Gingrich To Conservatives: Don’t Talk About Iraq, Katrina, Walter Reed, Attorneys, Or Bush
Gingrich To Conservatives: Don’t Talk About Iraq, Katrina, Walter Reed, Attorneys, Or Bush
This morning on CBS’s Face the Nation, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich advised fellow conservatives not to talk about President Bush’s record. “President Bush is not the future. He’s not a solution. He doesn’t solve Social Security. He doesn’t solve Medicare. He doesn’t solve the economy. He doesn’t solve the environment. He doesn’t solve education. He’s a current fact,” Gingrich said.
It’s also a “current fact” that the conservative agenda has failed to “solve” these important issues over the past six years.
Gingrich went on to say that conservatives “have to say, this is not what we want to debate. It’s not in Baghdad, it’s not in Katrina, it’s not at Walter Reed, it’s not with the U.S. attorneys, but I have a better plan for a better solution that fits your values.” When Host Bob Schieffer suggested that Gingrich seemed to advocating steering clear of President Bush, Gingrich responded, “Well, I think that’s clear.”
Watch it:
Gingrich’s “hush-hush” list will only grow as the American public learns more about the fallout from policies that the administration has pursued. And as the Congress continues to provide the type of aggressive oversight that uncovers these administration failures, it becomes more obvious that conservatives have served as silent enablers, refusing to correct course when they had the opportunity to do so.
Transcript:
GINGRICH: Well, President Bush is not the future. He’s not a solution. He doesn’t solve Social Security. He doesn’t solve Medicare. He doesn’t solve the economy. He doesn’t solve the environment. He doesn’t solve education. He’s a current fact.
It would be like saying that if the Democrats decided to run on the grounds that they can be as effective as Senator Reid is in the Senate. Well, then you’d never elect somebody. The Senate is an impossible place to be effective, and it’s designed not to be effective.
The Democrats have got — have an easier job, because all they have to do is say, not this. That’s exactly what the 2006 campaign was: Not this.
The Republicans have a harder job. The Republicans have to say, this is not what we want to debate. It’s not in Baghdad, it’s not in Katrina, it’s not at Walter Reed, it’s not with the U.S. attorneys, but I have a better plan for a better solution that fits your values more than a Senator Clinton or a Senator Edwards or a Senator Obama.
SCHIEFFER: Or what you seem to be saying, or President Bush.
GINGRICH: Well, I think that’s clear.
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This country needs a Truth And Reconciliation Commission, just as in South Africa under Mandela.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:05 pmThe problem Newt, is that if no one on the right is talking about Iraq,Katrina and the gazillion other messes teh Bush Regime made, they won’t just go away.
You have to propose viable solutions to very real realities that face this nation.
I don’t want any person elected to President who ignores reality ever again. We already see, all too well, exactly where that has landed us.
If you say nothing, we’ll think you DON’T have a solution. So, by all means, do that.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:06 pmThat’s right we wouldn’t want discussed Chimpy’s legacy :
FAILURE AT EVERY TURN!
May 6th, 2007 at 1:06 pmDon’t talk about them but the DNC had better be.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:12 pmAggresive oversight?
Paaaaaalease.
We want you to come answer some questions… those answers seem implausible, we’d like you to come answer some more questions… those answers seem implausible, we’d like you to come answer some more questions…
We’d like for you to testify, No?… Well we’ll indict…you won’t show? well, well…. we’ll offer partial immunity, what, you don’t care?…
Ohhhh we’ll give you such a pinch!
GROW A PAIR, LETS MOVE IT ALONG, AMERICANS NEED RELIEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 6th, 2007 at 1:13 pmLet me translate for Newt “Liberals are bringing up situations that were unpopular to win the next round of elections rather than trying to help these issues so Conservatives should keep working on the solutions rather than lowering themselves.”
May 6th, 2007 at 1:17 pm“I don’t want to talk about all the major problems facing America today. But I have a solution to all these problems. Trust me.”
Oh yeah, that’ll work.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:18 pmOld Newt!!!! One of the founding members of the neocon movement that made George Bush the “current fact” that he is.
And my “values” are that we take care of the people who have served this country, even when they were made to do so by people who didn’t value their sacrifice.
