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...Resistance on the Hill has jeopardized the proposed $20 billion U.S. contribution to the IMF Asian bailout. Big Labor Democrats and traditional Republicans such as Newt Gingrich are on board, says Carney. "But there's a deepening nativist strain in the GOP, best characterized by someone like Pat Buchanan. They don't like explaining at home why the U.S. is spending billions to bail out some South Korean bank halfway around the world...
...budget into one with 455,000 members and a $14 million budget. And like Reed, who had Pat Robertson as his backer, Bauer has the widely followed radio evangelist Rev. James Dobson behind him. With Reed off the stage in Atlanta as a political consultant and Gingrich obsessing about tax cuts, Christian activists have reason to feel ignored. "They feel they helped elect a Republican majority and didn't get a lot in return," says Reed...
That's where Bauer comes in, although his tactics do limit his influence inside the Beltway. Gingrich doesn't consult him, and neither does Senate majority leader Trent Lott. Which is why, to the dismay of candidates like Pat Buchanan who hoped to woo his followers, Bauer is now talking about running for President. That would be the ultimate outsider's strategy...
...also had a subtle, charming guile. In his eulogy last week, Newt Gingrich recalled how Bono defused a tense congressional meeting with a joke at his own expense. Even Cher couldn't stay mad at him. (Bono jokingly explained away her barbs as proof she was really still in love with him. And after last week's tribute--the final episode of the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour--who's to say he was wrong?) He recognized few barriers. Parties at his Georgetown home were smorgasbords of Republican stalwarts consorting with Bono pals like Democratic Congressman Barney Frank and John Waters...
...tickets and favors from the likes of chicken czar Don Tyson) turns out to be perfectly legal for the lawmakers clamoring for his head. So many members find their way to the Super Bowl each year that they almost have a quorum in the stadium. Last month, Speaker Newt Gingrich flew to London first class with his wife ($20,268), staying at Claridge's ($12,225) and eating well (close to $700). Atlantic Richfield--the oil company with dreams of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge--paid for everything. "Every American," Gingrich said, "should make this trip...