Former House speaker Newt Gingrich said yesterday that the Bush administration has gone "off a cliff" in postwar Iraq and that "the White House has to get a grip on this."
In a blunt critique by a leading Republican, Gingrich said the administration has failed "to put the Iraqis at the center of this equation. . . . The key to defeating the bad guys is having enough good guys who are Iraqis," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Did they rush Timmy off to the Georgetown Medical Center for defib after that? Then there's this
White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. defended the administration's policy. "I think things are going very well in a very tough situation in Iraq. . . . Newt Gingrich is not all-knowing," he said on CBS's "Face the Nation."
Ooooh, dueling Sunday Pundity...methinks there is a chink in the armor. If the "scheduled" turnover of the government is not well underway by the republican convention and money-fest in September 2004, all might not be well for the presidential aspirations of the 1600 Crew. Awesome.
posted by Jo Fish on 12.08.03 at 12:24 AM
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This Andrew, unlike the other one, is such a card. I think that Hillary got to Gingrich in Russert's green room before the Meet the Press broadcast and Newt probably paid attention to Hillary's astute responses to Russert's inept failure to entrap her. NBC may soon have to put Tim out to pasture with the buffalos, you know where.
Newt still claims to be a historian. What has he written of historical significance other than the "histerical" Contract (as in Mafia talk) on America?
