Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich titles his latest Human Events column “Failure-in-Chief”:

The controversies over the Arizona immigration plan and the Obama Administration?s response to the oil spill in the Gulf may not seem related, but they have a key common characteristic: both originate in the failure of Washington.

In both cases, President Obama faces a real danger of a political backlash from which he will be unable to recover.

More importantly, they are both part of a rapidly evolving pattern of big government failure that will be a fundamental challenge to our country over the next quarter century.