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...scheming to be rid of House Speaker Gingrich, DeLay and his co-conspirators showed all the talent for intrigue of Peter Sellers in his Pink Panther days. Depending on who's doing the telling, the schemers included one, two or all three of the other House leaders ranked directly below the Speaker--majority leader Dick Armey, G.O.P. conference chairman John Boehner and leadership chairman Bill Paxon--not to mention 20 or more insurgents from the rank and file. Cooked up in secrecy, the coup collapsed before it could begin. The result was a week of backstabbing that left Gingrich weaker...
...squad has already claimed its first victim: Paxon, the most trusted of Gingrich's lieutenants. When Gingrich was launching his bid to take control of the House in 1994, he chose the New York Congressman to run the committee that holds the G.O.P.'s campaign purse strings. When ethics allegations threatened to cost the Speaker his post, he put Paxon in charge of his re-election. And whenever Newt needed someone to defend him on television, Paxon was willing to aim his happy, preppy face toward the camera. Last Tuesday, as Gingrich touted G.O.P. tax cuts under a sweltering...
...less than 36 hours later, Paxon was in Gingrich's office, volunteering to relinquish the leadership post that Gingrich had invented for him. "Newt," Paxon quavered, "if you want me to resign, I will." The next morning, Gingrich accepted the offer. And so it was that a G.O.P. rising star learned a bitter lesson: if you set out to kill the king, you had better make sure he's dead...
WASHINGTON: After three of Newt Gingrich's top lieutenants apologized for their involvement in a foiled coup attempt against him, Republicans said the episode is in the past and that the party should press ahead with the GOP agenda. The three-hour heart to heart, which Henry Bonilla of Texas described as "filled with emotion, filled with passion," ended without calls for the heads of Dick Armey, Tom DeLay and John Boehner, figures implicated in the plot along with Bill Paxon, who stepped-down last week. The lieutenants were let off the hook despite a particularly damaging account by DeLay...
WASHINGTON: Newt Gingrich gives a rousing speech to his colleagues today, reasserting himself among them as the "single line of authority." He urges members to put the aborted coup behind them. Why, then, have House Republicans scheduled another private meeting for tonight? "Some people are still angry," says TIME's Jay Carney in Washington. "This meeting is out of Gingrich's control. His supporters, especially, want to know exactly what happened." So does Gingrich. "He's still angry, and will probably never fully trust any of them again," says Carney. "But those public calls for forgiveness may be the only...