Guess who’s back? Newt Gingrich | CarlPLeubsdorf
Carl P. LeubsdorfRepublican Leader Kevin McCarthy has enlisted the advice of one of his best-known GOP predecessors in mapping plans for the campaign he hopes will make him the next speaker of the House: Newt Gingrich.
The contract was far more effective as a campaign document than as a governing blueprint. Featuring such popular poll-tested proposals like a balanced budget amendment and term limits with little chance of enactment, few of its 10 items ever became law. He refused to let Republican freshmen participate in Harvard University’s traditional bipartisan orientation sessions, establishing GOP-only briefings. He encouraged new members to solidify their political bases by not moving their families to Washington. That limited their time there, reducing opportunities to get to know Democratic colleagues as fellow lawmakers, rather than political rivals.
At times, Gingrich abandoned his confrontational tactics, cooperating with Clinton on a 1996 welfare reform law and a 1997 budget agreement that cut taxes and produced the government’s first balanced budgets in three decades. But when the Monica Lewinsky scandal involving Clinton’s affair with a White House intern broke in early 1998, Gingrich abandoned the more cooperative course.
Though Wright was admittedly more partisan than his predecessors, Gingrich took that to new heights, setting a pattern his successors have unfortunately maintained. Bringing him in as an adviser is but the latest signal from McCarthy that the next GOP majority plans more of the same.
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