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Recent years have seen changes in Democratic caucus rules that make it easier for the leader to rein in headstrong chairmen. With the credibility of his agenda on the line, Gephardt has hinted he is likely to use that power in a Gingrichian way: by becoming the first Democratic Speaker in more than 20 years to set aside seniority in selecting his chairmen. If the Democrats win back the House, the erratic Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas appears almost certain to be unseated as head of the Banking Committee, and Conyers' position at Judiciary is far from secure...
...President. It forced him to discipline his naturally roving mind to focus not on dreams of the future but on what is attainable here and now. That, however, was no longer very much. For the past two years Clinton has largely been playing defense--very adroit defense--against Gingrichian zealotry. He cast 15 vetoes in 1995 and 1996, vs. none at all in 1993-94, and held out through two government shutdowns to force congressional Republicans to drop their deepest proposed spending cuts...
...though, even the experts have had to admit that while the earth has warmed an average of up to 1.1 degree F over the past 100 years, no solid evidence has emerged that this is anything but a natural phenomenon. And the uncertainty has given skeptics--especially Gingrichian politicians--plenty of ammunition to argue against taking the difficult, expensive steps required to stave off a largely hypothetical calamity...
...context of the isolationism espoused by proponents of "Contract for America," the Senate bill reiterates the Gingrichian intention to withdraw the U.S. from the international stage. The Contract's single foreign policy goal has been--as Newt Gingerich euphemistically puts it--"to eviscerate the American role in collective security." Put more plainly, it call for the categorical removal of the U.S. from continuous participation in international diplomacy, without building an effective multilateral security architecture in its wake...
...happily. It was not just that the midterm election's big winners were the Republicans, who traditionally favor state government over federal. It was that, as Leavitt says, ``The Governors are the embodiment of that level of government the people said they wanted.'' Weld, Engler and Thompson were perfect Gingrichian heroes--practical, agile, local. By the time the returns were in, any Washington pol who didn't want to hand them part of his power could be accused of being out of touch. All that remained to be seen was whether it was for real. The movement's name--devolution...