Newt turned on himself, committed political suicide and gave up his smaller goverment agenda. I recall Newt telling us that he saw the Federal Budget increasing every year for the next 50 years. Then (and now) he succumbs to megalomania, thinks of running for President. To pave his way, he pushed the ethanol requirement on some energy bill to bribe Iowa farmers to support him in the Iowa causus. It cost the rest of us billions and billions of dollars for his crash on takeoff Presidential campaign.
Newt's great . . . . out of power. Keep him out their pushing ideas, but keep him out of power.