Word: gingriched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Signing the bill seems to have given the President a great boost toward re-election--likely helping avert a Gingrich-Dole government that would be a nightmare for those of us who, like Bane, care about serious and effective public policy reform...
...stood before a group of senior citizens in Des Moines, Iowa, recently, Richard Gephardt was reminded that their cheers were at best a halfhearted embrace. The House Democratic leader had come to Iowa to stump for congressional candidates and to rail against Newt Gingrich for attempting to slash Medicare spending. The Republicans had so bungled their mandate and had pushed such an extreme agenda, Gephardt said, that Democrats should be given another chance. Which made sense to Arlyn Hodson. "We'll see you in the Speaker's seat!" the 66-year-old retired postal worker and Air Force veteran shouted...
...President showed real backbone in his fight with Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress over the budget. The people saw strength in Clinton's actions, in contrast to the Republicans' faulty strategizing and disregard for collateral damage. Consultant Dick Morris may have got to play in the sandbox with the big players for a while, but his influence was primarily ancillary--not to mention cynical and pandering to the nth degree. Morris' gimmickry does not address the real concerns of the people. Voters will cast their ballots on decisive pocketbook issues, just as they always do. JEFF SOFTLEY Los Angeles...
...bureaucrats didn't invent beach volleyball, who did? i ask that question because ever since this summer's Republican National Convention I've been contemplating the moment when Newt Gingrich, in the course of introducing an Olympic volleyballer to the cheering delegates, said, "A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about...
...exercise this uncharacteristic restraint? Frankly, I once had a personal confrontation with the bureaucratic attitude toward sport, and since then I have harbored memories that may make me naturally sympathetic to the Gingrich view of beach-volleyball history...