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...gritty details. In the past, intense lobbying by special interests has nibbled away at any cohesive economic planning. Beyond that, there is some question as to whether the President had won on the budget largely through his own effective lobbying and prestige, or whether the Democrats, particularly House Speaker Tip O'Neill, had fumbled away all chances for a much closer vote. Indeed, while the margin of victory was psychologically and politically devastating for the Democrats, it was partly illusory. If the last-minute head counts had been closer, an unspecified number of restive Democrats had pledged to stay...
When asked before last week's budget vote whether the Democrats, who control the House, could hold together, Speaker Tip O'Neill replied sadly that in most other countries they would be splintered ideologically into five parties. If anything, he was understating the disorganization of the 97th Congress, which is riven into blocs representing regional, ethnic and economic as well as philosophical interests: there is a northeastern caucus, a black caucus, a steel caucus, even a mushroom caucus, dedicated to defending mushroom-growing constituents against foreign competition. In all this factionalism, one group of conservative Democrats has acquired...
...Tip O'Neill is a good friend of mine. He garnered a reputation as one of the strongest Speakers in our history. But now, I regret to say, Tip is reeling on the ropes ... he's in a fog ... he's not part of what is happening, and has no idea of where...
...long, charmed career, House Speaker Thomas Patrick (Tip) O'Neill, 68, has rarely been shoved around. A superb political technician, a man trusted even by House members who do not think his way, he drove the impeachment Congress as majority leader during Watergate. For the past eight of his 28 years in Congress, he has been the Democrat to deal with. But today many of the Speaker's good friends agree with Les Aspin that Tip is on the ropes. Despite a moving personal plea by O'Neill from the well of the House last week...
...later by default. So devoted was O'Neill to his own plan that he impulsively predicted a week before the budget vote that the fight was already lost. His colleagues, unaware of what their leader was up to, were more than ever convinced by that cave-in that Tip was out of touch...