Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House Speaker Gingrich, DeLay and his co-conspirators showed all the talent for intrigue of Peter Sellers in his Pink Panther days. Depending on who's doing the telling, the schemers included one, two or all three of the other House leaders ranked directly below the Speaker--majority leader Dick Armey, G.O.P. conference chairman John Boehner and leadership chairman Bill Paxon--not to mention 20 or more insurgents from the rank and file. Cooked up in secrecy, the coup collapsed before it could begin. The result was a week of backstabbing that left Gingrich weaker yet more entrenched. It could...
...years ago. We're not merely living in Texas, we're really living. The values and standards set by the Bible Belt and the Rodeo Belt show us that the Beltway is a profanity. And even when this living delight ends, my ashes are not going back East! DICK GRAY New Braunfels, Texas
...coup attempt against him, Republicans said the episode is in the past and that the party should press ahead with the GOP agenda. The three-hour heart to heart, which Henry Bonilla of Texas described as "filled with emotion, filled with passion," ended without calls for the heads of Dick Armey, Tom DeLay and John Boehner, figures implicated in the plot along with Bill Paxon, who stepped-down last week. The lieutenants were let off the hook despite a particularly damaging account by DeLay, who admitted he informed GOP rebels he would vote with them if they moved to unseat...
...especially, want to know exactly what happened." So does Gingrich. "He's still angry, and will probably never fully trust any of them again," says Carney. "But those public calls for forgiveness may be the only thing to prevent more bloodletting tonight." Featured speakers at the inquisition will be Dick Armey, Tom DeLay, and GOP Conference Chairman John Boehner, all probably with a different version of events. "Armey, besides his public denials, has worked the conference really hard, person by person, proclaiming his innocence. The problem is that his account has been directly contradicted by the rebels he met with...
...Frederic Golden. With reporting by Andrew Meier/Moscow and Dick Thompson/Washington