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Because one fence just isn’t enough

01 Dec

Because one big, long expensive fence just isn’t enough, Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential hopeful Newton Leroy Gingrich has signed yet another pledge, but this time it’s a pledge to build a double fence along the entirety of the southern border of the United States. That’s right folks, because nothing says national security more than not one, but two fences along your boarder.

According to the Huffington Post, Newton – also known as “Stay Puff” – promised in the Americans for Border Security pledge to construct a complete double border fence between the United States and Mexico by the end of 2013, should he become president, joining Michele “Krazy” Bachmann as the second GOTP candidate to sign on.

“The United States must control its border. It is a national security imperative,” Stay Puff’s campaign website reads. “Every nation has the right to control its border. Historically, every country that has been determined to control their border has been able to do so. Controlling the border is a matter of resources and will.”

Reportedly, nearly all of the major GOTP presidential candidates have called for a fence along the southern border, with the exception of the Reverend Rick Perry, who’s said it would be too expensive to build and maintain. Continuing upkeep of the current border fence, without additional fencing, will cost an estimated $6.5 billion between 2009 and 2019, according to a 2009 report from the Government Accountability Office.

With his signature on one more pledge the question persists as to whom the GOTP candidates will answer to if elected, the American people and the Constitution to which they swear an oath, or to those who’ve gotten them to “pledge”? Wherein does their honor rest?  To their country and its best interest, or the special interests they’ve sworn their allegiance to?

 
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Posted by on December 1, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Child labor laws ‘truly stupid’?

01 Dec

Promising “extraordinarily radical proposals to fundamentally change the culture of poverty in America,” Newton Leroy Gingrich, aka “Stay Puffed” said recently that he’d fire all the school janitors and pay students to clean schools instead.

Speaking at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Republican Tea Party (GOTP) come from behind presidential candidate is challenging laws preventing children from working certain jobs before their mid-teens.

Newton’s blaming “the core policies of protecting unionization and bureaucratization” for “crippling” children.

“It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in, first of all, in child laws, which are truly stupid,” he said.

”I tried for years to have a very simple model,” he continued. “Most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the school. The kids would actually do work, they would have cash, they’d have pride in the schools, they’d begin the process of rising.”

What sort of union does Stay Puffed imagine that school janitors belong to, the United Brotherhood of School Sanitation Workers United?

Newton is not a man of the people, he’s every bit as much a man of the wealthy classes in this country as Mittens Romney is. He wants to do away with child labor laws so companies can put kids to work for far less pay, and with no troublesome restrictions, this one will come back to haunt him and to bite him in the butt.

 
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Posted by on December 1, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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$60,000 per speech?

29 Nov

According to the Associated Press (AP) Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential frontrunner Newton “Stay Puffed” Gingrich says he didn’t need to be a lobbyist after his congressional career because he was paid $6ok a pop to give speeches; in fact Newton has bilked his devoted followers of millions of dollars.

While talking with South Carolina voters at a shopping center Stay Puffed confronted the on-going suggestion he sought to turn his tenure as the House’s top Republican into a role of for-hire powerbroker.

“I did no lobbying of any kind – period,” Gingrich said. “I’m going to be really direct, OK? I was charging $60,000 a speech. And the number of speeches was going up, not down. Normally, celebrities leave and they gradually sell fewer speeches every year. We were selling more.”

Make to remember this line, “I did no lobbying of any kind – period,” because it smacks of, “I did not have sex with the woman,” and now that he’s the alpha male of the campaign the others are going to start digging and seeing if he’s telling the truth, and if he’s not, he’ll plummet from first place the same way Reverend Perry and Pizza Man Cain have so recently done.

The legal definition of lobbying is fairly narrow, encompassing only those who directly contact members of Congress or executive branch officials in an attempt to influence them. Many ex-lawmakers decline to do that kind of work, but instead offer their advice to groups that do lobby, as Gingrich did in the case of Freddie Mac.

Gingrich has been paid huge sums over the past decade by the mortgage giant, an institution roundly criticized by Republican Tea Partistas, and one of which Newton himself criticized President Obama in 2008 for accepting contributions from executives of Freddie Mac and its larger sister institution, Fannie Mae, and said the Democrat should give the money back.

When asked about his “salary” from Freddie and Fannie, Stay Puffed has dismissed any speculations of lobbying saying he gave “strategic advice for a long period of time.” A person familiar with the Freddie Mac consulting contracts said they paid at least $1.6 million from 1999 to early 2008. The person spoke on condition of anonymity in order address a personnel matter.

