{"id":4349,"date":"2011-11-30T11:39:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T17:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/newt-gingrinch-is-an-asshole\/"},"modified":"2011-11-30T11:39:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T17:39:46","slug":"newt-gingrinch-is-an-asshole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/newt-gingrinch-is-an-asshole\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt Gingrinch is an asshole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/30\/opinion\/my-man-newt.html?_r=2&amp;hp&amp;pagewanted=all\">My Man Newt &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6>By <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/opinion\/editorialsandoped\/oped\/columnists\/maureendowd\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">MAUREEN DOWD<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>Published: November 29, 2011 <\/h6>\n<p>Franker than ever as he announced plans to retire from Congress, Barney Frank told Abby Goodnough in The Times that <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">Gingrich was \u201cthe single biggest factor\u201d in destroying a Washington culture where the two parties respected each other\u2019s differing views yet still worked together<\/font>. <\/p>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">Newt is the progenitor of the modern politics of personal destruction.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe got to Congress in \u201978 and said, \u2018We the Republicans are not going to be able to take over unless we demonize the Democrats,\u2019 \u201d Frank said. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The Republican also weaves an alternative history of his own life, where he is saving civilization rather than ripping up the fabric of Congress, where he improves the moral climate of America rather than pollutes it. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026 <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">Gingrich is a megalomaniacal opportunist who brazenly indulges in the same sins that he rails about to tear down political rivals.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p>Republicans have a far greater talent for hypocrisy than easily cowed Democrats do \u2014 and no doubt appreciate that in a leader. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the ideal man to fix Washington\u2019s dysfunction is the one who made it dysfunctional. He broke it so he should own it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/30\/opinion\/my-man-newt.html?_r=2&amp;hp&amp;pagewanted=all\">My Man Newt &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Man Newt &#8211; NYTimes.com By MAUREEN DOWD Published: November 29, 2011 Franker than ever as he announced plans to retire from Congress, Barney Frank told Abby Goodnough in The Times that Gingrich was \u201cthe single biggest factor\u201d in destroying a Washington culture where the two parties respected each other\u2019s differing views yet still worked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/newt-gingrinch-is-an-asshole\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Newt Gingrinch is an asshole<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}