Word: internic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, the media charge is laughably bogus. Yet what else is there to do but grasp at scapegoats when, in the blink of an eye, the discussion moves from "Can Clinton Survive?" to whether you can? At the time the intern story broke in January, Gingrich was lost in an issue-free wilderness: the balanced budget and welfare reform had been co-opted, and tax cuts were a diminishing dream. Gingrich looked to Monica as his deliverance from having to come up with a new, new Republican revolution. Oh, the eager, summer-in-Washington look of her, the goofy beret...
Finally, the Speaker admitted that he had underestimated how "tired people had become" of Monica. If only he had followed the lead of Tim and Sam and Cokie and Wolf as they followed their Nielsens. It's ironic that Clinton had an affair with an intern in the White House and Gingrich lost his job over it--and that those who drew daggers on him now offer eulogies. At least Gingrich will now have time to civilize humanity and organize the movement for the pursuit of happiness...
...months never once showed any sign that he was even thinking of resigning. Gingrich lost a handful of seats over some political miscalculations, and within a few days, and to the complete surprise of everyone around him, quietly stepped down. Clinton has an affair with an intern, and Gingrich loses his job over...
...where was Gingrich last spring? Putting himself in a position in which Clinton could be self-righteous. So confident was Gingrich that the intern scandal would doom the President--despite polls that were already consistently showing that the public didn't care--that he assumed he would have the upper hand in any budget deal. Instead, the public saw the Democrats as the party that was trying to attend to business while the Republicans were distracted by scandal...
...Lucianne Goldberg the Oliver North of the Lewinsky scandal? "I take all the blame," the literary agent told reporters Thursday, after she testified before a Maryland grand jury over Linda Tripp's recordings of conversations with the White House intern. Phone-tapping without the other party's consent is illegal in the state of Maryland, and the investigation has focused on whether Tripp knew that. Now Goldberg -- who appears to have recorded all her own conversations, too -- has handed over tapes in which she tells Tripp that the Lewinsky recording would be legal under federal law. "I didn...