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...took out a lot of stuff about Clinton because we wanted to tone it down a lot. We didn't want it to be a legislative speech. We wanted it to be about values in America and where we go from here." On Tuesday Dole floated a draft past Gingrich, who, according to a Dole aide, said, "I wouldn't change a word of it. No one will ever say you don't have a vision again." Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire read it and said there were too many references to God, but none was removed...
CHURCHILL SAID FAMOUSLY AFTER DUNKIRK, "wars are not won by evacuations." Maybe someone needs to tell the Speaker of the House the same thing about fiscal retreats. Last week, after months of budget stalemate, Newt Gingrich floated a conciliatory plan that could actually reverse course on the deficit. According to his proposal, Congress and the White House would claim victory by adding a "down payment" on a balanced budget to the debt-ceiling extension the G.O.P. now says it will pass next month. The package Gingrich outlined would shave as much as $100 billion from spending during seven years, devoting...
...away, Clinton unveiled his first 1995 budget to a chorus of groans. Leaving the deficit at $200 billion, the President offered a five-year package of $140 billion in spending cuts (a reduction of 1.6% in federal spending), $60 billion of which would pay for tax cuts. Gingrich called the plan "very, very disappointing," and it was laughed out of town by his fellow Republicans and by editorial writers. To embarrass the President, Bob Dole brought the plan to the Senate floor, where in May it failed to get even a single Democratic vote...
Well, times change. That plan was more ambitious than the measure Gingrich now has in mind. Chastened by vetoes and reeling from the President's surge in the polls, the G.O.P. has shifted strategy. After the State of the Union, the Speaker talks less like a revolutionary than a dealmaker, eager to bank some quick accomplishments rather than send his colleagues to the stump empty-handed. Passing symbolic pieces of the G.O.P. agenda on a monthly installment plan is the strategy du jour, meant to offer voters a preview of what life under a Republican President might be like. While...
...have been pushing for a $200 billion tax cut over seven years. The Clinton Administration has countered with an offer of $130 billion in cuts, while Congressional Democrats and many hard-line deficit hawks say that no cuts should be made until the budget is balanced. House Speaker Newt Gingrich Friday floated a trial balloon on the issue when he said that he would consider a smaller tax cut over a shorter time period. The proposal got a cautiously enthusiastic response from the White House. "The two proposals really suggest that the balanced budget, which looked increasingly unlikely, might...