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Hiding somewhere behind the scenes was the next House Speaker, Bob Livingston, who is so concerned about striking the right note with the American people when he finally takes over that he is missing the most important moment of his tenure. He cut a deal with outgoing Speaker Gingrich to put a moderate colleague from Illinois, Ray LaHood, in the Speaker's chair during the sure-to-be-televised-everywhere floor debate Thursday. Even in private, Livingston is hard to pin down: he refused in a telephone conversation with House minority leader Dick Gephardt on Wednesday even to discuss censure...
Members listened. They had to. DeLay is not only the G.O.P.'s top vote counter but also the only sitting leader to emerge untouched by the election debacle and the Gingrich resignation it produced. In fact, he emerged with more power than ever, power he has amassed the old-fashioned way: by doling out favors and exacting revenge when crossed. Last week some Republicans who had been wavering on what to do about the President began stiffening their positions in favor of impeachment after conversations with DeLay or one of his lieutenants. And Livingston too, under pressure from DeLay, began...
DeLay was among the first members of Congress to call for the President's resignation after the Lewinsky scandal broke. But until the Nov. 3 midterm elections, he was seen as an outspoken conservative, not a spokesman for the whole party. Then came the post-Gingrich leadership shuffle. DeLay not only survived, he prospered. Facing no challenge for his job as majority whip, he was able to deploy his vote-counting network (the 64 lawmakers who serve as his assistant whips) behind three of the party's new leaders. One of them was Bob Livingston, who owed him a favor...
...that argument doesn't count for much with the guy who counts at the moment, a politician who has thrived despite taking career-killing risks. In 1989 DeLay managed the campaign of Edward Madigan for the job of House Republican whip against an upstart rival named Newt Gingrich. Gingrich won by just two votes. Five years later, after the Republicans took over Congress, DeLay brazenly challenged and easily defeated Gingrich's handpicked candidate and best friend, Bob Walker, for the position he now holds. DeLay defended the Speaker during Gingrich's ethics investigation and helped him narrowly win re-election...
...single flawed human being can be chosen to change the world. Is it any wonder then that the great and the small cite him for inspiration? Martin Luther King Jr. evoked him in his thunderingly prophetic speeches. Only last month several Republican Congressmen grandly compared the fallen Newt Gingrich to the man who led the chosen people out of the desert. Movie directors have immortalized him, most famously as a bewigged Charlton Heston throwing down the tablets in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments. And next week brings Hollywood's latest celebration of Moses: DreamWorks SKG's The Prince...