The movement "starts with the premise that we all owe them everything," said Gingrich. And the movement's sense of entitlement is a "symptom how much the left has collapsed as a moral system in this country, and why you need to reassert something as simple as saying, 'Go get a job right after you take a bath,'" the former speaker of the House concluded.
Fred Barnes writes in this week's issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD that Gingrich has "told friends he’s like Richard Nixon, not particularly likable and hated by the press and the left." And here we see Gingrich taking a page from Nixon's playbook. If there was one thing Americans disliked more than the not particularly likable Nixon, it was dirty hippies.
Speaking of Occupy Wall Street, check out Matthew Continetti's new WEEKLY STANDARD piece on the movement's intellectual roots: "Anarchy in the U.S.A."
"Capitalism without failure is like Christianity without Hell. You have to have atonement for ridiculous levels of spending both the US and Europe have gone through. The spending idiocy of the world is going to catch up to itself. And that's where we are today." -- Kyle Bass, Hayman Capital
