Eric I believe the proper way to refer to Gingrich is and always should be "disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich". You can use other adjectives such as "twice divorced", (particularly if he's discussing culture war issues) but that disgraced and former ought to be modifiers whenever you type his name.

I really wish the Democrats would put someone on with a set of balls to challenge this lying miscreant Newt Gingrich. Someone like Lawrence O’Donnell would be great. Since that would never happen I surely hope Durbin is prepared to whitewash Newt with all of his bogus claims, contradictory statements and outright hypocrisy. I won’t hold my breath. Also look for David Gregory to ignore all facts that favor the democrat’s viewpoint while sucking Newt’s balls.

Waste.Of.Time.

With Cheney, Limbaugh - and now Newt - as de-facto leaders, the Republican party is like a dog gone mad. It's an animal that has been beaten, abused and abandoned. It slinks in and out of dark corners with its tail between its legs. When approached it snarls, growls and bares frothy teeth. When confronted it lunges for the jugular, then runs for cover.

It is a hideously pitiful and hopelessly sad creature. Nothing can be done to help it. The only humane thing to do is put it out of its misery.

Consider that NBC has perhaps chosen to let "Meet the Press" die in honor of Tim Russert's passing.

durbin did good this week turning the "no terraists in MY state" into "why do you disparage our brave corrections officers?"

The immature tadpole has presidential (vice-presidential) aspirations. I can't see much competition out there for the Republican nomination......Oops almost forgot Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney (snark). They are still in denial, so don't expect them to change anything. After getting crushed again in 2010, then you will see changes. Either new leaders with brains will emerge, or more likely those with intelligence will move to a new party and the Gops will keep their 20% religious right/uneducated southerner voting bloc.

Whether or not Durbin and Gingrich appear at the same time, watch how Gregory conducts the interview. I predict Gregory will ignore Gingrich's past and treat him as though he's an honest and honorable man and one of the ways Gregory will do that is take a pass on an obvious, but inconvenient follow up question to a Gingrich comment.

Since Cheney and Gingrich began their attack, the repubs have had something like an 8-point bump in approval from voters so far. The endless parade of discredited, corrupt, has-been white male republicans hogging the media megaphones is serving one underlying purpose:

To win back the House, Senate and the presidency. It's the same Permanent Republican Majority wet dream of yesteryear and this coordinated assault has the imprimatur of Karl Rove all over it.

The Dick's first job was to ensure he & Shrub would stay out of jail, and now that that's done, it's back to the Rove playbook.

Their snide, dishonorable bloviating is not a harbinger of their irrelevance or being in the "doldrums." Hardly. They're actually in the ascendancy and that's their only goal -- they literally could not care less about national security, obviously.

Bullying the sitting democratic president is all about knocking him off balance to disrupt his agenda. And ultimately, it's about keeping the money in the hands of the few and how far they will go to undermine efforts that benefit the public in any way.

What IS strange is that the dems can't seem to see the bigger picture and won't fight fire with fire in any way. Unless they do, we won't even get our four years. You've got to hand it to Rove -- he is still in charge.