Newt whining about ‘vicious’ politics is hilarious stuff
Note: Below is my AJC column for today:
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Newt Gingrich has never felt fully appreciated, and in some ways I think he has grounds to feel that way. For example, few people give him the credit that he deserves for being a very funny man, even if much of his humor is unintentional.
Just last week, the former speaker led off a debate in South Carolina by complaining about the “destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media,” charging that it “makes it harder to govern this country and harder to attract to decent people to run for public office.”
I thought that was funny.
As history can document, the person most responsible for the nasty, vicious tone of current American politics is Gingrich himself. Those who have dared to advocate policies counter to his own have been dismissed as traitors, pathetic, corrupt and a disgrace. There has been no attack so low that he will not stoop to it; no label so vile that he will not use it. And rather than feel ashamed, he has proudly tried to teach other Republicans to “speak like Newt.” (Even Mitt Romney seems to have picked up on it, calling Gingrich a “failed leader” who “had to resign in disgrace” as speaker).
So please, excuse me if I found Newt’s aggrieved victim act preposterous to the point of being funny. What’s next? Kim Kardashian complaining about vapid, amoral celebrities? Donald Trump lecturing on the dangers of mirror-gazing?
Of course, what some people perceive as absurdist humor, others embrace as heroic truth-telling. Rather than guffaws, the Gingrichian debate rant inspired a standing ovation from the crowd in South Carolina, and a few days later Gingrich pummeled Romney by a stunning 12-point margin, creating a lot of momentum for the contest in Florida next week.
Gingrich has a tendency to compare himself to great figures of the past, so let’s indulge him. It’s been said that at various points in history, a man has matched the moment. Winston Churchill, at one point all but banished from British politics, matched the moment in World War II because his strengths were exactly what his country needed at that time. Martin Luther King Jr. matched the moment during the civil rights struggle of the ’50s and ’60s.
Gingrich has likewise matched the moment in the 2012 Republican primary. Sure, he has many shortcomings in that contest; his troubled personal life would seem to disqualify him as the candidate of a party trumpeting family values. Based on his record, he is no more conservative than Romney, whom he derides as a Massachusetts moderate. And he is the ultimate D.C. insider of a type that the Tea Party faction claims to reject.
However, his stock in trade has long been the expression of scorn, disdain and resentment. That’s what he does best; it flows out of him as smoothly and sincerely as love talk from a barroom Romeo. And in the Republican electorate in the Age of Obama, he has found an audience ready to swoon when they hear that rhetoric.
Like a barroom Romeo, however, Gingrich is not the type you want to hitch yourself to permanently. As others will attest, you’ll come to regret it. Nationwide, he’s viewed favorably by just 27 percent of the American people, which means that outside the Republican base, he has almost no support whatsoever. In addition, because he’s been in the national spotlight since the early ’90s, it’s an electorate that knows him well. Its attitude toward him is not likely to change.
If Republicans make him their nominee, the joke’s on them.
– Jay Bookman
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ByteMe
January 25th, 2012
12:42 pm
irRational: EXCELLENT! I did the MBA 10 years ago and it was the best thing EVER. Really changed my whole business and my ability to market myself to others.
Yeah, I didn’t know which degree you got — was actually assuming it was doing something like web design, which is overstocked with wannabees who are starving. But anything dealing with construction is just going to suck for at least another 5 years, so I hear what you’re saying about it being a terrible place. I wish you well getting into and going through your grad program. The only thing you’ll find you miss out on is TV
DawgDad
January 25th, 2012
12:42 pm
“the person most responsible for the nasty, vicious tone of current American politics is Gingrich himself’” Ha Ha, now THAT is funny.
Really now? So it’s Gingrich constantly ripping the rich, trashing the Tea Party as racists and hicks, blaming our economic woes on Bush, parading women out to throw accusations at Cain and . . . Gingrich himself? Is Gingrich the ex-Speaker jumping in front of microphones to proclaim Gingrich can’t win because she knows things that will sabotage his campain? Hardly.
