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  • So You Say You Want a Deevolution? (Newt Prepping for 2008?)

    03/15/2006 9:19:38 PM PST · by RWR8189 · 20 replies · 590+ views
    American Prospect ^ | March 15, 2006 | Ezra Klein
    In 1994, Newt Gingrich became that rarest of creatures: a successful revolutionary. That’s when his decades-long emasculation of the Democratic majority finally broke them -- as he always knew it would – and the Republicans, with Gingrich at their helm, retook the House for the first time in 40 years. Then, in 1998, he entered the next, and usually final, stage in the revolutionary’s lifecycle: the humiliating fall from grace. His brand of unalloyed conservatism and partisan overreaching repulsed the country, and voters responded with the worst electoral drubbing any opposition party had received since Johnson walloped Goldwater in 1964....
  • John Podhoretz (Older & Wiser? A Weekly Standard 10th anniversary symposium)

    09/12/2005 7:24:04 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 5 replies · 431+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | September 26, 2005 | John Podhoretz
    The first issue of this magazine appeared in September 1995, part way through the Clinton administration, and less than a year after the Republican victory in the congressional elections of 1994. The pressing foreign policy issue of the day was Bosnia. The world seems a very different place today. To mark our 10th anniversary, we invited several of our valued contributors to reflect on the decade past and, at least indirectly, on the years ahead. More specifically, we asked them to address this question:  "On what issue or issues (if any!) have you changed your mind in the last 10...