Things have gotten so bad in Dejatopia, that not only are Bush policies being recycled, but so are the Democratic responses.
DEMOCRATS SEEK TO EXTEND TOUGH TRADE LAW
MEASURE ALLOWS SANCTIONS AGAINST NATIONS THAT DON'T DROP BARRIERS
Stuart Auerbach, Washington Post
November 5, 1991
Congressional Democrats, riding what they believe are favorable political winds, have introduced get-tough bills continuing the 1988 trade law provision that threatens retaliation against countries that refuse to remove barriers to foreign products.
House Majority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.), charging that President Bush "has failed miserably" in addressing the nation's economic problems, predicted yesterday that the bill would pass next year as public anxiety grows...
BUSH ASSAILED ON ECONOMY DEMOCRATS COMPARE RECORD TO HOOVER'S
Michael K. Frisby, Boston Globe
November 1, 1991WASHINGTON -- The Senate majority leader, George Mitchell of Maine, delivered a scathing assessment yesterday of George Bush's presidency, declaring that his record on economic growth is the worst since Herbert Hoover.
Speaking with unusual bluntness, Mitchell accused Bush of ignoring the nation's domestic problems, such as inadequate health care and higher unemployment.
"Not since President Hoover told Americans the country had turned the corner has an American president...
A PITCH TO THE MIDDLE CLASS
Mark Shields, Washington Post Op/Ed
November 7, 1991On Tuesday, while the Pennsylvania polls were still open, Paul Begala, the 30-year-old manager of Democratic Sen. Harris Wofford's long-shot victory, revealed that he still had much to learn about the contemporary Washington pastime of self-promotion. Refusing to seize credit for Wofford's remarkable comeback from his own June poll, which showed former attorney general Dick Thornburgh with a 67-20 percent lead, Begala pointed out "people rightly remember Secretariat...
VOTERS' MESSAGE TO CANDIDATES: DEFEND THE HOME FRONT
David S. Broder and E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post
November 4, 1991If America's voters could write the script for the 1992 campaign, they would tell President Bush and his Democratic rivals -- in blunt terms -- to get serious about problems at home.
They want to hear what the people they put in Congress and the White House will do to halt the loss of good jobs and the rise of crime, drugs, AIDS and homelessness. They want to know how politicians will hold down taxes, curb what they see as rampant waste in government and ensure that welfare goes only to...
RETAILERS TRY TO TEMPT WARY CONSUMERS AS HOLIDAY SEASON NEARS
Kara Swisher, Washington Post
November 4, 1991As if retailers didn't have enough to worry about with the pernicious recession, weak consumer confidence, tighter credit, government spending cuts and substantial layoffs, the late date for Thanksgiving on Nov. 28 has shortened the prime Christmas selling season by nearly a week.
All the bad news has spurred merchants here and across the nation to search for strategies to encourage jittery consumers to spend money.
Some retailers are providing more selection and deeper inventories,...
FROM THE SHOWROOM, A VOICE OF GLOOM
Bob Levy, Washington Post Financial
November 6, 1991My buddy John, the car salesman, called up the other day from his sun-splashed showroom near Tysons Corner. I started him off with a good-natured right to the ribs, as I usually do.
"This is costing you 20 cents, sport. How come you didn't reverse the charges?" I said.
"Things aren't that bad -- yet," said John.
"How bad are they?"
John let loose a sigh that seemed to say, "If I tell him the whole truth and nothing but the truth, I may...
A TIDE OF PESSIMISM AND POLITICAL POWERLESSNESS RISES
Dan Balz and Richard Morin Washington Post
November 3, 1991Under indictment by an increasingly cynical public, the American political system stands trial a year before the 1992 elections, facing a crisis of confidence that rivals the period of disillusionment immediately after the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal nearly two decades ago.
The sense of disaffection that resurfaced during the 1990 midterm elections has now been stoked by anxieties over economic dislocation. Confronted with continuing paralysis in Washington, Americans express
GOP MODERATES WIELDING NEW CLOUT
SENATE CENTRISTS POISED TO DECIDE VOTES ACROSS LEGISLATIVE SPECTRUM
Helen Dewar, Washington Post
November 3, 1991Only a year after being closed out of the Senate Republican leadership by a conservative coup, GOP moderates are reemerging as a pivotal force in the Senate and exerting influence beyond their numbers with both the White House and the Democratic majority on Capitol Hill.
