I'll give it to Newt Gingrich - he comes up with creative ways of shooting himself in the foot. After backtracking from critical comments on Paul Ryan's budget, the former Speaker of the House is now claiming that he's "not a Washington figure."

I wonder how Gingrich classifies the 20 years he spent as a member of the House of Representatives. Politicians like Newt are the reason cartoonists sharpen their pencils in the morning Check out some funny cartoons in our new Newt's Nonsense cartoon slideshow.

Nate Beeler / Washington Examiner, PoliticalCartoons.com