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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 ' —