Newt still making us laugh

If you're feeling sluggish, you can always count on Newt Gingrich to cheer you up by saying something laughably idiotic.

The former House Speaker - who set the standards of fascism in the '90s - jabbered at length about the health care bill yesterday. He implied that he felt it was wrong for President Lyndon Johnson to sign civil rights laws, and that the health care bill will ruin the Democrats for the next 40 years - which he claims also happened following Johnson signing civil rights legislation.

There's some real problems with Newt's latest proclamations about The World According To Newt. In addition to his apparent belief that civil rights laws are bad, his view that the Democrats were ruined for 40 years because of these laws is simply wrong.

The civil rights laws were passed in the '60s. The Democrats didn't thoroughly collapse for another 35 years, when they moved to the extreme right. In fact, the Democrats racked up amazing majorities in congressional elections from the '60s into the '90s.

This is the same Newt Gingrich who hired a Nazi as a House historian, so what do you expect?

(Source: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/03/gingrich-like-lbj-obama-risks.html)