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FRANK LUNTZ, THE BABY-FACED POLLSTER who helped Newt Gingrich draft the "Contract with America" last year, looked a little frazzled as he rushed around the Capitol last Thursday night. And no wonder: all week normally loyal Republicans in both the Senate and the House had balked at key Contract with America provisions ranging from term limits for lawmakers to cuts in welfare for unwed mothers. More than 100 House Republicans declared independence from a once sacred $500-per-child tax credit, claiming the give-away was too generous to upper-income taxpayers. Stories detailing Republican "disarray" were beginning...
Live by the polls, die by the polls. The same surveys Luntz and Gingrich employed to stitch the contract together last summer are now compelling some Republicans to think about unraveling it. Nearly five months after the midterm election, Americans are worried more about reducing the deficit than reducing taxes, jeopardizing what Gingrich calls the "crowning jewels" in the contract. The popularity of spending cuts in general remains high, but the prospect of cutting school lunches and welfare benefits for indigent parents is distinctly less so--a harbinger of trouble when deeper and more specific cuts in middle-class programs...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich, preparing for hisfirst major "Contract With America" defeatin a term limits vote tonight, blamed Democrats who are refusing to help a divided GOP pass the measure. "Give us 60 more Republicans next year, and we'll passterm limits," Gingrich said. Even as he spoke, prominent Republican opponents of the measure were growing derisive. "If this were a trial, I'd call as my first witnesses the Founding Fathers, who directly and unanimously rejected term limits," Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) told the floor. Democrats, meanwhile, introduced an even tougher version -- knowing the GOP would...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich is asking national television networks to give him a half hour of free air time for an April 7 speech to outlinehis post-"Contract" agenda. While CNN quickly said yes today, NBC, ABC and CBS have yet to respond to Gingrich's request for a prerogative traditionally reserved for presidents. "It's certainly symptomatic of his asserting himself as a national personality above and beyond the status most speakers have had," saysTIME Washington contributor Laurence Barrett, who noted that the air time could help Gingrich improve his image. The latest TIME poll shows Gingrich's "negatives...
...Gingrich already has drafted ambitious plans for phase two of his Republican revolution. He wants to balance the budget, improve America's position in the global economy and lead "the human race into the third-wave information revolution...