Newt eats that stuff up. He loves it. Anything about personal empowerment, think a conservative Oprah, he loves.
I remember when he was first speaker. He was a witness at some congressional panel. He said that all poor children should be given laptops to empower them and break out of the poverty cycle. Dingle was so happy he said that, “We might agree on more than I thought.”
Here is a liberal article from 1995 I found, http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ILtNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8fwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5106,5536207&dq=newt+laptops+poor&hl=en
Reading it I see a long forgotten nickname for Newt, Speaker Moonbeam.
Today it seems every poor person has a cell phone and yet they are still poor. It’s Newt’s Hamiltonian propensity to be overly excited by what government can do (and spend money on) that gives me chills.
Clinton loved the idea of laptops for the poor,