Playing king of the Hill. (House Speaker Jim Wright)

National Review | January 22, 1988| | Copyright

PLAYING KING OF THE HILL

ALMOST UNNOTICED, a political drama is unfolding on Capitol Hill. The star villain? House Speaker Jim Wright, who, a growing number of Republicans protest, has turned the House of Representatives into his own personal fiefdom, ruling with an iron fist, a lust for glory, and a flagrant disregard for House rules. "I never would have thought it likely to say, but now that we've seen Wright, O'Neill looks like a moral Rotarian committed to bipartisanship," says Newt Gingrich, leader of the hardy band of increasingly militant Republicans out to ...

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