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11 Jan 2022, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
It is beginning to seem that there is no place left to hide. [read post]
7 Dec 2021, 11:31 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  Ever since the dot-com bubble juiced tax revenues just as Bill Clinton was capitulating to Newt Gingrich's anti-deficit rhetoric, which created an annual budget surplus for a couple of years, unthinking Democrats have not been able to resist jumping into any conversation about the federal budget by saying, "Oh yeah, well it was Democrats who most recently balanced the budget, not Republicans! [read post]
6 Dec 2021, 7:25 am by Kevin Kaufman
That year Newt Gingrich nearly brought down George Herbert Walker Bush’s presidency. [read post]
23 Sep 2021, 5:01 am by David Bernstein
The new era began in the 1990s, when Newt Gingrich, then the House speaker, tried to force Bill Clinton to cut Social Security and other programs. [read post]
7 Sep 2021, 10:46 am by lcampbell@lawbc.com
“The Gingrich Revolution” A less noticed irony, but also important to the history of FQPA, is the change in party control of the House of Representatives, led by Representative Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and the “Contract with America” during the 1994 elections. [read post]
7 Aug 2021, 12:36 am by Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
On the other hand, major proponents of the recall include Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, and the California Republican Party. [read post]
20 Jul 2021, 11:06 am by Bob Bauer
This became yet another chapter in the story the Republicans wrote, and that Newt Gingrich used to ride to the speakership, about the corrupt Democratic-controlled Congress that had illicitly maintained its grip on power for decades. [read post]
7 Jul 2021, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
Stories about house purchases by prominent people are routine in mainstream media.[55] Newt Gingrich was apparently suspended from Twitter for "hateful conduct," for a Tweet saying that "The greatest threat of a covid surge comes from Biden's untested illegal immigrants pouring across the border. [read post]
13 Mar 2021, 4:32 pm by Tom Smith
Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich was locked out of his Twitter account for over a week after he published a tweet that criticized the Biden administration’s approach to the southern border and raised concern over immigrants crossing the border illegally who may be infected with COVID-19. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 8:08 am by Brian Leiter
Reagan's revolution from the right is now coming to its final fruition: the evisceration of the working classes and nearly 30 years of lies and anti-government rhetoric from Newt Gingrich,... [read post]
9 Jan 2021, 7:34 am
If there is any unifying thread of the conservative movement from Nixon to Rush Limbaugh to Matt Drudge to Newt Gingrich to Trump, it is its resentment of the establishment news media and determination to make its filters obsolete.... [read post]
21 Nov 2020, 10:24 am by admin
There is no moral equivalency between the possibility that the Wokies will influence a Biden administration and the certainty that truly deplorable people such as Bannon, Gingrich, Giuliani, Navarro, et alia, will both influence and control our nation’s policy agenda. [read post]
21 Nov 2020, 10:24 am by Schachtman
There is no moral equivalency between the possibility that the Wokies will influence a Biden administration and the certainty that truly deplorable people such as Bannon, Gingrich, Giuliani, Navarro, et alia, will both influence and control our nation’s policy agenda. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 9:11 pm by Josh Blackman
He wrote: But Yale law professor Akhil Amar persuasively argued in 1995 (at the prospect of Speaker Newt Gingrich becoming president should Congress impeach Bill Clinton) that this provision is unconstitutional. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
When Newt Gingrich took over as House Speaker in 1995, one of his first steps was to dismantle the Office of Technology Assessment and reduce funding for the Congressional Research Service, echoing how opposition to evidence-based policy is the flip side of the coin of a commitment to lying. [read post]
9 Jun 2020, 10:07 am by Derek T. Muller
Republicans took control of both chambers of Congress for the first time since 1954.One shorthand reference of this moment, led by would-be Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, was the “Contract with America. [read post]
23 May 2020, 8:51 am by David Super
       House Speaker Newt Gingrich shifted the focus decisively toward destroying programs’ structures. [read post]