Gingrich rips Bush for GOP ‘collapse,’ calls adviser Rove ‘maniacally dumb’

"Administration"

05/30/2007

By Jim Rutenberg,
New York Times
Last update: May 29, 2007


WASHINGTON - President Bush has presided over a Republican Party in "collapse." Karl Rove's strategy in the 2004 presidential election was "maniacally dumb" for focusing so heavily on the conservative base, and the CIA, among other agencies, begs for "radical transformation.
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The words of Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman, perhaps? Or John Edwards, a Democratic candidate for president? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi?

None of the above.

The harsh assessment comes from Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who engineered the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress.

Gingrich made the comments in an interview with the New Yorker magazine, portions of which were published in this week's issue. They opened up a new feud between Gingrich and the White House, which issued a stiff defense late on Tuesday.

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