By signaling with new aggressiveness that their votes cannot be taken for granted to uphold presidential vetoes of legislation they oppose, they have increased their bargaining leverage with both sides -- to speed up the...
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES ATTACK BUSH
BARBS ALSO TRADED IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Dan Balz, Washington Post
November 3, 1991It was a long time coming, but the Democratic presidential campaign hit New Hampshire today with a vengeance.
In a state battered by the recession, the Democratic field of candidates savaged President Bush for turning his back on the state that saved his nomination in 1988 and said he should have been here inspecting the damage to the economy rather than in Kennebunkport, Maine, inspecting his storm-damaged summer home.
But that was only part of it. Amid the hoopla of a state party...
FOOD STAMPS: ONE AMERICAN IN 10
Washington Post Editorial
November 5, 1991THE GRIMMEST report to date on the economy has come from the usually sunny Agriculture Department. It matter-of-factly announced the other day that nearly a tenth of the population received food stamps in August. The number of recipients was a record 23.57 million, an increase of almost 5 million or more than 25 percent in just two years.
The stamps rolls are hardly the only sign of structural insufficiency in the economy. The unemployment rate is up with the recession, but the poverty rate ...
BAKER TO VISIT CHINA TO DISCUSS 'VERY REAL' PROBLEMS
David Hoffman, Washington Post
November 4, 1991Secretary of State James A. Baker III announced plans tonight to visit China later this month in an effort to resolve "real problems" in Sino-American relations.
In making the trip, which will be part of an Asian tour that also will include Japan and South Korea, Baker will become the highest ranking U.S. official to visit China since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on democracy demonstrators. At the time, the Bush administration imposed sanctions against the Chinese regime,...
RATE CUTS' LIMITED REAL LIFE IMPACT
OTHER FEARS FUEL CONSUMER CAUTION
Anne Swardson, Washington Post
November 7, 1991Margit Hunt, a lawyer, and her fiance, Kirk Nahra, another lawyer, have been looking for a house in the Washington area for a year. During that period, the Federal Reserve has lowered interest rates five times.
None of those reductions, not even the one in the Fed's discount rate announced yesterday, has made it possible for the young couple to buy.
"What is stopping us from buying is not the mortgage rates, but the fact that prices have not declined," said Hunt.
REPORT REVIVES FEARS OF LAYOFFS
Associated Press
November 1, 1991WASHINGTON -- Orders for manufactured goods dropped 1.7 percent in September for the second consecutive monthly decline, the government said yesterday, raising fears of production and job cuts in an economic sector that was doing well.
"It says the recovery is in trouble," said David Jones, an economist with Aubrey G. Lanston & Co., a New York securities dealer.
President Bush also expressed concern over the economy, saying "it is not as strong as, obviously, we would...
POLITICS IN THE BIG SLEAZY
DUKE'S CAMPAIGN AND LOUISIANA'S SUDDEN CLIMATE OF FEAR
Jason Berry, Washington Post
November 3, 1991Edwin Edwards recently brought his gubernatorial campaign against David Duke to a lush rice farm in Cajun country. It was a 1970s period piece: local pols, black and white, ate jambalaya as the silver-haired Edwards, the state's three-term former governor, hugged old podnas, kissed ladies and ate red beans and rice
"What will it take to beat Duke decisively?" one asked.
"For me to stay alive," he replied. And people laughed.
It was, though, the third time in...
CHECK-BOUNCER STUMBLES
KENTUCKY CANDIDATE MADE FINANCES THE ISSUE
Edward Walsh, Washington Post
November 4, 1991Rep. Larry J. Hopkins (R-Ky.), an affable and respected lawmaker who has avoided serious controversy during 13 years in Washington, is finding out what it's like to campaign for public office these days as a member of what Vice President Quayle has called "an arrogant, self-serving institution that is out of touch with the American people.
