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Separately, Gingrich learned that the White House had launched a subterranean assault on another G.O.P. budget proposal. Treasury Secretary-to- be Robert Rubin was talking privately to Wall Street economists about the dangers of the Republican plan to change the government's accounting rules to make tax cuts appear less expensive. A negative reaction by the financial markets could discredit many of the Republican taxing and spending plans. Typically, Gingrich's planned response to Rubin was a counterassault, inviting 25 top Wall Street economists to Washington to suggest they were "being stupid" to buy the White House line...
...session with Kasich had been arranged hastily, and was the only meeting that day in which Gingrich actually discussed the substance of legislation. - The rest of his day, Gingrich wrestled with logistics. There were meetings to parcel out office space, much of which the new Speaker had never been allowed to see until after the election. There were meetings to decide whom to hire, as well as which of Congress's more than 10,000 jobs to abolish. Among the first to go in the campaign to show that Gingrich's team is serious about rooting out waste: the scores...
...backing off the deal, Gingrich showed that he was suppressing his first instinct, which is to strike back. He may be learning that the street-fighting tactics that worked so well for him as a backbencher can look unseemly when they are tried by the Speaker of the House. And the vast, multimillion-dollar network of political and charitable organizations that he has built to spread his gospel could be a difficult target to defend. All of them draw their financial support from overlapping groups of business executives and other wealthy supporters whose identities Gingrich has resisted disclosing until recently...
...Newt Gingrich seemed as affable and camera-confident as Pat Sajak or any seasoned TV personality last week when he introduced a colorized version of his beloved Boys Town on the TNT network, intoning that the message was, "You have to love people enough to want to change them, not just feel their pain." But Gingrich was smooth for a reason: he's no amateur when it comes to cable TV. The new Speaker already has his own program each week, The Progress Report, a political talk show on National Empowerment Television, the 24-hour cable network devoted to promulgating...
...right-winger Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, NET currently reaches 10 million homes and, is working on an agreement with cable giant Tele-Communications that would put the network into 12 million more. NET vice chairman Burton Pines attributes the network's growth to Gingrich's electoral success. "It is making Washington the hottest story in maybe a half-century," contends Pines. "And as public fascination with Washington increases, even if it's morbid interest, there will be greater interest in our programming...