Per F. Scott Fitzgerald, no second acts in American life. W/ Newt "Brainiac" Gingrich, it's hard to tell if this is the second act, or just the latest scene in an interminable act. Either way, we think he should slow down a bit, perhaps not try to cover our world so thickly w/ his essence. Between attacking Judge Sotomayor on the basis of her identity, & making grand pronouncements as to the President being a wimp who can't/won't defend the country the "right" way, we're a bit surprised that he has the manly essence left to devote himself to more fear-mongering/defense industry lobbying. But he does, as writ up good (We're being cutesy in a sadly transparent effort to cover up this whole thing being an exercise in sloth.) by Michael Crowley in TNR. Newton Leroy (at an AIPAC conference)
laid out a vision in which three small nuclear weapons detonated at the right altitude would eliminate all electricity production in the United States. Which is why, he concluded, "I favor taking out Iranian and North Korean missiles on their sites."Oooooh-kay. (We really have to question the Republicans dragging out LBJ's "Daisy" advert last wk., after a statement like that from Newt-ron. Does he think his desire that the "smoking gun/mushroom cloud" be caused by the forces of goodness & apple pie is going to get him any new voters come 2012?)
Government By Novelist
The godfather of the modern EMP alarmism movement is Republican congressman Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland. "This is just too horrific to be true," Bartlett explains, "so many people want to dismiss it." Bartlett, an 82-year-old retired engineer and Maryland Republican, has worried about an EMP attack since he encountered the concept over a decade ago in--yup--a potboiler novel. "I called my friend Tom Clancy," Bartlett says, to ask about Clancy's reference to the threat in one of his books.
Retired engineer? We're surprised he's not promoting libertarian space colonies. Still serving in Congreƒs though. The recent novel (not by Tom Clancy, but by Gingrich's occasional co-author, William Forstchen) causing all the fuss has somehow leaped to the NYT best-seller list; knowing that one seldom goes broke under-estimating the taste of the American public, we're not sure what best-seller-dom means now, but the book can't be any less effective than the website linked above at "fear-mongering." Maybe it comes w/ a lead-foil hat to keep your brain from being fried like your iPod, when Obama & his socialist, pagan, nature-worshiping pals (or handlers) set off an EMP to send us back to the Stone Age, because they hate white people & their dishwashers & clothes driers.
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