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...blames a decrease in staff that goes back 10 years, a rickety computer system that goes back a lot further, and the IRS legislation that Newt Gingrich and company passed after those 1998 hearings to try and get the voters to like conservative Republicans again. (It didn't work very well.) The bill forced the IRS to divert enforcement resources to happier things like customer service, with predictable results...
JADING JOBS You would think no post would age a man as much as leader of the free world, but though the hair is more salt than pepper today, Ken Starr, Yasser Arafat and Newt Gingrich seem to have inflicted only minor damage on the appearance of Bill Clinton. A nonscientific survey of some other men of a similar age and high-pressure milieu suggests that interviewing celebrities and yelling from the basketball sidelines take a greater toll on a man's dewy youthfulness...
...Neill's side is winning. The deficit-reduction plan that Greenspan pushed on a reluctant Bill Clinton in 1993 is the foundation of the prosperity of the last eight years. Balanced budgets, a mainstay of Republicanism in the '50s, were one of Newt Gingrich's rallying cries in the '90s, and are the one thing everybody can agree on in 2001, especially with those city-of-gold surpluses shimmering on the horizon...
...there are no Democratic or Republican statistical techniques--there are only Democratic and Republican voters, and the immigrants and urban poor who are frequently missed by such surveys generally fall in the former category. As could be expected, the debate turned on whose ox was gored; in 1991, Newt Gingrich wrote a letter urging the use of sampling to correct an undercount in Georgia, but six years later, as the GOP recognized the potential of sampling to increase Democratic influence, he wrote a similar letter opposing...
...Starr became single-mindedly obsessed with catching his wisecracking prey. He did everything short of arranging sticks of dynamite into the shape of a woman, dropping a wig on it and hiding behind a nearby rock. Clinton made Starr funny and watchable. And without Clinton on the scene, Starr, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh and all the rest revert back to bland, Anglo-Saxon reality...