That Newt Gingrich is quite a cut-up. At least, I hope he was kidding when he became Speaker 10 years ago and considered hearings for Dems similar to post-WWII war-crimes tribunals.
A new book spreads the credit for the Republicans’ 1994 takeover beyond Gingrich and reproduces 37 pages of internal documents, complete with doodles. These include a transition plan that sketched plans for a ruthless takeover beginning early the morning after Election Day.
The author, Fox News correspondent Major Garrett, writes in “The Enduring Revolution: How the Contract with America Continues to Shape the Nation” that the document shows the GOP revolutionaries’ hunger for power. The plan called for oversight hearings, never held, to put the former majority on trial. “House Republicans must be willing to let the world know that great evil has been done in the Congress over the last 40 years of Democratic rule,” the document says. “To exaggerate a bit, this will be our Nuremberg.”
Yes, that’s only “a bit” of an exaggeration. Dems in Congress, Nazis in Germany … the similarities are obvious, so long as you’ve suffered some kind of serious head trauma.
Of course, now that congressional Republicans’ abuse and casual corruption has reached a level that Dems couldn’t even dream of, I wonder how Newt would react to a proposed set of hearings to document an even “greater evil” perpetrated in the halls of Congress.