Boss Newt Gangrene going after 13 year olds?  That did not inherit enough
money?  How stinking decent!  Now they can clean the toilets?

“Somebody said he’s a stupid man’s idea of what a smart person sounds like.”—Paul Krugman on Newt Gingrich

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/19/newt-gingrich-business-_n_1102742.html

Speaking to students at Harvard’s Kennedy School Friday night, he criticized the consulting industry he was part of for years: “What’s happened is we’ve grown a consulting industry, so that instead of having the old-time big city machine bosses, we now have these consultants,” he said.

[He says later…]

They were “Gingrich group’s earnings, not my earnings,” he said. “Over a period of years, Freddie Mac paid Gingrich group, which has a number of employees and a number of offices, a consulting fee just like you would pay any other consulting firm.”

Questions for Newt that need asking:  How does he like his congressional pension
and health care?  How is “big government” bad now when as Speaker of the House
he made his district the pork capital of the nation?

Newt as “The Facilitator.” Would probably earn a few dollars fo hisself and
the present misses. Some say it all started when he and Tom De Lay
“facilitated” the citizenship process to enable Rupert Murdoch own FOX tv.

Based on what news reports state about the “Mature Newt” and Freddie
Mae the tile still holds.

Whether Gingrich is lying about his “lobbyist” actions or not, when he says “I think (there’s) a good case for breaking up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and getting much smaller institutions back into the private sector to be competitive and to be responsible for their behavior,” he’s spot on.

Too big to fail is too big to begin with!

http://open.salon.com/blog/oddsox/2011/10/10/too_big_to_fail_too_big_to_begin_with

Of course, Newt Gingrich is the same old Newt!  What else do people really
expect?!?

Queenie, November 17 at 7:35 pm
“I’ve coughed up better looking hairballs than this slimy bastard.”

With all the voter disgust, the politicians are STILL avoiding discussing how to get this country back on track with its own Constitution.
They just don’t want to discuss it. Or, better put, they’ve been instructed by their handlers NOT to discuss it. They’ve created so many band-aids to their recurring Constitution perverting legislation, that the patient is smothering under all the bandages ...... and yet they keep doing the same thing, ad nauseam. Save for a very few brave souls, they keep authorizing legislation like the Patriot Act and avoid public discussions that would help to inform their constituency of the corporatist takeover of America.

Who are the REAL terrorists here?

I’ve coughed up better looking hairballs than this slimy bastard.

Payson, November 17 at 10:28 am
“I do, however, worry that the endless and rapidly changing polls are convincing politically fatigued Americans to forfeit their own
analysis of political candidates in favor of media-controlled “mood boards” of mythical results.”

But why would “their own analysis of political candidates” be any different today than it was in the past? Particularly during the last several decades, the media has been so manipulating and the public so manipulated that the average voter sits comfortably back in his BarcoLounger with the belief that at least “his” politicians are all virtuous.

It is obvious to me that Mr. Gingrich has matured.  However, his “maturation” requires a bit of explanation.  What he did for many years with sophomoric aggressiveness, he now does with relaxed self-confidence. 

His current deportment suggests that he now feels that he is a firm member of the current USGOV establishment, and cannot be removed.  In other words, he is now a self-confirmed traitor to the U.S. of America.

The fact that Gingrich is even in the conversation is
evidence of how bankrupt the Republican’t Party is.

This is the same scheming, lying, two-faced, Machiavellian son of a bitch that oozed out from under a rock to put out the Contract On America. He’s the same creeping scum that started the cuts to state funding that are now killing programs and hurting people across this nation, and if he gets into the Presidency, he’s going to do it again. This man has no soul, having long since sold it to those who pull the strings in the GOP. He will do exactly as he is told by his masters, which mostly concerns steering even more taxpayer money into the already overflowing coffers of America’s richest one percent. Tell these greedy bastards it’s not their country to run like one of their factories, where the laborers die young and poor, and only one elite family profits extensively from their labors. Send this jerk home cryin’.

“Rising in current polls.”  My goodness, if I had a dollar for every time that
sentence was used for one of the current Republican presidential candidates I
would have tremendous wealth and lower taxes.  Who are they polling?  Newt
has been a joke and dismissed as a hypocritical kook for years.  Republican
leaders wheel him out when they need some verbal grenades thrown at the
opposition that are touted as coming from the “most intelligent Republican
thinker.”  Newt uses his ten dollar words and sweeping pronouncements to
further his delusions of grandeur, but William F. Buckley he isn’t.  Intelligent? 
Perhaps.  Crafty?  Oh, yes.  Though anyone who runs for national office suffers
from some level of egomania, Newt, the serial adulterer and ethics violator, 
should win a genius grant for his shameless self-promotion as a family values
warrior and savior of America.
I’m not worried about Newt.  I do, however, worry that the endless and rapidly
changing polls are convincing politically fatigued Americans to forfeit their own
analysis of political candidates in favor of media-controlled “mood boards” of
mythical results.

@ BR549

You really know how to get my goat.

If Newt was so sure that he had “matured” in that regard, perhaps that maturation process would also included him understanding and embracing the wisdom in our Constitution and WHY it was constructed the way it was. Perhaps he might even have bothered to read the still wise words of Judge Abel Upshur from the early 1800’s. Upshur went on to become Secretary of the Navy and then Secretary of State. This man, a “staunch conservative” (Newt did you hear that?), understood exactly what the Resolutions of 1798 and 1799 did in explaining the Bill of Rights. If Newt claims to be a staunch conservative but still hasn’t embraced Upshur, just how much has Newt matured?

Unfortunately, too many people, indeed too many politicians view the Constitution as some archaic document that has outlived its purpose. The truth is that we have yet, as a culture, to live up to, or into, the wisdom that went into it. Put another way, we have not yet matured enough, as a society, to even begin to question it. Instead, we are like a six year old who thinks he knows how to drive Daddy’s Corvette simply because he knows how to turn the car keys, completely disregarding any responsibility that goes along with that action. THAT is level our country and most countries, actually, are at.
If Newt embraced THAT, i.e. our Constitution, perhaps he would find that move to be politically unpopular with his brethren, particularly since the majority of them are too busy jumping on the globalist bandwagon, selling our country down the tubes, and sidestepping any loyalty to it even though they took an oath to uphold it. So much for integrity. And Newt, as a history major, should know better. It isn’t like his background had him coming from the same pathetic pool of ambulance chasers that we see in our Congress and judiciary.

Yes, Joe, and to top it all off, he is the most repulsive looking slug of all the candidates.  He makes me puke.

@ emily jane squires

I think Romney is the inevitable candidate.

I also boldly predict that Obama will win anyhow in spite of recent polls showing him as having a slight disadvantage. Nate Silver be damned. This is a fiasco, a drama.

Ron Paul will probably never have a turn as potential republican frontrunner.

I’m not sure Romney is the last alternative…ignore Ron Paul , but his very strong and numerous grassroots loyalists seem to make him a very possible contender.

There is a very funny cartoon by Tom Tomorrow I saw on Truthout (I like Truthdig better) called “Not Mitt Romney”

http://www.truth-out.org/not-mitt-romney/1321457337

There is a very funny cartoon by Tom Tomorrow I saw on Truthout called “Not Mitt Romney”.

http://www.truth-out.org/not-mitt-romney/1321457337