It's not easy, and it's not much fun.
Last spring, Hopkins emerged from a rough primary as the Kentucky GOP's gubernatorial...
IN VIRGINIA AND NATION, VOTERS REGISTER THEIR DISCONTENT
BENEFICIARY OF TREND BEING DEBATED
ECONOMY, HEALTH CARE ISSUES EMERGEArticle 111 of 200 found
Dan Balz and Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post
November 7, 1991
Tuesday's election returns delivered a warning shot to incumbents and sent the Bush White House scrambling to find ways to stimulate the ailing economy and deal with the politically potent issue of national health care.Democratic and Republican spokesmen differed sharply on who was the major beneficiary of an off-year campaign that produced a series of surprising results in elections and referenda around the country....
WHITE HOUSE CIRCULATES MEMO IN MOVE TO RETAIN BAN ON ABORTION COUNSELING
Eric Pianin and Ann Devroy, Washington Post
November 6, 1991On the eve of a House vote to nullify an administration ban on abortion counseling at federally funded family planning clinics, the White House last night circulated a memo on Capitol Hill that it hoped would deny opponents of the ban the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto.
The memorandum from President Bush to Health and Human Services Secretary Louis W. Sullivan addressed criticism that the rule would interfere with the doctor-patient relationship and would deny women their...
TWO MEASURES OF THE AREA'S ECONOMY FALL
AUGUST DROP FOLLOWS SPRING IMPROVEMENT
Anne Swardson, Washington Post
November 6, 1991Two broad measures of the health of the Washington economy fell again in August, raising the possibility that business here could get even worse.
A gauge of future activity went down 0.33 percent, its fourth straight month of decline. And a gauge of the economy's current condition fell 0.23 percent, its 17th decrease in the last 18 months.
The declines came after a spring in which the forecasting index had been improving, giving hope that the economy was getting better.
PRAYER CASE TESTS COURT'S LAW ON RELIGION
GRADUATION INVOCATION PRESENTS OPPORTUNITY FOR JUSTICES TO RELAX SEPARATION OF CHURCH, STATE
Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
November 7, 1991The Bush administration joined forces with Providence, R.I., school officials yesterday to urge the Supreme Court to relax its strict test for separation of church and state and allow prayers at public school graduation ceremonies.
But the justices, who have given indications that they may be prepared to overhaul the law on separation of church and state, peppered lawyers for the administration and the school board with questions that reflected apparent discomfort with permitting graduation....
DETROIT'S DETOUR ON FUEL EFFICIENCY
Hobart Rowen, Washington Post
November 7, 1991The typical American, it is said, has an enduring love affair with his or her car. But the typical American manufacturer has a love affair only with big cars. There's no mystery to it: The greater the weight and horsepower, the bigger the sticker price. The bigger the sticker, the bigger the profit. Detroit therefore loves pricey gas guzzlers and forever has fought fuel efficiency associated with smaller cars.
At the moment the industry -- in cahoots with the Department of Transportation...
SECOND U.S. AUCTION ALSO GOES POORLY
TRADERS: FED ACTION CONFUSED BIDDERS
Brett D. Fromson, Washington Post
November 7, 1991The Treasury's three-day, $38 billion government securities auction went poorly for the second day in a row, as the Federal Reserve's cut in the discount rate threw confusion into an already weak market, traders said today.
Although the government sold all of the $12 billion in 10-year notes that it planned to market, neither the big Wall Street brokerages nor their blue-chip customers bid aggressively. The Treasury sold the notes for less than expected, forcing the government to...
Too bad these "cockroaches" were the ones still in power:
HILL PANEL VOTES TO BLOCK RULE ON MEDICAID MATCHING FUNDS Reuters November 8, 1991The House Energy and Commerce Committee moved yesterday to block implementation of a proposed Bush administration rule that would cut billions of dollars from federal Medicaid payments to the states.
The legislation prohibits the administration from implementing the rule until after the fiscal year ends Sept. 30.
Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) said the rule issued in September by the Health Care Financing Administration will produce "budgetary and programmatic chaos in the ...
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