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Renegade Republicans today struck a tentative deal with House leaders to pass a tax cut promised in theGOP "Contract With America."With a tax vote slated for Wednesday, Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Tex.) predicted passage of a $500-per-child tax credit for families making up to $200,000 a year. But some lawmakers warned that the compromise may not hold because a number of GOP holdouts still want to scale back the tax credit, while another group wants to increase the contributions that federal workers make into their own retirement funds. "We don't yet have 218 votes...
...remainders in the Republicans' feeble team of candidates, many are marked by public distaste. Against the creeping slime of Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.) or the downright meanness of Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kans.), Clinton could paint himself as the nice guy, the family friend. Against vacuous Gov. Pete Wilson (R-Calif.) or inexperienced Gov. Christine Whitman (R-N.J.), Clinton could calmly dismantle their arguments in every debate. But who knows? As the president who lost Congress in 1994 and lost on health care, Clinton qualifies for `damaged goods' status...
...Portraying the Egyptian princess Amneris is a singer identified in the program as ``Carmelita Della Vaca- Browne,'' a burly Puerto Rican ex-soprano whose voice (since giving birth to triplets) has darkened to a take-no-prisoners mezzo. In the role of the doomed warrior Radames, all-American tenor ``Tex Stolto'' can't seem to resist handing out glossy photos of himself. And as Ramfis, the high priest, Russian bass ``Boris Pistoff'' doffs his headdress to reveal himself as a Conehead...
...think Reaganomics was an incredible success. We ought to stand up and be proud of the '80s." --House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Tex), quoted in the New York Times on January...
...Egyptian princess Amneris is a singer identified in the program as "Carmelita Della Vaca- Browne," a burly Puerto Rican ex-soprano whose voice (since she gave birth to triplets) has darkened to a take-no-prisoners mezzo. In the role of the doomed warrior Radames, all-American tenor "Tex Stolto" can't seem to resist handing out 8-by-10 glossies of himself. And as Ramfis, the high priest, Russian bass "Boris Pistoff" doffs his headdress to reveal himself as a Conehead...