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In an interview with The Associated Press earlier Friday Gingrich said he's grown more mature since his days as House speaker, and before that, when he was often described as a bomb-throwing insurgent member of the House Republican minority.
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In an interview with The Associated Press earlier Friday Gingrich said he's grown more mature since his days as House speaker, and before that, when he was often described as a bomb-throwing insurgent member of the House Republican minority.
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In the nineteenth century, people called the bomb-throwing assassins of rulers “anarchists.”
The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982
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He may also struggle to convince the top dogs at his firm, Holland and Hart, to risk the firm's well laid strategy of playing nice with pro-government corporate clients by representing those pesky, bomb-throwing Republicans who rarely get invited to well-heeled cocktail parties - especially when activist clients won't draw top dollar to the firm.
Jessica Corry: Republican Shakeup Begs the Question: Who Will Become GOP's Election Lawyer? Jessica Corry 2011
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That little spark lights our way much more brightly than bomb-throwing, scorched-earth, incendiary political rhetoric ever will.
Why divided government would be less divisive Susan M. Collins 2010
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In time the bomb-throwing Republican'ts like Boehner, Palin, Bachmann, et al. will be held accountable – by voters, by a court of law, by the media, or by someone who takes the law into his own hands.
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* Wily John Boehner determined to avoid Gingrich fate: Also worth watching: The new House Speaker is proving more politically wily than one might have expected, carefully emphasizing his working class roots and familial ties and generally avoiding the bomb-throwing image that ultimately sank Newt.
The Morning Plum Greg Sargent 2011
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He may also struggle to convince the top dogs at his firm, Holland and Hart, to risk the firm's well laid strategy of playing nice with pro-government corporate clients by representing those pesky, bomb-throwing Republicans who rarely get invited to well-heeled cocktail parties - especially when activist clients won't draw top dollar to the firm.
Jessica Corry: Republican Shakeup Begs the Question: Who Will Become GOP's Election Lawyer? Jessica Corry 2011
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"I was one of those wild-eyed, bomb-throwing freshmen," he said.
GOP Aims to Tame Benefits Programs Naftali Bendavid 2011
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But what it boils down to is that Steinhauer has pretty much blamed the bomb-throwing commie hippie leftie types for making it impossible for the principled and virtuous conservatives to agree to any deal.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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