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Asked to name which programs he might be willing to cut to help balance the budget, Gingrich flatly refuses. "I don't want to give people like Tom Foley a single thing to distort and expand into an attack." He does tick off a few items, such as putting Medicaid recipients into managed care and implementing tighter procurement practices at the Pentagon, which he insists could produce $125 billion to $150 billion in savings over five years. That would still be far short of the $700 billion or so that analysts say would have to be cut in the next...
...they fit into deficit reduction, they seemed like practitioners of the feel-good foolery that made voters cynical in the first place. "If all you wanted to worry about was how do you maximize public anger and minimize your own risk, no Contract would have been a safer stand," Gingrich admits. "It also would have been worse for America. In the long run, the party that stands for something and is willing to live by what it stands for has an enormous edge over the party that is cynical and negative and has only smear campaigns and attack advertising...
...press last week. In summarizing options for reducing the deficit, the memo listed many of the same measures, like trimming Social Security benefits, that the Democrats had tried to pin on the Republicans. Though the White House rushed to deny that it would consider Rivlin's more controversial choices, Gingrich saw his opening. "We printed our word so every American could see it," he says. "The Clinton Administration kept their word secret until it was leaked...
...things to know about Karen Tumulty, who was one of the main reporters on this week's cover story about minority whip Newt Gingrich -- and who wrote the accompanying story about House Speaker Tom Foley -- are that in her apprentice years as a journalist she acquired an MBA from Harvard and once covered a cow- milking contest by entering it. Plenty of reporters prove their tenacity by tracking down politicians in rest rooms, coaxing home numbers from prosecutors or outdoing fire fighters on lost sleep. Tumulty has done that; but her toughness reflects a quiet ability...
Last week Tumulty was back on the road, following Foley from Walla Walla to Spokane and catching up with Gingrich in Tennessee, Oklahoma, Minnesota and Georgia. She has known both men for 10 years. Watching Foley regain strength in the waning days of his campaign reminded her that "for all the anger out there, the vast majority of incumbents will get re-elected." As for Gingrich, she says, he is a good lesson in the perils of political under-estimation. "Just five years ago, he was a backbencher the Democrats thought they could dismiss as a gnat...