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A great podcast from the professorial Newt. This guy’s a complete mystery to me. When he’s in lecture mode, he’s even-handed, brilliant and insightful. Yet he’s the same guy who orchestrated the shut down the federal government, handing his opponents a club that they never relinquished. Obviously I prefer the Prof to the Pol. Thanks for the link, Michael.
I don’t think the govt shutdown business is such a mystery. Newt basically overplayed his hand and Clinton called his bluff. I think Newt thought that Clinton would be the one who’d get the blame for it but he miscalculated Clinton’s political skills. In the end, I know it hurt the GOP politically but I think it was the right thing to do anyway because it certainly put Clinton on notice that the Congress was going to stand up to him- and as a result, the country got much better governance out of both branches.
Yep. Newt assumed that Clinton would take the blame, and Clinton adroitly shifted it back on Congress.
He is an awesome American voice. You listen to him and his ideas, compare those to the get jiggy with it blather from OB and the fake mother like persona of Hillary … to quote "Sol" from Soylent Green, "How did we come to this?"
Newt is a brilliant idea man, but in politics he was a serial offender of hypocrisy. He went after Clinton for adultery when he himself was having an affair with a staffer and went after former Speaker Jim Wright for a corrupt book deal, then later was driven out of office for a very similar offense.