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...gunners were three White House aides: Budget Director Richard Darman, White House chief of staff John Sununu and Michael Boskin, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. The troika treated most measures that would compel conservation as unwarranted government interference in the free market. "Watkins' proposals just got blasted by Sununu, Darman and Boskin," says a White House official. "They just tore them apart...
...White House aide, James Pinkerton, has proposed the "New Paradigm" as the overarching idea, the signature, of the Bush years. We shall see. The President has used the phrase New Paradigm a few times in a glancing way, but the phrase may not be his style. Budget Director Richard Darman mocked Pinkerton's New Paradigm in a speech a few weeks ago ("Brother, can you paradigm...
...Republican leader in the House, Georgia Congressman Newt Gingrich is expected to support the policies of the Bush Administration. And Gingrich seems perfectly willing to oblige -- provided he can formulate those policies himself. Gingrich's sharp-tongued truculence, scathingly defined as "New- Newtism" by Budget Director Richard Darman, is at the core of a smoldering feud that has Republicans brawling like, well, Democrats. If it continues, the rift could hurt George Bush's chances for re-election...
Bush's retreat on taxes simply affirmed the right wing's long-held suspicion that he is not an ideological soul mate. Gingrich led House Republicans in opposing the Bush-backed budget agreement with Democrats, a deal that was negotiated by Darman and Sununu and that left the Republican right seething. Complains Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus: "The Republican Party no longer articulates conservatives' concerns...
...Richard Darman Office of Management and Budget. The director's machinations during the budget talks hurt the President politically. Even some Republicans want Darman's ouster. But he will hang on for now, partly because he is indispensable to Bush on a daily basis, partly because he refuses to leave until something better turns...