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...Dole was considered the conservative's conservative. But compared with Gramm, Dole is a flaming moderate. After World War II, he spent several years in and out of Army hospitals, recovering from combat wounds, and he believes ``government does a lot of good things.'' So his grudging enthusiasm for Newt Gingrich's anti-Washington ``Contract with America'' is hardly surprising. As for the contract's insistence that the budget can be balanced in five years even if taxes are cut and defense spending is increased, Dole has said diplomatically, ``It would be difficult.'' In recent weeks, Dole has downplayed attempts...
...imparting his vision of America, Newt Gingrich has a way of dropping names. Say, Hewlett-Packard and Health South Inc. during his series of videotaped college lectures; Johnson & Johnson and other pharmaceutical giants in letters to the White House and the Food and Drug Administration. By coincidence or design, many of the name-dropped have deposited timely contributions to organizations linked to Gingrich. Disclosures about the favors and donations provoked growing scrutiny last week of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a Gingrich think tank that seems to churn as much cash as ideas. Declared Ellen Miller, executive director...
That does not exempt him from charges of hypocrisy. ``Newt Gingrich complained about the corrupt system when he was in the minority,'' says Fred Wertheimer of Common Cause, who six years ago gave crucial support to Gingrich's effort to oust Speaker Jim Wright for ethics violations. ``Now he's running that corrupt system, and it's politics as usual...
...National Governors' Association came to Washington for its annual meeting last week; but in contrast with their usual posture as supplicants, its members arrived as conquerors. Both Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton paid them court. Their favorite piece of legislation, a restriction of the Federal Government's power to impose rules and make the states pay for them (otherwise known as unfunded mandates), became the first major chunk of the Gingrichian program to pass both houses of Congress. Clinton, for his part, announced that he was reducing 271 mostly unilateral federal programs to 27 ``performance partnerships'' with the Governors...
...response to the Connie Chung-Kathleen Gingrich incident in which Newt Gingrich's mother revealed he had called Hillary Clinton a ``bitch'' [Jan. 16], I believe bitch is a badge of honor. It means that a woman has been assertive and her efforts have not gone unnoticed...