RE: you were the EX speaker of the House by the end of 1998.
In 1998 Republicans lost five seats in the House—the worst midterm performance in 64 years by a party not holding the presidency. Gingrich, who won his reelection, was held largely responsible for Republican losses in the House.
Newt’s private polls had given his fellow Republican Congressmen a false impression that pushing the Lewinsky scandal would damage Clinton’s popularity and result in the party winning a net total of six to thirty seats in the US House of Representatives in this election.
The day after the election, a Republican caucus ready to rebel against him prompted his resignation of the speakership. He also announced his intended and eventual full departure from the House in January 1999.
STILL, WE HAD A BUDGET SURPLUS AND A BOOMING ECONOMY. If today, accomplishing that same feat means we sacrifice Boehner’s Speakership, I’m all for it.
. . . which made a convenient excuse to ride Newt out of the speakership when zipper control was the real reason.
For 10 points, name his short-term successor who never took the gavel when it was also revealed that he had zipper control problems of his own. Hint: He was from Louisiana.
Newt was the best speaker we have had in my lifetime. Lots of revisionism going on in regards to his accomplishments.Many republicans were swept into office during the gop revolution..including Santorum. As for the charges against Newt..they were all dismissed.
“Among the first pieces of legislation passed by the new Congress under Gingrich was the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, which subjected members of Congress to the same laws that apply to businesses and their employees, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. As a provision of the Contract with America, the law was symbolic of the new Republican majority’s goal to remove some of the entitlements enjoyed by Congress. The bill received near universal acceptance from the House and Senate and was signed into law on January 23, 1995.”