Politics is nasty. It was South Carolina where Obama played the race card on Bill Clinton, our “first Black President”, in his attempts to sabotage Hillary, about this time four years ago.
Jefferson
January 25th, 2012
12:43 pm
RB comes off as the smartest person he knows, an unhappy fortune teller of sorts.
Brosephus
January 25th, 2012
12:43 pm
The person most responsible for the nasty, vicious tone of current American politics is Obama himself, long before Gingrich came into the picture.
Anyone remmeber:
“bitterly clinging to guns and religion” comment before he even took office
“punish our enemies” (referring to Republicans, right before the 2010 elections where Democrats were the ones punished)
…etc?
How quickly does the Republologist forget about the Ragin’ Newt from 1994.
(ir)Rational
January 25th, 2012
12:43 pm
Kam – It isn’t bad. It is a lie, cause nobody can/should make mom jeans popular, but it isn’t bad.
getalife
January 25th, 2012
12:44 pm
The EU made a fatal mistake in their austerity programs before their economies recovered. h
This will drag down the global economy for a couple of years and then the global economy is back.
We can thank our President for not repeating the EU mistakes although the gop wanted to repeat their mistakes.
Welcome to the Occupation
January 25th, 2012
12:44 pm
None of them have the first dam clue of the work, worry, or risk you deal with every day to keep your dream alive as they lay claim to your money if you pull it off
And you know who has a clue about that work least of all?
Mint Rawmoney
jewcowboy
January 25th, 2012
12:46 pm
Kamchak,
“Uh, huh. Ain’t no way I’m clicking on that link.”
It’s tame. I swear!
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/44801db035/mom-jeans
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 25th, 2012
12:46 pm
all those tract houses that were built over the past 15 or so years were built so quickly and poorly that they’re going to start falling down or at least start having to have major repairs/renovations soon
What? An admission that the free enterprise system left to itself can really turn out a crapola product and that good performers in industry had to try to compete with those who were able to hide their poor work? Say it isn’t so.
(ir)Rational
January 25th, 2012
12:46 pm
Bro – Completely unrelated topic, but you said you were from the backwoods of NE Alabama. I grew up less than a mile from the state line that made me say the same. Actually started school in Mentone, Alabama. I knew there was some reason I liked you though. Must be that we stomped around in the same backwoods.
Oh, and responding to your post. I didn’t forget, I just didn’t pay attention then.
Goldie
January 25th, 2012
12:47 pm
I say, “Go, Newt, Go!” His winning the top of the Repub ticket will certainly add to the entertainment value in 2012!
Who can ever forget his copious amounts of whining back during the President Clinton years when he was forced to sit at the back of Air Force One??? Bwaaaa… What a cry baby!
jewcowboy
January 25th, 2012
12:49 pm
Jefferson,
“Nancy has the skinny on Newt and its bugging the hell out of him.”
Who wants to bet it is a video of the two of them doing more on that sofa than talking about global warming?
Granny Godzilla
January 25th, 2012
12:49 pm
Our own Georgia Attack Muffin talking about “vicious” politics…
who’d a thunk it.
The RNC will never allow Newt to be the candidate.
Newt 2012
Holy Crap that’s funny.
Granny Godzilla
January 25th, 2012
12:50 pm
Goldie!
Hope all is well with you!
(ir)Rational
January 25th, 2012
12:50 pm
Keep – As far as I’m concerned, the recession has been an okay thing simply because it shut down a lot of the builders that were turning out crap. Thing is though, good, reliable contractors and home builders don’t typically compete with developers for the same jobs. They’re in two completely different markets. There have always been, and I’m sure always will be bad contractors that are able to hide shoddy work, but that is just the way things happen. The problem isn’t specific to contractors, but expands to all sectors of the economy. I would guess that bad doctors probably have a hard time hiding the fact that they’re bad though. I was just pointing out that there will be plenty of work for people like me in a few years when these houses that were put up in just a few months start falling down around their owner’s ears.