My “values” are that this country takes care of its own, such as the victims of Katrina and 911. Not make empty promises that are never kept.
My “values” are that our justice system is based on laws and NOT partisan politics.
My “values” are that we do not run up this country’s debts in order to bankrupt the government because the rich old white republicans don’t believe that the United States government is supposed to be FOR the people!!!
My “values” are that corporations that are priviledged enough to work in this country should have to pay their fair share of the taxes in this country and not get tax breaks to send jobs overseas!!!!
My “values” are not hatred, division, derision, greed, lying and manipulation.
The republicans know NOTHING about “my values” and they have NOTHING for me or this country!!!!
Newt should also have exhorted his fellow republicans to drop “republican” from their campaigns completely, just like they did in 2006.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:18 pmAssertion is premised on a error. Such an assertion and dialogue would require a spine, ideas, and doesn’t discuss boys kissing. DOOMED TO FAIL.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:20 pmNewton, Newton, Newton why don’t you just go find yourself another girlfriend and leave the grown ups to work on real issues.
Unlike you, the voters would prefer to address real issues instead of running away from our problems like you run from wives with cancer, loser.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:21 pmThere are consequences when you place all your eggs in a basket of a dry drunk AWOL male cheerleader with a criminal record. These a$$clowns are banished to the desert for the next generation.
So impotent
So incompetent
So irrelevent
Teach us more Mr. Divorce papers while ill wife is hospitalized. Your a beacon of integrity and ethics.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:23 pmThen what’s left, Newt?
Wait, wait, I know - Clinton Did It!
May 6th, 2007 at 1:24 pm“And whatever you do, don’t talk about me!”
May 6th, 2007 at 1:26 pm(Newt)
The premise of the “Bush problem” is disingenuous and off the mark. It puts the focus of blame entirely on Bush and his administration, and conveniently gives the republicans a pass on any sense of responsiblity for rubber-stamping every Bush policy.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:28 pmbrand,
It worked for Nixon and his “secret plan” to get us out of Vietnam. That was his campaign promise. There was no secret plan. He won the Presidency. Americans are sheep.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:28 pmEscaping realities on the ground,replacing them with fantacies..while the budget is drained and the death & wounded toll is increasing. So, if you don’t speak about Iraq,economy,Katrina,Bush, what is there left to talk to speak about ?!! empty words like ‘Family Values’…’ We are the Party of Ideas”..etc…
May 6th, 2007 at 1:28 pmI propose the Chickenhawk’s be tatooed on their forhead with their party symbol so we do not have to waste our time and energy with their revisionism.
This is my proposed tatoo:
May 6th, 2007 at 1:31 pmhttp://pic1.picturetrail.com/ VOL1140/ 4610934/ 10953401/ 250734931.jpg
Reminds me of the three chimps; see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. That is some platform to run on. So where is the leadership in that?
May 6th, 2007 at 1:32 pmThus lay the cause and outcome of the terminal matastasized dying idealogy of the Rape-Public-Cans
1. Style over substance
2. Jingolism and language trump policies
3. Party before Nation
4. Embrace and enable industrial complex
5. Derision and Fear are the only staples that need to be fed.
6. Lead with Straussian’s.
Very effective in the short term. Fatal in time.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:36 pmNewt, great idea! Of course that means that you have to repudiate all those so-called ’solutions’ that W tried–privatizing social security, pre-emptive war, gutting environmental legislation, suspending habeas corpus, torture, secret rendition, earmarks, tax cuts for the rich–sweep those off the table and you’ll have a new, revitalized Republican Party! Love to see it!
Of course, if you trot out those same repulsie ideas and say “I’ll make them work because I’m not a dope like W”—-mmmm, not so much.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:39 pmWhat Gingrich is saying is that, if a subject has no political gains,try to avoid it…So, it is all about politics and getting the votes and not the issues.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:39 pmReminds me of the three chimps; see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil.
I must have missed the “speak no evil” part, because they have been doing just that since 9/11. But their brand of “speaking evil” is to label those who disagree evil - or in league with the truly evil.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:40 pmTenet shits on the Chymp.Gingrich shits on the Chymp.What a lack of respect!