Newton has claimed over-and-over that he was a “historian” for the organization; a story that doesn’t ring true for most of us. First, exactly why does a mortgage company need a historian; and second, why hire a mediocre one like Gingrich? Things aren’t ringing true on the lobbying issue and Newton Leroy had better hope he’s better at cover-ups than Cain was.

 
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Posted by on November 29, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Mittens mews back?

28 Nov

"I firmly support a woman's right to decide!"

According to the Associated Press (AP), Republican Tea Party (GOTP) perpetual presidential bridesmaid Mittens Romney is fighting back against a Democratic National Committee (DNC) commercial that portrays him as a flip-flopper; it’s the first time Mittens has mewed about what many see as his biggest political liability.

The Romney camp threw together a hasty defense, arranging for supporters to hold conference calls with reporters in an attempt to combat the ad which highlights Mitten’s changed positions on abortion, immigration, guns and other issues.

"I firmly support overturning Roe v Wade"!

But Mittens isn’t just getting bashed by the DNC, fellow GOTP candidate Newton “Stay Puffed” Gingrich, who just won an important endorsement in New Hampshire, told a South Carolina radio audience “it’s wrong to go around and adopt radically different positions based on your need of any one election.” Finally, a GOTP contender is attacking his primary opponents!

Unlike Mitten’s recent ad where he took a remark the President made in 2008 quoting his opponent John McCain and editing it to sound as though it were today and the President was referring to himself, the DNC ad simply takes statements Romney has made and then flipped on.

"I'm an Independent who never supported Reagan/Bush!"

If nothing else, the urgency of Mittens campaign’s reaction to the Democratic ad suggested he sees the flip-flop accusations as serious, and a wound that could prove mortal to his aspirations to be president.

The DNC launched its multi-state attack, portraying Romney as a politician in conflict with himself. The TV ad’s airing in the battleground states of North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and New Mexico. Democrats also held events in Iowa, Florida, Michigan, Maryland and Massachusetts calling attention to a longer and more detailed version of the criticisms on the website mittvmitt.com.

"No wait, I'm a Republican who thinks Ronald Reagan is the most awesomest thing ever!"

The video calls Romney “an unparalleled flip-flopper.” It shows two late-night comedians mocking his sincerity and three Fox News reporters seeming to question Romney’s authenticity.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, Newton said he’s “a lot more conservative than Mitt Romney.” In response to a question about Romney’s eagerness to be elected, Gingrich said: “I wouldn’t switch my positions for political reasons. It’s perfectly reasonable to change your position if facts change. If you see new things you didn’t see – everybody’s done that, Ronald Reagan did that. It’s wrong to go around and adopt radically different positions based on your need of any one election. Then people will have to ask themselves, `What will you tell me next time?'”

Newton is 100% spot on with his appraisal of Mittens; if you can’t hold on to any core values as a candidate, it’s a perfectly reasonable question for the electorate to ask, “What will you tell me next time?”

Don’t get me wrong, Newton’s as loathsome an individual as the GOTP could ever hope to nominate, he’s the Gollum of the race with his sexual liaisons and extramarital affairs and his excuse that only he committed them because of his “great love for his country”; Newton is just as unelectable as Romney, but getting shellacked by the President will at last drive him from the national spot light.”Which way is the wind blowing right now”?

 
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Posted by on November 28, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Romney’s ‘Perfect’ President for the 19th Century?

28 Nov

New Hampshire’s largest newspaper, the Union Leader, has announced Sunday it’s endorsing Newton “Stay Puffed” Gingrich in the 2012 Republican Tea Party (GOTP) primary race. This of course comes as a near devastating blow to fellow GOTP presidential candidate Mittens Romney.

Union Leader editorial page editor Andrew Cline said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that Romney’s a “very play-it-safe candidate” which is not what America needs right now. “Perhaps in the late 19th century, perfect.”

“He doesn’t want to offend anybody, he wants to be liked, he wants to try to reach out and be very safe,” said Cline. “And that’s not very realistic, but imagine what that would be like as president.”

The paper had narrowed down its choices to Gingrich and Reverend Rick Perry, eventually going with Gingrich because of his political experience, Cline said.

“I’m really not sure precisely what we get out of a President Romney — who might very well be a good president — but we don’t really know,” he said. “Given the choice between the candidate who wants to be liked and the candidate who wants to be respected, we would rather have the guy who wants to be respected.”

Publisher Joseph W. McQuaide wrote in the endorsement that Gingrich is “by no means the perfect candidate,” but is the best one in the running.

“We don’t have to agree with them on every issue. We would rather back someone with whom we may sometimes disagree than one who tells us what he thinks we want to hear,” he wrote.

