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...Newt Gingrich has an eye for weakness, and when he spots it, he zooms straight in. Last week the House minority whip pounced on a tattered, Democratic- sponsored lobbying reform bill that was limping toward passage. He came in not for a kill, only to place a wound -- perhaps simply for pride of marksmanship. Straightening his Scotch tartan tie, the Congressman from Georgia upended his schedule, rushed from his second-floor office, stepped onto the House floor and delivered a five-minute, late-afternoon blast. He aimed at one minor and carefully buried clause, which he decried as "designed...
...House candidates gathered under the Capitol dome for a photo-op signing of a new "Contract with America" -- a 10-point platform they said they'd turn into reality if they tip the electoral scales in six weeks. Among the pledges, courtesy of ringleader and House minority whip Newt Gingrich: a balanced-budget amendment, presidential line-item veto, making the death penalty a more common part of American life, term limits and keeping U.S. troops away from U.N. command abroad. BUT CHANGE WON'T COME CHEAP: This evening, the celebrants tripped off to the traditional pre-campaign feed...
...sanguine. Polls show that their losing fight to stop the crime bill left them with the image of obstructionists on an issue many Americans say is the one most important to them. To fend off the impression that his party knows only how to oppose, House minority whip Newt Gingrich will unveil a national platform later this month to which all G.O.P. congressional candidates will be expected to pledge themselves. It will include a list of bills they would promise to produce within 100 days, including a balanced-budget amendment, welfare reform and George Bush's old standby...
There is also a strain of Republican thinking that says courting the charge of obstructionism is a risk worth taking. Gingrich is satisfied that the crime-bill fight left an impression the President had triumphed with a bill that smelled of pork. And via his much faxed newsletter, party strategist William Kristol has been urging that obstructionism in the name of image- building is no vice. A party that opposes the President unyieldingly, he reasons, gets a nice, sharp profile...
...meeting to discuss ways to rejigger the bill. The White House demurred, still hoping to gather the necessary votes among Democrats who jumped ship. But Republicans think the other party has overplayed its hand. "They have to let us be legislators too," insisted House minority whip Newt Gingrich of Georgia. "If they decide to go down the same narrow, partisan, liberal road, they'll lose health care the same...