Gingrich gripes that Obama doesn’t have an ambassador to Brazil yet (because he’s being blocked by DeMint).
Gingrich gripes that Obama doesn’t have an ambassador to Brazil yet (because he’s being blocked by DeMint).
Earlier this month, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) attempted to block government funding for Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-SC) trip to Honduras as retribution for DeMint’s obstruction of two of Obama’s diplomatic nominations, including Thomas A. Shannon Jr., the nominee to be ambassador to Brazil. But DeMint’s hold is being criticized by a major Republican. At Harvard on Thursday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich decried the lack of an ambassador to Brazil:
“If you want to live in the most productive, creative, and prosperous nation in the world, what is it you have to do?” Gingrich asked. “The answer is to reform litigation, regulation, taxation, health, education, and infrastructure.”
“Bureaucracies just don’t work,” he said. “When you build a bureaucracy, the bureaucracy ages, and the bureaucracy develops self-interest. We still don’t have an ambassador to Brazil, for example, eight months into the new administration.”
Gingrich should direct his ire at DeMint. The South Carolina senator has said that he “will not lift the hold on these nominations until the United States works out an arrangement with the Honduran government to recognize the outcome of the elections in Honduras and restores the U.S. foreign aid that has been cut by the Obama administration.”
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October 10th, 2009 at 11:53 amMay I suggest Darryl? Actually maybe Daryll would be better. Either way…
Losing the ‘Family Values Porn Fan of the Year, 2009,’ has made Newt a bitter, frustrated and very angry man. First Carrie Prejean loses her title and now this. There is a pattern here.
October 10th, 2009 at 11:54 amwhy do we need an ambassador to brazil, so they can formally congratulate them on winning the olympics? gringrich and his anti-american cohorts already did that the day it was announced.
October 10th, 2009 at 11:57 amDemocrats really need to stop talking about calling these hypocrites out and really do it. What are they afraid of? Dems are too nice to these liars; Gingrich and his ilk never let the facts get in the way of the smear.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:00 pm.
Gingrich Gripes That America Needs Another Attack.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5lmje_newt-gingrich-bush-should-allow-rem_news
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October 10th, 2009 at 12:00 pmLook you womenizing as$hole, your stupid jerk friend from South Carolina is blocking his nomination. I guess you were too busy chasing women to know that. Any man who cheats on his wife for his secretary and then married the secretary doesn’t have a leg to stand on. Especially one that did it twice, that’s right his third wife is his third secretary. This idiot must have something for “working girls”, if you know what I mean. Beside Newt, what he hell does “Newt” stand for anyway?
October 10th, 2009 at 12:04 pmI would suggest that someone in the administration holds a news conference about once a week and call out Republican hypocrisy.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:04 pmOh by the way that porn company wants to thank you for the award. Explain that one if you can, Fat Boy!
October 10th, 2009 at 12:05 pmSince when do the facts ever mean anything to these guys lol.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:05 pmUh Newt? I’ve got your brain on line #1.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:05 pmIt said….. STFU!
a washed-up-has-been hypocrite is the voice of the repukelican party? that’s too funny
October 10th, 2009 at 12:05 pm“to recognize the outcome of the elections in Honduras and restores the U.S. foreign aid that has been cut by the Obama administration.”
Iirc, it is because Zelaya WON the last election (in Nov, 2005) in Honduras that Newtie’s Nazi buddies in Tegucigalpa overthrew the legitimate President and installed the corpoRat klown, Micheletti…
October 10th, 2009 at 12:09 pmBrazil is thinking about starting the building of nuclear weapons.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:16 pmOkay if you don’t support Darryl/Daryll, who do you suggest?
October 10th, 2009 at 12:17 pmMurphis spews: he right wing whacko
FIFY
October 10th, 2009 at 12:25 pmIt’s ALMOST laughable what comes out of Newty…if it weren’t that it’s always negative, a lie and does damage to our country.
Come on Newty…tell us that funny story again how you divorced your dying wife in the hospital. Oh come on…do tell!
Don’t forget his Reign of Terror in Congress and the “Contract On America”.
And…BARFO…he has a website. NOTE: there is a Contact button at the bottom of the front page, if you have comments for the Newty.
http://newt.org/
PS…let’s ask about those Porn businesses getting those awards and stuff.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:27 pmMurphis:
October 10th, 2009 at 12:27 pmAre you going for the minimalist approach? I mean your style sucks immensely but yet it has a bizarreness which is almostyet not truely intriguing
Newt wants to send your tax dollars to Honduras.
