Posts Tagged ‘Newt Gingrich’
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Characteristics of The Front-Runner
Posted on February 2, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill). The race for the Republican nomination is not as wide open as some analysts think. It is often said that the GOP tends to...
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Where are the adults?
Posted on January 27, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill.) “If you build it, they will come.” Steve King is no Shoeless Joe Jackson, but you have to give him some credit. A full year...
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Time to take charge
Posted on January 13, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill.) Jay Leno is expected to give remarks to a joint meeting of House and Senate Republicans in Hershey, Pa., later this week. There is some...
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John Boehner and the Conservative Disconnect
Posted on January 9, 2015
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) So, why did two dozen House Republicans vote against John Boehner for speaker? I have been mulling this, and I can’t come up with a...
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Support the Speaker
Posted on January 6, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill.) From 1910 to 1943, it was fairly common for some members of the Republican Party to vote for somebody for Speaker of the House other...
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