Newt and Callista Gingrich were a little late to their meet/greet and book signing at the Level 10 apparel store (“We print ‘em, we don’t make ‘em,” explained an employee) in Hiawatha, Iowa, leaving the 200some folks in attendance to mill around the cavernous warehouse. The Level 10 employees had set out a small stage and cordoned it off with a white plastic link chain.
“We can’t let anybody push beyond this, okay?” a Level 10 employee told two other workers who were serving as stage security. They nodded, their arms across their chests. “When the talk is over, then we’re going to go up to the conference room and they’ll be signing their books there.”
“They?” asked one. “She’s got a book too? Which book?”
“This book?” asked the second, twisting a copy of Callista Gingrich’s Sweet Land of Liberty (a children’s book with a playful elephant on the cover) that a young boy was holding so everyone could see the cover. “Is there a discount?” The boy snapped the book back into place against his chest.
“Nope, full price, full price,” said the first guy, who appeared in charge, checking the mic and flitting among the crowd.
How could you people elect Rod Blagojevich?
Ironic, it seems to me, that shortly after the Occupy movement had some of its biggest successes -- 
