Word: newt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took his anger out on him." That uprising might have come off had Brutus, Cassius et al been able to decide who would be the new colossus. "It was supposed to be a bloodless coup," says Carney, "with Dick Armey, Paxon, and (GOP Whip) Tom Delay coming to Newt and telling him: 'we can't control the rank-and-file insurgents any more.' They were going to give him an ultimatum, and Gingrich would have had to step down, without making a scene in front of the Democrats." But after a series of post-midnight meetings late last week...
...votes on highway bills. The House and Senate should adopt new rules: No member of the House or Senate may hold, participate in or attend political fund-raising activities while his or her branch of Congress is open for business. Here's my favorite part: if Trent Lott and Newt Gingrich bring it to a vote, no one will vote against...
...hand a loss to Bill Clinton. And now, having seized the center on welfare reform, the budget and other G.O.P. causes, the President threatens to outflank the Republicans again--this time on the one piece of ideology that holds the party together. Tax cuts, declared Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1995, were the "crown jewel" of his Contract with America...
HOUSE SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH (Republican, Georgia) Hamburgers or hot dogs? "Neither. They're not on his diet." Mustard or catsup? "They aren't on his diet either. We're not going to discuss the specifics of his diet until he meets his goals...
...typically the tool of conservatives, who use scare tactics to frighten voters into approving more radical legislation. (Consider constant hype over crime as one example: crime rates are lower now than they were at points during the 1910's, contrary to what we might think after listening to Rush, Newt...