This Newt is a Weasel

This week, GOP presidential candidate and pompous, self-righteous boor Newt Gingrich attempted to square a circle and explain why he accepted more than $1.5 million in "consulting" fees from Freddie Mac while blasting others who had ties to the mortgage giant. Have people forgotten that Gingrich, a former Speaker of the House, left Congress under an ethical cloud? In 1997, the House voted overwhelmingly to reprimand Gingrich and fined him $300,000, the first time in American history a House speaker was ever reprimanded for ethics violations.

This ultimate Washington insider is now campaigning as the guy we need to change the culture in Washington. Is he kidding? He personifies everything that's wrong with Washington. Yet, he is now the reigning GOP frontrunner because, well, it was his turn. This is, of course, the same guy who was pushing for Bill Clinton's impeachment over a sex scandal at the same time he was cheating on his first wife because, as he later explained, he loves his country so much that he was working too hard on its behalf, got exhausted and then made some bad decisions. Even in North Korea they find his intellectual contortions, phony rationalizations and bogus explanations a bit much as you can see in the photo below as a focus group in Pyong Yang watches Newt during a recent appearance on ABC News.