Word: gingriched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...budding impeachment inquiry is threatening that link and there's little I can do to stop it. It is as though an old, rusty train has ground into motion and is pulling out of the shed where it has been stored since 1974. Newt Gingrich and Henry Hyde are there, one the conductor, the other the engineer. Barney Frank and Robert Wexler are inside one of the cars, waving at us through the cloudy windows. And we, the people, are standing in the weeds by the track, watching as the train chugs along across the land, toward an unknown destiny...
...that doctors could not operate. Local high school dropouts Arthur Henderson, 21, and Aaron James McKinney, 22, are to be charged with Shepard's murder. The attack has focused the anger of local gay rights activists against the state's legislature for rejecting hate-crimes legislation. House Speaker Newt Gingrich received a personal plea on the issue Tuesday -- from his sister Candace, national spokesperson for the Campaign for Human Rights, who told CNN she believes her brother would agree on the need for strong action against such violence...
...impeachment combat begins, the challenge for Clinton and Gingrich will be to avoid each other's traps--and their own. Because if their past as sparring partners offers any lesson, it's that they need each other to survive...
...Gingrich considers what constitutes fair treatment in Clinton's case, he also has a personal score to settle with the President. Friends and allies say he blames Clinton for the Democrats' 1996 ad campaign painting Gingrich as an extremist and making him more vulnerable to the subsequent congressional investigation into his ethics. (For making political use of a tax-exempt organization, Gingrich became the first Speaker in history to be punished by the House; he was forced to pay a $300,000 fine.) Meeting with Democratic leaders the day the Starr report arrived on Capitol Hill, Gingrich could not resist...
...free-lance strategist who consults almost daily with the White House--announced he was declaring war on the Speaker. While the wiser strategy would have been to ignore Carville, the Republican high command took the bait, engaging in several days of name calling that once again focused attention on Gingrich and the question of whether the country's most unpopular elected official is calling the shots for Judiciary chairman Hyde...