Word: whipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Upsets were few and far between, despite stirrings of voter discontent. House Republican Whip Newt Gingrich defeated his opponent in Georgia by only 1000 votes and Democratic Sen. Bill Bradley was pressed before winning a dramatic reelection in New Jersey...
Newt Gingrich, the House Republican whip, is the street-fighting man of politics. Usually he skewers Democrats, but even the bipartisan budget deal fell victim to his verbal darts. Wowed by his technique, many ambitious young Republicans are musing, "I wish I could speak like Newt." To help them, a GOP committee called gopac has distributed a brochure filled with choice Gingrich buzz words for describing one's own campaign and the opponent...
...might expect such a leader to step forward in this time of crisis. Sadly, no one has. While Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) continues to assert himself on the right, no strong leader on the left has cracked the whip on the White House and Congress...
...naysayers. Said Linda DiVall, a Republican pollster: "The members in opposition are in sync with what their constituents think." First to exploit this sentiment on the right was Newt Gingrich of Georgia, long a spokesman for Republicans still enthralled with Reaganomics. He temporarily relinquished his post as House Republican whip to lead a crusade against the tax increases at the heart of the measure. "This budget package with its higher taxes will deepen the recession and increase the number of unemployed," he said. Gingrich urged a freeze on discretionary social spending, which would ease pressure on Medicare, and revived...
...adviser. "We got no support." Reeling from the defections, the Administration lashed out at the Democrats. In a campaign speech for G.O.P. candidates in Ohio, Bush hyperbolically insisted that if the dreaded sequester were to occur, "the Democratic Congress knows that it will be held accountable." Retorted House Democratic whip Bill Gray: "We ask him to stop acting like a party chairman and to start acting like a President...