Word: newt
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...Gingrich G.O.P. to distract the faithful while avoiding the hard choices about cutting multibillion-dollar entitlements that might really downsize the budget.” The NEA got cut off at the knees because it was easier—and much more popular—for House Speaker Newt Gingrich to blame Robert Mapplethorpe for our problems than actually to solve them...
...options of a Republican President McCain. But Congress would be a complicating factor in the life of President Obama too. After all, the Constitution envisions a strong Congress, and that's just the way committee chairmen like it. After more than a dozen years of being stymied, first by Newt Gingrich and then by George W. Bush, congressional Democrats are bursting with pent-up ambitions and long-deferred dreams. Some are epic undertakings that would affect every American for decades - like the proposal to impose a cap on carbon dioxide emissions and put a price on permits to burn fossil...
...their sense of humor. Mrs. Obama’s ability to keep up with Stewart’s (admittedly friendly) shtick with soft comic jabs of her own at her husband’s expense humanized both her and her husband. When former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich took on a challenge, joking his way through an early endorsement of Governor Sarah Palin in September, the effect was much the same...
...Horseshit doesn’t work without a healthy dose of charm.” “For the record, I feel compassionate; that oughta count for something. Anyway, consider our bluff called. Even the old drones are turning tail: Brooksy, Lil’ Kristol, Chris Buckley and Newt Gingrich are so busy renouncing McBane on Fox News that our folks can’t get any airtime. Dick, you got any plans for reuniting the gang?” “Well, I was creeping around the old CIA storehouse like always, looking for wiretap microphones...
...else would you characterize as being hypomanic?Theodore Roosevelt is a wonderful example. I compare Clinton to Roosevelt a lot in that they are so much alike in terms of being these gifted, hypomanic, genius presidents. Recently, Newt Gingrich was our last great hypomanic figure. He was very grandiose, a man leading a revolution...