European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 a the stars and stripes sunday october 14,1990 column Walter r. Mear Bush remains presidential on Campaign Trail the voters president Bush was telling a group of them in Atlanta Are frustrated outraged by what a going on in Washington sick and tired of smoke and mirrors that hide congressional spending habits. It sounded like an often tested Sel Dom successful Republican formula Campaign against Congress where the democratic majorities Are. This would seem to be a promising season for that message with signs of rising Wrath about the governments inability to manage its own budget. But the Bush message is tempered this time with Good reason. Head like More republicans elected to Congress on nov. 6, but he also needs democratic support there before election Day to get the government out of its tax spending and budget Maze. A believe me when you done to control either House of the United states Congress it ainu to easy a the president said at a Republican fund raising reception in Atlanta on wednesday night. And it gets worse for a White House that can to hold the Republican minority together for a tax and spending settlement to Cut the deficit. Bush held a while House reception thursday night for a select Republican House members a meaning the 7l who stuck with him on a budget settlement. They were a minority of the House Mino Iii a 105 republicans bolted and helped kill the budget Bush favored. No reception for them. A it is an outrage what a happening up there a Bush said. A sucking up tax Dollar Leon Daniel Sifi Okic Mon Mim ? with malice Tommy of with Charity for the Rich we  be in this mess. A but in be got to work with the democrats in Congress because i was sent there to govern not to give speeches about it. We re outnumbered. We be got to get the democrats to come with  in Bush a limited political warfare he tells his off year Campaign crowds that Congress is responsible for solving the or chem and ought to get on with it to a bring this ghastly Federal budget deficit to its  a i did no to come Down Here to assign blame a he said at another gathering in St. Petersburg fla., a but you know the american people Are pretty smart. They know where the action is. And they know that Congress has the responsibility to pass a budget. And its about time that they met that  that a tame stuff matched against to. Traditions of presidential a it against confess. The classic was Ham Truman s daily denunciation of a the Rin nothing 80th Congress in 1948, when republicans were in control. Event Republican president since his time has had occasion to Campaign Gamst democratic congresses interrupted Only by gop majorities in the Senate during Ronald Reagan a first six years. Dwight d. Eisenhower said congressional democrats were gloom merchant Quot men of Little Faith a Bem on Obs trs of programs the people wanted. Reagan said if he  make Liberal democrats in Congress see the Light he would make them feel the heat from the voters Bush came to office pledging bipartisanship saying he and Congress weren to elected to Bicker. That a still part of his message even at Campaign rallies and despite the confrontation that is built into divided government. Bush has vetoed 14 Bills this car and Hasni to been overridden once. He a threatened a budget veto if he does no to get satisfactory terms this time a m \. That could Lead to a government shut i. A i have tried to negotiate in Good j. A with the liberals in the Congress a he Aat one Southern Campaign Stop. Quot a l believe the american people did no to me As president to play cheap Politico 7 hey sent me up there to  the associated press read my hips in t drawing Many laughs people who can be manipulated by to sound bites deserve a president who governs by telling them to read his body parts. Asked where he stood on taxes a jogging president Bush advised a read my  americans have come to expect such repartee from their witty Leader. Taxpayers fondly remember Bush As the candidate who ran on a pledge of no new taxes advising them to read that solemn vow on his lips. Those who voted for him proved they could take a joke when the president did that amusing flip Flop and agreed to soak them with new taxes. Now Bush wants everyone to read his hips to figure out whether he will accept higher income taxes for the Rich in Exchange for reducing the levies on their capital gains. Pressed to clarify his position the president dead panned a let Congress Clear it  that crack should have brought Down both houses which also have some pretty funny  j. Glass the circus still plays in our nations capital but an increasing number of taxpayers out there in the real world beyond the Washington Beltway Are fed up. Outraged by the shenanigans surrounding the budget deadlock voters Are ready to take names and kick Butts. And Bush his political Stock plunging like the Stock Market is Likely to be at the top of their list. Various polls disclose that his approval rating has plunged in a couple of months from a High of near 80 percent to As Low As 55 percent. The president bombed in his televised Appeal for Public support of his budget Deal with the democratic congressional leadership. The pact collapsed when his own party rejected it. Smelling blood democrats quickly attacked accusing the president of weak leadership during the budget crisis reviving the 1988 campaigns a wimp  but some of the hardest blows absorbed by the president were delivered by republicans including the senators who trooped to the White House to protest any increase in income taxes. Bush was criticized even by Jesse Helms who accepted the presidents help in his Campaign to hold onto his Job As the Republican senator from North Carolina. Even As the president stumped for him Helms said a i wish he d stuck by his guns and said a read my lips Agam no new  a spotlighting the disarray in the ranks rep. Silvio Conte r-mass., said Quot if anyone should take the hit its the wealthiest 1 percent of  some close to the president insist that he has not rejected an income tax hike for the wealthiest which is heresy to the practitioners of what he once called a voodoo  the Supply Side zealots known for their mysterious economic rites believe that accepting tax Breaks is patriotic. If the president who is preoccupied these Days with anatomical literacy knows better he so far has lacked the gumption to say so. United press International striking before the Gulf fire gets too hot when israeli soldiers stormed into Jerusalem sold City during the 1967 War they paused to Pray at the Western Wall even As jordanian mortar shells burst noisily around them. Jerusalem s old City is a place where three great religions a christianity islam and Judaism a converge. It is also a place cloaked in hatred fear and death. Perhaps the palestinian rioters killed by police bullets atop the sacred plateau last week were pawns in a conspiracy to alter the Agenda from the iraqi occupation of Kuwait to the israeli occupation of the West Bank. But the paramilitary Border police who fired into the crowd effectively run their own foreign policy. Diplomats who urge restraint or , resolutions of condemnation have no Impact. In the minds of israeli hard liners Force has kept the palestinians at Bay during the 1,000 Days of the Intifada. And in the minds of Many palestinians Force will one Day enable them to regain their Homeland. Some see iraqis Saddam Hussein As a ruthless aggressor others see him As a Savior. The Day after the Jerusalem killings Saddam passed the word that a this vicious crime will not go without retaliation and the Arab nation is certainly Able to retaliate a and it  Iraq has renamed its top ground to ground missile a the  honors the Arab Rock barrage on the jews holiest Sitea barrage that purportedly triggered the ensuing massacre. In 1967, the israelis struck first Knock la out the egyr1 Quot a Awn attack. A lately pleaded Sein to stay out of it. Instead Hussein a legions attacked. That is How Arab East Jerusalem came to be annexed by Israel. 1973, the israelis knew in Advance that Egypt and Syria planned a coordinated attack on yom kippur the jews holiest Day. But prime minister Golda of a a ? a preemptive strike. Some 1,50� syrian tanks broke through the Golan Heights and were rumbling toward the Jordan Valley before the counter attack came. Israeli leaders believe that unless the regime in Baghdad is crushed the entire arabian Peninsula eventually will come under iraqi control. On this Point saudi and israeli views converge. The saudis urge Washington to get on with it. They make it Clear to . Policymakers that a massive strike Force cannot remain in the desert for Long. But Saddam is persuaded that ume works for him. He shows no interest in striking a Deal that would be even Halfway acceptable to Washington. Thus the seeds of War Are sown. C coxn�wss�vlc0