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According to the joint statement, performance evaluation procedures will not be altered from past years' guidelines--although that could change during the negotiations...
House Speaker Jim Wright has the haunted and strained look of a lonely and failing man even in the midst of his righteous anger. In his Thursday statement to the nation, his smile was just a bit too forced, his somber- visaged Democratic congressional colleagues in dark formation behind him just a bit too straight-backed and eager to applaud. Something was slipping away...
...ritual is eerily familiar. A public figure under fire for wrongdoing rises to defend himself, proclaiming his honesty, years of service and adherence to the rules. Last Thursday it was Jim Wright's turn before the TV cameras. The House Speaker's passionate statement was reminiscent of other notable political apologias: Richard Nixon's I-am-not-a-crook, Ed Meese's They-did-not-indict-me and, most recently, John Tower's I-am-a-man-of-some- discipline. Like the others, Wright's performance only emphasized how much trouble...
With that statement, Wright raised the stakes of this in-House scandal for the Democrats assembled around him. It is said that Dwight Eisenhower snapped a pencil in half when his embattled vice-presidential nominee, the younger Richard Nixon, came to the part of his Checkers speech about Pat and the cloth coat. Eisenhower knew then that Nixon was not going to go away but would fight to the death to hold on to his nomination. No one heard any No. 2 lead pencils breaking when Wright said, "There are some things worth fighting for." But it is far from...
Wright's dramatic statement came as the House Ethics Committee was preparing to vote on whether there is "reason to believe" the Speaker has violated congressional rules. After the vote, the committee will publish a report of some 500 pages detailing the alleged violations. The committee will release raw data compiled by counsel Richard Phelan -- the kind of unsubstantiated innuendos that Republicans succeeded in keeping out of the public domain / during the Tower investigation. Wright will have 21 days in which to respond in writing. The committee will then decide if the case requires any action. If it recommends...