Word: gingriched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: You wouldn't have thought Newt Gingrich was going anywhere. The cries of "Newt, Newt, Newt," the standing ovations, the laminated copy of the Contract With America ?- all accompanied the outgoing speaker Monday night as he addressed his old buddies at GOPAC. It was trademark Gingrich -- calls for tax cuts, vilification of trial lawyers (who are responsible for exacerbating Y2K misery, we were told) and wild new ideas such as giving everyone their own Social Security investment account. The only sign that something had changed came when the outgoing Speaker endorsed, praised and bear-hugged his successor, Bob Livingston...
...time for Gingrich's brand of politics has passed; as House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt said last week, "Whoever succeeds Newt Gingrich as Speaker will immediately begin the process of repairing the damage that was wrought on this institution over the last four years...
...Without Gingrich, there would be no balanced budget (or stock market boom) or welfare reform, a measure for which the Clinton White House has since taken credit...
...Gingrich deserves to be remembered for his positive contributions to the American people, not with malicious statements of malevolent onlookers...
Attacking Gingrich for the `damage that wrought on [Congress] over the last four years' is short sighted. Gingrich and his colleagues have been no more partisan than those on the left side of the aisle, and no more nasty than the vicious and unsavory characters on the White House staff...