Gingrich : Dems "Think They Run The Plantation"

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Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006 Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006 at 12:37:57pm PST

http://thinkprogress.org/...

Prodded by the right-wing, the media is already swarming around Sen.Hillary Clinton for saying the House of Representatives "has been run like a plantation...It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to
be heard."

MSNBC has already launched a poll: "Was Clinton's
`plantation' comparison too harsh?"

How long before the media mentions that Newt Gingrich, just before becoming Speaker of the House, made the same comparison in 1994:

"I clearly fascinate them," Gingrich said of the Democrats. "I'm much more intense, much more persistent, much more willing to take risks to get it done. Since they think it is their job to run the plantation, it shocks them that I'm actually willing to lead the slave rebellion."
[Washington Post, 10/20/94]