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...Before Gingrich's ascendance, Robert Dole was the G.O.P.'s equivalent of a shadow President. At Newt's inaugural last week, the Senator from Kansas watched from the sidelines. He quickly exited after the festivities were over. Asked by TIME for his view of the events, he simply said, "I'd better get back to work." In the Senate the newly installed majority leader gave a speech more characteristic of Gingrich than the one the Speaker actually delivered, promising "to cut federal programs from A to Z, from Amtrak to zoological studies...
...real President? His strategists say the new tactic with Gingrich and the Republicans is to compromise where possible -- but to keep the option to fight on principle where necessary. In fact, Clinton aides actually look forward to the first presidential veto -- perhaps to counter G.O.P. moves against Head Start, the Goals 2000 education bill, the Brady bill or attempts to strip the crime bill of the assault-weapons ban. The White House has seen polls and focus-group studies that show voters do not believe Clinton will stand by any principles. Where Clinton draws the line and has fights, says...
...Newt Gingrich...
...frenzy of subsidiarity at the moment. The former Soviet empire divides and subdivides into ever smaller sovereign units. In Western Europe, there is a rebellion against the "bureaucrats of Brussels," headquarters of the European Union. And here in the United States, a recurring theme of the Gingrich Ascendancy is that this or that Federal Government program should be turned over to the states. State governments, it is argued, are more efficient and better attuned to the wishes of the people...
...that a new Newt delivering his inaugural address as Superspeaker last week? It certainly seemed to be. The meanspirited rantings Gingrich's conservative audiences eagerly expect were gone. In their place, as Representative Charles Schumer says, was a speech "most any liberal Democrat" could have given, a talk remarkable for its professed compassion. "You can't believe in the Good Samaritan," Gingrich said, "and explain that as long as business is making money we can walk by a fellow American who's hurt and not do something." Newt even acknowledged that his pet project, a balanced-budget amendment...