Figures.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:29 pmShorter New: Contract with Honduras
October 10th, 2009 at 12:30 pmWhen, as a Tyke sharing a room w/my older sister. I would wake up sometimes in the night, and I swear her lifesize doll was coming after me!
What do you suppose that means?
NM, retract the above.
/s
October 10th, 2009 at 12:30 pmWhy isn’t Jim “TRAITOR” DeMint still a free man? Shouldn’t he be in prison after his trip to Honduras?
October 10th, 2009 at 12:37 pmSorry that should hane been Why is Jim…
October 10th, 2009 at 12:37 pmI gather that this ‘tripartisanship’ business is Gingrich’s way of reaching out to the Independents. Very interesting.
I’m all for his push for more emphasis on math and science in schools. Technological innovation is obviously going to be very much needed in the future and it would be nice if this country was at the forefront of that.
I wonder, though, if it’s not just another attempt to steer government money to charter schools.
Gingrich’s group (The Education Equality Project) used the issue of global competitiveness to galvanize support for policies, including alternative pay for teachers and rigorous curricula benchmarked against international standards.
“Alternative pay” for teachers? What? Any group that includes the likes of Jeb Bush and Gingrich makes me very sceptical.
Per Jeb Bush’s speech on behalf of this group the other day:
To make the system truly student centric, we would need to change how we fund education. We would fund achievement – not attendance. We would pay per credit hour upon completion. That would create the incentive for system to ensure each individual student learns.
Finally, we would give parents a choice and a voice in where their children go to school, arming them with quality information and requiring their engagement.
Call it a scholarship, call it a grant, call it a voucher, call it whatever you want.
I call it more government money being funneled to private entities who hire non-union teachers and even displace traditional school students from their facilities.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:45 pmGrinchrich would love to do ANYTHING that would present him as being relevant. Without Bill Clinton to take jabs at, Newt is just another leg-humping GOP toady.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:45 pmThis seems like more nonsense. When is someone in the Administration going to step up and make an issue of all of these nominees who haven’t been confirmed yet?
Today is the 273rd day since the inauguration. How many of these nominees are still awaiting even a vote on nomination? Here are a couple: Dawn Johnson in the Justice Department and Regina Benjamin as the Surgeon General.
It is time for some backbone and cojones from someone in the White House and from the Senate Majority Leader. I know this is a lot to ask for an administration and majority party but still.
GROW A PAIR!!!!!
October 10th, 2009 at 12:49 pmCan someone anyone just tell me who are the leaders of the opposition party? Is Newt one of the leaders? He sure must appeal to the next generation of voters….
October 10th, 2009 at 12:49 pmShorter Newtie — “Gingrich Gripes”. This has-been isn’t even as significant as a fart in a windstorm. Just like KKKarl Roverboy and Johnny “Got Milk?” Bolton. Yet somehow their constant bleating and p*ssing and moaning makes its way onto the airwaves and blogosphere.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:50 pmNewt Jingorich
October 10th, 2009 at 12:55 pmEducation Equality Project.
Seriously, what a load of hooey hides behind the feel good jingoism [hidden agenda]
Newt is about as interested in educational equality as Lush BlimpBlob
October 10th, 2009 at 1:00 pmNewt: “If you want to live in the most productive, creative, and prosperous nation in the world, what is it you have to do?” Gingrich asked. “The answer is to reform litigation, regulation, taxation, health, education, and infrastructure.”
Newt’s party enacted “reform” in each of these areas and the result was the mess we have now.
so a) is Newt admitting that HIS party screwed everything up?
or b)is he just spouting vague words to make him seem relevant?
It’s b).
October 10th, 2009 at 1:01 pmNope, it’s not b)
ooops scratch that “it’s not b)”
October 10th, 2009 at 1:01 pmI can’t get over the effort Newt puts forth to appear relevant.
October 10th, 2009 at 1:07 pmThis comment of Newt’s begs the question of relevancy.
The day is approaching when Newt and his Party realize their irrelevancy.
The revelation they are not worthy of governing.
We can only hope.
One vengeful, stubborn Senator can block an appointment?
Where is the Democratic party – why don’t the American people know of these more under-cover sabotage opertions by the minority party?
October 10th, 2009 at 1:10 pmInstead, we have to endure the criticism by the opportunist, Gingrich, and who is there to tell the facts?
Xisithrus says:
Education Equality Project.
Seriously, what a load of hooey hides behind the feel good jingoism [hidden agenda]
I agree. Their plans makes me worry that more taxpayer money gets handed to privately-run schools who can siphon off the better students, pay teachers less and leave the public school system with less budget to educate the more challenging students.
