Word: newt
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Kerry went to great lengths to associate Weld with the extreme conservatism of House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), while Weld tried to paint Kerry as part of a stagnant Washington regime...
...fundamental change in the ethos that says it is not acceptable to cut children first," says Edelman of the current budget battles in Washington. She hopes to use this period of fiscal conflict to mobilize the troops. "God really did put rainbows in the clouds," she says. "Without Newt Gingrich and the incredible threat to everything, we would never have been able to bring folks together in this way. So, in many ways this is the thing that will launch the children's movement...
...NEWT GINGRICH The growing unpopularity of his 1994 revolution is a factor in Dole's self-imposed exile...
...resign. From the majority leadership? Reed asked. No, the whole shooting match, Dole replied. Reed recognized the "transformational" power of such a move and encouraged Dole to go with his own instinct. As a candidate unencumbered by office, he could follow his own version of triangulation, distancing himself from Newt and attacking Beltway Bill...
...NEWT GINGRICH scored a home run when he urged Bob Dole to lead a fight to repeal the Clinton gas-tax hike of 1993. Now Gingrich believes he has found something even more popular to roll back: beer taxes. At a meeting in his office on May 3, Gingrich discussed the idea of repealing George Bush's 1990 hike in tax on beer by the barrel. The Bush beer tax raised the price of a six-pack 16'. Gingrich believes a beer-tax cut, plus the gas-tax cut, is a sure way to help the G.O.P. court...