BEHIND closed doors, on the eve of the vote for the House Speakership, a frustrated and angry Newt Gingrich met with his Republican colleagues for the first time since the House ethics subcommittee had issued its findings and Gingrich had offered his apology. It was, by all accounts, a dramatic occasion-with comic highlights like the porter scene in Macbeth as well as the expected hand-to-hand combat between the Speaker and his critics.
And although Gingrich won the handful of votes needed to survive, it was such “a near-run thing” that the press is gloating over the prospect of further GOP civil war.
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