Tom DeLay's Protestations Evoke Clinton.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(ON THE LEFT)

Publication: Investor's Business Daily

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Byline: E.J. DIONNE JR.

"And I want to say to you bluntly: You live today with the most corrupt congressional leadership we have seen in the United States in the 20th century. You have to go back to the Gilded Age of the 1870s and 1880s to have anything comparable (to) that we've lived through."

Gosh, those Democrats must be really bitter about this year's elections to say stuff like that. Isn't it time to put aside partisan invective?

However appropriate that ringing indictment may seem to the moment, it did not issue from any Democrat this week. The words were spoken in February 1992 by a House Republican named Newt Gingrich.

Gingrich was then building the momentum that led...

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