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...members and some key staffers on the House Ethics Committee who were believed to be hostile to him were replaced, a situation Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi last week dubbed "DeLaygate." Democrats hope to take their case against DeLay to the public, much like they did with former Speaker Newt Gingrich in the late 1990s. The problem: Many Americans have no idea who DeLay is. Defining Gingrich as a sort of Republican boogey-man was easy because Gingrich was the defined leader of the Republicans, had made the cover of TIME Magazine and was at one point so powerful President Clinton...
...economist whose E-mail to a New York Times columnist was quoted on that paper's op-ed page last Wednesday: "When O.J. gets off," he wrote, "the whites will riot the way we whites do: leave the cities, go to Idaho or Oregon or Arizona, vote for Gingrich... and punish the blacks by closing their day-care programs and cutting off their Medicaid." This grim vision was precisely what politicians feared to articulate. If they benefited from the verdict, they wanted to do so passively...
...Daschle was forever telling reporters how much he liked George Bush—and got occasionally “disappointed” by him. Dole and Gingrich and Barbour never pretended they were fond of Bill Clinton: They opposed him, and everything he supported. They didn’t disingenuously run away from “obstructionism”; they embraced...
...course they were fighting Bill Clinton, Gingrich would say, “he’s a terrible president and he’s hurting our country.” Perversely, Daschle never let his constituents agree with him—he liked George Bush, so why shouldn’t they? More precisely: If the choice is between a guy who likes George Bush and 70 percent of his policies, versus a guy who likes George Bush and 100 percent of his policies, there must be a lot to like about George Bush...
...master's degrees in political science from San Francisco State University and then taught the subject at a Bakersfield, Calif., community college. In 1978 he won a congressional seat from Bakersfield and, on arriving in Washington, roomed with another college professor who had decided to enter politics, Newt Gingrich. Like Gingrich, he ached to be a House leader. After Republicans gained control of the House in 1994, Thomas took over the obscure House Administration Committee. In 2000 he ran a fierce campaign to leapfrog over a more senior Republican to take over Ways and Means. Thomas quickly established a reputation...