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...data reveals other disturbing trends as well--most notably the fact that the poor are now more likely than the rich to have their tax returns audited. The imbalance dates back to 1995 when Newt Gingrich and the Republican controlled House threatened to reduce the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), fearful that the working poor would abuse the program. In response, Clinton proposed to check fraud and misuse through increased audits of low earners. What has resulted is a state of affairs in which those who make less that $25,000 are more likely to be audited than high earners...
...Newt Gingrich, the often ostentatious former Speaker of the House, is portrayed as a ticking bomb. And Trudeau draws President Clinton as a waffle...
Chabot came to power as a so-called "Gingrich Freshman," part of the wave of new Republicans who ended 50 years of Democratic control of Congress and propelled former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich into power...
...funny thing about the Holy War now raging in the Republican Party is that there was never supposed to be one--not this time, not after eight years in the wilderness, not after Gingrich flamed out, not after one faithful conservative candidate after another collapsed in ruins in 1998. Leave the fratricide to the Democrats; leave the theological weight lifting to Forbes and Keyes and Bauer and Quayle. Both George W. Bush and John McCain were heirs to the victory wing of the party, not the purity wing; both based their appeal on being conservative enough to win the purists...
...stood a chance to grab the party's nomination from the well-liked, well-named Governor of Texas. The 18-point New Hampshire crevasse had swallowed up the party that had been sliding along blithely since the failure of the Contract with America, the fall of the House of Gingrich and the nightmare of impeachment. Outside the bubbles of Washington and Austin, the true threat that McCain posed to Bush was abundantly clear. One runs on candor and fumes; the other hides in the motorcade. One takes a punch and looks stronger; the other throws a punch and looks weaker...