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...purpose of the voting rights acts has little to do with outcomes. It has a lot to do with process. The act does not care whether voters are silly enough to elect Newt Gingrich or Marion Barry. It does not care whether we choose a Republican president and a Democratic Congress. It does insist, however, that the process be fair and democratic...
Such nuances in the public mood went unheard in the shouting of naysayers. Said Linda DiVall, a Republican pollster: "The members in opposition are in sync with what their constituents think." First to exploit this sentiment on the right was Newt Gingrich of Georgia, long a spokesman for Republicans still enthralled with Reaganomics. He temporarily relinquished his post as House Republican whip to lead a crusade against the tax increases at the heart of the measure. "This budget package with its higher taxes will deepen the recession and increase the number of unemployed," he said. Gingrich urged a freeze...
...capital gains. But the political temperature was rising, heated by the crisis in the Persian Gulf. The threat of war dimmed the prospects for taxes on stock-market trades or energy consumption. Rising oil prices and the specter of new inflation even moved opportunistic House Republicans led by Newt Gingrich to call for new tax cuts. "Everyone," Darman said in mid-August, "is looking for an exit...
Among the members of Congress raising the greatest ruckus as Washington descended into budgetary chaos were those most responsible for creating the mess in the first place. There were Reaganite conservatives like Newt Gingrich of Georgia for whom vote-winning formulas -- including the infamous "Read my lips, no new taxes" -- are more important than the national interest. There were Democratic liberals like Henry Waxman of California, whose vision of the government as a cash cow for special interests helped spawn taxpayer revolts and voodoo economics. And there were the special-interest lobbyists whose phone-bank politics stampeded Congress into...
...Washington. As the talks began, Democrats suggested instituting a vaguely defined tax on energy and eliminating the income tax provision that reduces the marginal tax rate for the wealthiest Americans from 33% to 28%. Both ideas are anathema to Republicans, some of whom, like House minority whip Newt Gingrich, are calling for tax cuts to blunt the edge of a recession. G.O.P. leaders responded with a call for a cut in capital gains taxes, which Democrats adamantly oppose, along with higher levies on tobacco and alcoholic beverages and a $10,000 limit on individual deductions for state and local taxes...