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...court the G.O.P.? It won't be done by the Democrats in Congress, who will be in a mood to take no prisoners. They will seek revenge for their exclusion from the legislative process under Gingrich. The resulting bitterness will make Bosnia seem truly peaceful and reconciled by contrast...
...voter who had press credentials and a ticket on Air Force One--riding as the magazine pool reporter in the great plane's Newt Gingrich Memorial Steerage Compartment, back behind the Secret Service, where they keep the crates of live chickens, the goats and the journalists--might have hoped to see the flesh and blood of democracy up close, but spent his time instead fantasizing a kind of Super Bowl that would pit the Soccer Moms against the Deadbeat Dads...
...ordinary citizens have put the campaign behind them. They're grateful that television commercials are back to being for mouthwashes or sports vehicles rather than Senators, and that there are no references to competing mouthwashes as dangerously liberal or to competing sports vehicles as the sort of thing Newt Gingrich might drive...
...that this would bother Armey. Indeed, Newt Gingrich looks statesmanlike next to Armey. The Speaker may have kept his job and his party's majority, but he may have trouble keeping the peace--especially with Armey. "The system worked fine, except when Newt would have a breakdown in discipline," Armey told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram last month. As far as Armey is concerned, the mistake the G.O.P. made with its conservative agenda was in not pushing it further and faster...
Clinton still needs G.O.P. votes if he hopes to get anything meaningful accomplished. And he shouldn't be expecting any help from Armey's army. Even a relatively accommodating Gingrich may not be able to pry any Armey loyalists away. Armey, who is from Texas, likes to compare the more moderate members of his own party to skittish calves. Look for him to rope them in. By the time his second term is over, Clinton may be longing for the golden days of the past Congress...