stimulus -- in re 9/11

Newt Gingrich proposes that the WTC site be declared a national battlefield memorial. If he had been paying attention,he would have known that for the last nine years it’s been a true New York battlefield between the developer, the insurance companies, and the Port Authority. What a stew pot to memorialize.

Gingrich: “I think the Congress has the ability to declare the area a national battlefield memorial because I think we should think of the World Trade Center as a battlefield site; this is a war,” he said, apparently thinking that if Ground Zero was a national park, Park51 would be restricted from building near it.”

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/gingrich_make_ground_zero_a_national_battlefield_t.php?ref=fpblg

- Margaret O'Brien Steinfels 2010Sep3 11:47 am dotCommonweal