Zombie Gingrich Back... Needs Brains...

by Hunter [courtesy of Daily Kos]

Oh, gawd. HuffPo:

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was working aggressively behind the scenes to defeat the Wall Street rescue plan minutes before he himself released a public statement in support of the package, NBC's Andrea Mitchell reported on Tuesday. [...]

"Newt Gingrich," she said on MSNBC, "I am told reliably by leading Republicans who are close to him, he was whipping against this up until the last minute, when he issued that face-saving statement. Newt Gingrich was telling people in the strongest possible language that this was a terrible deal, not only that it was a terrible deal, it was a disaster, it was the end of democracy as we know, it was socialism -- and then at the last minute [he] comes out with a statement when the vote is already in place."

Really? Yep... really:

Indeed, as Mitchell noted, shortly before the bill's failure, Gingrich "reluctantly" came out in favor of its passage: "Therefore, while I am discouraged at the final collapse of the Bush Administration, and frustrated by the Democrats' passion for the taxpayer's money, I would reluctantly and sadly vote for the bailout were I still in office."

Ah ha ha ha... Just when you thought the Republicans couldn't get any worse or any less functional... along comes Zombie Gingrich, punking his own party behind the scenes, just as willing as ever to screw up the entire government and/or economy in service to his own dreams of hard-right conservative warfare led by... well, him, naturally.

All of this Republican dysfunction, and now Newt himself makes a triumphant return? Oh, lord. It's the political equivalent of the Star Wars Christmas Special. What a complete wreck.