Word: cromwellian
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...compared to such immense Shakespearean stupidities as, say, the Watergate capers - the imbecile break-ins, the moronic dirty tricks, and, above all, wily Richard Nixon's weird refusal to destroy the tapes? Can W. measure up to the standard of the Gingrich Republicans, who seized the government with a Cromwellian vengeance in 1994 and then so idiotically overplayed their hand that Bill Clinton deftly recovered and sailed on through a second term? No. The Republicans since Ronald Reagan's departure achieved a professionalism of buffoonery of which W. can only dream. Their conduct of the Clinton impeachment was a Three...