Current and former Speakers of the House (from left) Denny Hastert, Newt Gingrich and Tip O’Neill eventually came to be near-identical caricatures of overblown, overgrown, bloviating gasbags who became so addicted to political spinning and lying they couldn’t have stopped even if they had wanted to.
With Hastert, his likely downfall is going to be the transparency of his lies, like he had just pulled a talking points list out of his inbox three minutes before his press conference.
With Newt, it was not so much lies as it was petulance in his political life. In his personal life, ahh, the old “Party of Values” one again showed its Orwellian stance of “Values for thee but not for me.”
Tip’s in here in part just because he looks the part. With him, it wasn’t private life problems, nor even lies in public life. The bloviating, though? The cluelessness about being marginalized by Reaganism? The cluelessness before that, under Carter, about where a post-New Deal Democratic party might be headed? ’Nuff said.
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