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...just the opposite. In the midterm election, the N.R.A. spent an exceptional $3.2 million to support gun-friendly candidates. Almost all those it supported won, including 10 new Senators. Though the Republican leadership is in no mood to bring up an issue as divisive as gun control now, Newt Gingrich has promised the N.R.A. a chance later this year to repeal the assault-weapon ban that passed the Senate last year by only two votes. If that works, a push to repeal Brady could be next, though the odds of repealing it are far longer...
Consider the tortured logic and faux piety behind the G.O.P.'s excuses for inaction. Newt Gingrich, prattling on about free-market sanctity, says ``every other industry'' would seek relief if Congress intervenes. ``This is just a private labor dispute,'' adds Senate majority leader Bob Dole, and ``we Republicans want to keep the government out of things, not get it into things.'' That sounds coherent, but there's a significant slice of hypocrisy here: Congress is largely responsible for the current horror. It long ago stacked the deck against the players by exempting baseball from the antitrust laws, protection no other...
...find an attack on affirmative action among the major clauses in the G.O.P. ``Contract with America.'' There were only so many battles that Newt Gingrich wanted to wage during the first 100 days. But just wait until the next hundred. The new Republican majority in Congress is getting ready to position Democrats as die-hard defenders of preferential treatment for minorities. (The fact that affirmative action also benefits women, making it potentially a bipartisan perk, isn't mentioned much in the present debate.) Last week Senate majority leader and presidential candidate Bob Dole let drop on NBC's Meet...
This, then, is where the goals of the antiabortion movement collide headon with the Gingrich agenda. The volunteers at roughly 3,000 crisis pregnancy centers nationwide (465 of them sponsored by Care Net) are promoting childbirth among the very women the Contract with America hopes to discourage from motherhood: unwed teens and welfare mothers having additional children. Could the centers make up the difference if, as Newt proposes, welfare benefits to such women were cut back? ``Absolutely not,'' says Linda Cochrane, executive director of the Poughkeepsie center. ``What clients get from the government far exceeds what we provide...
...theory, that reasoning makes sense. During the mid-term elections, G.O.P. leaders let such potentially divisive issues as abortion fade into the background as welfare reform and the Republican economic agenda grabbed headlines and votes. There is no mention of abortion in the ``Contract with America,'' and Gingrich made it clear, in his first few weeks as Speaker, that he hoped to sidestep the issue. The White House bungling, however, has given Republicans an irresistible opportunity to appease the antiabortion crowd on the ground that they were deceived. As Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed puts it, ``This nomination is dead...