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By JOHN GOOLRICK
R*PP»J'»nnock New. Special Writer
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said of a man, “The more he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons.”
That certainly is the case when U.S. Sen. Jim Sasser of Tennessee keeps insisting the only reason Sen. Charles S. Robb of Virginia was removed from the Senate Budget Committee was a need to reduce the size of that group.
Sasser’s assertion certainly is believed by no one, least of all Robb, and further increases the notion among some members of the public that all politicans are liars.
In case you haven’t tuned in, Sasser, the chairman of the highly influential Senate Budget Committee, recommended to the Democratic Steering Committee that the size of his committee be reduced.
The Steering Committee dutifully went along, which meant that Robb, its junior Democratic member, got the ax. Though Robb appealed the move, it was to no avail.
Robb’s version was that he was cut because of his fiscally conservative ways. He said his views that spending had to be reduced even more to chop the deficit was contrary to that of Sasser and other fellow Democrats on the Budget Committee.
Robb was one of a few Democratic Senators who voted to give President Bush authorization to commit U.S. troops to war. He asserted on television that he did not
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