Word: newt
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...Starr is not short of support on Capitol Hill, however, where there are ominous rumblings of the "I" word. Roll Call, the Washington insider paper, says that Newt Gingrich and other GOP grandees have discussed dipping into a $4.4 million fund to help bankroll impeachment proceedings. An aide to Gingrich confirmed that her boss had discussed bolstering the Judiciary Committee staff should Starr turn the matter over to them. None of Clinton's enemies are using the "I" word in public -- it's merely being passed off as preparation. "In Washington," said Rep. Steve Largent (R-Okla.), "you have...
However, while Monica Lewinsky has taken up press time, Clinton has gone on the legislative offensive. Chait points to a memo released by Christina Martin, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's press secretary, that cautioned fellow Republicans not to criticize the President's political plans. She writes: "Don't take the bait. The White House is setting up straw men on popular issues, hoping to draw us into bloody fights, so they can demagogue that we are `against' the environment, the elderly, the poor, the sick, and the young." Whatever your feelings about the Republican predilection to, in fact...
...thing to seat speaker NEWT GINGRICH at the back of Air Force One, but it's quite another for the President to come to his House and steal his good seats. That's what Republicans are claiming happened last week at the State of the Union when White House aides nabbed the front seats on the G.O.P. side of the aisle. A number of Republican Senators and Congressmen were forced to stand for the 72-min. speech. Some went back to their offices. The White House denies that it packed the seats to assist the President's image. Republicans...
...Thus Newt Gingrich said he wanted to wait until all the facts were in; Trent Lott said that the allegations were "very serious" but that he'd been in Mississippi for two days and wasn't sure about the details. The political calculation among Republicans could be that a wounded Clinton who serves out his term is better than an incumbent President Gore who has put all this ugliness behind him. It was a measure of the President's free fall that his own former chief of staff Leon Panetta told the San Jose Mercury News that if the allegations...
Even in her generally sober critique of Clinton, Tobin has to drag in the unrelated offenses of Newt Gingrich. In an indictment of all Republicans, Tobin refers to him only as "their Speaker of the House" and continues by condemning all Republicans for allowing lobbyists to influence legislation in the House. I'm not certain it is a fair argument to compare Clinton's crimes with those of the entire Republican congress...