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...Even his role as the prophet of the panacea of tax cuts seemed to have been ceded to his onetime protege Steve Forbes. Only three weeks ago, at one of the regular dinners of the pro-growth gang known as the Five Amigos--Kemp, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Senator Connie Mack of Florida, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber and Senate majority leader Trent Lott--Kemp got in a shouting match with Gingrich, claiming that the party was forsaking its Reaganesque message of growth. So alienated was Kemp that, earlier this summer, he allowed his name to be dangled before...
...while he had been keen to reach back to the Bush years for former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, but the onetime Wyoming Congressman, who has had a coronary bypass, wanted to remain in retirement. Michigan Governor John Engler got on Dole's bad side when he urged Newt Gingrich to shut down the Federal Government, a move Dole thought rightly would come back to haunt Republicans. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, leader of another state Dole badly needs in November, enjoyed a brief boost up the list. But Ridge, pro-choice, would infuriate conservative Christians. So would New Jersey...
Likewise it was Dole who watched silently last fall while the Republican field marshal Newt Gingrich marched his troops to the cliff of a government shutdown and over it. Dole went along, partly because he believed in stapling Clinton to the bargaining table and partly to keep his right wing happy. But by mid-December, Dole was talking to people in Iowa and New Hampshire nearly every day, and he could see that this was silly. Paying people not to come to work? Not paying people to come to work...
...years, and a crisis that reopened the split between supply-siders and fiscal conservatives like Dole and George Bush. To this day, movement conservatives resent Dole for pushing through a $98.3 billion tax increase in 1982 followed by another for $50 billion two years later--the undertakings that led Newt Gingrich to call him the "tax collector for the welfare state"--and for supporting the 1990 tax deal Bush made with Democrats to bring the budget in line...
Taking His Camera and Going Home SAN DIEGO: For Ted Koppel, even the chance to rub shoulders with Newt, Bob and Jack isn't worth sticking it out at the Republican convention any longer. The Nightline host is heading home, claiming that amid the puffery and made-for-TV grandstanding, there just isn't any news to cover at the GOP pow-wow. Koppel is taking most of his crew along, and says he won't bother even showing up at the Democratic Convention. "This convention is more of an infomercial than a news event," Koppel said...