The Dems’ Newt
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Elections, General PoliticsThe Wash Post makes a good point:
Back in 1992, seven upstart Republican freshmen forced real change in the House of Representatives.Egged on by a more senior revolutionary, Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), these feisty newcomers exploited the House Bank and Post Office scandals unfolding on the watch of a longtime Democratic majority. The GOP lawmakers even posed for a poster, a macho black-and-white group shot. “The Gang of Seven,” the caption read. “We closed the House Bank. We’re changing Congress. Join the fight.”
Today, as a lobbying scandal plays out on the watch of the Republican majority in Congress, the question is: Where is the Democrats’ Gang of Seven? Why isn’t some spirited group of junior House Democrats capturing the public’s imagination and sinking its teeth into the spreading Jack Abramoff mess? And where is the Democratic equivalent of Gingrich?
An interesting point, and something the Dems are certainly lacking nowadays. Will this prove fatal come Fall 2006?
Perhaps.
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