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Superficially, one risks being thought a perverse neo-Keynesian mandarin if one comes out against balanced budgets. It is like being against motherhood-or worse. The balanced-budget amendment stipulates that before each fiscal year, Congress shall prepare a plan in which income and outgo match. The rule may be waived in time of war. Otherwise, deficit spending is permitted only when three-fifths of both houses approve the indulgence...
Phillips maintains, however, that the Reagan coalition is inherently unstable. The Sun Belt salesmen, Bible-thumping moralists, Wall Street bankers, neo-conservatives, and disgruntled industrial workers who voted for Reagan in 1980 did so for radically different reasons. To each, Reagan symbolized a different restorationist vision. Because the Reagan romp mobilized so many diverse constituencies--but will fail to satisfy and of them--Phillips foresees its eventual splintering, and a subsequent "dealignment" of American politics and political parties. His only hope for a way out of such a deadlock is for reforms in the political system itself. He believes that...
...consider Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine. Early in May, in a New York Times Magazine article titled "The Neo-Conservative Anguish over Reagan's Foreign Policy," Podhoretz wrote lengthily that this "movement of dissident intellectuals," was admittedly "a minority within a minority." But that was as intellectual as Podhoretz was going to be. Without their skill in intellectual combat, he suggested, Reagan probably would not have won over the traditional Democratic constituencies "whose support swept him into the White House." Neoconservatives had been counting on Reagan to reverse "the decline of American power": nevertheless, after looking at other possible...
...Thatcher called to Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who was waiting to greet her on the steps. Finally, on Friday afternoon before the Versailles summit, Reagan dropped in at the Hotel de Ville (Paris' city hall) to see Mayor Jacques Chirac, who is also leader of the neo-Gaullists, the strongest opposition party to Mitterrand's Socialists in the French parliament...
...resign last January after Haig refused to push for stronger sanctions by America's European allies following the military crackdown in Poland. In addition, critics claim, she has not been a particularly adept U.N. Ambassador. Yet, as the only woman in the Cabinet and as the most prominent neo-Conservative in the Administration, Kirkpatrick remains politically valuable. Unfortunately, the spat between her and Haig not only diminishes the effectiveness of both officials but raises substantial questions about the direction and intent of U.S. foreign policy...