Politics: "Idiot." I couldn't have said it better

In this morning's In the Loop column, Al Kamen takes note of the response by career diplomat A. Elizabeth Jones, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs and former ambassador to Kazakhstan to bombastic and ill-timed comments by Newt Gingrich. Gingrich last week told the American Enterprise Institute that the State Department was a failure and his pals at DoD were going to have to overhaul the whole thing.

Jones told a Portugese daily newspaper, "What Gingrich says does not interest me. He is an idiot and you can publish that."

Can I get a "Hell, yeah!"