Word: scumbag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That is something the House G.O.P. leadership would rather avoid. Republicans, in fact, believe they have a "Dan Burton issue" to contend with. Chairman Burton's erratic behavior (calling the President a "scumbag"; shooting a pumpkin in his backyard to simulate the Vince Foster head wound) has drained a lot of potency out of controversies with which the G.O.P. would like to beat the Clinton Administration. To avoid a circus, Judiciary chairman Henry Hyde suggested that his committee form a five-person commission composed of non-office holders to handle a Waco investigation. Some in the G.O.P. want Burton...
...Clinton corner in cyberspace, an unidentified "close ally of the President" said White House hard liners wanted to go after the personal past of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, majority leader Dick Armey and Indiana Representative Dan Burton, the unblushing Clinton hater who not long ago called the President a "scumbag," and also chairs the House committee that has been investigating the Democratic campaign-finance scandals...
...orchestrating the piece. But TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty says that a White House-directed smear campaign is "hard to imagine" -- indeed, the accusation is hardly out of character for a man who is convinced the White House taps his phone and who's called the President a "scumbag...
...BURTON Congressman calls the President "scumbag." Again, lucky Clinton is boosted by a critic's blunder...
...Simpson You scumbag and coward. You should have shot yourself in the Bronco--Coward! Responding to this letter, written by a self-described ``average middle-aged housewife,'' Simpson wrote, ``I want to state unequivocally that I did not commit these horrible crimes.'' He added, in a book published last Friday, that he would have jumped in front of a bullet for his dead ex-wife Nicole--or a train, for that matter. The thin volume, the issue of a fat-figured deal ($1 million), is a brilliant sliver of disingenuousness called I Want to Tell You and subtitled My Response...