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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20060109
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Byline: Arnold Beichman, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

One afternoon in the mid-19th century, Ralph Waldo Emerson visited David Thoreau who had been jailed for an act of civil disobedience. Emerson asked the imprisoned Thoreau: "Henry, what are you doing in there?" Thoreau replied, "Waldo, the question is what are you doing out there?"

Whenever I read a commentary by Newt Gingrich on the current state of affairs in Washington, D.C., I recall the Emerson-Thoreau exchange and ask, "Newt, what are you doing out there?"

Never in recent times has Congress needed so badly a ...

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