European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday january Al. 1983 columns William Buckley 88 should be confusing time for conservatives those who Are saying that there is confusion among american conservatives Are Correct and the reasons for this arc obvious far the most part. The old saw about the Public corporation s annual report is relevant it is compared id he Bikini revealing much that is interesting and hiding All that is important the Calm Way to handle american politics it Al ways by Penona nations. Thus it it Bald of Barry Goldwater that he anthropomorphic de . Conserva. Tison during the Early 60s. Everything about him not excluding his face and certainly not excluding his Man Ner was the amiable but jut Jawed conservative rejection of Eastern Seaboard Liberal republicanism. We had a candidate who would go to Florida to preach against social Security to Tennessee to question the claims of the Tennessee Valley authority to West Vir Ginia to argue against the depressed areas Bill. He toil very big hut the historians who proceeded 10 write off not Only him hut his movement for instance Richard Rover and Arthur sch Csinger or lifted their Heads from the Sand Only just in time to catch. Ronald Reagan. Reagan was a More skillful politician than Goldwater and he ran in a More auspicious season. By the time Reagan was going at full throttle Nelson Rockefeller had been by Alan As a Republican presidential aspirant and Lyndon Johnson had pre sided Over an unsuccessful War his moderate Republican successor Richard Nixon had not been Able to conclude successfully. The hiatus gave the american people a president from Georgia who was ambiguous where he should have been Resolute and Resolute about what lie should have been ambiguous. They arc saying now thai there is no clearly anointed successor to vol dealer Rean and in this respect observers Are Correct. But they Are Correct in ways not entirety discouraging to conservatives. As Jody Powell put it on to they Sec much hat is clearly conservative in he policies adopted by George Bush and Bob Dole the leading candidates and most doggedly by Jack Kemp pal Robertson and pole Dupont. Now professor Schlesinger made a shrewd paint along the line which is thai Many americans think of themselves As conservatives for so lung As Liberal poli cies arc bring practice. There is no doubt that Farmers enjoy subsidies businessmen protectionism the elderly social Security and medicare the Young Federal Aid to education. An argument can he made that this is Why we visit upon ourselves time after time the Para do so graphically displayed in november of 1984 when 60 percent of the american people controlling William Safire the electoral Vole in 49 slates sent Reagan to washing ton while Al the same Lime tending to Washington Ahouse of representative 60 percent of whom be longed to a party officially opposed to the doctrines of Ranald Reagan. That Paradox can be celebrated in hypothetical disquisition on the distribution of Power. But in the practical world it is presenting he Republic with prob lems so grave As to confront us with elemental disturbances. Arty Way you look it it our foreign policy a a Moss. We Nave no consolidated position on the quo lion of whether Nicaragua can be permitted to become member of the Warsaw pact. And we have a Republican president for whose disarmament policies we find enthusiasm primarily among democratic official. The inf treaty is one of those searing myth Genic symbols in floor Leader in the . Senate is Ala Cranston with whom it is Safe to say that the president who signed he treaty has just about nothing in com Mon. What then of lie conservative Agenda in the months ahead who can articulate m the guess from this cockpit is that no one on do this Charurat icily in 1988. What is needed a the crystallization of a demand for generic Reform. Tor chief executive need to command he Brennn nth loyalty of the Congress in Pursuit of rational forage policy objective. The anarchy in Congo needs to be tamed by decisive Parry discipline and by a bipartisan War against veiled interest lowest denominator poli tics. The invalidation of the notion that a moral one can be drawn Between right and wrong need so sur Vive an assault that such Tina cannot be drawn the first amendment that probably wid require As to muddle our Way through the next period to hit Bottom a they say about alcoholics before the need fully estates m Rise again. Or tool pm so Nam conference panels used to promote Pef projects the Senate ethics committee can no longer close its eyes to the political fines that have been infecting the closed door Senate House conferences these meetings arc supposed to be held to adjust differences Between House and Senate versions of Bills on the same subject1, such Compromise Between legislative bodies is traditional and necessary. However in recent weeks to deals have come to Light that show How senators naw use the secrecy of the Confer ence to slip through Pel projects or la Settle old scores Power plays that might not work i n the Daylight of debate. In one instance sen. Daniel Inouye a Hawaii pushed conferees into accept ing his proposal not in any Bill before the conference to spend 58 million to build schools for North african jews in France. The senator s backers should be no courage to donate their fortunes to that worthy cause but before Public funds arc expended the Public is entitled to n hear ing the responsible legislators should then Vole it up or Down. Inouye acted tile a Gunc to colonel who thought he knew what was Best for the country and who was ready to defy its Normal procedures to get the Job done. Al least that abuse of conference Power did not Hurt anybody except the taxpayers. In the other example of secret fixing another of the democratic Gran Dees of the Senate Fritz Hollings of South Carolina Uick the conference to gel even with an individual who was bothering the democrats Charles River gang in Massachusetts. The target was Rupert Murdoch owner of the Ballon Herald and the new York Post who is being forced by Antl Media main poly Law either to relinquish or close Down those newspapers or to sell television stations he owns in those Cit ies. The australian american Murdoch a powerful publisher who usually gets zapped in this space has been seeking waivers from tic Federal communications commission to enable him to continue owning the newspapers while he looks for a buyer willing to assume the Post s losses in new York. The Boston Herald is a source of great irritation to democratic Sens. Edward Kennedy and John Kerry and their leftist cohorts. I suspect thai Fritz mailings chairman of the Commerce committee and the in Massachusetts senators who put him up to his Man Euver want the newly profitable Boston newspaper transferred id politically Friendly hands and do not care if the Money losing new York Post Dies. In the dark of conference committee night Fritz Hollings put through legis lation to deny the acc the right to waive the Cross ownership Rule. Caught out by Alex s. Jones a reporter for the new York times Hollings admitted that his legislation a aimed directly Al Mur Doch. Such legislative punishment of an individual is along the tines of a Bill of attainder which the framers conscious of the danger of legislative excesses prohibited in the Constitution. The senator blustered i was glad to do one question that the Senate ethics committee should ask is who was hoi Lings glad to a it for the senator admits instructing his staff counsel to Clear the proposed language with his Massachusetts colleagues Kennedy and Kerry. But he did not confide in Sens. D Avalo or Moynihan of new York ostensibly because hit focus we on Boston. That excuse is patently false. The Hollings Kennedy Kerry Cabal Kepi his Man Euver from the new York senators knowing they would have opposed1 legis lation that might Cost thousands of Union members their jobs at the new York Post the impetus for Hil drum Venoa of deliberation came from influential Back ers of Kennedy and Kerry. Ethic investigators should of flow Ibe influence trait woo in Boston or Cam Bridge got to Kennedy s Stair who then put tru Arm on Rollings going deeper Wai anybody involved who wants to buy the Boston Herald Ata forced note Price were promises made in conference of political or other Ean pain backing in return Tor in Gage dipped into a gift without lie knowledge of legislators directly concerned the Issue Hebe b not Hopings concern about eras of Nersain of Media any More than it is Igloo pc s no Cut in educating moroccan jew j. In France. The Issue is lie new ability of powerful com. 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