BREAKING: Newt Gingrich should STFU

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Here's the dramatic headline at Human Events, the "Headquarters of the Conservative Underground," a sort of right-wing BDSM dungeon:

BREAKING: Gingrich Calls on Obama to End Bailouts

Okay, whatever. The MSM still take Gingrich seriously, but I don't, and I don't intend to spend any time on his predictably right-wing populist pander. (I'm not a big fan of the bailouts, but I do acknowledge that the financial sector will collapse without a substantial infusion of capital. And if the financial sector collapses, bank after bank, how is that good for the economy, which in order to keep moving forward needs those with money (i.e., banks) to lend it to individuals and businesses alike -- and how is that good for the American people?)

But how is this in any way "BREAKING"?

Or, in the Conservative Dungeon, is it just "BREAKING" whenever Newt opens his mouth? That it seems to be -- for there is nothing new here, nothing genuinely breaking -- says a great deal about the state of conservatism today.

Instead of actually doing anything to boost the economy, and to support the American people in a time of historic crisis, Newt and Rush and the rest of them are just sniping from the sidelines, spewing ideological extremism and otherwise being anything but constructive.