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Clinton's missteps don't much bother her--she doesn't care about Whitewater or his affairs, doesn't know who Dick Morris is--but the President's manner does. "I hate that Clinton said he didn't inhale." She likes Hillary Clinton and isn't keen on Newt Gingrich. "His name alone irritates me. I know that a newt is a lizard. We had them growing up. If you touch their tails, they break off as a defense mechanism, but then they grow back." Not that she's thrilled by her Congressman, Richard Gephardt, who would replace Gingrich...
...campaign has had its share of ideological fingerpointing--Pressler calling Johnson too liberal for South Dakota, Johnson calling Pressler a Medicare-slashing friend of Newt Gingrich's--but its defining issue appears to be the flap over Washington Babylon, a thinly documented book that accuses Pressler of marrying in 1982 amid speculation that he was gay and of being seen at a "louche rendezvous" in Washington. Pressler, who has blanketed the state with ads attacking the "despicable" charges without stating specifically what they are, blames Johnson and his allies for bringing one of the book's co-authors, columnist Alexander...
Weld has trouble fighting the perception that he wants to go to Washington because he's bored on Beacon Hill. "Right now, the fights that matter most...are in another arena--Congress," he said when he announced in November 1995. He was still happy then to declare himself Newt Gingrich's "ideological soul mate," a statement Kerry highlights every chance he gets. Weld counters by trying to tag Kerry as a liberal, as if that were a deadly liability in a state whose other Senator is Ted Kennedy. The Governor has hit his opponent hard for voting to protect disability...
...supposed to have been Newt Gingrich's valedictory, the week in which the first Republican House in 40 years could count its accomplishments before returning home to face the voters. As he sat last Thursday afternoon on the sun-washed balcony of his Capitol suite, the Speaker ticked them off: the line-item veto, a sweeping telecommunications law, a crackdown on illegal immigration, an expansion of health insurance, welfare reform, even a savings of $500,000 by ending daily ice deliveries to congressional offices. Then, in Gingrich fashion, he reached back--quite a reach--for a historical analogy. "You could...
...that moment two floors below, a bipartisan group of Congressmen--two Democrats, two Republicans--was deciding there might be a pretty good case to be made against Gingrich. After weeks of partisan squabbling in Congress, the investigative subcommittee of the House ethics committee voted unanimously to expand its two-year probe of the Speaker. Soon after, the full 10-member committee seconded the decision. Of the four new charges they decided to pursue, the most serious one asks whether the Speaker gave investigators "accurate, reliable and complete information"--meaning, did he lie to them?--about the tangled links between...