About those “ethic” probes: Here is a really good site to find out exactly what it was all about (and from a liberal source, no less)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/leadership/ethics.htm
The $300,000 fine was actually not a fine, it was the cost of the probe. All charges were dropped but one. The one that wasn’t dropped was about a misuse of a tax-exempt organization. So what did the IRS say about it? They found that Newt and the organization did nothing improper, no charges brought.
Yes, I vaguely remembering all of that. But I mostly remember how after the charges were all proved bogus, the MSM whispered that news or buried it on the back pages...
They Ted Stevens’d him really well.
Do you understand exactly WHY Newt left congress? I remember all those bogus charges against Newt but I recall being angry with him for letting them drive him out of congress.