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That does not exempt him from charges of hypocrisy. ``Newt Gingrich complained about the corrupt system when he was in the minority,'' says Fred Wertheimer of Common Cause, who six years ago gave crucial support to Gingrich's effort to oust Speaker Jim Wright for ethics violations. ``Now he's running that corrupt system, and it's politics as usual...
Eisenach describes himself as Gingrich's ``intellectual sidekick,'' but he insists the foundation is wholly independent of Gingrich as well as organizations like GOPAC. That defense is less than satisfying to critics. Before founding Progress and Freedom, Eisenach was executive director of GOPAC. His think tank, furthermore, is steward to ``Renewing American Civilization,'' the 20-hour college course that Gingrich teaches. Eisenach, however, denies that he remains beholden to partisan zealots at GOPAC. ``The clique that feeds at the trough of Republican politics is not my crowd,'' he told . ``I survived at GOPAC by telling them I'd leave them...
Eisenach, 36, does not disavow spiritual ties to the Gingrich crusade. He considers himself the curator of Gingrich's ideas. He agrees with the Speaker that no idea has played a more central role in American civilization than progress. It was a combination of patriotism and technological innovation that was instilled in Eisenach as a child. In the first grade, he and his classmates in Mrs. Bumstead's class in Dayton, Ohio, would regularly hear B- 52s flying overhead, heading back to nearby Wright-Patterson Air Base. Each time, the kids' response was the same. ``We would stop whatever...
Eisenach and Gingrich met in 1988 while Eisenach was studying drug-abuse policy at the conservative Heritage Foundation. ``We found out that for 10 years we had been thinking about many of the same things,'' says Eisenach. Nowadays, he talks with Gingrich two or three times a week. One irresistible topic for them must be the growing scrutiny of their relationship...
...National Governors' Association came to Washington for its annual meeting last week; but in contrast with their usual posture as supplicants, its members arrived as conquerors. Both Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton paid them court. Their favorite piece of legislation, a restriction of the Federal Government's power to impose rules and make the states pay for them (otherwise known as unfunded mandates), became the first major chunk of the Gingrichian program to pass both houses of Congress. Clinton, for his part, announced that he was reducing 271 mostly unilateral federal programs to 27 ``performance partnerships'' with the Governors...