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...incoming crop of House members, Brownback said, Kasich found ``a chorus of angels singing to his soul.'' And last week, as the freshmen unveiled their plan to dismantle the Commerce, Education, Energy and Housing departments, Kasich stood with them. ``This is serious! This is real! And I love 'em all!'' the chairman crowed...
Then again, Kasich needs all the friends he can get these days. As Budget Committee chairman, he is charged with pulling off a trillion-dollar feat: wiping out the deficit by 2002, while lowering middle-class taxes by better than $100 billion. Moreover, it all has to be done without cutting defense, touching Social Security or raising taxes. Kasich has the advantages of the single-minded and the weaknesses of the true believer. He has proved that he is willing to march ahead; whether he can convince enough people to follow him is another question. As he makes his plans...
...help or cover in the struggle that the Republicans have taken on by putting forth such contradictory goals in their Contract. Clinton sent Congress a budget with a scant $80 billion deficit reduction over the next five years, a gesture that told the Republicans they were on their own. Kasich, Clinton Budget Director Alice Rivlin told TIME, ``has got a huge job. The Republicans have undertaken an enormously difficult task.'' Yet the six-term Ohio Congressman seems to feel it is his responsibility, if not his destiny. ``We have an obligation to leave the planet better off than we found...
...many ways, the hyperkinetic Kasich--whose name, he points out, rhymes with basic--is the perfect general for this most crucial campaign of the Gingrich Revolution. At 42, the youngest committee chairman on Capitol Hill embodies both the brashness and the energy of the new generation of conservatives. Kasich may be the only Congressman ever evicted from the stage at a Grateful Dead concert. (A misunderstanding, he says of the 1991 dustup at Washington's R.F.K. Stadium: he had been invited onstage by his friend, country star Dwight Yoakam, the Dead's warm-up act.) He has also been known...
With his dark suits and wing tips, Kasich evokes Chamber of Commerce orthodoxy--or he would if he ever managed to run a comb through his bowl-cut hair, which makes him look like an unruly teenager. He also has a penchant for the goofy. One Budget Committee brainstorming session opened to the strains of Wooly Bully punctuated by a Nerf gunfight between Budget staff members and lobbyists. He will wave a toy hatchet at an interviewer one moment and say earnestly the next: ``I want you to believe this, too, that intellectually what we're talking about is right...