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...Newt Gingrich b. Victor Morales, Texas Democratic Senate candidate c. Bob Dole d. Elizabeth Dole...
...single most important sentence in Bill Clinton's speech is the one that reads, "Our job is to give people the tools to make the most of their own lives." It helped that while he was trying to give people those tools, Newt Gingrich seemed intent on taking them away. Clinton's theme was pure empowerment. The models are the G.I. Bill, the Homestead Act, land-grant colleges and the mortgage insurance of the 1930s. The risk was that even if these themes were not entirely new to Clinton, they were embedded like tissue in Bob Dole. Kansas...
...about cutting taxes well before he became the Republican candidate. Though Dole once grumbled that tax-cutting zealots would never take over the G.O.P., the 1994 congressional elections showed that they at least had to be appeased. As Senate majority leader, Dole embraced the tax reductions called for in Gingrich's Contract with America. But working up a fervor for sweeping tax cuts, rather than accepting them grudgingly, took longer. In April, with the primaries nearly over, Dole's campaign manager, Scott Reed, had an all day meeting with political and economic advisers to discuss a tax-slashing program. Several...
...solid Republican district--it voted for Bush by substantial margins in both '88 and '92--against a solid Republican, six-term incumbent. But he has been this route before and apparently wasn't discouraged by his 34-point 1994 loss, against the same opponent. Womack predicts that "the Gingrich budget" would cause Alabamans to lose billions of dollars in funding for Medicaid, Medicare and child-nutrition programs...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Newt Gingrich and his special-interest allies aren't just out of touch. They're out of step. They're out of synch. They're out of bounds...