[r9etb]

the "embarassing" political losses of which you speak only occured in the Nov. 98 election

The embarrassing political losses of which I speak are things like Gingrich's disastrous "Government Shutdown of '95" (which also had the incidental effect of getting Monica and Slick together); getting his ass kicked on Medicare reform; getting rolled several times in making budget deals; and generally making himself the issue for the 1996 election; and so on. Clinton was on the ropes after the '94 elections; Newt handed everything back to him, and more.

Gingrich was a disaster as Speaker.

[fortheDeclaration]

The embarrassing political losses of which I speak are things like Gingrich's disastrous "Government Shutdown of '95" (which also had the incidental effect of getting Monica and Slick together); getting his ass kicked on Medicare reform; getting rolled several times in making budget deals; and generally making himself the issue for the 1996 election; and so on. Clinton was on the ropes after the '94 elections; Newt handed everything back to him, and more. Gingrich was a disaster as Speaker.

Amen.

[LS]

Amen, bro. He was a genius at getting power for the GOP, then should have stepped aside and allowed a real manipulator to handle the sustaining of that power.