Newt Gingrich plans to party like it’s 1994

You can’t fault Newt Gingrich for wanting to relive his glory days. After all, he was once one of the most powerful men in America. In fact, for the low, low price of $19.94 you can help him celebrate the time when the world seemed to be at his feet.

Seeking funds to keep his presidential bid afloat, the former House speaker is asking supporters to contribute at least that amount in advance of a speech he’s planning to give next week in Iowa on the 17^th anniversary of the GOP’s “Contract with America”—the set of 10 policy points advocated by the conservatives who took back the House after decades of exile.

Gingrich is planning to unveil a new “contract” for the 21^st century, and a donation of at least $19.94 to his campaign enters the donor into a contest to be the first to see the new document. The winner also receives a signed copy of the original contract and a personal call from Gingrich, perhaps made on one of those shoe-sized cellphones they had back in the day.

Gingrich said the new contract “will be 10 times deeper and more comprehensive than 1994,” he told a crowd of about 40 this week in Iowa, according to the Des Moines Register. “Because the truth is, while we changed the system some … we didn’t fundamentally change the underlying system.”

By the way, the No. 1 movie the week the original “Contract with America” was introduced was Jean Claude Van Damme’s “Timecop.” It was about a federal agent from the future who is sent back in time to, you guessed it, 1994. Time travel, it seems, remains all the rage.