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Fortunately, conscientious senators' support of "democracy at any cost" managed to prevail over this attack and the income tax check-off box will remain. But such a happy result may not last for long. After the Clinton-Gingrich "love-in" in New Hampshire last month, it may be difficult for Democrats to credibly charge the Republican rivals with such sinister tactics...
Obviously, any healthy society must deem financial support for children a moral obligation of parenthood. The point, which Gingrich so conveniently glides over, is that in a truly robust society this won't be the only such obligation; the current crisis of the family goes beyond dollars and cents. When journalists note pointedly that Timothy McVeigh was a child of divorce, they aren't suggesting that the attendant financial insecurity is what caused psychological problems...
...Gingrich were just another politician--or just another Speaker of the House--then his self-serving moralizing would be of meager interest. Hypocrisy isn't major news in our species. But Gingrich is making extraordinary claims about the nation and himself. America is "at risk," facing a "genuine crisis," beset by "moral decay"; our very civilization may not "survive." Fortunately, just in the nick of time, comes Gingrich, who by his own account is not just a "genuine revolutionary" but a "transformational figure." You know the type: F.D.R., Lincoln, Moses. Well, people who claim to have a plan for leading...
...Newt Gingrich has come down from the mountaintop with this pronouncement: "Either we will pull ourselves together for the effort, or we will continue to decay." That's bad news indeed. For if there's one thing Newt's new bible isn't, it's a recipe for pulling our nation together...
...eager are the Republican suitors to prove their Florida credentials that Gramm, California Governor Pete Wilson and Alexander each raised a whopping $100,000 for the state party just so they could speak to a G.O.P. gathering last month, even though they knew House Speaker Newt Gingrich would steal the show simply by turning up. Wilson also chose to conduct his early focus groups in the state, and is almost claiming it as a second home: his father lives in West Palm Beach. All told, Republican candidates have made more than three dozen trips to the state this year...