Which Zombie Is Better?

If they can't drag Reagan out of his grave, w/ the oven mitts on to keep him from scratching the help, the Republicans may be happy to settle for a slightly less dead zombie, one Newt Gingrich, who seems to have been haunting a bldg. in Washington, D. C. for a while. (Don't they all run against Washington?)

These days, to hear Republicans tell it, the conservative movement’s intellectual and strategic thunderbolts seem to be emanating, instead, from an undistinguished box of a building on K Street, amid the city’s famed corridor of lobbyists. In unmarked office suites scattered across separate floors, some 35 employees divide their duties among a consulting group, two insurgent policy centers, a documentary-film production company and a public-relations firm with only one client. That client would be the man who sits atop this emerging center of opposition, the once-defeated revolutionary who, like Che or Tito, is best known by a single name: Newt.

Clinton-era Dems return to the House of White,

[a]nd now here comes their old adversary, back from the political dead, just to make the whole thing seem like some retro reality show — “Battle of the Aging Boomers.” Last time around, of course, Democrats got the best of their encounter with Newt. Republicans have to hope that Gingrich, an avid military historian, has learned a thing or two about how to regroup. [...] The jewels of his small empire on K Street are his two policy centers: the Center for Health Transformation, which is actually a for-profit association of health care providers, and the newer American Solutions, which churns out research on a broader array of issues.

How nice, he's a lobbyist for "health care providersdeniers." (Is there something about historians that makes them health care experts? Or is historian a natural field for douchebags, & their baggery is especially notable on healthcare denial issues?) That should make him popular when he & the other pigs are trying to defeat whatever half-assed compromise w/ single-payer health care the B. O.'s Admin. tries to go w/.

“Most Republicans are not entrepreneurial,” he lamented to me. “They’re corporatists."

Newt knows his base is a collection of brain-dead corporate-welfare drones, but flatters them as a nation of innovative small-business owners, taxed w/in an inch of their job-creating, petit bourgeois lives? Does this indicate that these United Snakes may not be a "center-right" country after all? That every last one of us wants only Chee-tos® & 500 entertainment channels, 490 of them porn, not the chance to get out & compete in the free market? Holy crap, you think so? 

While there's bit more one could mock, let's just leave on a high note, w/ this picture of Newt & his grand-daughter. Maybe she's his niece or something? Oh, that's his WIFE?! His THIRD wife?!!?!