A new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows Bill Clinton (33 per cent) leading both Ross Perot (31) and George Bush (28). The first step this year is to throw the election into the House. Then we only have to figure out what to throw the House into.
Leave it to Dick Armey to shake things up again. Over the past two years, as co-chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, Representative Armey (R., Tex.) has exposed the Democratic-controlled Congress’s fraudulent use of statistics to obscure the success of the Reagan revolution. Now Armey has announced that he will run for the GOP House leadership; specifically, the position of conference chairman currently held by Representative Jerry Lewis (R., Calif.). Lewis reacted to this challenge by attempting to put through an amendment on legislative appropriations that would cut the funding of Armey’s committee by a third. And though the conference’s job is to highlight party differences, Chairman Lewis told Congressional Quarterly that “the leadership has got to be made up of people who can reach across the aisle, not just in one direction”-a sentiment that we somehow never hear from the Democratic leaders.
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