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Does Giuliani think his kids or their schoolyard friends --and enemies--don't read the papers? G.O.P. outrage must be in the same lockbox it rested in when family-values conservatives like Newt Gingrich, Henry Hyde and Dan Burton were found to have indulged in the same conduct for which they were condemning others. Rudy himself is a Morality Czar, trying to shut down strip clubs and block funding for museums he finds offensive to Catholics. He's becoming offensive to Catholics. Can someone shut him down...
...Does Giuliani think his kids or their schoolyard friends - and enemies - don't read the papers? G.O.P. outrage must be in the same lockbox it rested in when family-values conservatives like Newt Gingrich, Henry Hyde and Dan Burton were found to have indulged in the same conduct for which they were condemning others. Rudy himself is a Morality Czar, trying to shut down strip clubs and block funding for museums he finds offensive to Catholics. He's becoming offensive to Catholics. Can someone shut him down...
...Same Whine, New Bottle: New Gingrich now has competition for title of "Politician Who has Made the Most Impetuous Move after a Perceived Snub." The former Speaker said he'd shut down the government after getting a bad seat on Air Force One. Jeffords changed the power structure of the Senate because he wasn't invited to a teacher of the year ceremony...
...proposal. Ten years later, when Clarence Thomas was nominated for the Supreme Court, Senator Jeffords voted against the appointment. In 1994, when the national Republican party began its most recent list to the right, Senator Jeffords took stock and decided that despite his disagreements with the tenor of the Gingrich revolution, he would stay on as a Republican. When the Senate voted against impeaching President Clinton, Jeffords? was among the majority vote. Again and again, the Vermont Senator voted against the party line: On abortion, on gay rights, on defense spending, on conservation issues - and especially on education...
...Jeffords? departure from the Republican party line was most evident in 1994, when he condemned Newt Gingrich?s "Contract With America," which he worried had "a Southern, religious-right focus, which is not the United States...