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Meet Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the second-highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. Yesterday morning, House Republicans elected him the new minority whip over Rep. Edward Madigan, a highly respected legislator from Illinois...
...Republicans cared about designing effective public policy, they would have selected Madigan, who was instrumental in the drafting of the massive 1985 Farm Bill. Gingrich, in contrast, could be the most incompetent legislator in Congress. Of the 26 pieces of legislation he has sponsored during his House tenure, only two have become law. Both of these were resolutions which had no practical effect...
...Republican party leadership is changing. Reasonable politicians like House Minority Leader Bob Michel (R-Ill.) and Madigan are out, and ruthless political hotshots such as Gingrich, Republican National Committee Chair Lee Atwater and Republican National Congressional Committee head Ed Rollins are in. These people are largely responsible for the sludge-throwing contest American politics has turned into today...
...Behind the flip- flop was some arm twisting by Illinois supporters. State Democratic Chairman Vince Demuzio collared Simon at Chicago's Midway Airport last week. "I told him I almost cut off my nose shaving when I read what he had said," says Demuzio. Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan groused about being left "high and dry" and hinted that Simon's Senate re-election chances might be hurt if he abandoned the race early...
...fact, boorish and unimaginative is a pretty good description of the game at hand. Referees Bob Madigan and Don Winterton (or, as they were introduced Saturday night, "Mr. Bob Madigan and Mr. Don Winterton") spent the game blowing their whistles at seemingly random intervals, calling a whopping 50 fouls overall. Five of the eight Harvard players who saw action ended with four fouls...