Sunday, May 10, 2009
If face time counted
Newt Gingrich would be considered an important element in the Republican party. If you consider the soundness and validity of his ideas, he is just the janitor, bitching on his coffee break.
In an interview that was fiery even by his standards, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich accused the Obama administration of coddling terrorists, tarred the idea of investigating the Bush administration as modern day "McCarthyism," and falsely charged that the Democratic-controlled Congress never tried to outlaw torture.This was all said on Fox, where he was assured of a credulous and accepting audience, not that he would have gotten any significant push back anywhere else. The sad fact is that the only way to stop the tsunami of bullshit from the Republicans is to start putting their lying criminal asses in the docket.
It was, if nothing else, an unrestrained tour de force in oppositional politics. Sitting down with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Gingrich claimed that the former firm of Attorney General Eric Holder had represented 17 alleged terrorists on a pro-bono basis. "For no fee," he added, for good measure. "It is the largest single thing they were doing for free, defending Yemenis."
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