"This is a story I should have written 12 years ago"... Hey, no foolin'!

Good Riddance To The Gingrichites

CBS' Meyer: GOP 'Chess Club' Ruled The House For 12 Years And Won't Be Missed

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2006

(CBS) This commentary was written by CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer.

This is a story I should have written 12 years ago when the "Contract with America" Republicans captured the House in 1994. I apologize.

Really, it's just a simple thesis: The men who ran the Republican Party in the House of Representatives for the past 12 years were a group of weirdos. Together, they comprised one of the oddest legislative power cliques in our history. And for 12 years, the media didn't call a duck a duck, because that's not something we're supposed to do.

I'm not talking about the policies of the Contract for America crowd, but the character. I'm confident that 99 percent of the population — if they could see these politicians up close, if they watched their speeches and looked at their biographies — would agree, no matter what their politics or predilections.
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The iconic figures of this era were Newt Gingrich, Richard Armey and Tom Delay. They were zealous advocates of free markets, low taxes and the pursuit of wealth; they were hawks and often bellicose; they were brutal critics of big government.

Yet none of these guys had success in capitalism. None made any real money before coming to Congress. None of them spent a day in uniform. And they all spent the bulk of their adult careers getting paychecks from the big government they claimed to despise. Two resigned in disgrace.
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more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/15/opinion/meyer/main2182755.shtml

Ummm..."Newton Leroy Gingrich"? LEROY ??

Hard not to agree with the last sentence of the article.

like 12 years ago, before the whole impeachment fiasco, when those loons were still passing their contract on us and grandstanding for morality and the sanctity of business. Pointing out what total failures they'd been at everything until they got elected to Congress might just have done some good. Laughter would have been a good antidote to the sanctimony.

"Chess club"? "Squirrelly"? And this doozy of a distortion: "justly vilified for their subservience to the corruptions of Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay's entire K Street project. While extreme, there have been many other periods of extreme corruption in Congress." As if making out like bandits because they were bandits is insignificant.

How charmingly dismissive of the engineers of real harm to the American people.

Sorry. This "apology" is another whitewash. They didn't report it, but it really wasn't all that bad or all that special. And besides, other guys did it.

Is this media whore trying to make up for not being a journalist through this confession? Does he now realize what awful things he did, and is this article an apology?

Or does he realize that the tide is turning, and the Bush syncophants are going to be drowned, and he's trying to distance himself from his past like a Limbaugh or a Bush?

Talk amongst yourselves.