White House Sniffs at Gingrich Outrage

Six months ahead of the elections--and with plenty of business to finish in the interim--President Clinton’s spokesman suggested the White House could not work with House Speaker Newt Gingrich until “he comes back to his senses.� Gingrich said the nation is in the midst of a “fairly large and growing scandal.� He suggested that funding for the International Monetary Fund would hinge on administration cooperation with a House investigation of Clinton’s 1996 fund-raising. Clinton aides and Democratic Party officials seemed to welcome Gingrich’s public refrain, counting on what they called its partisan edge to turn off voters before November’s elections.