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...American Legion hall in Tullahoma, Tennessee, there are 200 people waiting to hear Newt Gingrich tell them that the sky is falling and to raise the roof as he does it. Officially, it's a fund-raising rally for Van Hilleary, a Republican House candidate. The real draw is Gingrich, House minority whip, Republican carnivore, the man who would be king -- and who will be something close to it in the next Congress. That Gingrich has already spent 15 years there is no obstacle to the message he will offer tonight, the same one he will have delivered...
...mostly predictable world of stump talk, there is nothing quite like Gingrich's messianic oration. He describes a world beset by atrocities from the villages of Bosnia to the suburbs of New Jersey. "If we are not careful, our children could inherit a dark and bloody planet in the 21st century," he warns. Then he offers a vision of salvation and redemption. "I came here tonight to recruit you," he concludes. "To recruit you to the cause of freedom and to the cause of your country." When he finishes, there's more than just loud and sustained cheering. There...
...Washington Post. The memo, prepared by OMB Director Alice Rivlin, listed revenue-raising options available to help Clinton raise money for deficit cutting and provide universal health care. But the G.O.P. quickly zeroed in on mentions of Social Security COLA adjustments, benefit reductions and payroll deduction hikes. Representative Newt Gingrich (Rep., Georgia) attacked, saying the memo reinforces the feelings of the American people that the Clinton Administration "is an enormous threat to their values, to their pocketbook, to their future." Today the White House was forced to come out swinging with Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, charging that Social Security...
...fall again in 1995. Clinton crowed about the fact that the deficit is down for two years in a row for the first time in two decades and said a further decline next year would mark the first three-year string of decreases since Harry Truman. He also attacked Gingrich's "Contract With America" -- a policy blueprint the G.O.P. will press if they gain control of Congress Nov. 8 -- saying this would "explode the deficit" by adding a fresh trillion dollars of debt...
There will always be representatives and senators willing to further undercut the public's perception of Washington. Newt Gingrich, the number-two House Republican, has tried for years to strike down a Democratic House. As long as someone sees a benefit in doing so, the law of politics--myopic as it is--will provide an actor to play the role...