Word: democratics
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...point, most people would agree with him. There's good reason to ask whether the welfare system has contributed to the burgeoning problem of children without fathers. "The Republicans are saying that we have a helluva problem, and we do," says New York Senator Daniel Moynihan, a Democrat. And at a time when the yearly number of immigrants, both legal and illegal, tops 1 million, it's not xenophobic to wonder how large an influx the nation can reasonably accommodate. Whatever the slender merits of California's Proposition 187, desperate measures are not surprising from a state that each year...
...drilling, could save the Treasury more than $40 billion a year, according to expert testimony gathered by the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform. The panel is scheduled to submit recommendations to the President this week. But the commission's chairman, Senator Bob Kerrey, a Nebraska Democrat, already stirred the pot last Friday when he and panel vice chairman John Danforth of Missouri, a retiring Republican Senator, proposed further reforms by raising the retirement age to 70, cutting the payroll-tax rate and requiring workers to invest the savings. Any money saved by such reforms could be used...
Former presidential fence-sitter and soon-to-be ex-governor Mario Cuomo blasted the new Republican agenda -- and the voters who supported it -- with an impassioned apologia for a lifetime of liberalism. "Politicians used to think of themselves as shepherds. That's all over now," the Democrat told a full house at the National Press Club in Washington today, in what may be looked back on as his last important address as a major political figure. "Now the politicians are following the sheep: Read the polls! They'll tell you where to go to pasture!" Cuomo, who was defeated last...
...fully convinced of the rightness of the Clinton agenda. She made mistakes, yes, but they were largely superficial. Much of the public simply didn't understand the truth about initiatives like health care and the President's original economic plan. "She is really angry," says a high-powered Democrat who has known the Clintons for 25 years. "She's angry at the election results ((and)) angry at how she's treated in the press. That's the way it is with Hillary. It's everyone else's fault." Putting it more circumspectly, one senior adviser to the President said...
...state treasurer. "I've lost my patience," she declared in July. "I want to act now. Act yesterday. Kids are being killed, tortured, starved, abandoned." She adds now, "Illinois will have orphanages. It's just a question of what form they will take." Both Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, a Democrat, and Illinois Governor Jim Edgar, a Republican, are on board. But perhaps most vociferous on the subject has been Cook County public guardian Patrick Murphy, whose father spent three years in an orphanage. "Foster care cannot handle adolescent kids," maintains Murphy. "What residential care provides is consistency." Consistency...