Word: gingriches
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...sign when you want the Speaker of the House to keep his mouth closed. We've spent the better part of the 104th Congress hoping that Newt Gingrich would zip it, and his reckless comments have resulted in his being considered merely laughable even when he occasionally says something rational...
Once you've said, "Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes," there's really no going back. But Gingrich is a known commodity. Here in Massachusetts, we also have a Speaker in need of some quiet time...
WASHINGTON: With some of the air having leaked out of the impeachment balloon in the wake of President Clinton's videotape performance, the backroom maneuvering on Capitol Hill has become increasingly intense -- and openly partisan. Speaker Newt Gingrich nixed minority leader Dick Gephart's request to strictly timetable the House impeachment probe Wednesday, saying it "puts the cart before the horses." An angry Gephardt responded by denying Gingrich a joint photo-op following their meeting Wednesday, perhaps the most potent political snub there is. It's a sign that Democrats are taking heart from the President's poll numbers...
...hysteria and are demanding that the President be impeached. Oh. My. God. Think about it. It would be the most bizarre horror show in history. As Alex Cockburn, in a frenzy of anticipation (some people do appreciate black comedy), put it, "How I yearn for it! To watch Newt Gingrich...pacing the battlements of moral rectitude will be as heady a tonic as was the French Revolution to young Wordsworth. Bliss it is in this dawn to be alive! It could be as great a carnival of hypocrisy as this nation has ever seen...
...NEWT GINGRICH History affords the devalued Speaker a chance to play statesman, restore stature...