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Alice Rivlin, the Clinton Administration's budget director, said today that incoming House SpeakerNewt Gingrich's avowed tax-cutting planwould send the federal deficit through the roof and shove the economy into a recession. "If we had a big tax cut right now and people were spending more, the inflation danger would be much more real than it is now," Rivlin told reporters. "You'd have rapid increases in interest rates, and probably throw the economy into a recession." Republicans fired back: Rep. John Kasich (R-Ohio) said any GOP tax cut would be offset by spending cuts, and tweaked...
...Gingrich's swaggering bravado is easy to make fun of. But beneath all the quick jabs at the Clintons and the "liberal media elite" is something quite frightening. This is, after all, the man who claimed that the actions of Susan V. Smith, the young woman in South Carolina who was accused of drowning her two small children, would not have occurred under a Republican administration. This is the man who in 1984 questioned the patriotism of ten House Democrats when they wrote a letter to Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega calling for a peace settlement between warring factions. Gingrich accuses...
Perhaps even more frightening than Gingrich are his Republican peers in both the House and Senate. A study by People for the American Way found that 60 percent of the 600 candidates for national, state and local offices who were supported by religious conservatives won their elections...
...this under the leadership of our esteemed new House speaker, Newt Gingrich...
Other glimpses into the pending GOP-controlled House: Gingrich invited Democrats to join a ''quality of life'' advisory committee that will rejigger House schedules so members can spend more time with their children. He also said he did not own a black Cadillac he was seen leaving in last week and would eschew the House Speaker's traditional privilege to be chauffeured in one.Post your opinion on theElection '94bulletin board...