(ir)Rational
January 25th, 2012
12:51 pm
jewcowboy – Really? You had to put THAT image in my head right before I go to lunch? SHAME!
mm
January 25th, 2012
12:52 pm
“None of them have the first dam clue of the work, worry, or risk you deal with every day to keep your dream alive as they lay claim to your money if you pull it off.”
That lie, in a nutshell, is the belief that drives republican voters.
joe
January 25th, 2012
12:52 pm
Newt’s whining is hilarious, but not as funny as Obama’s wolf in sheep’s clothing hypocrisy. He says he’s for all energy, but axed the pipeline. He says we need to spread the wealth around by increasing entitlements we cannot afford. He says we need to turn the economy around, but offers no spending cuts. Bottom line is he’s got to go…
Adam
January 25th, 2012
12:52 pm
The question that inspired the whole tirade should have been followed up with “Do you believe the media has no right to ask questions about or report on the personal lives of a public figure such as the President or a candidate for President?”
Welcome to the Occupation
January 25th, 2012
12:53 pm
“the person most responsible for the nasty, vicious tone of current American politics is Gingrich himself’” Ha Ha, now THAT is funny.
Yeah, but you know what’s perhaps funniest of all?
The fact that Newt Gingrich is going around styling himself as a “Washington outsider”.
This man who was once 3rd in line to the presidency 3 administrations ago. Who hasn’t lived outside Northern Virginia in years. This man who’s such a Washington ‘outsider’ that he waltzes into a gig at Fannie Mae making enormous sums just for providing a few tips on the subject of history. Who has access to millionaires willing to lavishly fund attack ad campaigns on your behalf.
Wow, with Washington outsiderdom like this, who needs Washington insiders?
ByteMe
January 25th, 2012
12:53 pm
He says he’s for all energy, but axed the pipeline.
yeah, because importing oil from Canada helps our energy “independence”… uh… wait a minute.
getalife
January 25th, 2012
12:55 pm
Our President added three million jobs after w lost over 8 million jobs.
We still have to recover 5 million jobs w lost.
We can and will do this.
(ir)Rational
January 25th, 2012
12:55 pm
ByteMe – Canada is way better than the Middle East, Venezuela, or Africa. You know, cause they look like us.
(Couldn’t resist feeding your assumptions that all conservatives are bigots) Wait, no, because they don’t hate us (as much?) as the other places do.
carlosgvv
January 25th, 2012
12:55 pm
Jay,say what you will about noogie, he has accurately measured the intelligence level of the majority of the Republican electorate. Knowing that this majority is probalby composed of very common people, he can say all sorts of contradictory things knowing these simple tools will never know the difference and will believe anything he says.
jm
January 25th, 2012
12:56 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/23/opinion/frum-gingrich-enthusiasm/index.html?hpt=op_r1
(ir)Rational
January 25th, 2012
12:56 pm
getalife – And the other 5 million that were lost while Obama has been President. But don’t let the facts get in the way of his talking points.
Granny Godzilla
January 25th, 2012
12:56 pm
joe
i’ll make you an offer you pipeline supporters can’t refuse.
give me your shipping address and i’ll express you one 5 gallon bucket
of oil sands crude.
keep it close by for a year. share it with your kids and grandkids.
inhale it. embrace it. mix 3 tablsespoons with red wine and make a vinegrette.
i’d be so happy to see you show your courage by accepting a gift of that which you want the children and grandchildren of Nebraska to accept.
third eye be damned!
mmmm mmmm good
ken
January 25th, 2012
12:56 pm
Who is Van Jones ?????? Tell us Jay !!!
jewcowboy
January 25th, 2012
12:57 pm
(ir)Rational,
“Really? You had to put THAT image in my head right before I go to lunch? SHAME!”
It’s my New Year’s diet plan. Anytime I get a little peckish, I think of Newt making some friction. Works every time.