May 6th, 2007 at 1:41 pmNewt should have also mentioned that conservatives should stay away from other subjects like infidelity, supporting a rule of law, corruption, competence, etc.
Doesn’t leave much except to fear, does it ?
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May 6th, 2007 at 1:41 pmNewt is living proof of Logan’s Law: the dumber the right-winger, the smarter he thinks he is.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:42 pmThey should probably lay off Bin Laden as well.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:45 pmGingrich is right. If they lie loudly enough and often enough, the Great American Booboisie will forget everything and vote for them again. Betcha they can even come back by the ‘08 elections by distracting us from what went on 1994-2006. It’s worked before, lots of times.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:46 pmWhy anyone gives that guy air time is a puzzle. This is a man with no ethics or morals - a man who still believes he can influence this party because newsmen continue to interview him. All Newt has is one ginormous ego and a mouth to match. He is empty, he is a void. He should have been shunned into oblivion, but the repugs cannot recognize a phony when they see one.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:51 pm“Ah, yes. Nothing quite spells out party diversity and economic equality for Middle America like ten wealthy, middle-aged and elderly white chickenhawk xenophobes championing one of the biggest frauds in American history.”
I think they’d already gotten that part of the memo about Bush, Speaker Grinch.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:52 pmLet’s not talk about ethics or the “Contract with America” or K street, either, huh Newt?
May 6th, 2007 at 1:53 pm. . . other than that, how was your trip to Dallas, Mrs. Kennedy?
May 6th, 2007 at 1:55 pmHah! Good luck with that, Republicans. Norm Coleman, start looking for a new career.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:57 pmTime for another Contract for America. This one essentially stipulating what republicans won’t do if elected. Too bad a 28% republican base isn’t going to be electing anyone in the near future. The midterms are going to be a blood-bath for conservatives.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:58 pmI meant ‘08, not midterms - sorry for the brainfart.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:59 pmI can’t wait to cast my vote against Norm Coleman. The GOP will flood Minnesota with cash to thry to save Norm’s seat (Wellstone’s former seat), but it will be money wasted because a space shuttle can’t get “Rubberstamp” Norm Coleman far enough away from Bush. Any day now we should start seeing the Coleman “I embrace MN values” bullshit. MN values aren’t war, death, debt, and GOP scandal.
May 6th, 2007 at 2:01 pmGreat American Booboisie
Comment by Decent American
Fantastic.
You made my study break, decent American!
May 6th, 2007 at 2:02 pmmove along… nothing to see here. The Rethug mantra
May 6th, 2007 at 2:03 pmdon’t talk about all the things the gop (not bush alone) has done for the past 6 years because that is just a ‘current fact’. But, let us invoke reagan, from a generation ago, over and over.
May 6th, 2007 at 2:09 pmBush is much more than current fact, Newtie. He is our current lethal liability. By contrast, you, Sir Salamander, are old news. Perhaps just as lethal given the opportunity, but you won’t ever have that opportunity, slimeball. Nobody buys your crap, not even your own family. Couldn’t you find a bubbling witch’s cauldron to plunk your rotten carcass into?
The good news is now even the so-called journalists in mainstream media who lack the imagination and curiousity of a common turnip won’t have any excuse as to which questions to ask the Republicans they interview.
So if they don’t ask, we need to ride their ass until they do.
May 6th, 2007 at 2:27 pmNot that I am a Gingrich fan, but you misheard what he said. He did not say, “have to say, this is not what we want to debate. It’s not in Baghdad…” Rather, he said, “have to say, this is not where we wanted to be. It’s not in Baghdad…”
May 6th, 2007 at 2:37 pmJust keep talking about Reagan…and let’s see where this will take us,but don’t talk about Iraq, the economy, Katrina or Social Security..with some help from Evangelicals…we hope we’ll surface again…with another ‘Contract with America’…spiced with ‘Family Values’…
May 6th, 2007 at 2:45 pm12 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq attacks - 3 minutes ago Yahoo Home Page
BAGHDAD - A roadside explosion outside the Iraqi capital on Sunday killed six American soldiers and a journalist, the military said, among 12 U.S. deaths reported on a day when two car bombs killed at least 44 Iraqis at a Baghdad market and a police headquarters.
