Gingrich Slams DeLay

Things are pretty bad when even Newt Gingrich criticizes Tom DeLay. CBS News is reporting that the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, stated that DeLay should stop blaming all his problems on a left-wing conspiracy and bring it all out in the open to the American people and let them decide. "I don’t want to prejudge him and my hope is that Tom will be able to prove his case," said Gingrich, who engineered the Republican takeover of the House in 1994. "But I think the burden is on him to prove it at this point." Is he doing that? "I don’t know yet. I think the jury's out," said Gingrich. "DeLay's problem isn't with the Democrats; DeLay's problem is with the country," Gingrich continued. "And so DeLay has a challenge: to lay out a case that the country comes to believe, that the country decides is legitimate. If he does that he's fine." Of course let's not forget that it was the bugman DeLay himself who orchestrated Gingrich's departure after the 1998 midterm election mess. I guess what goes around comes around.