SPEAKING OF NEWT, “Obama needs a Gingrich,” Kevin D. Williamson writes, in much the same way that the pro-Clinton media demonized Newt on his behalf in the mid-1990s:

If you are wondering why the president is, at the eleventh hour, using probably illegal executive fiats to start a national fight over gun control — a fight that will do nothing to reduce ordinary crime, terrorism, or mass shootings — it’s because he’s still looking for his Gingrich, and he believes that the NRA may be it. That is a grave and uncharacteristic political miscalculation for a man whose only documentable talent is for political calculation, and one suspects that his administration and his party will suffer for it between now and November.

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