Word: gingriched
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...needed to finance his tax cuts and balance the budget in six years, Dole calls on $147 billion from supply-side activity and an additional $217 billion in spending reductions on top of the $393 billion proposed in the Republican budget last June. But unlike his colleagues in Newt Gingrich's Congress who dared propose cuts in Medicare, Dole does not plan to meddle with entitlements. And on defense he's promising to spend "too much" rather than too little. So what's left on the table accounts for only about 23% of the budget. Analysts at the nonpartisan Concord...
...political rookie Frank Cremeans redecorated the roadsides of his sprawling Ohio district with billboards urging voters to SEND THE WHITE HOUSE A MESSAGE. These days his campaign is more likely to draw attention to the personal thank-you note Cremeans got from Bill Clinton last month for bucking Newt Gingrich and supporting a 90[cents]-an-hour minimum-wage hike. Fellow G.O.P. freshman Phil English, who maligned his 1994 opponent by labeling him a "Clinton clone," got a note too; he was so moved he announced it at a news conference back home in Erie, Pennsylvania. But neither Republican...
...protection against a Clinton landslide, the most endangered G.O.P. candidates find themselves more eager to highlight their differences with Speaker Gingrich than with Clinton. With the President in his centrist incarnation, Cremeans' adviser, Barry Bennett, is not the only Republican boasting, "You can pick 10 big issues, and we're a lot closer to Clinton than our opponent is." Behind this explicit message is an implicit one: the virtue of divided government, if only as a check on the President's liberal instincts...
...make a direct appeal to the common ground, which poll after poll shows voters prefer to the partisan divisions that many believe have infected our political system. Specifically, independents and moderate Republicans often preferred this values-based appeal to the more strident rhetoric adopted by Newt Gingrich and his colleagues during the 1995 budget showdown. Our polling also demonstrated conclusively that while voters preferred the Republican version of limited government in 1994, by 1996 they favored President Clinton's fiscally prudent values-based appeal over the Republican alternative by better than...
...rhetoric allowed President Clinton to do something else that has dramatically changed the image of his party. For the past 20 years, Democrats have been seen as the party most closely associated with the counterculture and the Hollywood and New York cultural elite. Republicans from Spiro Agnew to Newt Gingrich have used this image to attack the Democrats for their presumed distance from the basic norms and ideals most Americans live...