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...weeks, Gingrich had been embroiled in a crisis. While voters decided on Nov. 5 to give his G.O.P. majority another chance, his House colleagues were increasingly tense about doing the same for him. The problem was timing. The House is scheduled to re-elect the Speaker on Jan. 7, and the ethics committee is scrambling to finish its work before that. While Gingrich's admission on Saturday--essentially a guilty plea to violations uncovered by the ethics committee's four-panel subcommittee--was clearly an attempt to speed the process, it also reflected a sharp, sudden change of course from...
...world. Then we demand that he not be too proud of himself for having it, too desperate to keep it or too sure that he alone knows what to do with it. And then we sit back and watch, until it's time to decide whether to re-elect...
...Clinton's enemies still wonder: How stupid can people be? How can the voters apparently see through this charlatan but go ahead and vote for him anyway? And Clinton's friends wonder: How ungrateful can people be? If Americans are content enough to re-elect Clinton, why do they hold him to a standard of character no successful politician could meet? Why won't they give him the kind of respect, if not adulation, a successful President in difficult times deserves...
...during health care, the lowest time for Clinton," Goodman recalls. "Dick said, 'It's not going to be health care that brings down Clinton. It's going to be corruption.' I'll never forget that. If I thought a guy was corrupt, I wouldn't re-elect him President. But it's not personal with Dick. He needs clients so he can play the game. He doesn't care who they...
...children! These are the least among us! You can't just turn your back on these babies! They are already here." New York delegate Barbara Lee Diamonstein Spielvogel says her enthusiasm for Bill Clinton has been dampened by his signing of the bill: "The idea is to re-elect him, and then he'll try to fix the situation he has helped to create. That's our only hope, you know? Consider the alternative." -->