So Many Republican Hypocrites, So Little Time

March 21, 2008 | SEND TO A FRIEND | GET EARLY NOTICE OF THE HOTW

Newt Gingrich

Welcome back to the Buzzflash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

Anyone who watches television news pundit shows knows that the once banished Newt Gingrich has been resurrected for a long time. Newt, as Nixon showed, proves that there is always a second act possible for a failed politician.

Having used dirty tricks and a strategically targeted legal hit squad on Democratic leaders, he beheaded the Dem Congressional leadership back in the late '80s and early '90s. Then he came up with the PR idea of the "Contract with America" -- or as BuzzFlash calls it, "The Contract on America."

As a result, he was able to retake Congress for the Republicans in 1994 and make such a mess of things in overreaching -- including actually shutting down the U.S. government for a few days -- that his caucus in the House threw him overboard as Majority Leader. (It didn't help that he was a having an adulterous affair through the Clinton impeachment with a much-younger Congressional aide who would become his third wife.) The Republicans were starting to lose seats in elections and Gingrich's pompous pronouncements and cul-de-sac bravado ended up making him a persona non-grata for awhile.

But such is the self-perpetuation of inside the D.C. political figures that it was inevitable that Gingrich would be "rehabilitated" and some years ago was returned to the television news pantheon of pundits (which is proof positive that the mainstream media is legally blind when it comes to picking out individuals who can actually inform us about our nation and the world instead of fill the air time with self-inflating blather.)

So why, given that Gingrich has been such a frequent windbag on mainstream news outlets, is he being given the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week award now?

Well, it appears that the Newtster has a new book out called, "Real Change: From the World That Fails to the World That Works." Now, coming from a guy who failed so miserably as House Speaker and if anything changed America for the worse, that's some hypocritical book to be peddling. If we were the cynical type -- God Forbid! -- we might think that Newt is trying to piggyback of the Barack Obama "change" movement in order to sell a few mores of his tomes.

No one can really understand Gingrich. He talks in such pseudo-learned babble that his fellow pundits mistake futuristic sounding gibberish for being visionary.

Having failed with the "Contract with America," Gingrich is now peddling something called "The Platform of the American People," which he calls a "tripartisan agenda." It's the lead initiative of an organization called "American Solutions," of which, of course, Gingrich is the chairman.

If our world, our government, has failed us, it is in no small part due to the ill-fated and egotistical flawed actions of individuals who compound our problems, not diminish them, hucksters such as Newt Gingrich.

We've tried Newt's "change" once, and we are still cleaning up the wreckage. For proposing more of the same con game, Newt Gingrich is honored as the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

Remember our motto: So many Republican hypocrites, so little time.

Catch up with you soon.