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Even as Dole denounced the Forbes tax plan as "snake oil" and Gingrich branded part of it "nonsense," the two Washingtonians found themselves rebuked by none other than House majority leader Dick Armey, a longtime flat-tax champion. "In politics, panicky candidates sometimes say things they never live down," Armey warned. "In 1980 George Bush mischaracterized Reagan's policies as 'voodoo economics,' and it haunted him for the rest of his career," Armey argued. "The flat tax is the future of the Republican Party." As Armey and Dole hashed out the details of the congressional schedule in the Senate cloakroom...
With the Big Tent collapsing on their heads--and in the week of Ronald Reagan's 85th birthday, no less--Gingrich and party chairman Haley Barbour were struggling to come up with a story that could paper over this growing gulf and restore a broad theme to their election-year drive. Their best effort: an argument that what their party stands for is major tax reform. Both went out of their way to emphasize that the flat tax is only one of several proposals for overhauling the hated federal tax system...
While liberal groups called the plan a heartless gubernatorial money-grab, Newt Gingrich said it could become law as early as March, and Clinton called it a "huge step in the right direction." Whatever its fate, it has further beatified the Governors. Specifically, it has enhanced the vice presidential chances of John Engler, one of its key Republican negotiators. Portly, balding, tenacious and smart, Engler does happen to govern a swing state, Michigan. He is Catholic. More important, he has slashed government and welfare rolls, been reviled for it, but ended up victorious at re-election. Says conservative editor...
...Gingrich was particularly fascinated by Engler's strategic savvy. Kristol recalls that after the government shutdown failed to push the President into a budget deal and forced Gingrich to abandon the strategy, on Jan. 6 the exhausted Speaker sought out Engler, who was in town. "It was striking that after this momentous day in his leadership, he wanted to bounce ideas off John more than anyone else," says Kristol. The three rendezvoused in a Hyatt hotel coffee shop. "John had the insight that you couldn't force Clinton to do things," says Kristol, but that the Congress could send...
...Cobb County, Georgia, Speaker Newt Gingrich's district, Republican state senator Chuck Clay fought unsuccessfully to prevent the intermingling of the county's transit system with that of metropolitan Atlanta because he feared that the local mall would be invaded by "bands of urban Atlanta teenagers...who aren't there to try on suits." In Pelham, New York, the mayor recently called for the demolition of a footbridge that spans the Hutchinson River Parkway and links wealthy, largely white Pelham with poorer, racially mixed Mount Vernon. And Washington's exclusive Georgetown neighborhood, home to many members of Congress, opted...