Within the last week former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich has used the City of Detroit to illustrate the devastatingly negative effects of liberalism.

During his speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee Speaker Newt said:

I had no idea how decisevely and deeply entrenched our opponents are at every level…A Detroit school bureaucracy which is crippling the children of Detroit, which graduates only 25% of its entering freshman on time, which is one of the highest paid and one of the most expensive programs in the country, and which when a successful millionaire offered to give $200 million dollars to help create charter schools to save the children of Detroit, promptly attacked him as a racist because no white man had the right to step in and save black children, and in fact drove him out of Detroit because he was such a threat by insisting that teachers actually be competent and that the purpose of schools was actually to teach.

Speaker Newt was a guest on the Sean Hannity Show on Tuesday, February 12 when he said:

Senator McCain ought to be in the middle of Detroit saying he agress with Senator Obama, now’s the time for real change and the right change would be smaller government, lower taxes, more jobs, and a school system that actually educated children rather than failed them so decisively that they ended up in jail. And he ought to go to Lansing, Michigan and stand at the state capitol and say that Michigan is in an artificial recession because there are high taxes, too much regulation, too big a bureauracy, and we need real change now.