How about we dump the un-funded ‘no child left behind’ and put more money in public schools with a greater emphasis on math and science? Do we really have to totally overhaul the entire system to achieve that?
October 10th, 2009 at 1:17 pmWhen congress takes its next break – can Obama make recess appointments for these open positions? He can have the press secretary explain why there are so many seats to fill in this way: the repugs are obstructing good government.
October 10th, 2009 at 1:17 pmSo when is Harry Reid going to require his quid-pro-quo for allowing DeMento his government aircraft for his Honduras excursion? DeMento is holding up an ambassadorial appointment? He fracking ought to release his hold. No fracking freebies for DeMento.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:05 pmSomething ironic just occurred to me.
Gingrich is complaining about no U.S. ambassador in Brazil while DeMint is blocking said ambassador’s appointment until U.S. recognizes coup leaders’ in Honduras, where the legitimately elected, ousted, leader Zelaya has taken refuge in the Brazilian embassy!
Meanwhile, in Honduras, the military has erected a platform in front of the Brazilian embassy to intimidate them and now snipers are on the platform with guns trained on the embassy.
I guess they’re trying to encourage those ‘talks’ along…
October 10th, 2009 at 2:06 pmginslinger says:
For cripes sakes Matt, you have the White House the Senate and the House! Just get your stuff done.
Is that why Nancy Pelosi has passed every bill she’s introduced? Too bad the Senate has filibusters that let the party of “no” block legislation isn’t it sport? ;)
ginslinger says:
When Reagan and Bush got their agenda through it was the nasty Republicans fault. When Clinton and Obama can’t get things done it’s the nasty Republicans fault. I think I detect a pattern emerging.
What, that Republicans are obstructionists and the Democrats aren’t? Oh wait, you’re stupid. I’m sure you had some ridiculous claim to make instead. Go ahead little one. Say something else stupid… ;)
October 10th, 2009 at 2:07 pmmary lacewing says:
I guess they’re trying to encourage those ‘talks’ along…
Of course they are. Demented and the GOP are intentionally undermining the Commander in Chief and our foreign policy. Because they want to protect their business interests, and always prefer a “fascist coup” over a popular elected government. It’s the same reason they’re all talking about a coup here. Republicans hate Democracy, because Democracy brings the will of the people and not their own stupid personal greed into the picture.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:10 pm@ 6. The Shadow says: … Beside Newt, what he hell does “Newt” stand for anyway? October 10th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
It’s from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”; the three witches are doing a bit of prognostication over a cauldron (kettle) which is boiling up a bit of a potion, and one makes a recipe remark which starts with “Eye of newt…” (classical snarkery)
Newts are related to salamanders.
But in Greengrinch’s case, it’s probably short for Newton. Salamander-type newt is probably closer to the mark, but why insult a simple woodland creature by calling it by the nickname of a shitbird politician?
October 10th, 2009 at 2:13 pmIt’s because they are partisan hacks who excluded the dems from the process.
Now republicans are actually being exposed to bi-partisanship and they respond with raw partisanship.
There is your pattern.
It is the republicans fault.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:21 pmDeMint’s acts are not only treasonous, but also irresponsible. What a pig.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:26 pmObstruct, complain and hope America fails should be the motto of the GNOP.
A rightie radio talk show host fill in made the following comments last night:
* What they are doing is not working
* they need to stop trying to appease the liberals, Hispanics, blacks….
* A strong leader needs to emerge and begin slamming the left concerning the budget.
So, I take it, even Gingrich is not considered a leader and our budget, a budget Bush ran into the ground should be a topic for their gain?
October 10th, 2009 at 2:32 pmginslinger says:
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For cripes sakes Matt, you have the White House the Senate and the House! Just get your stuff done.
When Reagan and Bush got their agenda through it was the nasty Republicans fault. When Clinton and Obama can’t get things done it’s the nasty Republicans fault. I think I detect a pattern emerging.
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ginslinger,
I hate to admit but point well taken. With that said, Republican methodology leaves a lot to be desired.
The “issue push” is overdue and President Obama must assume the leadership roll for his appointees.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:38 pmNo matter what Newtered says today will be different on FAUX tomorrow.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:49 pmginslinger says @ 39
Your mindset along with all the other goppers is cruel and anti American. Obstruct then blame is the way to a failed government not to mention a real mind teaser.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:50 pma list compiled of those participating in the obstruct then blame would be a great campaign ad.
