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Double Double Toit and Trouble . . . Newt Gingrich has bigger problems than being attacked by Republicans like Bill Bennett who don't like his coziness with Jesse Jackson. Problem Number 1: fellow...
...They're no longer in awe of Gingrich...
...Appeaser of the Year Not to be outdone by the Beijing-friendly Clinton State Department, Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein of California now weighs in with a true masterpiece of China-related moral equivalence...
...Dianne Feinstein wins top honors in our 1997 Appease China Sweepstakes...
...Jackson or anyone else...
...Responsibilities include editorial research and some writing...
...Watts, who decried "the politicization of this tragedy . . . by Mr...
...Jesse Jackson, you see, rejects Newt Gingrich and all his works...
...Feinstein told the Asia Society, should appoint a bilateral commission to chart "the evolution of human rights in both countries over the last 20 to 30 years...
...White House Sexism The antennae of the sexism police should have tingled last week when White House press secretary Mike McCurry was describing a chat between the president and the new secretary of state...
...According to a short item in the February 5 Los Angeles Times, Sen...
...Q: Newt was so pleased with his State of the Union outreach, who will he now name as head of his task force on legal reform...
...The commission she proposes, the senator said, "would point out the successes and failures" of both sides: "both Tiananmen Square and"—are you ready?—"Kent State...
...Come Work Here_ The Weekly Standard is soliciting applications from college seniors or recent graduates for a one-year paid fellowship as an editorial assistant, beginning in mid-July...
...Implicit was the notion that Gingrich's critics objected to Jackson only because he's black, rather than because he is a left-wing demagogue and sworn political foe of long standing...
...They won't take a third if, say, Gingrich creates a firestorm by declining to pay his $300,000 ethics fine out of his own pocket...
...The invitation seems to have been part of a courtship ritual on Gingrich's part, a reciprocation for Jackson's having hosted Gingrich on his television talk show, the only such venue Gingrich has appeared on since the election...
...It is a difficult issue, Feinstein believes...
...You thought wrong...
...Did Ron Nessen speak of "Henry," Jody Powell of "Cy," Larry Speakes of "George," Marlin Fitzwater of "Jim...
...And a United States senator from California talks as if there's no difference—between those specific events, or between the national political systems in which they took place...
...It requires study...
...diplomacy...
...She proposes that our two nations study together...
...Feinstein recently gave a speech at the Asia Society on the question of human rights in Sino-U.S...
...The reason is the others have lost confidence in Gingrich, at least for now...
...But not to worry, Jackson added: "We survived George Wallace...
...So Ohio national guardsmen, operating on the spur of the moment and without authority, open fire on Vietnam-era protesters in 1970, killing four of them...
...And like the elaborate mating dances of certain spider families, this one, we think, has a foreordained outcome...
...The president and Madeleine...
...The deadline for applications is April 1, and preference will be given to those who have worked on college newspapers, including conservative student publications...
...Problem Number 1: fellow Republicans in the House leadership...
...At last year's Democratic convention, Jackson praised President Clinton as "our first line of defense against Newt Gingrich's Contract on America, a right-wing assault on our elderly, our students, and our civil rights...
...They took one bullet for Gingrich last year by standing by him in the election...
...And while he was at it, why didn't Mike give the world's top diplomat a little pat on the rump and murmur, "Good girl...
...We survived [segregationist senator] Bilbo...
...Whenever the leaders gather with Gingrich, there's tension in the room...
...Perhaps you thought this comparison had long since been resolved—by free elections and that sort of thing—in America's favor...
...Referring to the recently unearthed information about Madeleine Albright's Jewish grandparents who were killed in Nazi camps, McCurry told a group of reporters, "The president said it was a fascinating story and encouraged Madeleine to find out more...
...Okay, look, we couldn't care less, except to point out that if a conservative Republican press secretary had referred to the country's first female secretary of state that way, all the right-thinkers would have gone bonkers...
...Privately, some think he won't be speaker a year from now...
...Gingrich jokes, meanwhile, have begun to circulate on Capitol Hill—among conservatives, no less...
...MRR, Washington, DC 20036...
...Freshman Republican J.C...
...They took another in January by reelecting him speaker...
...Newt Goes A-Courtin' And speaking of Jackson, Gingrich didn't help himself with Republicans by his comment to the Los Angeles Times...
...A: O.J...
...Rather than being upset over Senate majority leader Trent Lott's emergence as the GOP point man in dealing with President Clinton, they're delighted it's not Gingrich in that role...
...Problem Number 2: rank-and-file members...
...And at a Jackson-organized march in May 1995 dubbed "From Newt's Nightmare to Dr...
...We'll survive Newt Gingrich...
...President Clinton and his Beijing counterparts, Sen...
...She will retain her prize until some other fool (inevitably) says something even dumber...
...Defending his invitation to Jackson to sit in his box during the State of the Union address, the speaker said: "I'm courting every American of any background...
...Chinese Red Army officers, in battle tanks, slaughter several hundred democracy advocates, on politburo instructions, in 1989...
...King's Dream," Jackson urged his followers to oppose the speaker's "hateful, hurtful rhetoric" and then, with no hint of irony, warned the speaker that "the hostility, the hurt, the scapegoating, the name-calling has to stop...
...One associate of Gingrich offers the three-bullet theory to explain their feelings...
...Just after the '94 election, he said that Gingrich had "declared war on the poor...
...What's more, when Jackson called it "an insult" that Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich did not attend the funeral of commerce secretary Ron Brown, who do you suppose returned fire...
...Applicants should send a resume and at least three clips that show their writing and reporting skills to The Weekly Standard, 1150 17th Street, NW, Suite 505, Dept...
...The secretary of state as Madeleine...
Vol. 2 • February 1997 • No. 22
