[C. Edmund Wright]

You remain the master of revisionist history.

What was the worst “out of office midterm” in 40 years that Newt presided over? 1998? I’ll have to check that out.

What I know is correct is he engineered the greatest congressional take over in something like 60 years in 1994.

[Servant of the Cross]

What I know is correct is he engineered the greatest congressional take over in something like 60 years in 1994.

Funny. Dick Cheney knows that too: "When Newt showed up he said, we can become the majority, we can take back the House of Representatives. We hadn't had the House since the 1940s. And initially, none of us believed it. But he was persistent, he was tenacious. He kept it up, kept it up, and kept it up. Finally by '94 he's the newly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives with a Republican majority. So I wouldn't underestimate him."