I normally consider the folks who write for CNN.com to be a pack of chumps, but I actually found this commentary piece to be one the finest-written and most effectively-researched articles I’ve read in a long time.

It definitely helps that the whole thing supports my hypothesis that Newt Gingrich is something pretty darn close to a Machiavellian madman or, at the very least, a hyper-partisan bully.