How do disgraced politicians retain their relevance as far as the Sunday talk shows are concerned? They write a book* on how to fix all the things they broke while in office. *Offer works only for Republicans, naturally.
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Newt Gingrich challenges both Congress and the President to enact “Real Change” to make things better. Coincidentally, Real Change is also the title of his new book. Amazing how that works. What’s equally amazing is what Newt thinks constitutes real change:
Michigan was in a recession when the rest of the country was growing. Other than the states hit by Katrina, Michigan which had been hit by a Democratic governor, Democratic legislature, raised taxes. Yet none of the candidates are willing to be radical enough. Part of what we…Real Change focuses a long section on Detroit. Detroit has gone from a 1,800,000 people in 1950 and highest per capita income in the United States to 950,000 people and it ranks today 62nd in per capita income. And yet nobody want to get up and say…tell the truth. The truth is large bureaucracies are destructive . High taxes are destructive. The system we built discourages any businesses from opening up in Detroit. The schools don’t deliver. They uh they do deliver paychecks. They do take care of the union, but they don’t deliver for the kids. And this is a time where if you’re an African American male and you drop out of high school, you have a 73% chance of being unemployed and a 60% chance of going to jail. So I think we need dramatically deeper and more fundamental change.
The prescribed change? Reduce spending and tax cuts. Real revolutionary, doncha think? Does Newt cover the devastation to Detroit’s economy by trade agreements like NAFTA, taking manufacturing jobs out of the country? Nah…it’s the bureaucracies that are destructive. He bemoans the state of education, but advocates cutting spending even further. Is he under the impression that will help???
However, it’s hard to argue with the premise here:
The Congress and the President, rather than say that’s an interesting campaign, now let’s get back to politics as usual in Washington, the Congress and the President do have a real opportunity to listen to the American people who are saying that real change does matter and the real change is what they want. And I think it will be a pretty good contest for the two parties to say so how much can you deliver in the next three or four months, as opposed to seeing politics in Washington over here and politics in America over here.
Listening to the electorate? That IS revolutionary.
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Hey Newt! Why don’t we rescind all those tax cuts Geogie Boy gave to you and your big business buddies? OR why don’t we invest money into our underfunded school systems? Why don’t we have a tax code that is fair to everyone besides the super rich? You can’t because that’s what made you what you are today. A blowhard with no conscious and little pity for those you were supposed to represent.
Real change is dumping your wife while she’s sick in the hospital, right Newt?
“How do you know she’s a witch?”
“She turned me into a newt, that’s why.”
“….?”
“I got better.”
Grinch sends me screaming into the night.
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P.D. @ 1:
you forgot a fat rancid bastard who doesnt even know who his daddy is!!!!!!!!!!!!my opinion is newt was concieved bacause of a filthy toilet seat at a red bird gas station!!!!!!!!
I’d still like to know why America is still listening to this blowhard after his Contract on America.
Could the fact that the automobile industry is starting to shut down the factories and OUTSOURCE because they can use “slave labor” in those places. Whereby adding billions to the CEO and owners salaries by crushing the employee.
This is why everyone is sick of mainstream media. Newt Gingrich? Really? Why don’t we just bring out Heinrich Himmler from the dead comment on the next presidential election?
Bush the Liar @ 2:
Burn!!!
This guy is almost as disgusting a toad as Goldberg. First the GOPers do their level best to destroy effective government, to drown it in a bathtub: Cut taxes and don’t put any money into maintaining society. When their hapless target begins to crumble under the weight of GOPer neglect, cronyism, corruption, flight of jobs to China and whatnot, then they blame the very things that once-upon-a-time made the system great and the envy of all.
And then, a complete worm-tongued shitbag like Newt comes along to describe the plunder, the systematic destruction, the greed, the utter indifference to people and the very concept of society and defend such things as if the were brought about by virtuous motives, as if theruin and destruction were themselves vortuous.
There is a term to describe Newt: Amoral social parasite.
Paul @ 9:
well said paul!!!!!!!!!!!
tyree @ 4:
Hiya, tyree!
Happy new year. You theory on Newt’s origins has the ring of truth about it.
