Re: A Contract with the Earth
Listening to C-SPAN this morning, I'm reminded how events have moved beyond Newt. Like many former politicians including Alan Greenspan, they no longer drive the bus but sit with the passengers and have time to reflect upon what happened. Whether they have the intellectual honesty to review their past actions and contributions to how the driver seers the bus today, well that secret will go with them to their grave. But I've been a passenger long enough to know what Newt did and his hubris that remains today ever bit as strong as it was then.
This morning, Newt's intellectual offspring were present on the lines repeating their trailer trash comments about liberals, the environment and anything else that didn't align with the radical practices Newt and others encouraged in the 1980s and 90s. If you call my party the "Democrat" party, we instantly know that attempts to communicate are lost and that is Newt's legacy.
No, he has joined the passengers after his turn at the front. The bus driver has to deal with the consequences of the route Newt chose and we're all in for a longer ride into what I call "Reality Training."
But I don't need to make further comments about Newt since the current bomb throwers are closer to the driver. I don't wish the man anything but the worst possible curse, that someday he listens to what he had said and realize how it destroyed consensus. He achieved a pyretic victory and set us on a course that IMHO, we have yet to correct.
Bob Wilson
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