The Dead End that is “All of the Above”

This morning I read that: “Newt Gingrich is taking on critics who are angry at the conservative icon for taking home more than $300k from an ethanol lobby firm in 2009. While the critics say support for ethanol subsidies runs counter to Newt’s free-market rhetoric, Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler said his work is consistent with his “all of the above” energy platform.”

This is too easy. As we have noted here and elsewhere, “all of the above” is not a coherent policy; it is a note passed to a teller during a bank robbery. I thank Speaker Gingrich for making my point so concisely, and for placing in stark relief the intellectual bankruptcy of the policy.

One other thing. It sickens me that he is being given time to speak at tomorrow’s Catholic Prayer Breakfast. If three wives do not disqualify you from communion with the Church of Rome, what, conceivably, could be the point of any of its rules?