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NEWT THE BLAMELESS

NEWT GINGRICH IS FED UP WITH ALL THE FINGER pointing. He is tired, he says, of people blaming their problems on one another or on society at large--rather than taking responsibility for their fates and charging ahead with a can-do attitude. In his new book, To Renew America, Gingrich writes, "When confronted with a problem, a true American doesn't ask, 'Who can I blame this on?' "

Having made this point, Gingrich proceeds to survey America's problems and blame them on various people. If you're familiar with his formidable oeuvre of TV utterances--his book is kind of a Cliffs Notes version--you...

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