1.   Clinton spokesman Jake Siewert said the ex-president is merely following the lead of his predecessors in hitting the lucrative lecture circuit.

2.   Freed from House ethics rules that prohibit members from pocketing fees for speeches, Gingrich would be a natural candidate for the lucrative lecture circuit.

3.   Swooping into the vacuum is James Carville, the Democratic operative, book writer and happy beneficiary of the lucrative lecture circuit.

4.   The lucrative lecture tour?

5.   Their resulting fame has led to star turns on talk shows and lucrative lecture tours, with a consequent devaluation of the news.

6.   You get a swing or two around the lucrative lecture circuit.

7.   But Clinton spokesman Jake Siewert said the ex-president is merely following the lead of his predecessors in hitting the lucrative lecture circuit.