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...plans and blaming Bush for the economic downturn without offering a remedy. As a result, the Democrats lost ground in the House and control of the Senate; and they gave up still more seats in John Kerry's wishy-washy 2004 presidential run. This time the model is Newt Gingrich's Contract with America campaign of 1994, in which Republicans across the country ran on the same 10 reforms and took control of the House after 40 years. "We're going to have all our candidates on the Capitol steps" just as Gingrich did, Emanuel says, "and we're going...
...chairman of the House Banking Committee, has been resisting calls to step up a laggard investigation of Madison by his committee. But last week's disclosures provide ammunition for Jim Leach of Iowa, the committee's ranking Republican, who has been pushing for a more vigorous investigation. Says Newt Gingrich, House minority whip: ''If we had a Republican President, there would be full-blown committee hearings in January. What you're seeing here is Democrats banding together to cover up, ignore and minimize.'' In the Senate, Alfonse D'Amato of New York, ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee...
...Gingrich has long been an advocate of private philanthropy as a replacement for government social programs. Even if no laws were broken, the use of a charity for disadvantaged children as a "shell" account for political activities contributes to an image of meanspiritedness and cynicism that has damaged Gingrich's standing in public opinion polls...
...tell when the Republican revolution has moved into its postrevolutionary phase? When the G.O.P. troops start talking about mammograms. Whether or not Newt Gingrich is re-elected as Speaker, the movement he led is turning toward the sensitive center, borrowing from Clinton's family-friendly campaign playbook to prove that a G.O.P. that once fought accounting battles over CBO-VS.-OMB numbers really does have a heart...
...idea isn't totally new--everyone from Gingrich to Bill Bennett to the self-anointed compassion queen Arianna Huffington has tried to peddle it. What's significant this time is that some of this softening has slipped into the Republican canon. In the baby-steps department, the Republicans have discussed using the fiscal savings of one bill to help pay for breast-cancer screenings, for instance. But they are also likely to promote bigger proposals, like health-insurance protection for the first six months of unemployment, educational reforms to benefit the disabled, and Superfund toxic-waste cleanup. One congressional group...