Word: gingriched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This tack clearly did help many Democratic candidates. In Massachusetts, Republican Peter Blute tried to protect himself against the assault with a TV ad that showed the Congressman with his arms draped over pictures of Clinton and Gingrich. "When he wanted to fight crime, I voted with him," said Blute, pointing to Clinton's picture, which moved closer and closer to the candidate. Then "when he wanted to balance the budget, I voted with him"; Newt's picture moved toward Blute. "But when he wanted to increase taxes, I voted against him"; Clinton's picture faded into the distance...
...both sides of the party divide too there was talk of a newly chastened spirit. Former Gingrich revolutionaries at times confessed that, well, maybe they had tried to go too fast. Even the intensely partisan and conservative Funderburk caught this spirit. The past two years, he said, had had "a sobering effect" on the Republican class of '94. "You're slapped in the face by the reality that you can't make things happen overnight," he said. "We're going to have to project a more conciliatory image." Funderburk himself could not manage to do so, at least...
...centrists are a dwindling breed. In the Senate, conciliators like Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, William Cohen of Maine--and Bob Dole--are leaving or have left. The G.O.P. leadership there is dominated by "movement" conservatives like Trent Lott of Mississippi and Don Nickles of Oklahoma. And the House leadership--Gingrich, Dick Armey and Tom DeLay--is Exhibit A in the argument that hard-right Southerners have taken over the party...
...reaches out to the G.O.P., it will reach back. He no longer has to deal with a presidential rival in the Senate; Republican leader Trent Lott is a colleague, not a rival. For their part, House leaders Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey have learned a few lessons. The former freshmen House Republicans are a scared sophomore class...
...court the G.O.P.? It won't be done by the Democrats in Congress, who will be in a mood to take no prisoners. They will seek revenge for their exclusion from the legislative process under Gingrich. The resulting bitterness will make Bosnia seem truly peaceful and reconciled by contrast...