Mickey Edwards on Newt Gingrich's current troubles. He says it was the speaker himself who has been so boisterous about putting Congress on a higher moral plane. The investigation of his college course suggests that he may have dipped below that plane. But because Gingrich played such an important role in bringing the GOP to the table, unless the Republicans come up with a new line of succession, they may find that Newt, with all his faults, may be indispensable.
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