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...which means Labour is fairly seen as a Tory clone. Thatcher's success, especially, made reforming Labour both necessary and possible, and she regularly complains about a "conversion of convenience" while insisting that "imitations are still fake." Newspapers like the Independent rail about new Labour's "miserable, defensive me-tooism...
Forbes' rise in the polls has led to a case of me-tooism among his G.O.P. rivals, several of whom quickly announced their flat-tax plans last week even while attacking Forbes' scheme as favoring, in Pat Buchanan's barb, "the boys down at the yacht basin." Buchanan and Senator Phil Gramm offered single-rate tax plans that would retain the popular deductions for mortgage interest and charitable contributions and would tax investment income. A long-shot candidate, self-made tire magnate Morry Taylor, asks why Forbes would charge him nothing on the $15 million he collected last year...
...details. Tsongas' writings are full of "we should consider this" and "we should think about that," and the latest addendum to his 85-page booklet, A Call to Economic Arms, casually borrows some of Clinton's stronger proposals -- but only, it seems, for political cover, since Tsongas' transparent me-tooism is only sporadically fleshed out. On some matters, however, like the wisdom of a middle-class tax cut (which Tsongas opposes and Clinton supports) and the idea of adjusting entitlement-program payments like Social Security to a person's income (which Tsongas is more willing to consider), Tsongas is clearly...
...Zentz's organization by age 18, a former student leader and track star at Bremen High and the school's first graduate to attend Harvard Four years in Cambridge have not diminished Elliott's interest in Indiana politics nor improved his opinion of "limousine liberals" and "intellectual me tooism" But he admits to changing. He no longer calls himself conservative" and expresses sincere interest in some of the "big campus causes" he once dismissed "In my family it was always something of a joke that I would come out East and become a flaming liberal," he says, smiling. "It hasn...
...Times and the News to resume publishing. But those newspapers seem determined to strive for a long-term solution to the press-manning issue. Says a Times executive: "The achievement of our objective is of overriding importance." All well and good. But because of Murdoch's "me-tooism," the other papers find themselves in the odd position of negotiating for him over the roar of his presses and the jingle of his advertising revenue...