[County Agent Hank Kimball]

"I remember the tantrum the ‘former’ Speaker threw because Clinton had him set at the back of AF-1. That isn’t Democratic propaganda. That is a fact."

It is, in fact, a discredited pile of horse manure spread by the Clintonites. But don't let that stop you from spreading it here as well. Then you can tell us how he served his dying wife with divorce papers in the hospital.

Geeze.

Hank

[TomGuy]

You can keep your head in the sand, if you want, but Gingrich was noted for temper tantrums.

USA Today, March 18, 1996:

In the House, Democrats happily echoed the New York Daily News' description of Gingrich as a "crybaby" who personally provoked the federal shutdown. They paraded before cameras a cartoon of Gingrich in diapers.

[The image referenced above]



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In today's venacular, that image went viral in 1996.

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The UK Independent on Friday, November 17, 1995, headlined this: Gingrich admits budget tantrum:


The crowning insult appears to have been when the Congressional delegation was asked to leave by the back door of the President's plane at Andrews Air Force Base. Pique, Mr Gingrich confessed, had helped harden his line on the budget.