Of all the odd phenomena in Republican Washington, perhaps the most inexplicable is the party’s embrace of Newt Gingrich–a man who hasn’t been elected to political office since the kids still listened to Fastball–as a man of ideas and political relevance. Today they turned to him to articulate some of those ideas before a House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing on climate change legislation. We liked this exchange between Gingrich and committee chair Henry Waxman (D-CA) in particular:
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