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There are people who think some of NEWT GINGRICH's policies are straight out of the Paleolithic era. The Speaker may not necessarily be offended by that, given his fondness for fossils. Gingrich was able to indulge his fondness last week, first taking part in a debate on how predatory Tyrannosaurus rex really was (Gingrich's view: very) and then participating in a dig in Paradise Valley, Mont., where, under the eye of local celebrity Peter Fonda, he actually found a dinosaur bone. And no, his aides didn't bury it there for him to find. It took several discouraging...
...citizenry at large grows even larger, Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich have both slimmed down. A few months ago, apparently, Clinton began to leave a little something on his plate, not to speak of the plates of the people he was dining with. No longer was it easy to imagine that the arrival of the President of the U.S. at a conference of the leading industrialized nations would cause John Major to whisper to Jean Chretien, "Try not to get seated next to him at lunch if you value your French fries...
...easy to guess at Gingrich's incentive for cutting down. His main obligation in August was to show up with other potential presidential candidates at the meeting of Midwestern Republicans in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis event had no swimsuit competition, although given the way presidential politics seems to be going, I wouldn't completely rule it out in the future...
...suppose Gingrich could have been thinking, "If they didn't like me fat, maybe they'll like me thin." Alas, they don't like him thin, either. News stories from Indianapolis tended to mention his new slimness, but they also tended to mention ratings that would assure him of being the least popular candidate going into the primaries, unless Mike Tyson unexpectedly throws his hat in the ring...
...been just a ruse. Each month, in surreptitious ways, the handout to the broadcasters becomes more egregious, which is unsurprising, given their lobbying clout with Congress--$7 million worth in the past two years. A clause buried in this summer's balanced-budget act, pushed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator Trent Lott, allows stations to keep both their old and new channel space beyond 2006 as long as 15% of households in their markets are still using analog sets. And ABC president Preston Padden has disclosed that his network will probably forgo broadcasting HDTV altogether and instead cram...