re: #318 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing

HUBRIS AND HUMILITY: DAVID WEIGEL COMES CLEAN ON WASHINGTON POST, THE D.C. BUBBLE, & THE ‘JOURNOLIST’ (Breitbutt via donotlink)

I said Gingrich had a “screwed-up tenture” because Republicans I admired, like Sen. Tom Coburn (R, Ok.) and Dick Armey, had serious problems with how Gingrich ran the House.

Also this. He is a little difficult to pigeonhole.

After the 2008 election, I drove up from Atlanta to D.C. and was greeted by my editor, Matt Welch, with surprising news. It would be better, he said, if I worked somewhere else. I’d voted for the Obama-Biden ticket (having joked, semi-seriously, that I was honor-bound to vote for a ticket with a fellow Delawarean on it) and wasn’t fully on board with the magazine’s upcoming, wonky focus on picking apart the new administration