October 10th, 2009 at 3:01 pmI would suggest Alan Grayson as a point man to beat the Republicans over the head. Yesterday, he gave a second speech about health care in the House and blistered the Republicans and the conservaDems. Grayson berated them for obstructing the bill. If you missed it on MSNBC here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ery7RZ4tZ2Y
October 10th, 2009 at 3:03 pmName Letterman ambassador to Brazil. He needs a change of venue to keep up with his antics.
October 10th, 2009 at 3:21 pmYour advice falls on deaf ears. You are an utter failure. Why should anyone listen to you?
October 10th, 2009 at 3:26 pmGingrich said, “When you build a bureaucracy, the bureaucracy ages, and the bureaucracy develops self-interest.”
DeMint said, …that he “will not lift the hold on these nominations until the United States works out an arrangement with the Honduran government to recognize the outcome of the elections in Honduras and restores the U.S. foreign aid that has been cut by the Obama administration.”
So DeMint has actually become the bureaucracy that Gingrich now condemns.
Thanks, Newt, for pointing this out, and thanks, Jim, for illustrating it so very well.
October 10th, 2009 at 3:28 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Perhaps Mark Sanford would like the ambassadorship to Brazil – right next door to you know who.
October 10th, 2009 at 3:43 pmGingrich identified the key areas as: “The answer is to reform litigation, regulation, taxation, health, education, and infrastructure.”
So why is he decrying not having an amabassodor to Brazil as it does nothing about his key areas ?
Typical repub attack – like slinging you know what at the fan with the idea that something will stick.
October 10th, 2009 at 3:45 pmkwsventures says:
Freddy, you must of read my take in order to comment. Hee Hee Freddy.
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Just out of curiosity, what does “must of read” mean?
October 10th, 2009 at 4:21 pmThe Neo-Confedrates strike again.
There’s something about anti- America, pro-sedition traitors that I just can’t stand.
October 10th, 2009 at 4:22 pmkwsventures says:
Name Letterman ambassador to Brazil. He needs a change of venue to keep up with his antics.
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Curious… why is this comment even supposed to make sense?
October 10th, 2009 at 4:22 pmkwsventures:
must HAVE — not the illiterate must “of”
Go home now and study your 4th grade grammar.
October 10th, 2009 at 4:23 pmMarie says:
Go home now and study your 4th grade grammar.
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Careful, Marie… we don’t want to antagonize kws too mcuh… he might get upset and call us morans or idiets…
October 10th, 2009 at 4:27 pmHow many other Senators are openly for sale to foreign governments. It’s fine to want to help Honduras, but on what basis does that justify sabotaging US diplomacy in the much more significant Brazil?
October 10th, 2009 at 4:29 pmBullsmith says:
How many other Senators are openly for sale to foreign governments. It’s fine to want to help Honduras, but on what basis does that justify sabotaging US diplomacy in the much more significant Brazil?
I did a little digging to see what Neil Bush has been up to these days and found out that, in honor of the Main Moonie’s new autobiography that just came out, Bush 41 sent out Neil last Thursday to congratulate him:
There was some speechifying from Liberian Ambassador Milton Nathaniel Barnes and Washington’s the Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy, plus written congratulatory greetings from Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent; former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, and former President George H.W. Bush – handwritten and hand-delivered by his son Neil Bush.
“Let us both keep working for a more peaceful world,” the former president wrote, the image of his letter flashed on screens looming over the crowd at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington.
“Rev. Moon is presenting a very simple concept. We are all children of God,” the younger Mr. Bush told the 1,300-plus audience spread across three ballrooms and plied with beef, baby vegetables and delicate chocolate pastries.
October 10th, 2009 at 4:43 pmBut, as far as Brazil goes, the reality is that we could really use a first-rate ambassador there right now!
In the past few years, Lula has systematically expanded Brazil’s influence abroad. He has sought allies to support Brazil’s bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, upgraded the country’s outdated armed forces and fueled a new nationalism at home. He has formed alliances with China, India and South Africa.
Considering that Gingrich is worried about China and India these days I guess that’s why he brought up the lack of an ambassador in Brazil.
October 10th, 2009 at 4:47 pmAnd just because you hear someone doesn’t mean they are relevant. Children make noise all the time. That doesn’t mean they are saying anything. Just like our childish troll.
October 10th, 2009 at 4:57 pmkwsventures says:
Freddy, you must of read my take in order to comment. Hee Hee Freddy.
Do you mean “must have read”? You inbreds are so illiterate and uninformed it’s hard to decode your rube ramblings… ZZZzzz…
October 10th, 2009 at 5:47 pmkwsventures says:
Name Letterman ambassador to Brazil. He needs a change of venue to keep up with his antics.
