Word: moynihans
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Once a new chairman is picked, the party will still be left with the critical task of recasting its philosophy to suit the times. Last week flamboyant New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan charged that the party had run out of ideas and was spouting only tired doctrine. Moynihan warned that a group of "extreme left-wing supporters" of Kennedy might impose their ideology on the party, and he contended that they believed "Government should be powerful, and America should be weak." Ronald Reagan could not have said it better...
Colleagues dismissed Moynihan's blast as "overspeak," as one put it, but many Democratic leaders are admitting that their party needs intellectual refurbishing. In coming months, some of them will surely be competing with Moynihan for a voice in that undertaking. California's independent-minded Governor Jerry Brown, for example, has been keeping a low profile in Sacramento since dropping out of the presidential race last April, but he expects to play a major role in redefining what the Democrats stand for. Says Brown: "The party needs new direction and dimension, and I'll help give...
...most of whom are Democrats. But a few are moderate Republicans. While the present list is tentative, among the wanted are Edward M. Kennedy '54 (Ma.), Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (Mich.), Howard M. Metzenbaum (Oh.), Paul S. Sarbanes (Md.), Harrison A. Williams Jr. (N.J.) and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (N.Y.) in the Democratic camp. Among the Republicans posted were Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. (Ct.), Robert T. Stafford (Vt.), and John H. Chafee...
...bring back at least a degree of party discipline, perhaps by partly undoing the 1972 reforms. They must somehow escape their orthodoxies and old incantations, a tendency toward reflexive liberalism that faces problems by creating Government agencies and printing more money to pay for them. Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York wrote tellingly last summer: "Of a sudden, the G.O.P. has become a party of ideas...
Fortunately, there is one author in a position to do something about this situation. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan (Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding) plans to introduce special legislation that would exempt publishers from the Thor ruling. The bill would join one sponsored by Senator Gaylord Nelson, who favors a moratorium on implementing Thor. In the meantime, publishers searching for loopholes might consider the tax credits available for energy conservation. Books stacked against the walls of warehouses might be considered insulation. For the more literary, who prefer a Swiftian modest proposal, there is always the book-burning stove...