So, Mittens has been passed over by the largest newspaper in the state of New Hampshire for Newton; wow, no matter how you try to spin it, that’s got to sting quite a bit. But the editor’s right, Mittens wants to be liked and he’s been selling his soul to every new audience, flip flopping back and forth on every issue saying whatever he thinks the current crowd wants to hear; and well frankly, eventually that kind of political foosball catches up with you. Gingrich’s the first viable challenger to King Mittens and he could pull it off, the rest of the Crazy Eights are simply courtesans at this point.

 
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Posted by on November 28, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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GOTP Christmas Special airing in 2012

23 Nov

As Christmas, and the first primaries and caucuses, approach it’s appropriate to wonder where this year’s crop of Crazy Eight Republican Tea Party (GOTP) candidates will be next Christmas, well wonder no more, famed stop motion animators Rankin/Bass have announced a brand new special, “The GOTP Island of Misfit Candidate”, and they’ve released their ideal cast of characters:

Mittens “in the box” Romney; he’s never garnered more than 25% of Republicans polled, thus it would appear few Republicans want to play with him

Michelle “Dolly” Bachmann; the Dolly for Sue’s misfit problem was revealed on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! News quiz show (broadcast 8 Dec 07). The show revealed that Rudolph’s producer, Arthur Rankin Jr., says Dolly’s problem was psychological, caused from being abandoned by her mistress and suffering depression from feeling unloved. Wow, is that type casting or what?

Newton “the spotted elephant” Gingrich; if you’ve seen the original Rudolph you’ve seen how that white polka-dotted elephant looks, who else but Newton could play him? Besides Newton is the one GOTP nominee who’d love to change some of his spots.

Jon “train with square wheels” Huntsman; a square wheeled train would never get any traction, just like his campaign.

Rick “the cowboy riding an ostrich” Perry; Reverend Ricky is strange enough to actually try this if he thought he’d win the nomination.

Herman “toy boat that sinks” Cain; the boat couldn’t float, and the Pizza Man’s campaign is sinking faster than the Titanic

Rick “water pistol that shoots jelly” Santorum; you look at water pistol and it seems an OK toy, but then it squirts jelly; you look at Ricky and he appears presidential, but then he opens his mouth and you discover you’re wrong.

Ron “bird fish” Paul; he appears so often to be able to spread his wings and fly, but then he jumps off into the air and lands in the deep end of the pool.

Look for this new Christmas classic in December 2012.

 
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Posted by on November 23, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Poor Newton …

22 Nov

 
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Posted by on November 22, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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I am William Wallace!

22 Nov

Newton Leroy Gingrich’s poll numbers are on the rise, so, what does he decide to do? He compares himself to William Wallace.

In a USA Today profile, the Republican Tea Party (GOTP) candidate referenced a Robert Reich Christian Science Monitor op-ed, commenting on how a Mitt Romney/Barack Obama election would be “passionless.” Gingrich stepped in on that claim, likening himself to the famed Scottish hero portrayed by Mel Gibson:

“If you go out and see what’s happening in the Tea Party, the last thing you want is a passionless election,” Gingrich told USA Today. “Remember Braveheart? These people want somebody who plants a flag in the ground, gives a speech and yells ‘Charge!'”

Has Newton – who’s a self-proclaimed historian extraordinaire – ever seen the movie? In the end of the film William Wallace is captured by the British, tried for treason, found guilty and brutally executed – being hanged, drawn and quartered. Is this a foreshadowing of Newton’s campaign? Will it also end up – figuratively – hanged, drawn and quartered?

While Newton is trying to cast himself in the hero mold of Wallace, he no doubt also sees himself as a Gibson type persona wooing the women, but marrying them later; which begs the question, if Newton was to somehow be elected president would his current wife be called the First Lady or the First Mistress? Clearly she’s proven herself not to be a lady having had an affair with the former Speaker – while he was married to his second wife, who he also had an affair with, while being married to his first wife, who he dumped while she was fighting cancer; the current strumpet would be the first wife of a president since Andrew Jackson’s to be called a ho, but this time it’d be an accurate description. I’m sorry but let’s not be fidgety here, if you sleep with a married man you’re a ho, and that’s exactly what she did.

Normally I’d avoid this kind of thing, but Newton’s an adulterer – many times over – and his current wife was his former mistress; clearly the new conservative “family values” model leaves a great deal to be desired. But alas, this is just another example of the hypocrisy of today’s GOTP; don’t do as I do, do as I say! Of course, let’s not forget why Newton had his affairs, it was because he loved America so darned much.

