Word: heartlessness
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WHEN THEY HEAR TALK about heartless employers and greedy corporations, Republicans generally grumble about Democrats waging class war. At least most Republicans do. And then there's Pat Buchanan, warmonger. "Executioners" is what he calls employers like AT&T that lay off thousands of workers. "These companies are like creatures in Jurassic Park," he told TIME last week. And what will his campaign do? "Stand up for the working men and women whose jobs are threatened by unfair trade deals done for the benefit of huge corporations," he told a cheering crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire...
While liberal groups called the plan a heartless gubernatorial money-grab, Newt Gingrich said it could become law as early as March, and Clinton called it a "huge step in the right direction." Whatever its fate, it has further beatified the Governors. Specifically, it has enhanced the vice presidential chances of John Engler, one of its key Republican negotiators. Portly, balding, tenacious and smart, Engler does happen to govern a swing state, Michigan. He is Catholic. More important, he has slashed government and welfare rolls, been reviled for it, but ended up victorious at re-election. Says conservative editor...
...this about segregation and discrimination: "Let us never succumb to the temptation of believing that legislation and judicial decrees play only a minor role in solving this problem. Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless." (Quotation from Strength to Love...
...WORD BELOVED BY liberals and traditionally shunned by conservatives. It's cited in neither the Constitution nor the Contract with America. But these days the notion of compassion is at the heart of both the national political debate and the presidential campaign. Concerned that voters see them as heartless technocrats, more and more Republicans want to make sure that the phrase compassionate conservative is not an oxymoron. The derivation of compassion means "to suffer with," and some conservatives, like William Bennett and Arianna Huffington, are worried that come the election next fall, they might suffer for not having shown enough...
...this time of heartless corporate mergers and takeovers, where a rumor of cutting jobs can send the Dow skyrocketing, it's nice to know that some takeovers are still benign...