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To: luckybogey

Thanks for your input. That’s pretty much how I remember it (now). Newt’s ethics violations were trumped up and the crime became his supposedly misleading testimony to the Ethics Committee. And the IRS said NO CRIME. The bottom line: The Dems/MSM managed a successful coup.


212 posted on 12/05/2011 11:42:41 AM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: InterceptPoint

Actually it was a GOP coup. Per wiki:

“In the summer of 1997 several House Republicans, who saw Gingrich’s public image as a liability, attempted to replace him as Speaker. The attempted “coup” began July 9 with a meeting of Republican conference chairman John Boehner of Ohio and Republican leadership chairman Bill Paxon of New York. According to their plan, House Majority Leader Dick Armey, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, Boehner and Paxon were to present Gingrich with an ultimatum: resign, or be voted out.”


221 posted on 12/05/2011 11:53:47 AM PST by luckybogey
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