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Once again, BuzzFlash has obtained through a special purchase a book that we can offer at a special below-retail price, including free shipping.

And what a classic blast from the past this is, just as the thrice-married, blowhard and bloviator in chief, Newt Gingrich, returns to taunt us with hints that he might run for President.

"Newt Gingrich's Bedtime Story for Orphans" was written in the Clinton era by two satirists. The original book (which we are offering in mint condition) are alleged tales that Gingrich read to orphans during his imagined "presidency."

The basic premise comes from one of the Newtsters "futuristic" ideas that we should take poor minority kids and put them in orphanages (a la the nanny state that the Soviet Union created).

Consisting of Newt's political "fairy tales," poems, songs and quips, this is a hysterical sardonic look at the impoverished worldview of the "Republican Revolution" that has put America in moral, foreign policy and domestic economic near-bankruptcy.

This is a book that gives Calvin Trillin a run for his money. With time, it has aged like a fine wine.

And with Newt back once again as a "media darling," it is more relevant than ever.

Here's just a small taste of the book. After Newt tells one of his many nightime stories -- "Hanzel and Gretel and Crummy Daycare" --to the orphans:

At this point, one of the orphans began to cry.

"You're scaring me, Uncle Newt! Why did they have to be eaten?"

Newt laughed heartily. "Now, now. That could never happen to you. Your mommies don't work. Why, you don't even have mommies! But just remember the moral of this story: Working mothers, don't work! People are hungry for the way things used to be. Greed and power devour traditional family values..."

Then President Gingrich left the orphans for a quick lunch break, and we saw him chuckling over his pizza. [End of Excerpt]

"Newt Gingrich's Bedtime Story for Orphans" is a forgotten classic of political satire that is especially timely in oh so many ways.

Get it from BuzzFlash at a special value price while they last. We have only 49 copies in brand new condition. When they go, they go.




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