Katrina vanden Heuvel: Newt Gingrich to GOP--Wake Up or Perish

from The Nation:



Newt Gingrich to GOP--Wake Up or Perish
posted by Katrina vanden Heuvel on 05/08/2008 @ 4:37pm

May 8, 2008




In early 2007, The Nation published an extraordinary speech by Bill Moyers. In "A New Story for America," America's media conscience wrote of how "voters have provided a a respite from a right-wing radicalism predicated on the philosophy that extremism in the pursuit of virtue is no vice." Newt Gingrich, architect of the hit job on America--better known as "The Contract With America" --was a key figure of right wing extremism. Or as Moyers called Gingrich and his hearty band --"Ravenous predators...masquerading as a political party of small government, fiscal restraint and moral piety..."

In a much-publicized May 6th post at Human Events magazine, "My Plea to Republicans: It's Time for Real Change to Avoid Real Disaster," Gingrich seems to echo Moyers, who continued in that 2006 Nation article to argue that "the conservative movement stands intellectually and morally bankrupt...."

The long night of the junta is not yet over. We have more than 200 days until Bush and Cheney depart the White House, But the Republican loss in the special election for Louisiana's Sixth Congressional District last Saturday should be --and even Gingrich warns of this --a sharp wake up call for Republicans.

And it's not just that special election that augurs bad times for a GOP --a once fat and smug party led by subrpime leaders who would drown government in a bathtub. Democrats look to pick up as many as six Senate seats in November. And according to the National Committee for an Effective Congress's most recent polls, Democrats already have Senate seats locked up in New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Virgina and hold a small lead in Colorado. Al Franken is poised to win Minnesota's seat--displacing Norm Coleman. In Maine, the decent Tom Allen has a chance to defeat Chafee look-alike Susan Collins. Even Alaska, with all three members of its Congressional delegation in either a felonious or pre-felonious state, could have a Democratic Senator come November. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut/319310

Newt (We know his parents hated him by giving him that name) :eyes:

should just STFU and get off the stage already! Bill Moyers got it right!

GOP = "Ravenous predators... masquerading as a political party"

:evilgrin: