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...SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH Aimless between the rock of a resurgent White House and the hard place of G.O.P. freshmen...
...went. The party that entered Washington in glory last year is looking anything but triumphant now. With its members divided among themselves, cranky about their presumptive presidential nominee and nervously entertaining the thought that their House majority might not survive November, Republicans are going through what even House Speaker Newt Gingrich calls a "funk...
Amid the mounting gloom, Newt Gingrich remains stymied. The man who energized House Republicans has been in his own private funk since January, after Clinton refused to do a balanced-budget deal on G.O.P. terms and Gingrich had no fallback plan ready. When Gingrich inches into the spotlight lately, it's under the cover of lovable critters. To mark Earth Day last Monday he appeared at the Atlanta zoo with an African elephant. He ended the week on the Tonight Show, cradling a piglet. If it's all a bit Marlin Perkins, esteemed gray eminence of Wild Kingdom...
Most politicians in Armey's position would have mellowed by now. Earlier this year, Newt Gingrich put Armey in day-to-day charge of legislation, in part because the Speaker's high negative ratings were dragging down House Republicans as well as their party. But as Armey proved last week, when he rallied conservative Republicans behind his opposition to the minimum wage, the Texan sees more virtue in taking a stand than in compromising. The leader's job normally goes to someone with patience, flexible principles and an instinct for horse trading. In other words, it's not an obvious...
...woman sandwiched between children and parents, the "Nanny state" is not a Republican pejorative but rather an extension of herself. Dump Granny out of the nursing home because the Medicare budget is too high, and who is going to change her Depends? Probably not Newt Gingrich or Dick Armey...