The Veil of Ignorance isn't supposed to suggest that you forget everything you once knew... it's supposed to suggest a stance towards decision making such that, if you didn't know your place in society, you could live under those rules. It's just stupid to write rules to prop up your own power, and then complain when those rules are used against you when you're no longer king of the hill. However, I'm not surprised that this is the complaint Newt Gingrich is currently making.
Julie points out that the Democrats have realized that playing nice with Republicans doesn't really get you anywhere, but when they try to use Newt's playbook, he cries foul.
On a more global level, although Newt recognizes that the American voter is interested in "real change," that change won't involve the Republicans. You had your chance, and you blew it. He compares the approval ratings of the Republicans to the depths of Watergate, and all I can think is that Americans haven't yet understood the profundity of the betrayal of the Republicans in the past eight years, far outstripping anything Nixon & company did.
Now, Newt just sounds like Kang: "The politics of failure have failed. We need to make them work again!" Not a compelling platform, dude.
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