Oh, thank all gods Allah through Zeus Newt Gingrich is back! It's been a long stretch, people, a long stretch of pretending I know about the Commerce Clause and derivative trading and electoral demographics. This job was a lot easier more fun when Newt was around.
Well, he visited this weeked in Twitter form (and note that his Twitter page still says Newt 2012), mentioning that the power outage the DC/Baltimore area experienced this weekend is mightily similar to what an electro-magnetic pulse attack would look like. And are we prepared for one? NO!
(That commenter at the bottom of the first tweet, the one who prompts the second? Pretty sure that's what we in the biz call a concern troll.)
It's too bad Newt didn't finish out this line of thought long enough to propose a government agency for dealing with this potential threat, which he would then have to denounce on next Sunday's Meet the Press, nor to recommend that those who would be tasked with the grunt work of building anti-EMP devices would be inner-city high school juniors, because that's the only way people with skin darker than a receipt learn Work Ethic. Newt 2012!
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