Blame everything on the unions that raised the standard of living for all Americans whether they were union or not. As for more refineries, the refineries we have are adequate to refine all of the oil we are stealing from under developed nations already. Building more would add to the cost of oil because it would take away from their bottom line. Newt still thinks we’re stupid.
tyree @ 10:
Very well said. It amazes me that people still give this sack of crap a forum.
happy new yr to you too paul, and yes thiers no accounting of how many repigs owe thier birth to contaminated toilets at red bird, guess it was from the atraction of all thoes gas wars in the good old days!!!!!
I think the French had the answer to these upper class idiots.
nonbeliever @ 13:
People don’t. Corporate interests do.
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I love Newt, read his books, the guy brilliant, to bad he’s not running. He’s right though, has to be an incentive to grow jobs, government tends to slow things down.
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The only change we had available under repugs like the grinch was to buy coffee for, except at Starbucks, where your money has to be able to crinkle.
Kinda like me.
John @ 17:
Go take your meds, now.
Now wait a minute. I was under the impression that everything was just dandy under the current administration. Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Waahhnity and the like are all claiming the bad news we are getting where the economy and the war are concerned is all due to a reluctant media that refuses to properly inform us.
Relax Newt, everything is just fine. All you need to do is shove your head back into the hole in the ground and switch over to Fox News.
Everything is just fine.
Sarcasm alert off.
Does George realize having Newt on to talk about the problems in America is like having Nero on to comment about Rome burning?
Detroit went down the dumper because all the greedy CEOs running the companies kept trying to sell obsolete SUVs long after the market had moved on. They were not willing to spend the money to design new cars or new efficient production lines. Don’t blame unions for the idiotic decisions made by the people running the companies! But you can count on the CEO’s getting millions of dollars in bonuses while they run the companies into the ground. Can you blame a factory worker for wanting a fair shake when he watches some guy running his company into the ground and walking off with hundreds of millions of dollars?
I’ll tell you what I would call Real Change - never seeing a national disgrace like Newt spewing a butt load of lies on TV again.
I’m just going to take “this week” off the list of shows I watch until George decides to comment about what’s really happening in America.
AConfederacyofDunces @ 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr8DIg3oHFI
The guys in the very begining of the clip were the local republicant party trying to win in ‘08.
Would someone please neuter Gingrich!
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was commander of the Schutzstaffel (SS), as well as one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and the Nazi hierarchy. As Reichsführer-SS he controlled the SS, and to a degree, all the German police and security forces (including the infamous Gestapo).
As founder and officer-in-charge of the Nazi concentration camps and the infamous Einsatzgruppen death squads, Himmler held final command responsibility for annihilating “subhumans” whom the Nazis deemed unworthy to live. Shortly before the end of the war, he offered to surrender all of Germany to the Allies if he was spared from prosecution as a Nazi leader. Later in 1945, Himmler committed suicide with cyanide when he became a captive of the British Army after Germany had lost World War II.
The only doctorates I can imagine the grinch, kindanasty rice and krystolnacht having must be from the schools that still teach the use of leeching and lancets.
Afterall, one theory is as good as another, right?
tyree @ 14:
Tyree,
You may have a paper in this. Maybe it could be published in the Journal of Nature or some other peer reviewed journal. Good one.
Dumb fucking rat bastard. Listening to him is like commiting slow suicide with an icepick in the ears. And far less interesting.
I wouldn’t blame this one on NAFTA. Blaming free trade agreements does little good for anyone.
If you want to blame Motor City’s decline blame the failure of the American auto industry. They failed to keep up, to change with the times, and to produce cars that are globally competitive. Isolationism is not the answer, but renewing efforts, stepping up efforts to improve education, improving products and undertaking new and innovative ventures that will lead the world and create ‘made in America’ industry and jobs.
Rather than blaming NAFTA, blame short sighted greed and the demand for SUVs. Earlier today you had a post that showed about a third of presidential hopefuls are completely detached from reality. When that’s the kind of leadership America is getting, there’s little wonder the country is declining.
