TP: Newt Calls The Kettle Black

[sweetm2475]

Recently, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich appointed himself the “arbiter of ethics.” Here is a sampling of what Gingrich had to say about Congressional ethics in the last few days:

“The system has grown, I think, so out of whack…And you now have this kind of really intermeshed relationship between incumbents, staffs and lobbyists in a way that I think is very unhealthy.”

“I think that the Abramoff scandal is the latest signal of just how unhealthy and how dysfunctional Washington, DC, has become and the political process has become, the lobbying process.”

“I think this whole system has grown, frankly, a little sick with insiders raising money for insiders to re-elect insiders to do favors for insiders.”

How quickly we forget. Gingrich was beset by serious ethical problems as Speaker during the 1990s. Below is a summary of Gingrich’s actions that brought him a rare House rebuke and a $300,000 fine:

more at: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/11/newt-kettle-black/

[AIJ Alom]

1. Newt taught his former deputies quite well.

They control the Congress and the lobbying firms.

[NaturalHigh]

2. I think Newt should go on "The Surreal Life."

Is it me, or is he just dying for any attention he can get these days?