Word: caving
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...Hampshire, as all people here know unless they are living in a cave, provided the nation with the first presidential primary last night...
...same time, Newt and his allies made a number of miscalculations. They not only thought Clinton would cave in on the budget, they boasted that he would do so--thereby ensuring that he didn't. They misjudged the public's reaction to the shutdown: it redounded against the recalcitrant Republicans, not the reasonable-sounding fellow in the White House. After a while, Newt's tantrums became so unappetizing to the public that Clinton scored points simply by being the un-Newt. And the Republicans never imagined that the man they deride as the Last Liberal would shanghai their less-government...
NEWT GINGRICH Last spring he predicted Clinton would cave to the will of Congress; must now deal with own cave...
...actually Gingrich's staff that turned up the pressure on the exhausted number crunchers. This was because the Republicans also needed Clinton to endorse a CBO-approved plan, so they could claim they had got at least something out of him in return for what they considered their big cave-in, the agreement to reopen the government...
...taken 10 steps so the others could take five. It was the sort of leadership that earned him, in another venue, a chestful of medals and a withered right arm. Some freshmen could not believe their own House leader was deserting the cause. "There is not a need to cave," said an incredulous Todd Tiahrt, a freshman from Kansas. "All the issues we have been talking about for the past 12 months are still very important to us." But to others, Gingrich was simply facing reality. "We're drained and we're tired, and we're not moving ahead," said...