Moderate Line
January 25th, 2012
12:57 pm
As history can document, the person most responsible for the nasty, vicious tone of current American politics is Gingrich himself.
I agree with most of your comments other than the one above. The statement is strictly an opinion and can’t be documenting as being true by history. Like who is the greatest quarterback in the NFL it is matter of opinion.
I remember seeing the add Lyndon Johnson ran against Barry Goldwater depicting the mushroom cloud. It was the Democrats who were the first to start beating up in Supreme Court nominations. Just look at the votes for Supreme court nominees up to the point of Nixon and look afterwards. Vicisious attacks were going on long before Newt was in office.
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/nominations/Nominations.htm
What makes Newt bad is that he claims he is trying to take the moral high ground while at the same time he is as negative as anyone.
In general the correlation between what politicians does and what they say is lower than for most people. Their profession requires them to say things that people want to hear but when they actually take action sometimes the consequences dictate a different action than what was promised, sometimes the action is impossible to implement and sometimes they have made conflicting promises.
Even though I find Newts words and deeds to correlate less than other politicians, however, to say the person most responsible for the nasty, vicious tone of current politics is Newt is simply as ridiculous as Newt himself.
(ir)Rational
January 25th, 2012
12:57 pm
Oh, and ByteMe – that was the collective “your” not saying that directly applies to you, but definitely does to others here.
ByteMe
January 25th, 2012
12:58 pm
You know, cause they look like us. (Couldn’t resist feeding your assumptions that all conservatives are bigots)
My assumption?? Seriously, let me know if that assumption has ever come out in anything I posted.
And, yes, Canada doesn’t hate us as much, but that’s today. What’s tomorrow look like and why does “independence” mean the same as “dependent on our allies instead of ourselves”?
getalife
January 25th, 2012
12:58 pm
(ir)Rational,
What was the total jobs lost due to the w great recession?
I have read from 23 million to 8 million
ByteMe
January 25th, 2012
12:59 pm
IR @ 12:57, I posted before I saw that. I understand now. No worries.
(ir)Rational
January 25th, 2012
12:59 pm
jewcowboy – You must have lost at least 30, 40 pounds so far. The fact that you added Nancy Pelosi to the mix has to be good for at least 10-15. That one will stick with me for a while.
Adam
January 25th, 2012
12:59 pm
He says he’s for all energy, but axed the pipeline.
He said no to a project that did not have a fully complete plan, because several stakeholders expressed concern over the route. So they scrapped the route and started looking for a new one. They didn’t present a new route yet, and after they do, the process of making sure there are no problems with that route takes more time than 60 days. Trying to force a decision on an incomplete plan is NOT SMART. And it further proves Republicans don’t know how to run a business.
And btw, if you’re the Governor of Nebraska and you say no to the specific route, you cannot then go “But whatever you come up with that’s not the thing I objected to is TOTALLY fine with me.” Blanket pre-approvals without knowing the details is also not smart.
ByteMe
January 25th, 2012
12:59 pm
getalife: Obama said 8 million last night. 4 before he took office and 4 more in the first 2 years. +3 in the two years since.
(ir)Rational
January 25th, 2012
1:00 pm
getalife – I have no idea. I don’t keep up with the stats specifically. But I do love poking the bear. In this case, you’re the bear.
ByteMe – Yeah, I realized shortly after posting that I should have explained that a little better. Blame it on me being 26 and we can both be happy.
Nope
January 25th, 2012
1:01 pm
I had forgotten what a whinny, mean, baby Gingrich is… till he showed up to run for President.
(ir)Rational
January 25th, 2012
1:01 pm
ByteMe @ 12:59 – That number seems reasonable enough.
Adam
January 25th, 2012
1:02 pm
(ir)Rational: getalife – And the other 5 million that were lost while Obama has been President. But don’t let the facts get in the way of his talking points.
