid for votes. Notes Democrat Heller: "The political advantage now seems to lie more in the successful assault on inflation than it does in all-out war on unemployment...