Also Afghan soldier kills 2 U.S. troops Yahoo page also
May 6th, 2007 at 2:50 pmSo Gingrich doesn’t want to talk about Bush’s Iraq war! Gingrich was appointed to the Defense Policy Board, an advisory panel headed by Richard Perle. He was a wholehearted supporter of toppling Saddam, and an advocate of Rumsfeld’s military transformation.
May 6th, 2007 at 2:58 pmIt’s like a cook complaining about the food.
Newt needs to go crawl back under the rock he came out from under. That the republic-CON men have trotted him out (along with Reagan) shows how desperate they are. I’m a native Georgian (please don’t hold it against me - we’re not all as stupid as you might think and Newt hopes) I’ve watched this guy for 15 yrs. He firmly believes he is the stuff, and his ambitions know no limits. I happened to be dining within 10 ft. of him in a restaurant once, and he carries himself in such a way that you would think he expects you to be wowed & humbled by his very presence (gag!).
This is the guy who wrote not the Contract With America, but the Contract ON America. Newt and followers were on a power trip, and a bunch of ignoramuses gave them the credit cards and the keys to the car. Well, we see how that turned out. Time to take ‘em back and mete out some serious punishment. Pitch forks, tar and feathers anyone?
May 6th, 2007 at 3:00 pmMan,it would be nice to see this gas bag of moral corruption just fade-away.Even with his many marriages this joker is still considered credible?
May 6th, 2007 at 3:04 pmShame on CBS who keep bringing this corrupt piece of crap to our air waves.These are the people who are considered leaders ?
It would seem wise for the Democrats to make clear that their purpose in 2008 is not simply to replace George W. Bush - it is to replace the entire Republican cabal that was and is responsible for rubber-stamping policies that damaged America and decimated her image at home and abroad. If a Republican is elected in ‘08, what would keep Republicans from stonewalling every progressive effort made to redress the mess that Bush and his cronies wrought upon the American people? Do we want … do we need … four or eight more years of Republicans running roughshod over America’s freedoms? I THINK NOT!
May 6th, 2007 at 3:08 pmI guess that means he won’t be talking about the fact that the military is on it’s second and third tours (or more), yet there are a whole bunch-o eligible Republicans not serving.
May 6th, 2007 at 3:12 pmLet’s talk about how to serve divorce papers on our spouses while they are recovering from cancer in the hospital.
May 6th, 2007 at 3:28 pmlarge/
May 6th, 2007 at 3:39 pmgourd/
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I find it curious that arrogant, lazy RNC officials will say — after botching the issue — “we don’t want to talk about that.”
Ultimate denial is on the table. The RNC ha sno power to decide who will or will not discuss the issues. What the RNC wants to avoid needs to be shoved in their face: “You messed this up, and have no solution on ther than denial.”
Let future generations know: WHen they had the power, the RNC refused to lead. There is noreason to trust them, or given them more power. They need more of their RNC-affiliated attorneys in jail for refusing to enforce their attorney standards of conduct.
May 6th, 2007 at 3:50 pmDon’t talk about the real issues THE FAILURES RUINING OUR COUNTRY - instead, how to win the presidency. One plan: vote in the least likely Dem candidate in the primary we think will not win…..Barack, we think he can not win as we are truly racist…..
Why are these adulterous family value freaks still on news talk TV? Oh, I forgot, this is neocon corporate owned media still trying to bend ignorant minds to their favor. Anything for their party - screw the country.
May 6th, 2007 at 3:50 pm. . . I find it curious that arrogant, lazy RNC officials will say — after botching the issue — “we don’t want to talk about that.”
Ultimate denial is on the table. The RNC ha sno power to decide who will or will not discuss the issues. What the RNC wants to avoid needs to be shoved in their face: “You messed this up, and have no solution on ther than denial.”
Let future generations know: WHen they had the power, the RNC refused to lead. There is noreason to trust them, or given them more power. They need more of their RNC-affiliated attorneys in jail for refusing to enforce their attorney standards of conduct.
May 6th, 2007 at 3:51 pmneocon please! their best play is NOT to run at all
May 6th, 2007 at 4:02 pmWhy not talk about their past? Would it make people think this could be their future.
