Word: gingriched
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...With so much at stake Democrats in Congress are anxious not to be cut out of the process that decides how the report will be handled. And Republicans have to be careful not to let the whole thing look like a partisan funfest. So this week House Speaker Newt Gingrich will hold an unusual meeting with minority leader Dick Gephardt and other members of the House leadership to decide just who gets to see the dirty parts. The House rules committee has already drawn up a proposal that would have Starr's full text sent at first only to members...
Such ads are part of a tactical two-step by the G.O.P. While national figures like Gingrich and Senate majority leader Trent Lott remain temperate and judicious, party operatives are urging rank-and-file Republicans to exploit Clinton's troubles at will. "It's a good strategy, especially for Republican challengers," says G.O.P. pollster Glen Bolger. When the party ran ads linking Democratic incumbents to an embattled Bill Clinton in 1994, Bolger says, "it worked extremely well. It told voters that they could send a message to Clinton by defeating a Democrat in Congress. It might work again...
TIGHT SPOT Clinton advocates a national health-care system, and the country sends him to intensive care. Result: the 1994 seizure of the House by the G.O.P.--the first time the party has done so in 40 years. Newt Gingrich is dubbed the most powerful man in America...
Which is about what Newt Gingrich said too. While some Republicans took the opportunity to bash the President, Gingrich maintained the uncharacteristic reserve he's been exercising in recent weeks. "It's premature for anyone to make any judgment," the House Speaker lectured reporters from his district in Georgia. "I think that everyone would be best served if they waited for Judge Starr's report and found out what all the facts were." Senate Republican leader Trent Lott purposely avoided the cameras, instead issuing a written statement from his home in Pascagoula, Miss. He blamed the President for causing pain...
...legal ramifications, and 55 percent of people say they want the President to get one. "Impeachment is the nuclear option," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "It's not proportional to the crime. Censure is, and it's very much a possibility. There are current precedents, too: Newt Gingrich got censured, and that didn't diminish his stature...