Politics: A Day to Remember
Norquist, Grover G.
POLITICS by Grover G. Norquist A Day to Remember May 13 wasn't a bad day to be a Republican. That morning, Florida State Rep. Sandra Murman became the 256th Democratic officeholder in America to...
...Republicans now hold 228 seats in the House...
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...Since then, budget deals in 1982, 1984, 1987, 1990, and 1993 have all raised taxes...
...ambassador Bill Richardson...
...Shelly Kamins, the new chairman of GOPAC, predicts that these off-year GOP successes will make it even more difficult for Democrats to come back in 1998...
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...Former New Mexico Democratic chairman Earl Potter conceded his party did all it could to get out the vote...
...Their own gala fundraiser, held May 1, was alleged to have netted $4 million but in fact probably netted about $800,000...
...Yet this race drew more than 102,000 votes, an amount GROVER G. NORQUIST is president of Americans for Tax Reform...
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...For keeping her promise to cut income taxes and fending off other tax threats, Christie Whitman remains reasonably popular in a tough state she won by only one point in 1993...
...We won't know until the legislation is actually written whether they are the latest in empty promises or introduce real entitlement reform...
...But now, through the magic of quotas, this lame leftist has raced ahead of fellow BRIE stalwarts John Zysman, Stephen Cohen, and Michael Borrus, all far more...
...House Republicans will soon be able to campaign as that rarity: politicians who kept their promises...
...Democratic interns from Capitol Hill were bused in to fill empty seats, and the DNC remains $16 million in debt...
...The worst part of the deal is the additional discretionary spending Congress is conceding to Clinton...
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...58 July 1997 • The American Spectator promised big savings from price controls on doctors and hospitals only to discover that their lawyers are a lot smarter than government bureaucrats...
...He now expects more Democratic incumbents to announce their retirements—for good reason: "There are 107 congressional districts currently held by Democrats that are more Republican than New Mexico's 3rd district...
...Of course, to get Bill Clinton's signature on a tax cut, Republicans had to accede to some of Clinton's desires on domestic spending...
...A second measure to look at is the projected savings from Medicaid and Medicare reforms...
...Christie Todd Whitman and her husband led revelers onto the dance floor, election results rolled in from three under-reported races...
...New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani should win re-election on the strength of his ability to Though what about the budget...
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...The chairman of Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, Laura Tyson, is so benighted that across all the desolate wastes of socialism she can see "no evidence" that high taxes retard growth...
...Appropriations bills that will include the overspending desired by Clinton come third...
...Now that Republicans have congressional majorities to defend, they intend to keep the economy growing...
...Four years ago Republicans came from behind to win all three slots, and this year the GOP will be the frontrunner in each race...
...Said the state's Democratic attorney general, Tom Udall, "This is a very sad day for the Democratic Party...
...The economy will get a great boost from cuts in capital gains tax rates, especially if indexed to protect against taxation of inflated gains...
...In New Mexico, Republican Bill Redmond captured the third-district House seat vacated by current U.N...
...The GOP leadership's present plans are to pass the tax cut first, and entitlement reform second...
...She previously seemed well in over her head as the fourth-ranking economist at her own Berkeley Roundtable of International Economics...
...Finally, former Republican congressman Hal Daub withstood a heavy barrage of attacks from big labor to win re-election as mayor of Omaha...
...House Ways and Means chairman Bill Archer and Senate Finance chairman Bill Roth have made it clear that their cut will reduce capital gains and estate taxes, provide a $500-per-child tax credit, and expand Individual Retirement Accounts...
...While New Jersey Gov...
...One way to judge may be by comparing the outrage of liberal Democrats at news of the tax cuts and the gloominess of White House staffers who announced the deal with the upbeat reactions of Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott...
...Their woes are more than just electoral...
...But if we wake up to headlines that Congress is giving spending bills priority ahead of tax cuts and entitlements, we'll know that the good guys have been beaten after all...
...After a football game the team that is crying probably didn't win...
...Republicans now control 62 of the 120 seats in the Florida house...
