Word: newt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then we have the nightly news, reporting on the latest political events every evening. I swear if I have to hear any more about the Contract With America I am going to bust. Or maybe change the channel. The last thing we need is a mandatory five minutes of Newt and Dick's Majority Adventures...
...Dole and Newt Gingrich didn't quite expect the table to be turned. Their prey had been the President, even though they spoke in statesmanlike tones at a press conference last week. "Come to the Capitol, sit down and visit with Republicans and see if we can't work this out," said Dole in an open invitation to Clinton. Such a summit would tackle the volatile subject of Medicare. Shouldn't the President start handling the crisis? Indeed, as Dole spoke, Gingrich pointed to a precipitous slope indicating Medicare insolvency by the year 2002. And then the questions began...
...budget-a move that left even budget wizard Kasich scratching his head over what Gingrich meant. With Social Security and interest on the debt off the table, the budget simply cannot be balanced by 2002 without major savings from Medicare and Medicaid. "We were doing fine until Newt stumbled," House Republican Conference Chairman John Boehner of Ohio told Time. "He jumped before all the rest of us were briefed and were on board with the direction we were going...
...family; they'll have to come to us." And so they have. The latest closed-door meeting of Coalition state directors held in Washington in January drew both Dole and Gramm. Furthermore, Coalition lobbyists sat among the select group of outsiders who met regularly in House Speaker Newt Gingrich's suite to coordinate the campaign to pass the Contract with America...
...start the Standard. The weekly journal hopes to be to conservatives what the New Republic at its best was to liberals: a journal of opinion intellectually honest enough to criticize its friends (Kristol points out he was skeptical of the $4.5 million book deal between U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rupert Murdoch) and confident enough to give space to its opponents...