Word: newt
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...allowed to keep his job after admitting to behavior that would get a high school principal fired. Even Republicans like Representative Fred Upton, a moderate Michigander, called for Clinton's resignation after being asked over and over by voters what he could do about it. When Newt Gingrich heard about his colleague's announcement on returning from several weeks out of town, even the Speaker could hardly believe it. "Wow, things have really changed," he told a friend...
...school hysteria and are demanding that the President be impeached. Oh. My. God. Think about it. It would be the most bizarre horror show in history. As Alex Cockburn, in a frenzy of anticipation (some people do appreciate black comedy), put it, "How I yearn for it! To watch Newt Gingrich...pacing the battlements of moral rectitude will be as heady a tonic as was the French Revolution to young Wordsworth. Bliss it is in this dawn to be alive! It could be as great a carnival of hypocrisy as this nation has ever seen...
...political people...had best watch themselves because of the old 'glass house' story. Be very careful." In the online magazine Salon, a Clinton corner in cyberspace, an unidentified "close ally of the President" said White House hard liners wanted to go after the personal past of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, majority leader Dick Armey and Indiana Representative Dan Burton, the unblushing Clinton hater who not long ago called the President a "scumbag," and also chairs the House committee that has been investigating the Democratic campaign-finance scandals...
Most practitioners of the nonapology are politicians who like the passive voice and the conditional. Former Senator Brock Adams never admitted to pursuing anyone but apologized in case he had made "their sensibilities feel affronted." Gibberish is the hallmark of the conditional apology. Newt Gingrich, who pleaded guilty to ethics violations, was sorry "to whatever degree in any way that I brought controversy or inappropriate attention to the House." Senator Alfonse D'Amato said he was sorry "if I've offended anyone," when he knew full well whom he had offended with his buck-toothed, "no tickee, no laundry" mimicry...
Still, all in all, I would rather have Clinton as President with his pants zipped down than Dole with his trousers zipped up. Hmmm. Perhaps I should start thinking about Newt Gingrich with his lips zipped up. WILLIAM P. BOYER Dodgeville...