CHRISTIAN COALITION CALLS GINGRICH AN ASSET.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. House Speaker Newt Gingrich remains a ``major asset'' to conservatives, despite ethical problems and calls from fellow Republicans to step down, the Christian Coalition's Ralph Reed Ralph Reed may refer to:
Reed, who runs the politically influential religious group, said the GOP often resembles a ``circular firing squad'' where ``it seems like everybody wants to get into competition as to who can shoot the leader first.'' ``I think that Newt Gingrich remains a major asset to conservatives and certainly to the Republican Party,'' Reed said on CNN's ``Evans & Novak.'' He compared Gingrich's dilemma to the investigations of alleged improper fund raising by the White House and the Democratic Party. ``I don't see Democrats stumbling stumbling an abnormal gait in which the animal does not fully extend the limb, the plantar surface is not properly placed with respect to the ground surface at the time of impact so that the limb is likely to collapse and the animal to fall. in front of banks of microphones calling for Bill Clinton to step aside,'' Reed said. ``And yet Republicans seem to be fighting with one another over who can shoot Newt Gingrich.'' Gingrich, who helped engineer the dramatic Republican takeover of Congress in the 1994 elections, drew fire from party conservatives two weeks ago when he suggested that GOP proposals for tax cuts be handled after a balanced-budget deal is reached with the White House. The suggestion prompted Republican Rep. Peter King of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , who wants Gingrich removed as speaker, to describe him as ``road kill on the highway of American politics.'' That comment was the harshest yet about the Georgia Republican from a party colleague as he struggles to reclaim his leadership after being reprimanded in January for breaking House ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a rules. Conservatives also have criticized Gingrich for the pace of House action in this new session of Congress and for nuzzling with the Rev. Jesse Jackson Noun 1. Jesse Jackson - United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941) Jesse Louis Jackson, Jackson , a Democratic liberal, during President Clinton's State of the Union address “State of the Union” redirects here. For other uses, see State of the Union (disambiguation). The State of the Union is an annual address in which the President of the United States reports on the status of the country, normally to a joint session of Congress (the . Reed, who disagrees with the speaker on when to advance tax-cut bills, said House Republicans are the ones who should decide whether Gingrich steps down. ``But I'll give you my opinion, I don't think it's going to happen.'' |
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