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WHEN incoming Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (Kan.) went before the TV cameras and presented his transition team of Thad Cochran (Miss.), Judd Gregg (N.H.), and Don Nickles (Okla.), audible groans went up from conservatives in Washington and around the country. These senators are not merely uninspiring; they lack energy, gusto, esprit de corps, new ideas. There was no sense of urgency or immediacy. Nor was there any trace of the Gingrich/ Armey/Kasich clarity and decisiveness. Dole himself, no slouch at spotting a turkey, exited soon after making the introduction.

Almost daily a member of Newt Gingrich’s House transition team throws a new bombshell, while virtually nothing is coming out of the Senate. So a group of conservative Senate backbenchers known as the “steering committee” has pushed Trent Lott (Miss.) to replace Alan Simpson (Wyo.) for the number-two job of whip.

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Larry Kudlow

Larry Kudlow is the author of JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity, written with Brian Domitrovic.

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WHEN incoming Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (Kan.) went before the TV cameras and presented his transition team of Thad Cochran (Miss.), Judd Gregg (N.H.), and Don Nickles (Okla.), audible groans went up from conservatives in Washington and around the country. These senators are not merely uninspiring; they lack energy, gusto, esprit de corps, new ideas. There was no sense of urgency or immediacy. Nor was there any trace of the Gingrich/ Armey/Kasich clarity and decisiveness. Dole himself, no slouch at spotting a turkey, exited soon after making the introduction.

Almost daily a member of Newt Gingrich’s House transition team throws a new bombshell, while virtually nothing is coming out of the Senate. So a group of conservative Senate backbenchers known as the “steering committee” has pushed Trent Lott (Miss.) to replace Alan Simpson (Wyo.) for the number-two job of whip.