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...Nonsense," says Daniel Moynihan, the New York Senator and a leading expert on social decay. "We really don't know what to do, and anyone who thinks that cutting benefits can affect sexual behavior doesn't know human nature...
Guess who's won this argument so far. Ten states have already slashed payments to welfare moms who bear more kids, and Congress may soon mandate the same measure nationwide. Yet Moynihan is right, as a new study proves...
...keep the niggers in their place." Unfortunately, this assessment is as true now as it was 30 years ago. While the overtly racist tenets of conservatism have largely been forced out of political discourse, they have frequently been replaced by covert race-baiting and what Senator Patrick Moynihan (DNY) has termed "benign neglect." And overt racism is beginning to gain more and more legitimacy, as neoconservatism encourages "angry white men" to search for scapegoats...
Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler today retracted statements that New York Gov.George Pataki, the rookie Republican who bested Mario Cuomoin November, was a "quasi-governor," or -- as Fowler then elaborated -- "half-assed." The apology for his remarks Tuesday came after New York's senior Democrat, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, took the Senate floor hours later to offer his own apology for Fowler's "inexcusable conduct." Fowler made the remarks while criticizing Pataki for his proposed "tax cuts to the rich...
Beyond that, Republican research shows voters to be bothered by Clinton's character--and that they draw some sort of connection between his perceived failings and a society-wide lack of civility and responsible citizenship. "Our democracy is fraying," explains a Democrat, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. "The populace as a whole is less ordered, less restrained, less measured in its judgments." Voters expect their President to stand against such unravelings, and Clinton, the G.O.P. contends, is especially ill suited to the task because of the perception that he is or has been self-indulgent. It's not just...