Just when we Liberals might have begun to think that it's safe to leave our homes, now comes word that The Aribiter of All That Is Evil is loose on Capitol Hill. In fact, it appears that he has never really gone away.
Arguing is clearly Gingrich’s favorite sport. This week, he launched a second wave of attacks against the State Department by inviting a small group of reporters (not including me) to his office to discuss an article he has written for Foreign Policy magazine. This being Washington, they accepted. The article calls for “culture shock, a top-to-bottom transformation that will make [the State Department] a more effective communicator of U.S. values.”
Gingrich may no longer walk the halls of power, but he still likes to tear through them with a skate key. I’d seen the pugnacious side of the man who penned the Contract with America and shut down the government during the budget impasse in the mid-1990s.
You remember the "Contract on America", don't you? The "my way or the highway" political blueprint that Gingrich used to shut down the federal government a few years ago? What I don't understand is that the man made more enemies than Caligula and yet he is he not persona non grata on Capitol Hill. Say what? I would have thought that most Republicans would rather be caught in flagrante delicto with a 14-year-old female intern clad only in kneepads than to be seen with Gingrich. Then again, Republicans eventually rehabilitated even Richard Nixon. Go figure....
