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Clinton isn't the only rudderless ship in Washington. The whole place, primed for battle so long, is having trouble coping with conciliation. Working hard to be charming, Newt Gingrich ends up making his loyalists loathe him more. "There's no interest in politics right now because there's no conflict," former Clinton strategist James Carville complained to the New Yorker last week. "Democracy demands conflict." Washington politicos brighten visibly only when asked about the likelihood of new brawls breaking out. They promise "big fights." They can't wait to start slugging...
...disasters. Bringing them under control requires a rare convergence of wisdom, determination and good fortune. So when those things came together last week, everybody made a grab for the glory. Bill Clinton called the deal "a balanced budget with balanced values." Senate majority leader Trent Lott, with House Speaker Newt Gingrich behind him, exulted that "Washington must learn to make do with less, while Americans will keep more of what they earn...
...back its start-up money to the R.N.C., which was then gearing up for the midterm election. Indeed, the think tank transferred $1.6 million to the R.N.C. three weeks before the triumphant G.O.P. takeover of Congress. Young received a taste of the victory in a meeting with Newt Gingrich a few days before the Speaker took the House gavel. The event was arranged as a "personal favor" to Barbour, according to a record kept by the Speaker. And that was not the last favor. A year later, when Barbour was invited to meet Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen in Beijing...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: With the great partisan budget battles over and his ethics troubles behind him, Newt Gingrich is returning to the social side of the Contract With America's agenda. In a speech before the National Religious Broadcasters, Gingrich said the GOP should now focus on drugs, education and teen pregnancy. The Speaker's goal? To achieve a drug-free America by January 1, 2001, following a "national crusade fully as intensive as the effort to balance the budget." As part of that get-tough initiative, Gingrich said that second-time offenders caught crossing borders or producing commercial quantities...
...were just up to White House and Republican negotiators, there might already be a budget deal. Agreement was close enough last week that a secret rendezvous was arranged between White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and Speaker Newt Gingrich to discuss a final sticking point: whether it was possible to legislate a change in the Consumer Price Index, freeing up billions of extra dollars to pay for G.O.P. tax cuts and Democratic spending programs. Kasich and Bowles argued in favor, with Bowles suggesting that President Clinton's support would neutralize criticism from liberal...