Newt and the Democrats

From The Economist's Lexington column, about Newt Gingrich, and why he is being viewed with some interest by Democratic leadership:

"The biggest problem with the current Democratic leadership is not that it has lost the will to fight but that it has lost the power to think. When was the last intellectually innovative idea you heard from Nancy Pelosi, the current minority leader, or, for that matter, from Dick Gephardt, her predecessor? ....(T)he Democrats are in danger of turning into that most pathetic of all political organizations - a minority party that devotes all its energies to the blind defense of the status quo. By all means let the Democrats learn from Newt the fighter; but if they want to recapture power they need to learn from Newt the thinker, too."

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