Responsible Party Government
A few years after the Contract, Newt reflected:
We had not only failed to take into account the ability of the Senate to delay us and obstruct us, but we had much too cavalierly underrated the power of the President, even a President who had lost his legislative majority and was in a certain amount of trouble for other reasons. I am speaking of the power of the veto. Even if you pass something through both the House and the Senate, there is that presidential pen. How could we have forgotten that?Issue ambivalence:
Abortion: survey trends and interviews
Budget: compare opinion on cuts with the composition of federal spending. From CBO:
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