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Republicans turned down their invitations to the conference two years ago, accusing the Kennedy School's seminar of a liberal bias. However, the decision of some of the members of the GOP to attend the seminar this year is based less on the trends at the Kennedy School and more on nationwide political shifts. The Republicans held their own conference in 1994 to ideologically mobilize their freshmen representatives in an attempt to ram the Contract with America through Congress in 100 days. Their legislative failure and Newt Gingrich's political freefall have led the GOP to attempt to adopt...
...supporters will do their best to dismiss its importance. One factor in his favor: the outrage many Republicans feel over the prospect that Gingrich might lose his job over behavior that, while clearly wrong, looks no worse than that of the President and his party. In addition, the GOP has no obvious alternatives for speaker, since Majority Leader Dick Armey and Whip Tom Delay are loyal to Gingrich. Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak Thursday proposed Bob Dole for the job. While there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Speaker has to be a member of Congress, Dole...
...past election cycle that it desired a compassionate conservatism. While Americans wanted smaller government, they still wanted that government to have a heart and to empathize with them. (Hence, the oft ridiculed yet highly effective Clintonian mantra, "I feel your pain.") President Clinton was very successful in painting the GOP as a party that didn't care about children, minorities, women and the elderly--a party that didn't care for all Americans. Some in the Republican Party would like to point out that Bill Clinton played fast and loose with the truth and unfairly got away with unfair charges...
True enough, Bill Clinton misrepresented our record in the last election. But he could not have succeeded in making the GOP look so callous if we had not made it so easy for him. We must work hard to reach out to women, to immigrants, to minorities and to children--not because they will allow us to win elections, but because they are the people who make up America and they are the people who need a place at our national table and a voice in our national politics...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: After an election that saw voters deal the GOP's presidential candidate a convincing loss and the party's combative House Speaker a stern warning, the man who has emerged as the national leader of the Republican party was Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. Lott, who took over the Senate leadership after Bob Dole resigned to focus on his presidential bid, was re-elected Tuesday by his colleagues to lead the 105th Congress. While the 104th Congress was defined by the aggressive, sometimes bellicose, style of Newt Gingrich, this legislative session should be shaped by Lott's more...