Ron @ 19:
Where is Newt wrong??? We live in a capitalist economy based on incentive, he is right!! Unions don’t allow you to fire bad workers, seen it before, have you read any of his books?
“People don’t. Corporate interests do.” - AConfederacyofDunces
AConfederacyofDunces,
Now you’re getting to the heart of the matter.
Hey Newt, you blind racist bastard, did you already forget about gat and nafta?
detroit lost its manufacturing base, not because of beauracracy, but because you helped to make it easier and more profitable for the auto companies to open shop in other countries
fuck you,, you elitest piece of shit
Newt has said if someone asks him to be their veep running mate, he will say yes. Maybe he’s trying some early campaign talk to try to win over one of the repub nominees. Well, let’s hope it’s a republican nominee.
tyree @ 4:
Hey Tyree, that toilet seat you spoke of just posted at #17!
ysbaddaden @ 25:
He’s got a doctorate in trout fishing. It’s one of those one line things where you just send in a few thousand bucks, and they give you a degree for “life experiences”. Very prestigeous.
John @ 17:
Who gave you those lame talking points? Comedian Rush Limbaugh or Chimpy McFlightsuit?
Real change will occur, Newt, when the public ceases to take you and your sociopathic, criminal party seriously. You have about 10 months to go.
And I’ll be glad when people like you are consigned to permanent oblivion instead of polluting our national dialogue with your filthy lies and revisionism. That the MSM thinks that hypocrites like you are credible is a disgrace.
John @ 29:
i read newts last book, it was great , the premiss that you can save money by useing one sheet of toilet paper by sticking your finger thru the sheet and incerting your finger up your anus and useing one swipe then closeing the sheet around the contaminated sheet and wipeing off the residue was brilliant!!!!!!!!!!
how about that brain-drain , it is indeed working , how many ( what% ) of a-mer-e-can will agree with neutered , I say 75% or better , way to go msm you are still selling us out .
John @ 29:
Unions do fire bad workers, they just can’t fire them for no reason at all. Before you speak, think. As for the auto industry, the imports have national health care where here the manufactures and the employees have to pay for it. If we had medicare for all, the auto companies could be more competitive. And last of all, there is not an oil shortage. If there was, why aren’t they letting it flow out of Iraq by letting them control their oil resources?
sorry contaminated finger!!!!
John @ 29:
A capitalist economy must be well regulated or else we get lead in our paint, toxins in our food, foul rivers and waterways, global impoverishment of workers, and on and on.
What newt and his gang want is deregulated commerce at the expense of the worker and the environment. It ain’t gonna wash son.
And, contrary to your statement that unions don’t allow you to fire bad workers, it happens all the time.
There has never been anything good happening to workers unless they organize, join up, and fight the fat cats who want it all.
Newt is a scab sucker of the worst kind. He is an elitist, pompous shitheel, unable to feel empathy for anyone but himself and his inflated ego. He is a turd and anyone who thinks he is teriffic should go out and throw themselves over a bridge.
John @ 29:
So you’re actually claiming that workers would be better off without unions? Don’t read a book from a turd like gingrich. Read a history book.
I’m thinking maybe 4 more years of Republican is needed just to really insure the brain dead to get it that the lot of their problem are because of greed. They can use all the jingle they want to fool ya, but I am afraid that maybe more time is needed to see the result, and not keep blaming Clinton for another 4 years. It is interesting that the new Republican candidate are talking tax cuts, as if they been tax cutting the rich and put the burden on the middle class for last 7 years. Now they want a tax break for the few middle class that are left, and just before the election. They are talking change only for the one year before the election, and thus we get fooled again.
High taxes are destructive, no corporate welfare is destructive and that’s what tax cut do, give to the rich and take more from the poor and new poor the former middle class. Denmark has the highest tax and highest people satisfaction with government of the world. Taking care of people is what makes a happy county and taxes are a part of that! So long as the taxes are distrubuted for the good of everyone, then it’s not bad. Good schools, roads, parks, medical all that makes healthy people and healthy people are productive! Corporate breaks make one man rich and he takes the money out of the country and don’t pay taxes on any earnings made off the backs of Americans. Screw Globilzation it’s bad for US”A”!