Word: gingriches
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...would be kicked off the island. In the end, they survived--tarnished but still together, quasi-triumphant, even. There was a Homeric quality to all this; the Clinton saga seemed more fantastic than real, the mischievous work of some puckish minor deity. (Cyclops and the Sirens had nothing on Gingrich and Lewinsky.) Bill Clinton was, and remains, a phenomenon of divine--or demonic--exaggeration, a compendium of astonishing strengths, flaws and appetites. But we are talking about Hillary here, and she is far more difficult to explain...
...tell ya, no matter how big the Bush tax cut, I need the work. With your legal bills, I know you can use the cash too." Boo-yah! The hits keep coming. "I know, before when you had a crisis, you just bombed Saddam Hussein or let Newt Gingrich get near a reporter. But they're both retired... How about this? Use the next 45 seconds to do something totally new. Admit you made even one mistake in office. If you have time left over, just plug Hillary's book." Ouch. Where's the Secret Service when you need...
...Newt Gingrich's recent criticism of Colin Powell and the Department of State for bungling the diplomacy before and after the Iraq war continues to keep Washington buzzing. But how does President Bush feel about it? TV viewers missed a chance to find out during his interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw three weeks ago. A Bush friend tells TIME that the President "wanted to take a big swipe" at Gingrich during the interview--but Brokaw never brought up the subject. According to an Administration aide, Bush's remarks were going to consign the former Speaker to the cohort...
...Gingrich says the State Department is broken, and must be fixed. But for the kind of "diplomacy" he's talking about, the fiscally disciplined thing to do would simply be to abolish it altogether, and replace it with megaphone mounted atop a Bradley Fighting Vehicle...
...Kerbala pilgrimage drew only a few thousand of the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. Much depends, in fact, on the exact nature of Washington's plans. And those are the subject of a fierce, and increasingly bitter political firefight in Washington - witness the charge Defense Policy Board member Newt Gingrich, Tuesday, that State Department officials on Garner's team had been sent to undermine President Bush's goals in Iraq...