Another day, another overheated statement from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich giving politically dubious marching orders to the Republicans he last led a
“„Senate Republicans should make it clear that they will not permit a tax evader to become the secretary of the Treasury … it would be wrong for someone who did not pay taxes to become secretary of the Treasury in charge of getting taxes from the rest of us. It would be doubly wrong to appoint him in an administration which intends to raise taxes on the rest of us.
“„With the Republican presidential contest in 2012 looking very open at this stage, might this be Gingrich’s “Churchill coming in from the Wilderness” moment?