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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jan 11, 2005 07:30pm |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Media | Weekly News Magazine - New Republic, The |
| News Date | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In the summer of 1987, Newt Gingrich rode in my car while bragging that he would soon launch an "ethics offensive" that would lead to a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives. At the time, Republicans were not even within sniffing distance of a House majority. And with the Iran-Contra scandal dominating the news, only a nut or a visionary--or a nutty visionary like Gingrich--would have predicted a GOP takeover.
I have been thinking a lot recently about what Gingrich said to me in the car in 1987. He promised an "ethics offensive," and initially at least, he delivered. But ten years into the GOP revolution that Gingrich started, the ethics of Congressional Republicans can only be described as, well, offensive.
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