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...Cheney was a dedicated conservative, he was one of the pre-Gingrich variety, the kind who could vote against the Democrats all day and still abide by the old rules of cordiality toward the opposition, however much he grew to resent the autocratic leadership style of Jim Wright, the Democratic Speaker. When a young reporter asked Che-ney who was worth listening to among his House colleagues, he pointed her to Ron Dellums, a black Democrat from Oakland, Calif., who was far to the left of Cheney on just about everything. Whenever Dellums had the floor, Cheney told...
...operation whose chief function when he reached it in 1980 after only one term in Congress was to crank out explanations to members of the G.O.P. position on various issues. Cheney turned it into an internal party forum, where a rising generation of G.O.P. bomb throwers led by Newt Gingrich could gain a hearing from the older leadership, who sometimes seemed to have made their peace with the idea that the Democratic majority in Congress was a permanent fact of life. Cheney used his stewardship of the committee to gain credibility with both generations of Republicans...
...before the theatrics begin (I can hear the shrieks from my McGovern-supporting parents now: "We have no daughter! Our daughter is dead!"), I'd like to reassure my family and the New York State Democratic party that I have no intentions of declaring membership in the party of Gingrich, Burton and Goldwater. But I am taking my critical first steps toward adopting a kinder, gentler - dare I say more compassionate - take on selected members of the Grand Old Party...
Soon she divorced her husband--and, figuratively anyway, Gingrich too. "It became clear to me that Newt didn't care about the issues I cared about," she says now, "that all his talk, sometimes very eloquent, about poverty and caring for the least among us was just window dressing." She abandoned Washington for Los Angeles, where she shares an Italianate mansion with her two preteen daughters. She is impatient with her old Republican friends who say she has moved to the left (those old categories again). "I have become radicalized, but it's not as though I'm suddenly praising...
...After Reason, called for a commingling of politics and religion just as American evangelicals roused themselves from decades of political apathy. During the era of Reaganite glitz, she settled into the life of a New York author-socialite, the celebrity biographer of Maria Callas and Pablo Picasso. When the Gingrich revolution seemed a far-fetched pipe dream, she signed on as Madame Defarge, and had the sense to decamp when it collapsed...