Word: darman
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Republican leader in the House, Georgia Congressman Newt Gingrich is expected to support the policies of the Bush Administration. And Gingrich seems perfectly willing to oblige -- provided he can formulate those policies himself. Gingrich's sharp-tongued truculence, scathingly defined as "New- Newtism" by Budget Director Richard Darman, is at the core of a smoldering feud that has Republicans brawling like, well, Democrats. If it continues, the rift could hurt George Bush's chances for re-election...
Bush's retreat on taxes simply affirmed the right wing's long-held suspicion that he is not an ideological soul mate. Gingrich led House Republicans in opposing the Bush-backed budget agreement with Democrats, a deal that was negotiated by Darman and Sununu and that left the Republican right seething. Complains Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus: "The Republican Party no longer articulates conservatives' concerns...
With that decided, Gephardt placed a phone call to Budget Director Richard Darman, who was still the White House point man in the negotiations, though he and chief of staff John Sununu had both been cast in messenger roles because their aggressive arm bending in support of the budget summit's package had alienated many Republicans and most of the Democrats. Gephardt told Darman that the Democrats would give up the surtax in exchange for a tax-rate increase for the rich and a phaseout of their personal exemptions, along with a 5 cents gas tax hike...
...Richard Darman Office of Management and Budget. The director's machinations during the budget talks hurt the President politically. Even some Republicans want Darman's ouster. But he will hang on for now, partly because he is indispensable to Bush on a daily basis, partly because he refuses to leave until something better turns...
...current crisis is rooted in the anti-democratic conviction that neither political party is supposed to stand for anything. In the quest for what Richard Darman called a "no-fingerprints" budget deal, the Bush Administration and the congressional leadership of both parties carried this flight from democracy to self-destructive extremes. The bipartisan budget summit not only shut out the voters but almost all of Congress from the vital business of setting national priorities at a time of scarcity and economic fear...