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...Except that the most notable noises have not been from the agency itself but from the nine-member IRS Oversight Board, which was imposed on the agency in 1998 as part of one of the Gingrich brigade's ritual public flayings. The board issued a 24-page report Friday urging that the agency's budget for fiscal 2002 be $10.2 billion, or nearly 9 percent higher than Bush's allotment of $9.4 billion...
...Could be. But the Gingrich Republicans overinterpreted their mandate of 1994, and look at the ditch they landed in. The George W. Bush Republicans have no mandate to overinterpret. They are proceeding now by the metaphysics of Wile E. Coyote, who ventures bravely into midair, until he notices that he is standing on thin air above the deep canyon, into which, presently, he begins a long, whistling plummet that ends in a distant "poof!" on the canyon floor...
...they didn't think it would cause them to go to Hell. Meanwhile, Phil Gramm's body literally jiggled as he applauded. They just don't make cowboys the way they used to. Halfway through the speech, I realized that some guy named Dennis Hastert was sitting in Newt Gingrich's chair next to Dick Cheney, then I went back to ignoring...
...billion bbl. of oil in Area 1002. In 1989 the Senate Energy Committee was ready to authorize drilling when the Exxon Valdez disaster spilled almost 11 million gal. of oil, polluting more than 1,000 miles of Alaskan shoreline. The bill was shelved. Six years later, during the Newt Gingrich era, Republicans pushed another bill, but President Clinton vetoed...
...blames a decrease in staff that goes back 10 years, a rickety computer system that goes back a lot further, and the IRS legislation that Newt Gingrich and company passed after those 1998 hearings to try and get the voters to like conservative Republicans again. (It didn't work very well.) The bill forced the IRS to divert enforcement resources to happier things like customer service, with predictable results...