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ouse Speaker Newt Gin- consequences for the world econ-
grich, R-Ga., keeper of the omy.
The growing hostility to the
conservative flame in
Congress, has a problem. very idea of compromise is bad
And his problem is producing big news for the millions of people
headaches for Jewish activists around the country whose gov-
on both the domestic and foreign ernment programs are already
jeopardized by budget cuts be-
policy fronts.
Mr. Gingrich, arguably the ing enacted in wholesale lots,
most powerful House Speaker without much consideration of
in decades, can't seem to decide the human impact of these . de-
whether he wants to be an ef- cisions.
Government programs clear-
fective legislative leader in a de-
liberative body that requires ly need to be cut back in this
compromise — or a partisan new, more austere era. Cutting
bomb thrower, a mode favored big government in ways that will
cause minimal human suffering
by the influential GOP freshmen
who are increasingly driving the demands a willingness for dif-
ferent factions to come together
House agenda.
Last week, Mr. Gingrich chose and seek measured, well- I
the leadership role when he thought out budget cuts, and not
cracked the whip on rebellious just a wild hacking away at pro-;
colleagues to pass a temporary grams.
budget bill. But the Speaker
could have done that weeks ago,
averting a costly and disruptive
partial government shutdown;
after a year in his new post, Mr.
Gingrich continues to vacillate
between genuine legislative
leadership and a strident, ob-
structionist partisanship that
promiSes only conflict and dis-
ruption.
Liberals' complaints about
Mr. Gingrich are, in part, just
the predictable whining of the
out-of-power party.
Mr. Gingrich presides over the
House because voters made a
clear statement in November
1994 that they were tired of Newt Gingrich:
business as usual on Capitol Leader or obstructionist?
Hill, and that a cut in the huge,
frightening federal deficit was
Mr. Gingrich, ambivalent
one of their priorities.
To an extent, the Republicans about his new role as the most
in Congress are doing exactly important legislator in Wash-
what they were elected to do — ington, torn between the politi-
a startling departure from the cal "establishment" on Capitol
Hill and the GOP's freshman
political ethos of our age.
But House Republicans kamikaze corps, has added to
have gone much further in the the dangerous chaos by not grad- `
first session of the 104th Con- uating to a higher mode of lead-
gress. Increasingly, the GOP ership.
And that is an ominous de-
Young Turks and some of their
older colleagues reject the un- velopment for the Jewish ac-
derlying rule of effective leg- tivists in Washington who are
islative action — the need to struggling to protect the inter-
balance ideology and partisan- ests of the Jewish elderly, the
ship with compromise and dia- Jewish poor, the infirm, the dis- F-/
abled and the unemployed, all
logue.
In fact, the Republican new- groups that will face significant
comers seem perfectly willing new hardships if the radical
to bring the entire government mode of budget cutting becomes
infrastructure crashing down national policy.
Mr. Gingrich has to decide
in ruins if they dOn't get their
way on wholesale, radical budget which constituency is more im-
cuts, an extremism that was portant to him: ordinary, mid-
evident in their brinkmanship dle-class Americans who voted
last week over the issue of a for change in 1994, but not for
or his freshman
possible government default revolution
that could have had devastating colleagues who see their election
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