May 6th, 2007 at 4:05 pmLet us erase all our short term memories and vote republican!
May 6th, 2007 at 4:31 pmWhat should we talk about? Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Anna Nichole Smith….. Yup, the MSM is ON THE JOB.
May 6th, 2007 at 4:32 pmDoes anyone besides the 28 %ers even listen to this guy? When I see or hear people like DeCay, Inshannity or Limpballs… I change the damn channel. They are all total slime balls who apparently hate America!
May 6th, 2007 at 4:37 pmPerhaps they can speak of censoring science since so many Republicans no longer believe in evolution. Perhaps they can bring up Newt’s old idea of putting poor children with poor parents in orphanges. Perhaps they can speak of the hatred they spew everytime they open their mouths. Perhaps they can speak of the majority of Americans being unpatriotic because they do not agree and are speaking up.
Perhaps Newt will go away quietly into the night. How can we miss you Newt, when you won’t go away?
May 6th, 2007 at 4:56 pmOne of you creative video types should see if you can marry the song “Don’t Speak” by No Doubt to same tasty No WMD, Mushroom Clouds, GOP video / pics et cetera. I wish I could but no skill.
May 6th, 2007 at 4:56 pmGingrich: “Bush is a failure.”
DUH!
May 6th, 2007 at 4:56 pmSomeone with Video editing skill should attempt a video with “Don’t Speak” by No Doubt, coupled with video of WMD’s, Mushroom Clouds, GOPer’s Neocons and the like. Could be funny I think.
May 6th, 2007 at 4:58 pmThis sounds more like “hide/obscure the truth”. Newt, U pussy!
May 6th, 2007 at 5:25 pm#29:
http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/ 2007/ 05/ too-many-kooks-spoil-broth.html
Excellent invective!
“I have a better plan for a better solution that fits your values”
And what could that be? A forced stint at Jesus Camp?
May 6th, 2007 at 5:27 pmBy the way, Conservatives, don’t talk about not talking about any of those things… which we are not to talk about.
May 6th, 2007 at 5:29 pmYour Conscience; the symbol is certainly the right color for these GOP chickenhawks-yellow clear through.
May 6th, 2007 at 5:34 pmyeah, gingrich, you slovenly assclown, that’s like not talking about the pink elephant sitting in the living room with you. enjoy the decline of the waaaahhhhpublican party for the next 15-20 years
May 6th, 2007 at 6:32 pmGood advice fron Newt, now if we could just find some conservatives…..
May 6th, 2007 at 6:58 pmThe Republicans have sold our democracy down the river.
The entire Bush administration (and all their appointees to whatever position) are a virulent Hatch Act violation.
Have the Republicans no shame, no shame at all????
May 6th, 2007 at 8:05 pmGood corporatist dogma: It’s not the company, it’s the management. The Republican don’t see anything wrong with their philosophy, the war, their domestic or foreign policy. No, it’s all the fault of poor management that failed to execute the program correctly.
You know, in other democracies, the Republican Party would be toast. It would collapse and splinter and have to be rebuilt. The Liberal Party of Britain vanished after WWI, The Canadian Progressive Conservative party was reduced to just 2 seats in parliament in 1993.
Indeed, the Republican party was created out of the ashes of the Whig party. It may be that the time for the Republican part to dissolve has come. It can’t make up its mind if it’s a Christian party, a fiscal conservative party, or a corporatist fascist party.
May 6th, 2007 at 8:45 pmSilence is the Republican answer ot everything.
May 6th, 2007 at 8:54 pmNone of the Reps are talking about Iraq, Katrina, and other egregious failures sanctioned by a GOP-dominated Senate.
The GOP debate showed ten white guys in dark suits comepeting for attention. Tancredo and Hunter are obviously clinically insane and unfit to run a Dunkin Donuts. Romney, Giuliani, and McCain, are weathervanes and panderers. They have zero credibility. The rest of the crew are just a bunch of hangers-on.
In other words, the GOP “debate” was about who could be the biggest Neanderthal. And boring Neanderthals they were…
May 6th, 2007 at 9:36 pmRepublicans only talk about unimportant things like gay marriage anyway. What would be different if they took ole Newts suggestion?
