Washington abandons the family. (American family and budget deficit)

National Review | July 18, 1986| | Copyright

WASHINGTON ABANDONS THE FAMILY

IN POLITICAL rhetoric, there has been a resurgence of family life. Even allowing for the element of hypocrisy, the family has made, in terms of campaign appeals, the most spectacular comeback since Gloria Swanson's in sunset Boulevard.

Ronald Reagan sings the family's praises; Mario Cuomo echoes and garbles them. The 1984 Republican platform proclaimed, and Bill Moyers's CBS special later discovered, the family's essential role as the building block for a civil society. Even the Democrats in control of the House of ...

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