Word: newt
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...tell ya, no matter how big the Bush tax cut, I need the work. With your legal bills, I know you can use the cash too." Boo-yah! The hits keep coming. "I know, before when you had a crisis, you just bombed Saddam Hussein or let Newt Gingrich get near a reporter. But they're both retired... How about this? Use the next 45 seconds to do something totally new. Admit you made even one mistake in office. If you have time left over, just plug Hillary's book." Ouch. Where's the Secret Service when you need...
...Newt Gingrich's recent criticism of Colin Powell and the Department of State for bungling the diplomacy before and after the Iraq war continues to keep Washington buzzing. But how does President Bush feel about it? TV viewers missed a chance to find out during his interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw three weeks ago. A Bush friend tells TIME that the President "wanted to take a big swipe" at Gingrich during the interview--but Brokaw never brought up the subject. According to an Administration aide, Bush's remarks were going to consign the former Speaker to the cohort...
...quite "Who lost China?" - the mantra of Joe McCarthy's witch-hunt that began a purge of the State Department - but Newt Gingrich's attack on Foggy Bottom certainly matches McCarthy for hysteria. Indeed, if the (dare we say "disgraced"?) former Speaker of the House is to be believed, President Bush's foreign policy is being systematically sabotaged by a determined group of fanatics in the very department charged with carrying it out. The evidence? Quite simply that most of the world opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq; that no UN Security Council resolution could be garnered to authorize...
...problem was not the packaging, Newt, it was the policies. The only way the State Department could have changed the outcome in Turkey was if it had mastered the art of mass hypnosis...
...Kerbala pilgrimage drew only a few thousand of the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. Much depends, in fact, on the exact nature of Washington's plans. And those are the subject of a fierce, and increasingly bitter political firefight in Washington - witness the charge Defense Policy Board member Newt Gingrich, Tuesday, that State Department officials on Garner's team had been sent to undermine President Bush's goals in Iraq...