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...worry much about Alexander anymore. The former Tennessee Governor's flimsy showing in South Carolina belied the idea that he would start to win once the race headed South. "We can already feel the buzz disappearing," said an Alexander senior staff member last week. So did House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In an interview with TIME Saturday evening, Gingrich pronounced Alexander finished. "Lamar had a good clean shot, but when you're down eight or nine percent, the strategy of waiting for Dole to wear out is not going to work...
CONGRESS IS BACK IN SESSION NOW, AND Newt Gingrich--remember him?--is chewing over numbers. For Gingrich the House Speaker, there are all the usual budget totals and legislative head counts to think about. But for Gingrich the Party Strategist, there's just one big number: 35%. That's the high-end estimate of how many Republicans go for Pat Buchanan. What worries the G.O.P. leadership is that some of them might leave with him too should the party turn its back on them. Even if Buchanan doesn't become the Republican nominee--and G.O.P. leaders are still convinced...
...Republican triumph of 1994. But was it "corrosive" in the years leading up to 1994? If any Republican said so, I never heard it. Systematic inculcation of popular hatred for "government," for "bureaucrats," for "Washington," for "Congress,'' for "elites" was an overt--and brilliantly successful--part of Speaker Newt Gingrich's Long March strategy for taking over the House. More generally, it became a reflexive part of the Republican political language. Sitting on cnn's Crossfire for six years, most of them opposite Pat Buchanan, I heard this stuff night after night, and not just from Pat. No Republican ever...
...predicting the obvious. After all, it was only three years ago that Bill Clinton became President and seers prophesied that he would build a new Democratic majority--despite the fact that he was elected with only 43% of the popular vote. And it was only 14 months ago that Newt Gingrich and his troops seized control of the U.S. Congress, promising a stable conservative majority...
...RELIEF TO SEE NEWT GINGRICH'S NAME IN THE PAPER the other day. I was beginning to think that he might have been abducted by one of those extraterrestrials he has speculated about...