May 6th, 2007 at 9:44 pmDon’t mention the War!
May 6th, 2007 at 11:06 pmWell, darn, all your ideas have so totally sucked so far, how could they suck any worst?
Hard to believe the Repukian Mafia is still in power, just so very bad, very, very bad
May 6th, 2007 at 11:49 pm‘
Newt Gingrich in brief:
Nothing happened between 2000 and 2008.
And come election time, trust us.
May 7th, 2007 at 12:30 amHowsabout this? Where the f*ck is OSAMA???
May 7th, 2007 at 12:41 amYeah, Gregor, that is exactly what he is saying. More importantly he is saying just forget about 1994-2002 (or 2004?) when I was in office. I didn’t REALLY mean contract with america.
May 7th, 2007 at 12:43 amNewt is proposing that Republican candidates for president advance “better solutions” than Obama, Clinton, etc., but I thought Republicans don’t believe the federal government should be responsible for the solutions to people’s problems.
Wassup?, Newt !
May 7th, 2007 at 4:48 amYou mean, Mr. Gingrich, that we can talk about presidents…1 thru 40, watch what we say about…41, babble on and on with disgust and horror about …42 and…well…well…”hey, how about this presidential field we’ve got!”
May 7th, 2007 at 8:19 amHey! That solves everthing. LET’S NOT TALK ABOUT IT!
May 7th, 2007 at 9:55 amI see no trolls on this thread. Looks like even they see the truth behind Eye of Newt’s absurd charade.
May 7th, 2007 at 10:05 amThe one topic above all I wish /all/ candidates, no matter what party, would avoid is “faith.”
(The following is how I feel, not necessarily, a la Rush Lim-burger “the way things ought to be” … unlike most ‘cons I don’t ineluctably feel the entire world MUST change to make /me/ more comfortable)
Faith. I hate it when GWB talks about it … I hated it when Kerry felt compelled to mention it. I. Just. Don’t. Care. Keep your bleeping “faith” to yourself. It should remain a personal thing, in my opinion, and I am sick of it being spread all over ALL discussions like some glowing magic peanut butter — it feels like it only pops up for political reasons, to placate worried old folks in Iowa who believe a person’s ability to lead is somehow connected with whether or not s/he is a good churchgoin’ Chrusch’n. Ptui, I say. Treat me like an adult.
May 7th, 2007 at 10:14 amProblem? Performance for the past six years of failed policy and the current state of the nation of which they are responsible.
Solution? A broom, a bit of sweeping, and an unsuspecting rug to toss the debris under.
May 7th, 2007 at 10:58 am#82 - I couldn’t agree more with your statement. It means nothing to me when candidtates say they are people of faith. So what, they behave just as badly as anyone else, maybe more so because they feel it excuses everything they do. Just consider the bush administration as an example.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:18 amI guess Greensburg, KS could be added to the Hush-hush list. If the equipment wasn’t deployed in Iraq, they would have it there to help rescue-recovery efforts.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:44 amthis way conservatives return to their recent ways. talk about what you’re for (fiscal responsibility, smaller gov’t, strong national security), talk even louder about what you’re against (abortion, gay marriage, flag burning, welfare)…
…and only deliver on the latter. they’ve become the party that’s defined not by what they’re for, but what they’re against.
but the larger point here, and something we should all realize, is that bush has been a godsend for progressives. i absolutely loathed the man until about 2004, then i realized, no, this could be a good thing — he really knows no boundaries. he will screw things up so badly for republicans it will take them years to recover. of course i had to balance that against my fear that he was screwing things so badly it will take the entire country decades to recover, but i knew things had to get worse before they could get better. so don’t get me wrong, i still desire a rapid end to this administration!
but the damage to the conservative brand is already done. and here you have it: a respected conservative like newt (yes, it boggles the mind) basically saying “all the problems that are foremost on most americans’ minds, we can’t even talk about.”
conservatives embraced the holy rollers, the chickens have come home to roost, and now all they’ve got left to talk about are hot button issues that only appeal to [perhaps less than] a third of the electorate (just witness last week’s debate).
not exactly a winning formula.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:49 amNewt…you are such a piece of shit!!
