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When Bill Clinton met with Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole and the rest of the congressional leadership last week, the mood was cordial, the atmosphere so thick with promises to work together you could almost forget that not long ago the G.O.P. revolutionaries were ready to set up guillotines on the Capitol Mall. The impulse to cooperate was not entirely contrived, as Senate Republicans and Democrats proved last week when they made real progress toward a final version of welfare reform. Clinton even praised the Senate in his Saturday radio address for "wisdom and courage" in crafting the bill that...
...take the credit, or blame, are the fire-breathing G.O.P. House freshmen. The 73 first-termers are united by their singular conviction that the budget must be balanced in seven years--not the 10 that Clinton proposes. At least three times in the past two weeks they met with Gingrich to tell him this is a nonnegotiable demand. And Gingrich is promising to hold their line pretty much where they want it. "Seven years and a month, maybe," he says. "But eight years...
Even without the looming deadline on the debt ceiling, the mood in Washington over the next few weeks would be poisoned by the battle over Medicare. "Morally bankrupt" was the way Gingrich described the scare-the-elderly tactics the Democrats have been using to oppose his party's plans for Medicare reform. The House G.O.P.'s vague proposal would require much higher premium payments from more affluent patients--singles making more than $75,000 and couples making more than $150,000. It would raise the Part B premiums that cover doctors' fees, not requiring seniors to join health-maintenance organizations...
Contrary to Mr. Gingrich's opinion, it is bad to have "pressure to pray." Violating the religious freedoms of even the tiny minority of atheist or agnostic students only shows all the children that freedom of religion is a relative thing. The students whose rights are being stepped on will learn that their rights are not as important as the rights of those who have mainstream beliefs, and will come to feel like second-class citizens. The students whose beliefs are mainstream will come to see that they need not respect different beliefs. These are not the lessons that...
...what? The Crimson is, most importantly, an open institution. You don't have to have any particular ideological persuasion to join. You don't have to agree with the pro-business, anti-public health and safety agenda of Newt Gingrich and his shameless minions in the new Republican Congress...