Newt and the War of the Worlds
With his assertion that the Middle East is ablaze with the flames of World War III , former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has successfully raised the hackles of your blogstress's many friends on the left. Your cybertrix, however, takes some pride in having suggested just that , days before Gingrich made his declaration. The difference between your Webwench and Newt (other than, presumably, the bustier ) is that election strategy did not enter into your écrivaine 's calculation, as it did into Newt's. (See Matt Stoller .) A word to her progressive friends: The problem with Newt is that he's occasionally right -- and not in that broken-clock-twice-a-day way. To dismiss out of hand everything he says just because he says it never gets one very far. The trick with Newt to pay very close attention, as Mr. Stoller did. Look not only for the ruthlessness, but also for the inherent contradictions in the whole of his body of orally disseminated work. He's so often off ...