On Newton thinking he’s William Wallace; who does he see as being cast in the role of King Edward I of England, President Obama, or Mittens Romney, or both? And one last thought, Newt in a kilt is not something anyone should ever have to see.

 
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Posted by on November 22, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Newt was paid how much by Freddie Mac?

16 Nov

Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential candidate Newton Leroy Gingrich has been extremely critical of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, as well as the Democrats in Congress he claims played a key role in the collapse of the housing market, but what he hasn’t said is that he – apparently as a lobbyist – made between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in consulting fees from the mortgage company, a figure substantially larger than the $300,000 payment he was asked about during a recent Republican presidential debate.

Freddie Mac officials have also reportedly told Bloomberg that Gingrich was asked to build bridges with Capitol Hill Republicans and help sell the mortgage company’s public-private structure to conservatives, aka lobbying.

Of course Newton is denying the charges, “I do no lobbying of any kind, and I offered strategic advice and that’s all I do,” Gingrich said. “I don’t go to the Hill. I don’t lobby in any way. I haven’t for the years I’ve left the speakership, period.”

“I was quite happy to talk about the GSEs, which was the question,” Newton continued. “But once you got into a cycle where people were literally giving mortgages to people with no credit at all, you don’t have to be much of a historian to know that’s not sustainable.”

And not being much of a historian is a good thing since Newton isn’t much of a historian; case in point being during the 9 Nov 11, he claimed he warned Freddie Mac about its lending practices: “I offered advice. My advice as an historian when they walked in and said we are now making loans to people that have no credit history and have no record of paying back anything but that’s what the government wants us to do. I said at the time, this is a bubble. This is insane. This is impossible.”

But Newton’s version of “history” doesn’t match Freddie Mac’s, at least one source reportedly told Bloomberg Gingrich gave positive feedback on Freddie Mac’s plans to publicly pledge to issue subordinated debt, manage liquidity, undergo capital stress tests and expand various types of risk disclosures. Gingrich also said these moves would enable Freddie Mac to demonstrate benefits to the taxpayer, the source claimed.

Newton claims he offered the company “advice on precisely what they didn’t do;” once again however, the history is fairly muddied and no one at Freddie Mac remembers Gingrich raising the issue of the housing bubble or of being critical of Freddie Mac’s business model.

Once again Newton’s been caught with his hand in the cookie jar; first, as Speaker, he persecuted then President Clinton for indiscretions in the White House, all the while having his own sexual liaisons; second, now, as a presidential wannabe, he’s critical of Freddie Mac while having received more than a million dollars in “consulting” fees from the company? Newton is nothing more than the poster boy for today’s hypocritical conservative movement, whose mantra is “Do as I say, not as I do,” secondary only to its motto, “We belief in the Golden Rule; he who has the gold makes the rules.”

 
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Posted by on November 16, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Media favor ‘gossip’ and scandal story?

07 Nov

The Associated Press (AP) is reporting Republican Tea Party (GOTP) president wanna-be Newt Gingrich is backing his rival Herman “Pizza Man” Cain’s criticism of the news media in connection with the sexual harassment allegations against Cain.

The Newt told NBC’s “Today” show that news organizations care more about scandal than ordinary citizens struggling to make ends meet.

Yes, the news cares about scandal when it surrounds a candidate for the presidency, particularly one who’s been leading in polls for the past month; no, it doesn’t care about it more than “ordinary citizens struggling to make ends meet”, hence the continued coverage of the growing “Occupy” movement. Newt’s rather lame attempt to deflect the media is rather shallow, especially when none of the candidates running for the GOTP brass ring have shown the slightest concern for those “ordinary citizens”; nice attempt at slight-of-hand, however, coming from one of the king’s of political scandal Newt’s words not only lack relevance but they certainly lack credibility.

The former House speaker says voters want a “solution-oriented leader” more than a scandal. He says it’s up to Cain to handle in the way he sees fit. But Gingrich says there’s a gap between the “gossip” he believes journalists pursue, and more deep-seated problems like economic stagnation.

Gingrich says, “What does it mean to the elite news media that nobody in the country ever walks up to us and raises the questions you raise.” He questions the media’s “judgment” on what stories should be emphasized.

Funny how when Newter was the Speaker of the House he was more concerned with President Clinton’s sexual liaison – his scandal – in the Oval Office than with jobs or the “ordinary citizen”, and even led the impeachment all while having an illicit affair while his wife was fighting cancer. The “Speaker’s” sounding like he has an old axe to grind, and is far more concerned with clearing his own path from inquiries into his own sexually tainted past then in defending how Pizza Man’s been “victimized”.

 
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Posted by on November 7, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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