Froma Harrop: Newt and the Donald a-Courting Go

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Liberals and conservatives both seem obsessed with the behavior of "the 1 percent," but there the similarity ends. Liberals seek to change the ways of the richest 1 percent, while many conservatives focus on the bottom 1 percent. The latter was on display as Republican Newt Gingrich proposed having poor young people clean their schools. He described them as "children in housing projects." You know who that is.

When Gingrich told the Occupy Wall Street folks to "take a bath," he was only partly right. Most everyone has to take a bath after listening to Newt.

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Froma Harrop: Newt and the Donald a-Courting Go

On the other side of the tracks, Gingrich went a-courting to the door of Donald Trump, a sometimes Republican adept at using the party as his personal prom...

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