May 7th, 2007 at 12:55 pmI have an idea for the final Republican debate:
All the Republican candidates stand smiling, fawning and motionless at their podiums while Peggy Noonan reads aloud from one of her beautiful soliloquys about Ronald Reagan.
Cameras pan to each smiling candidate, occasional tears are seen.
Slow fade out.
Scary, but could they possibly offer anything more?
May 7th, 2007 at 12:56 pmSo, If the repub’s do not talk about those mentioned by Newty, They begin to lie about domestic issues. Try to get re-elected, Turn around, and crap all over the American public again!
It is going to be very sad if we cannot get a veto proof congress if they elect one of the white 10!
May 7th, 2007 at 1:05 pmWhat Newt and the other conservative pundits either don’t understand or refuse to acknowledge is that the GOP has enabled Bush to do all the damage he’s done to our country! They have provided political cover, made excuses, swift boated his critics and voted in his favor time and time again.
America is seething with anger and is PUNISHING the Republican party for being accessories to the criminal presidency of Bush/Cheney.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:08 pmMy comment is that we are screwed and the faster we get rid of Bush/Cheney the better off we will be!! IMPEACH NOW!!!
May 7th, 2007 at 1:34 pmYes, and let us all wish our far-thinking friends in France the best of luck now that they have elected a ‘conservative’ leader.
Wonder what France’s unemployment rate will be like when Sarkozy’s approval ratings are at 28%.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:49 pmHmmmmm. Too bad the DNA tests showed that Larry Birkhead is Anna Nicole’s babydaddy.
That would have been a perfect subject for all those Pukes to talk about.
‘Scuse me, but I have to go throw up now.
May 7th, 2007 at 2:07 pm…in fact, just don’t talk.
May 7th, 2007 at 4:22 pm>Let me translate for Newt:
>“Liberals are bringing up situations that were unpopular..”
Let me translate for you Jake “sitatutions that were unpopular” = “everything Bush has ever done”.
and thats funny, the switboat/purpleheart band-aid crowd complaining about “people doing things just to win elections”.. hahahahah
idiot.
May 7th, 2007 at 4:40 pmChocolate Jesus…does your love of anulingus mean you prefer annulment to divorce? Or is it use of the tongue is grounds for annulment?
Newt was named appropiately: a slimy lizard like amphibian that lives under rocks and in a cave. Mama knows.
May 7th, 2007 at 5:27 pmYeh, but after - and counting - 96 comments from appropriately outraged citizens, the @&% is still COMMANDER. That’s how bad our system needs to be changed.
May 7th, 2007 at 7:30 pm> Chocolate Jesus…does your love of
> anulingus mean you prefer annulment to divorce?
> Or is it use of the tongue is grounds for annulment?
Ask Daryll. He was last seen ogling this statue while his wife was busy whoring herself out….
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May 7th, 2007 at 7:59 pm‘Well, Newt,
Bush policies and failures are just like incestuous child abuse occuring in a dysfunctional, alcoholic, republican family. That is something we just don`t talk about.
The neo-Con pattern of hysterical denial and dysfunction is hilarious.
To paraphrase Anne Wilson Schaeff - today`s neo-Cons are like
a self divinizing Julius Ceaser and Cleopatra.
Republican - neo-con Fooliush Wankers and CLIARPATRA`S, the kinds and queens of De NIAL.
The self righteous, dysfunctional wankers get more ridiculous every day.
May I end by citing a “Perfect Prayer for Perfect People” penned by Kent Doering and Frauke v. Buelow in Munich for people such as
U.S. neo-cons.
“The Perfect Prayer for Perfect People”
“Oh Almighty, do accept,
we`re so perfect and adept.
henceforth let our names be praised,
otherwise all hell be raised.”
After saying that together, program neo-cons can gather around holding hands, raising them up and down to_
“So lie on your back. It squirts if you jerk it. So jerk it, you`re worth it.”
Old Fashioned Liberal
May 8th, 2007 at 7:18 amDear Newt: “Lie on your back. It squirts if you jerk it. So jerk it, you`re worth it.”
May 8th, 2007 at 7:19 amTruth is stranger than fiction, you can’t make this stuff up… Priceless!
May 8th, 2007 at 7:00 pm