Word: newt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admired by Clinton. There's "the politics of meaning," a phrase Hillary Rodham Clinton borrowed from philosopher Michael Lerner, creating a brief buzz that inspired him to make it the title of a recent book. There's Gertrude Himmelfarb's jeremiad The De-Moralization of Society, championed by Newt Gingrich. And there's former professor Bill ("Book of Virtues") Bennett, the Republicans' moralist-intellectual, who has crafted much of the moral language used by Dole...
...dirty little secret in the politics of virtue is that conservatives aren't vastly better at taking this sort of bitter medicine. Newt Gingrich, as is well known, left his first wife and their two daughters. Bob Dole left his first wife and their daughter. And both men, in classic male fashion, then married younger women. Does Republican moralist-in-chief Bennett think Dole and Gingrich, in this regard, are good? Does he think they're bad? He has never said. But if a take-no-prisoners crusade to restore the American family doesn't involve heaping shame on this...
...week for the nation's two teachers' unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, the scene appeared straight out of one of those old melodramas with vocal audience participation. The guest speaker, Vice President Al Gore, had only to mention the villains--Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich, "the Ginsu gang," who "tried to chop, slice and dice all those things that are important to us"--and hisses filled the air. The heroes, too, were just as easy to identify. "We love all our teachers," Gore told the pumped-up, cheering crowd. "We don't bash them...
...welfare bill he signed. Then Hillary held forth with great aplomb: Apparently she's mainly Chelsea's mom. Her husband values every child he meets, Including those the bill puts on the streets. It's family this time, you dumb galoot, Unless it's running hard against poor Newt...
...only days before Bill Clinton signed a welfare-reform law that will plunge more than a million children into official poverty, he marked his 50th birthday with glitzy celebrations in New York City that added $10 million to his party's bulging campaign war chest? Shades of Marie Antoinette, Newt Gingrich and Jesse Helms...