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...great challenge for the Democrats, still reeling from their drubbing at the polls, is to keep their footing as the G.O.P. pulls the rug out from under them. Clinton's handling of the first major surprise to be sprung by soon-to- be House Speaker Newt Gingrich was anything but surefooted. Right after the election, Gingrich declared that in the next session of Congress, House Republicans plan to introduce a constitutional amendment to permit school prayer, an item that didn't appear in the G.O.P.'s "Contract with America." When reporters asked Clinton about it in Jakarta, where...
...placating instincts got him in trouble. By first appearing to endorse Gingrich's proposal, Clinton opened himself to attack from liberals who oppose school prayer. White House aides spent the next day backtracking, explaining that what the President had in mind was not a constitutional amendment but a legislative act to permit a moment of silence in classrooms like the one he had signed as Governor of Arkansas in 1985. While that could be acceptable to many Democrats as well as Republicans, the way the White House handled it reinforced Clinton's image as the Great Vacillator...
...should be toleration . . . It should not be promotion and it should not be condemnation. I don't want to see police in the men's room, which we had when I was a child, and I don't want to see trying to educate kindergartners in understanding gay couples." Gingrich, who's since been denounced by gay groups for his Contract With America, was vaguer on whether homosexuality was an aberrant lifestyle: He acknowledged a "bias" toward homosexuality, but said he was more confident about the "bias in favor of heterosexual marriage and heterosexual couples raising children."Post your opinion...
Washington's new power couple, Kansas Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas and Georgia Rep. Newt Gingrich, outlined the first priority of their legislative agenda today: They promised an audience of GOP governors that they would push for relaxing federal controls on states as soon as possible. Dole told the Republican Governors Association that the first bill brought to the Senate floor next year would curb federal initiatives that require state financing. "We're going to change the direction of America for the right reason -- it needs to be changed," Dole said. His House counterpart promised the governors that he would...
Republicans have their first shot at running the House of Representatives since 1954. The shift is expected to produce a series of political tremors for the next two years as the Speaker's chair is transferred to the often corrosively partisan Newt Gingrich. The Speaker-in-waiting sent only a limited peace signal to the Clinton Administration -- "Cooperation, yes; compromise, no," -- and wasted little time in blasting "counterculture McGovernicks" and "left-wing elitists" at the White House. Among the Democratic war-horses sent out to pasture by the electorate: Illinois' Dan Rostenkowski, Texas' Jack Brooks and Washington's Tom Foley...