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...list of complaints of over-reaching federal intervention. Note the decision of Governor William F. Weld '66 not to campaign for his party's nomination. Republicanism today is dominated by an insular morality which would override any such notion as economic libertarianism, just as the rhetoric of Gingrich and Gramm dominates that of Weld and Wilson...
...came President Liston's "Contract With the College." But wait, you say, it's not as though President Clinton proposed the notorious "Contract With America." Look carefully council watchers--as a leader elected only by the council, Liston's job is exactly equivalent to that of House Speaker Newt Gingrich...
Peninsula's decision to go beyond words, or rather, below them, points to a larger crisis in American conservatism. The shrill, populist conservatism embodied by Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich is hostile to intellectual culture. That hostility is not utterly unfounded. It is no secret that academia has historically been antagonistic to the Right, and never more so (in America) than in the past score of years...
...Right's wholesale dismissal of the 'elite northeastern universities' (Representatives Armey and Gingrich both have Ph.D.s from southern schools) it throws out the good with the bad. Like Peninsula, this brand of conservatism has utterly aborted the project of serious debate and nuanced argumentation. It prefers easy pictures and tidy slogans to the knottiness of words...
...order to pay for tax cuts for upper-income Americans." Clinton underplayed the GOP's failure Thursday to pass the balanced budget amendment, saying he'd stand by the budget he sent to Congress last month. In doing so, he brushed off a challenge from House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who dared Clinton to "show the entire country, including Republicans, how he would achieve a balanced budget." Beneath it all, says TIME White House correspondent James Carney, Clinton "was trying out campaign lines. He's trying to make himself credible again, but he's still got some work...