Word: blankley
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...economic growth has made the rich richer but hasn't been trickling down much to the rank and file. Hence the two trends Clinton has long fretted over: stagnant middle-income wages and rising income inequality. You would think this bad news would be good news for Republicans. Tony Blankley, the spokesman for Newt Gingrich, wonders why Clinton is so determined to dwell on it. "If he is suggesting that he is politically impotent on this huge issue," Blankley has observed, "then he is opening himself up to the argument that he should hand over the presidency to someone...
...leaking to allies his latest presidential ambitions, the Speaker sought to make it appear that what worries him is a presidential run by Colin Powell, since the general is an avowed moderate who might threaten the Speaker's agenda. Of Powell's candidacy, Gingrich spokesman Tony Blankley says, "As long as the Speaker is reasonably assured that whoever the standard bearer is going to be is willing and able to carry the message of the revolution through the campaign, then he is very happy being Speaker...
Although Speaker Newt Gingrich doesn't smoke, his press secretary Tony Blankley's cigarette habit is such that Blankley has been known to light up using the tiny flames under chafing dishes at early-morning press breakfasts. For Blankley, the relaxed smoking rules signify not a smelly sort of revenge, as Democrats view it, but a return to a more civilized era, redolent of Edwardian velvet jackets. "I'm hopeful that as a society we are returning to the habits of an earlier day when good manners ruled rather than dogma," he says. Antismoking rules are unnecessary, he believes...
...forced Gingrich to turn down a $4.5 million advance from publisher HarperCollins. And yet: the dynamic Speaker, who plans four days of face time in New Hampshire next month, has lately enjoyed speculation that he'll enter the 1996 GOP presidential campaign. After today's announcement, press secretary Tony Blankley added perfunctorily: "He is not a candidate and doesn't plan to be a candidate...
...hold because a number of GOP holdouts still want to scale back the tax credit, while another group wants to increase the contributions that federal workers make into their own retirement funds. "We don't yet have 218 votes lined up, but we're making good progress," said Tony Blankley, spokesman for House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Under the compromise legislation, the tax cuts would not go into effect until after Congress passes a plan to balance the federal budget. The bill also would include a repeal of increased taxes onSocial Security benefitsand cut the capital gains...