Flashback to the Last GOP Takeover

Do you remember where you were when Newt Gingrich assumed the speakership in 1995?

Do you remember where you were when Newt Gingrich assumed the speakership in 1995? I do! I spent the evening at a party at which Gingrich himself showed up - accompanied by two of the original cast members of the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. (Alas - not the Blue Ranger, the favorite of my then two-year-old son.) Come to think of it, maybe inviting the Power Rangers along was one early warning sign of overreach...

UPDATE:

FF reporter Tim Mak notes that the Power Rangers were recruited by Newt Gingrich for more than their star power. Gingrich regarded the Rangers as somehow symbolic of the new GOP majority:

In another surprise move, the entire world watched as the new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, shook hands with the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers who were invited to Washington, D.C., to entertain at the Speaker's opening day celebration. During the festivities, Gingrich remarked that he was like the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. He said, "You ride the waves in America, and if something's hot, it's hot."