...Redmond won despite being outspent twoto-one by Serna and having to fight off massive "issue advocacy ads" from Ralph Nader's Public Citizen...
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...greater than the turnout in eleven districts won by Democrats last year with Clinton heading the ticket...
...Tifi BOY CLINTON FOUR YEARS AGO Alice Rivlin, the estimable chief economist at Clinton's Office of Management and Budget, has long maintained that high tax rates spur workers to new frenzies of effort while low tax rates lure them into leisure...
...The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee blamed the low turnout in special elections...
...Think of it as the cost to taxpayers of Bob Dole's losing the election...
...In 1996, Redmond—a Los Alamos minister attacked by Democrats as a "radical right-wing preacher"—had lost to Richardson 67-30 in a district that is 6o percent Hispanic and American Indian...
...In winning 50-41 over his main opponent, Schundler took 53 percent of the most heavily Hispanic ward and 38 percent of black Ward F. Despite a demonstrable lack of support from suburban Republicans in the state legislature, Schundler has lowered taxes, taken on the police unions to require more cops on the street and fewer behind desks, and vigorously promoted school choice...
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...Sandra Murman became the 256th Democratic officeholder in America to switch to the GOP since Bill Clinton's election in November 1992...
...In the second bit of GOP good news, Bret Schundler was re-elected to a third mayoral term in Jersey City, New Jersey...
...And that evening, more than 2,000 donors gathered at the Washington Hilton for the annual RNC Gala which raised more than $11 million for the party...
...Ultimately, the last word on the budget deal may depend on the order of congressional action...
...Al D'Amato's re-election chances can only improve from having a New York mayor willing to clamp down on voter fraud...
...The tax cuts are permanent, as is the non–price cap portion of entitlement reform...
...This way Republicans maintain their leverage...
...His probable opponent, Democratic lieutenant governor Don Beyer, has already hurt himself by calling for new taxes and then backing off...
...This traditional Democratic stronghold is 3o percent black, 25 percent Hispanic, and io percent Asian...
...Michael Horowitz of the Manhattan Institute warns that in the past we have been The American Spectator • July 1997...
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...Until this year, no Republican had ever won more than 38 percent of its vote...
...These tax cuts, moreover, were first promised in the 1994 Contract With America...
...Redmond defeated Democrat Eric Serna 43-40, with Green Party candidate Carol Miller receiving 17 percent...
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...First, the good news: Bill Clinton has agreed to a budget with a net tax cut—the first since Ronald Reagan's in 1981...
...the 1996 tax reform bill was revenue neutral...
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...George Allen earned respect by fighting a Democratic legislature to lower taxes and devolve power...
...Next November 4 could be another banner day for the GOP—that's when gubernatorial elections will be held in Virginia and New Jersey...
...Former House committee chairmen had been hanging on with the promise that the Democrats would retake the majority in the '96 election," said Kamins...
...Limited by state law to one term, he is likely to be succeeded by his attorney general Jim Gilmore, who not only promises "no new taxes," but wants to phase out the hated property tax on cars and boats...
...The Clinton-GOP budget agreement has become a Rorschach test...
...Liberals and conservatives alike have attacked and supported the deal...
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...It also has yet to follow through on its promise to return $1.5 million in illegal or unexplained contributions...
...In sum, the budget gives the GOP two permanent victories and one temporary loss...
...So we've moved from tax hikes to tax cuts...
...It's also the day New York will have its mayoral vote...
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...Democrats and unions fear a Republican mayor will strengthen the GOP's chances of retaking the governorship— Nebraska is oneof only eighteen states with Democratic governors—as well as ousting incumbent Sen...
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...Meanwhile, the concession on discretionary spending is a one-year promise—next year Clinton will have to fight for it again from what is likelier to be a weaker negotiating position...
...widely and impressively published than Tyson and all having qualified themselves equally well for the administration by getting every tax, trade, and technology issue wrong for fifteen years...
...That's all there is to it...
Vol. 30 • July 1997 • No. 7
