ftcmj (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ftcmj) wrote,@ 2009-05-18 13:45:00 |
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Newt Gingrich, cynical prick
Want to know further who poisoned the well in Congress? Look no further. Newt Gingrich does not deserve to call himself an American.
On the first day after the 1998 election I called Newt Gingrich to talk about some business; when the conversation got around to the election, he was very generous, saying that as a historian and "the quarterback for the other team," he wanted to congratulate me.
Want to know further who poisoned the well in Congress? Look no further. Newt Gingrich does not deserve to call himself an American.
On the first day after the 1998 election I called Newt Gingrich to talk about some business; when the conversation got around to the election, he was very generous, saying that as a historian and "the quarterback for the other team," he wanted to congratulate me.
Later in November, Erskine Bowles had a very different conversation: Newt told Erskine that they were going to go forward with the impeachment despite the election results and the fact that many moderate Republicans didn't want to vote for it. When Erskine asked Newt why they would proceed with impeachment instead of other possible remedies such as censure or reprimand, the Speaker replied, "Because we can."
The right-wing Republicans who controlled the House believed that they had now paid for impeachment so they should just go on and do it before the new Congress came in. The right-wingers in the House caucus were seething over their defeat. Now they were going to seize back control of the Republican agenda through impeachment.
My Life, by Bill Clinton, p.824-825 Jun 21, 2004
