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...Letting Newt Be Newt. After the 1994 election, Clinton figured that no matter who gets the Republican nomination in 1996, his real opponent until then will be Newt. "There was a personification of the negative side of the G.O.P. revolution," says Senator Chris Dodd, co-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, "and it was the Speaker...
...same time, Newt and his allies made a number of miscalculations. They not only thought Clinton would cave in on the budget, they boasted that he would do so--thereby ensuring that he didn't. They misjudged the public's reaction to the shutdown: it redounded against the recalcitrant Republicans, not the reasonable-sounding fellow in the White House. After a while, Newt's tantrums became so unappetizing to the public that Clinton scored points simply by being the un-Newt. And the Republicans never imagined that the man they deride as the Last Liberal would shanghai their less-government...
...Republicans have been pushing for a $200 billion tax cut over seven years. The Clinton Administration has countered with an offer of $130 billion in cuts, while Congressional Democrats and many hard-line deficit hawks say that no cuts should be made until the budget is balanced. House Speaker Newt Gingrich Friday floated a trial balloon on the issue when he said that he would consider a smaller tax cut over a shorter time period. The proposal got a cautiously enthusiastic response from the White House. "The two proposals really suggest that the balanced budget, which looked increasingly unlikely, might...
...nomination. "There's a breathtaking moment in every primary campaign, Democrat or Republican," Duffy says, "where the party wakes up and realizes that it's possible that someone they never thought of in that way could be the nominee." That moment came Wednesday, when House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a Washington Press Club dinner not to count Forbes out as a candidate: "This city, being a remarkably insular place, is convinced that Steve Forbes can't win because he doesn't have the experience, he doesn't have the practical background, he's not uniquely qualified to be an insider...
People on the street eminently dressed in business suits and carrying briefcases seemed taken aback by the gathering. In their eyes, the 1980s "me decade" was supposed to have thoroughly put to death the days of student activism. What has happened instead is that Newt Gingrich has given student activism a surprisingly sudden resurrection. Thanks, Newt...