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David S. Broder: Challenging the presidential race
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David S. Embroider
When Fred Thompson made his entry into the long delay in the Republican presidential race, he will not tiptoe quietly.
Instead, he will try to shake the establishment candidates of both parties by depicting a nation in peril from fiscal and security threats - and prescribing tough cures he says others shrink from offering.
In a two-hour conversation over coffee at a restaurant near his Virginia headquarters, the former senator from Tennessee said that when he joins the battle next month, he "take risks that others do are not willing to take, in terms of forcing a dialogue on the rights of our situation, our military situation and what it will cost "for the future of the nation.
After the most recent years in television 'Law and Order "and starting a new family with two children under 4, counsel for 65 years, said he found himself hosted for the first time to investigate the White House.
"There is no reason for me to just run for president," it said.
"I do not want the emoluments of office. I do not want to live a lie and clever my way to the nomination or election. But if you can put your ideas out there - the more ambitious ideas - - What is worth it. "Thompson, like many others running, has taken a strong smell of public disappointment with both parties in Washington - and the partisanship that has infected Congress, helping to accelerate its departure from the Senate.
But he said he thinks the public is looking for another type of leadership. "I think the president would go to the American people by saying:" This is what we must do. And I'm ready to go halfway. Now that you have to do (the opposition) go halfway. "The approach Thompson says he is considering is one that will step on many sensitive political toes. When he says "we're getting a free ride" a necessary war in Iraq with a military establishment in the "on our people and equipment," it sounds like a criticism of the president and the Pentagon.
When he says he would have opposed the addition of prescription drug coverage to Medicare, "a 17 trillion add-on program that will bankrupt", he fights off the bipartite the last Congress.
When he says that the FBI may be unable to become the National Security Agency in the country needs smart, he is attacking another sacred cow.
Thompson repeatedly cites two texts as fueling his concern about the future of the country. One is "Government at the Brink," a two-volume report he issued as chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee at the beginning of the Bush administration in 2001 and delivered to the budget as the new president a list of emergency management issues in Washington.
The difficulties outlined in federal procurement, personnel, finance and information technology is today, Thompson said, and increasingly "threaten national security." His second reference book contains the scary reports of the Comptroller General David Walker, head of the Government Accountability Office, the long-term fiscal crisis caused by the aging U.S. population and health care costs at large. Walker labels the current patterns of federal spending "unsustainable" and warns that unless action is taken soon to improve both sides of the ledger government funding - spending and revenues - the next generation will suffer.
"Nobody in Congress or both sides in the presidential race wants to deal with it," said Thompson. "So we just rock along and try to maintain the status quo ..