identifying the scrooges in the right-wing. gentlemen, great to have you with us tonight. good evening. merry christmas. john, you wrote a piece recently comparing newt gingrich and mitt romney to scrooge. what was the reasoning here? well, ed, when you start out by suggesting that you fire school janitors and replace them with children, you re getting pretty close to a dekenzian model. there i haven t read all of dickens character recently, as for romney, the tragedy of romney is that while he doesn t go to those stark places that newt reaches, if you look at what romney s been saying in this last week, it s just this dark kind of crude image of this country. and to attack joe biden for, you know, pointing out that there