Secret Plans

Ross thinks Gingrich ought to have suggested his middle-class tax cut package during the election when it might have helped, but that would have spoiled all the fun. That would have been like McCain actually explaining how he would “get” Bin Laden or how he would reform Social Security (“I know how to do it, my friends,” he kept saying) by articulating, well, specific plans and proposals. During the campaign Gingrich was simply following the example of his party’s nominee in vaguely hinting at secret plans to achieve great things, all of which would have been revealed provided that you elected McCain. Now, alas, McCain’s secret knowledge must remain forever hidden, and we will never be able to see his sure-fire method to make Social Security whole, destroy Al Qaeda and restore the global economy in action. Clearly, Gingrich is breaking an important code of silence by making these proposals public now. This is an error that will soon be corrected when the next election year comes along, when we can rest assured that Gingrich will return to making inane demands for Census Bureau reform.