How do you spell hypocrisy, Newt?

Newt Gingrich is finally getting his day in the sun. He is banking on us having been too steeped in our careers in the 90's to remember how he chastised president Clinton about his affair with Monica Lewinski while having an affair with a house aide, the current Mrs. Gingrich. The same guy who handed his divorce papers to another wife on her deathbed. Yes, the man who some of us want to run for president in 2012. Boy, somebody is salivating in the White House.

The party of no shame continues to treat us to a carousel of candidates who believe that the world is 6000 years old, who deny climate change, who pontificate that the founding fathers did not leave a stone unturned to abolish slavery, who don't read newspapers, who can't remember what government departments they want to abolish, who change their minds about what they believe in depending on what day it is, that party is now ready to elevate Newt Gingrich, the only Speaker of the House to have been disciplined for ethics violations.

Of course, Newt will not survive the scrutiny, but if someone ever deserved to be taken down a notch, no an entire tree, it is the man whose name redefines hypocrisy.

For a concise expose of how Newt pocketed at least $300,000 in lobbying fees from Freddie Mac, while publicly crying foul about the same entity, read Timothy Egan's article titled "Professor of Profits" in today's New York Times. Be advised, this material is only suitable for those who have a strong stomach.