Newt Gingrich’s Plan

Re “Gingrich’s Plan for Power 10 Years in the Making,” Dec. 19: I was dismayed when I read about Gingrich’s 10-year plan to recruit and train only those new Republicans who would be loyal to him and also to give campaign funds only to those same recruits who would follow Gingrich’s vision. Almost half of all the new Republicans elected are Gingrich’s recruits. Videos are mailed with instruction on how to “talk like Newt.” Is this how we want democracy to work?

The article brings to mind George Orwell’s masterpiece, “Animal Farm.” The antagonist, Napoleon, is Gingrich, and the intellectual, naive, trusting Snowball is Clinton. Squealer, Napoleon’s spokesman, would have to be Rush Limbaugh, and the sheep, who only blindly bleat out slogans, must be Limbaugh’s “dittoheads.” Reread it and compare.

ARLENE KING

Claremont

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It is almost laughable that the liberal Democrats in Congress find it necessary to attempt to discredit Gingrich.

It has been the lot of the Republicans for 40 years to be force-fed a constant diet of wasteful spending, non-accountability, closed-door meetings, all of this by the Democratic majority, and most recently, the multicultural nonsense of the leftists who would divide this country.

Now it is your turn, liberal Democratic minority, to swallow the Republican agenda of accountability, responsiveness to the people, the promise of balance in spending and honesty in government.

How does the new diet taste?

RUTH K. NOBLE

Hacienda Heights

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After only 40 days of listening to the Republicans boast of all they will do in the new Congress, the American public should fully understand why the Republicans have been denied control of Congress for 40 years.

WILLIAM B. STORM

Los Angeles