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...Social Security. He remembers a White House meeting in the mid-1980s at which he raised the idea of overhauling the program as a way to cut the deficit--and a top Reagan Administration official pretended to have suddenly gone deaf. Years later, Moore brought it up as Newt Gingrich and his wrecking crew were drafting the Contract with America, which would be their manifesto for taking over the House. Again, no sale. "It was one thing every Republican said was off the table--even these revolutionary Republicans," Moore recalls. So he was more than a little shocked when...
...White House have signaled that he is leaning toward a significant reduction in future benefits that gets deeper over the decades. Some Republicans say that move alone could kill Bush's plan. "Any effort to change the benefit pattern just virtually guarantees you can't get anything done," Gingrich warns. "The Democrats and labor are putting together a massive campaign. If you give them a weapon that big, they're going to succeed...
...ardent Republican supporters of private savings accounts say that Bush, having decided to take the plunge, should go all the way. He's expected to propose allowing workers to put one-third of the 6.2% payroll tax that is deducted from their paychecks into individual accounts. But advocates like Gingrich and antitax activist Grover Norquist want to know, Why not more? "It's going to take exactly the same amount of energy," Gingrich says. "You are better off trying to get the largest possible account." However big the plan, Bush recognizes that the politics inside his party are daunting. "Part...
Clearly the “player haters” alluded to are former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and his fellow Congressional Republicans. Short is lauding the president for having deftly defused the 1998 Republican impeachment attempt, thereby precipitating the resignation of hater-in-chief Gingrich. It is this Clintonian political prowess that prompts Too Short’s call for a “national holiday” and his suggestion that its title should indicate a commemoration of the nation’s “players...
...First Rule of Politics: once your base gets you nominated, you have to soften the edges and sweet-talk the center to get elected. Bush had honored the rule by running in 2000 as a "compassionate conservative," which was code for "I'm not as mean as Newt Gingrich or Tom DeLay"; by working with Ted Kennedy on the No Child Left Behind Act; and by diluting any claim to fiscal conservatism with his support for prescription-drug benefits and a bloated farm bill. But it is a sign of Bush's political flexibility that, when it suits...