The embattled House Speaker is always claiming to be happy when he looks just miserable. But last week, when Newt Gingrich said, "It feels very good to be here," he actually seemed to mean it. Congress had just passed bills to balance the budget for the first time in 29 years and cut taxes significantly for the first time in 16. In celebration, Gingrich wore a yellow happy-face sticker on his lapel.
The battle to reconcile House and Senate versions should wipe the smiley off his coat. The Senate's budget includes a measure raising the Medicare age from 65 to 67...
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