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...when Arlen Specter starts to peddle a flat tax and Lamar Alexander blasts congressional pensions, Buchanan gets to lean back in the rented van that drives through the north country of New Hampshire and revel in remaking the Republican Party in his own image. This has become the Buchanan Effect. "All the candidates are responding to it," he notes with satisfaction. "These moderate Republicans can't go in the direction they want to go because of our campaign. We are setting the agenda for the party and, I think, to a degree, for the country. Right from this...
Perhaps the biggest problem with Buchanan's trade platform is the premise that trade is a big part of the problem. Most economists concur that trade with low-wage nations depresses low-skill American wages, but most don't think the effect is very large. Stanford economist Paul Krugman points out that in 1990 nonoil imports from low-wage nations amounted to 2.8% of America's GDP--a low number and, more to the point, barely higher than the 2.2% figure for 1960, back before low-skill American wages started dropping...
...recently as early July, it would have seemed sheer fantasy to think that in four months, all sides would be meeting with a real cease-fire in effect and at least the broad outlines of a settlement agreed on. But it was precisely because all concerned were forced then to peer into a terrifying abyss that they began pulling back from the brink...
...loss of key guys have really had a big effect on team chemistry," sophomore Toure McCluskey said...
Indeed, the separatists won on this point:. They effectively framed the question and its terms of success, setting the agenda for ensuing debate. Whenever major constitutional changes are made in any self-respecting nation, a supermajority is required: two-thirds, 75 percent, unanimity. In the United States, 75 percent of the states must ratify any constitutional amendment, no matter how inconsequential (like flag-burning or prohibition), for it to take effect. In Canada, a constitutional amendment requires seven of the 10 provinces' ratification...