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that it’s illegal for a defendant to take his ex-jurors to lunch, but it’s not exactly kosher.

Tax Collectors for the Welfare State? Next to the President’s waffle, the most disappointing thing for conservatives anxiously watching the budget summit has been the way their leaders appear to have been sucked in by the process. The day after a resolution sponsored by Representative Dick Armey (R., Tex.) opposing tax increases to fight the deficit was passed overwhelmingly by the House Republican Conference, Minority Whip Newt Gingrich (R., Ga.) was quoted in the Washington Post as telling Democratic negotiators that he was “prepared to sponsor and support” legislation to do just what his House colleagues had explicitly rejected. The other conservative summiteer, Senator Phil Gramm (R., Tex.), also pooh-poohed the Conference vote, calling it “meaningless.”

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that it’s illegal for a defendant to take his ex-jurors to lunch, but it’s not exactly kosher.

Tax Collectors for the Welfare State? Next to the President’s waffle, the most disappointing thing for conservatives anxiously watching the budget summit has been the way their leaders appear to have been sucked in by the process. The day after a resolution sponsored by Representative Dick Armey (R., Tex.) opposing tax increases to fight the deficit was passed overwhelmingly by the House Republican Conference, Minority Whip Newt Gingrich (R., Ga.) was quoted in the Washington Post as telling Democratic negotiators that he was “prepared to sponsor and support” legislation to do just what his House colleagues had explicitly rejected. The other conservative summiteer, Senator Phil Gramm (R., Tex.), also pooh-poohed the Conference vote, calling it “meaningless.”