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...Think of Newt Gingrich’s new model Republicans in 1994, Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic wave in 2006, or the Tea Party sweep of 2010....
...Newt Gingrich, the most powerful Republican Speaker of modern history, said Pelosi had achieved the impossible by pushing through bills such as the Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama’s signature healthcare...
...It turned out that Newt Gingrich, the House Speaker, was having an affair with a staff member and asked his wife for a divorce on her death bed....
...Newt Gingrich went some 25 years ago, and numerous cabinet-level officials have gone since....
...Take your pick of grim milestones — Newt Gingrich’s scorched earth approach to his term as polarising speaker of the House of Representatives in the 1990s, the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that handed the...
...Breaking that one-party stranglehold was Newt Gingrich’s primary motivation for unleashing the hyper-partisan tactics that we are now reaping. Will it ever end? It must at some point....
...As a former lieutenant in Newt Gingrich’s “new model” Republicans during the 1990s, Boehner’s profession of pragmatic conservatism might seem belated....
...That’s a lazy folk tale that has not been relevant since Newt Gingrich, another Georgian, became Speaker of the House in 1995....
...The 1990s were forged in negotiation between Mr Clinton and Newt Gingrich, the firebrand Republican Speaker....
...Seen by critics as a fishing expedition into Mr Clinton’s sex life, the charge sheet — that he covered up his improprieties — was further devalued when first Newt Gingrich, the Republican House speaker,...
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...janan.ganesh@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Redirecting hatred / From Prof Edward Shorter, University of Toronto, Canada...
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...The first during the harsh winter of 1995-96 lasted for three weeks and destroyed the invincible aura around Newt Gingrich’s New Model Republicans. Bill Clinton won that one....
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...Many trace it to the aftermath of the cold war when Newt Gingrich became Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives....
...We arrange stone from the garden around the edge and a chunk of terracotta pot to give birds, frogs and newts easy access....
...Just ask Newt Gingrich, the Republican speaker in the 1990s, who inveigled the spirit of the Jacobins into the conservative movement. He, too, was undone. Revolutions always devour their children....
...There are already hate speech and hate crimes on the statute books and, as my colleague Edward Luce recounted in last weekend’s FT, there are now hate politics, too....
...Expect Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, and Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker, to take big roles....
...edward.luce@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Trump not the sole reason GOP should look at itself / From Leo von Bülow-Quirk...
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