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So reluctant were reporters to call Paxon a prevaricator that most of them waited a decent interval--a few paragraphs--before reporting the apparent reason for Paxon's resignation: His challenge to Majority Leader Dick Armey was doomed and he faced a career as a Republican backbencher, a fate the ambitious pol apparently couldn't face.
He only knows the politics of the truncheon, a quality that's tolerable in a backbencher but terrifying in a leader.
The appalled Republican quoted in the magazine--but not named in the spot--is Newt Gingrich, who was then a backbencher in the House.