Word: reaganauts
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...lawmaker who could counter Bentsen in the Southwest. As a Catholic and Italian American, he could help in the bid for urban ethnics. "We'd love to have a guy with a vowel at the end of his name," says one Bush aide. But he is not a true Reaganaut: as Budget % Committee chairman, he struggled with the Administration, urging tax and budget prudence...
...zero option has had a bizarre, irony-ridden career. Born as a slogan of the European left in the late 1970s, kidnaped and turned to their purposes by Reaganaut hard-liners in 1981, now adopted and turned to his own use by Mikhail Gorbachev, it may come to maturity at a summit later this year as the first arms-control agreement in nearly a decade -- but also as the object of intense opposition...
...Japan, the Administration's tough action sparked widespread consternation. Japan's largest daily, Yomiuri Shimbun, editorialized that the sanctions were "detrimental to the interests of American consumers." The liberal daily Asahi Shimbun declared darkly that "trade war has now come about." In Manhattan, the usually pro-Reaganaut Wall Street Journal warned that "high-stakes trade retaliation, like Russian roulette, is a dangerous game, and the world doesn't benefit when the President of the United States leads by bad example...
Howls are still resounding on Capitol Hill over his announcement last week of the 1988 education budget. Bennett, a doctrinaire Reaganaut when it comes to reducing the Federal Government's role in education, proposed slashing $5.5 billion from this year's appropriation of $19.5 billion. Such notions usually get short shrift in Congress. Robert Atwell, president of the American Council on Education, brands the new proposed cuts "indecent." And Congressman Hawkins says of other parts of the new budget, "It's nuts...
...Reagan Administration is the widespread insistence that we must all be poker-faced about it . . . C'mon, everybody, admit it. We're high." A few days later Kinsley turned up in the Wall Street Journal, whose editorial page primly savages Reagan's critics and sometimes finds Reagan insufficiently a Reaganaut. Kinsley noted gleefully that the Journal now "has been oddly subdued...