If you want someone with “antics”, how about the Presidential hopeful and current governor of South Carolina? Or maybe the “dysfunctional” Palin clan? The GOP laughing about “antics” is like nascar fans lecturing others on not having “class”! LOL! ;)
October 10th, 2009 at 5:49 pmNewt define buffoon Could this man be anymore of a caricature of a man in over his head in world affairs. Just when the think the biggest fool on the right is Caribou Barbie ,along comes Newt
October 10th, 2009 at 5:59 pmLetteman? No. Sandford? Yes!
October 10th, 2009 at 6:24 pmI don’t quite get why slimyventures is trying to link Letterman with Newt on every thread. Letterman is not a politician trying to make a big comeback, nor did he try to get Clinton impeached while cheating on his (second) wife with his secretary.
October 10th, 2009 at 6:32 pmI suspect that Demint supports the coup regime in Honduras because he thinks a military coup is a good way to solve the problem of a democratically elected president who’s not far enough to the right politically for him. He’d probably like to see it happen in the U.S., like that wingnut at Newsmax suggested. I’ll bet a lot of the other Republican loonytoons in Congress feel the same way.
October 10th, 2009 at 7:16 pmLet me see if I have this straight…
….the right wing hates the Olympics, hates our black President, is against the Nobel Peace prize, hates everything American, but…
LOVES BRAZIL?
October 10th, 2009 at 8:14 pm“Gingrich gripes that Obama doesn’t have an ambassador to Brazil yet (because he’s being blocked by DeMint).”
Gawd, King Solomon Newt has nothing else to do but to bellyache about anything Obama doesn’t do or have. Doesn’t this human submarine sandwich have a job? Oops, my bad, he used to be the Speaker of the House.
October 10th, 2009 at 9:20 pm@ 74. KayInMaine says: Let me see if I have this straight… .the right wing hates the Olympics, hates our black President, is against the Nobel Peace prize, hates everything American, but… LOVES BRAZIL? October 10th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Ah. Well. No. They don’t like Brasil either. Stentor Demento is blocking President Obama’s nomination for ambassador to Brazil. Stentor Demento loves … Honduras (yes, you guessed right, er, correctly), and I’d think the rest of the Stentors are following him around. The Republipimp ones, anyway.
Note: Trolls, don’t bug me about Stentor. It is not a misspelling of senator or a mistitling of a senator. I wrote stentor and that is what I meant. Stentor is a latinate word, just as senator is. Stentors were men with loud voices who served as town ‘criers’, which is not the same thing as a town whiner. Town whiner is what trolls are, but a town crier was the equivalent of a news reader, except he bellowed the news and gossip from memory, not from a crib sheet. The word in English essentially means someone with an overpowering bellow. The first time I heard it used was in relation to the late Senator Everett Dirksen, who was said to be stentorian in his speech; you could hear him a mile away.
October 10th, 2009 at 9:39 pmNever elect another “conservative.”
Duh…
October 10th, 2009 at 10:47 pm@ 77. The Moderate Squad says: “If you want to live in the most productive, creative, and prosperous nation in the world, what is it you have to do?” Gingrich asked. Never elect another “conservative.” Duh…
October 10th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Eh, maybe. I think ya gotta let one in every now and then, preferably into the House, where the damage it can do is diluted. We have to have a real conservative that can be pointed out to children and idiots; people need a real example of what not to do. A mythical creature won’t do.
October 11th, 2009 at 2:23 amMurphis
Kill yourself you ignorant PUNK
October 11th, 2009 at 8:36 amDr Venture
Just STFU. You are nothing but a particularly STUPID moron making a fool out of yourself
October 11th, 2009 at 8:37 amFor the millionth time a Republican blames Democrats for the fact that Republicans are idiots.
October 11th, 2009 at 3:15 pmThe Republic of Stupidity says:
Marie says:
Go home now and study your 4th grade grammar.
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Careful, Marie… we don’t want to antagonize kws too mcuh… he might get upset and call us morans or idiets…
I don’t do that stuff. I leave the personal insults to the communist Debs.
October 11th, 2009 at 8:25 pmDr Venture.
You are a liar and a punk. You are a disgusting pile of dogshit. You are a troll. You are only here to annoy us and screw with us. Your passive aggressive BS is NOT hidden by your mask of false civility. It is on display. You spew contempt for us with every post you make. The only difference between us is I am HONEST with my hostility. You are so stupid you think you are being clever. You are only pathetic
October 11th, 2009 at 10:32 pmHis schtick for years has been “government doesn’t work.” And his entire political career was given over to that proposition. burun estetigi
October 17th, 2009 at 3:59 amThank you for your sharing.!
October 17th, 2009 at 10:50 am