It appears they just might have, though it's not necessarily a new one. Robin Toner and Carl Hulse have the story in tomorrow's issue of The New York Times.

Newt Gingrich, the conservative firebrand who won control of Congress a decade ago by campaigning against an entrenched, arrogant and all-powerful Democratic majority, is once again an inspirational figure on Capitol Hill.

This time, his message is being carried by the Democrats.

The party's leaders are increasingly making the case that in 2005, it is Congressional Republicans who are drunk with power, overreaching on issues like Social Security and judicial nominations, ethically challenged, and profoundly out of touch with their constituents.

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In short, some Democratic strategists are reaching to the old Gingrich playbook in an era with some striking parallels to the early 1990's: one party in control of Congress and the White House; a furor over ethics; a huge piece of long-promised domestic legislation seemingly dead in the water (now Social Security, then health care); increasing fault lines in the majority; and a surprising unity in the minority.

The Republican takeover in 1994 is a perfect example of how to use the issue of ethics to defeat the incumbent party. But 1994 didn't come out of no where. As Toner and Hulse note, in 1989, Democratic Speaker Jim Wright (also of Texas) was forced out of the House for ethical issues. If the Dems are eventually successful in taking down DeLay, they will be that much closer to retaking the House in 2006 or 2008.

If one needs any more evidence that DeLay is nearing his demise, one need only look at Philip Shenon's piece on onetime DeLay ally Jack Abramoff, also in The Times tomorrow.

Jack Abramoff, one of Washington's most powerful and best-paid lobbyists, needed $100,000 in a hurry.

Mr. Abramoff, known to envious competitors as "Casino Jack" because of his multimillion-dollar lobbying fees from the gambling operations of American Indians, wrote to a Texas tribe in June 2002 to say that a member of Congress had "asked if we could help (as in cover) a Scotland golf trip for him and some staff" that summer. "The trip will be quite expensive," Mr. Abramoff said in the e-mail message, estimating that the bills "would be around $100K or more." He added that in 2000, "We did this for another member - you know who."

Mr. Abramoff did not explain why the tribe should pay for the lavish trip, nor did he identify the congressmen by name. But a tribe spokesman has since testified to Congress that the 2002 trip was organized for Representative Bob Ney, an Ohio Republican and chairman of the House Administration Committee, and that "you know who" was a much more powerful Republican, Tom DeLay of Texas, the House majority leader and old friend of Mr. Abramoff's. Both lawmakers have said they believed that the trips complied with House travel rules.

The e-mail message of June 7, 2002, is part of a mountain of evidence gathered in recent months by the Justice Department, the Interior Department and two Senate committees in influence-peddling and corruption investigations centered on Mr. Abramoff, a former college Republican campaigner turned B-movie producer turned $750-an-hour Washington super-lobbyist.

It's getting closer and closer...