Briefings at Tiffany's -- Picture President Newt

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.counterpunch.org/landau06242011.html

The world’s people face transcendent issues: climate change (tornadoes, tsunamis, droughts, hurricanes), seemingly endless wars in Asia and Africa, mass uprisings, growing world hunger – and the ever present nuclear (weapons and power) threat.

Given those overwhelming issues one would expect leaders to arise, wise and far-sighted men and women who would articulate and then pose the themes so citizens could respond to proposed remedies.

Examine aspiring Republicans who convened last week in Minnesota to present themselves to Party activists. Newt Gingrich’s staff had just quit his campaign en masse as he sailed off on a cruise of the Greek Islands with his exotic wife – she needed to get away. He responded to her need rather than the nuts and bolts of campaigning, said his staff. He said he needed “to think.”

Newt thought positively of subsidies for farmers who converted food crops into fuel to feed gas tanks instead of people -- simultaneously driving up the cost of food -- while food shortages emerged and more than one billion people went hungry. Climate change? Nothing urgent there – although Newt doesn’t oppose holding hearings on it.

MUCH more at the link --

[PATRICK]

1. Newt has been successfully marginalized

in every GOP political aspect, so much so he is even alienated from his own campaign staff. That goes top to bottom of the entire party. Whatever else one may want to talk about, that seems the overwhelming case. Even a military coup by Secessionist fans would never consider him on their short list.

Of course in GOP world his constant ambition for office does not diminish his career as a tool pundit and occasional hitman/player because of the laughable hopelessness of that sucker ambition.