Okay, I’ve been trying to get some sense of how the GOP intends to retake the White House in 2012 and not having a lot of luck. Now this nonsense with Newt Gingrich.
On Meet The Press he was asked what he thinks about Paul Ryan’s budget plans—plans which include massive eviscerations of social programs like Medicare—and he made one of his rare reasonable statements. He criticized the budget as, basically, right-wing social engineering and went on to say social engineering from the Right is as bad as social engineering from the Left. Think what you will about the merits of that in terms of national policy, it is nevertheless a self-consistent, reasonable statement. …