Newt Gingrich Perfectly Describes How Everything Is His Fault – By Tim Murphy (Mother Jones) / April 19, 2024
It all started with a C-SPAN stunt.
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With Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson struggling to hold onto the gavel in the face of eternal rebellion from some of his party’s most intransigent far-right members, Politico thought it would be a good idea to call up former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to ask him about the situation. And I agree, it was a good idea. Not because Gingrich, who served as speaker for four years during the Clinton administration, has a ton of great advice himself, but because in the process of trying to offer some anyway, he offered up the cleanest distillation of his own legacy.
Here it is:
Do you ever look at the House and think, “If I was speaker, I could get these knuckleheads in line?”
You can’t keep them in line, because the technology’s changed. They have the ability to make noise, they have the ability to go on television, and they have an ability to use the internet to raise money from [people] who only know who they are because they saw them on television, so what do they care?
