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Paul Dores San Diego AOL: SDiegoPaul Perhaps we are witnessing the birth of parliamentary government in the U.S. Through the concentration of enormous power in the office of Speaker, Gingrich is like a Prime Minister--locally elected, raised to power by the majority party, able to form a sort of cabinet of committee chairmen. The notion derives further support from the increasingly irrelevant house of bombastic lords in the Senate and the largely ceremonial figurehead in the White House...
Donald James Trickle Newark, Ohio Gingrich is no savior. He's found the way to manipulate an uneasy American populace with shallow rhetoric and promises impossible to carry out. Sure, if Newt does achieve all that he proposes, I will be his biggest fan. But let's not be too quick to sanctify him, or he will certainly fail to meet our expectations...
...Newt Gingrich be King of the Hill when 52% of those surveyed in your poll say he is a leader who cannot be trusted and 71% doubt that he has good ideas for the country? Is Gingrich's power base only in the media...
...started out mildly enough, as Democratic Representative Carrie Meek of Florida delivered a routine denunciation of Speaker Newt Gingrich's lucrative book deal with a Rupert Murdoch- owned publishing house. But before Meek could reach the end of her short speech, the Republican-managed House ruled her out of order and voted to strike her remarks from the record. The parliamentary scrap immediately brought a phalanx of the people's Representatives to the floor to scream at one another, with Republicans denouncing the speech for lack of decorum and Democrats blasting the g.o.p.'s "totalitarianism." Later, in a bare-knuckles...
That suited Newt Gingrich and the Republicans just fine: the Mexican crisis was now sure to hang over Clinton's head Tuesday night. With less than a week to go before the likely vote on the loan guarantees, only 33 of 204 House Democrats agreed to back him. And Latin financial markets were getting the jitters...