Actually, it’s 4 million on either end of the inauguration dividing line. Also, those jobs were all lost in a block at the beginning of his presidency, and ever since then has turned around (and that began BEFORE the Republicans retook the House), albeit slowly. THOSE are facts. To assume the President is a job killer when faced with facts like those is absurd (not that I think you in particular think that, but some do).
tireofit
January 25th, 2012
1:02 pm
Why don’t you guys get a real man to run, you know like Rush or Sean? They have all of the answers to every conceivable question or problem any of us will every encounter. Just listen to their shows and they prove it to you.
Jefferson
January 25th, 2012
1:02 pm
Why does someone think that if John McCain had won the election that the trend on the economy would not have been much like the trend we see today ? It was headed south, now it is going the right direction. Who drove it south ?
Joe Hussein Mama
January 25th, 2012
1:03 pm
Jefferson — “RB comes off as the smartest person he knows, an unhappy fortune teller of sorts.”
Just call him Cassandra. Or maybe Ophelia.
ByteMe
January 25th, 2012
1:03 pm
Oops… I’m wrong. It was -4 in the first 11 months (until Dec 2009), then +3 in the next 22 months to now.
And to think I used to be really good with date math.
getalife
January 25th, 2012
1:03 pm
ByteMe,
Yes, I think he is using the lowest job loss numbers so will go with those numbers.
I think we need to build natural gas pipelines and invest in a better way to extract natural gas without causing earthquakes.
We need to build natural gas vehicles too so that 5 million job number will dwindle.
jewcowboy
January 25th, 2012
1:03 pm
(ir)Rational,
“And the other 5 million that were lost while Obama has been President.”
A little visual perspective helps.
http://www.nmvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/job-growth-chart.jpg
(ir)Rational
January 25th, 2012
1:05 pm
Adam – That assumption would be absurd. I don’t think he was a jobs killer, just like I don’t think that Bush caused the recession. The President gets too much blame for things he can’t really control. Similarly, he gets too much credit for those same things. Or at least same type of things.
ByteMe
January 25th, 2012
1:05 pm
We need to build natural gas vehicles too so that 5 million job number will dwindle.
My vote would be that we do it to long-haul trucks first.
Moderate Line
January 25th, 2012
1:06 pm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-01-22/mexico-national-voter-ID-cards/52779410/1?loc=interstitialskip
The above is in interesting article. The article goes on about how voter IDs are required in Mexico.
But Mexico has not seen many problems with its card, and national identity cards have been issued for years in France, Poland, Singapore, Brazil, to prove citizenship.
There is one thing the cards do not do: inspire more confidence in candidates. Ana Martínez says that despite getting her new card, she probably won’t use it to vote. “There’s no candidate worth voting for.”
Adam
January 25th, 2012
1:06 pm
(ir)Rational: Agreed. It’s hard to fight that particular rhetoric though. I do often see conservatives deifying whoever is in the White House as though they are a dictator, yet when it comes to practical matters being quite happy, no giddy, when the person who is there is someone they don’t like and they get obstructed by Congress.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 25th, 2012
1:07 pm
joe — “Newt’s whining is hilarious, but not as funny as Obama’s wolf in sheep’s clothing hypocrisy. He says he’s for all energy, but axed the pipeline.”
Be honest, joe. He axed the *route,* not the pipeline.
“He says we need to spread the wealth around by increasing entitlements we cannot afford.”
Have conservatives dropped their demands for creating the new Pay For Whatever School You Want To Send Your Kids To Vouchers?
“He says we need to turn the economy around, but offers no spending cuts.”
He’s already *signed* more than two trillion dollars in spending cuts, but cons keep lying about it. Or did you just not know he’d done that?
“Bottom line is he’s got to go…”
Or maybe we just need to bring you up to speed and banish all that ignorance from your mind.
(ir)Rational
January 25th, 2012
1:07 pm
ByteMe – That’s not a bad idea. They already have CNG buses and stuff running around everywhere. There just needs to be more stations that can fill CNG tanks for people. But over the road truckers should be all for the idea. It is much cheaper in the long run to operate a CNG vehicle than a diesel one. From the research I’ve done/things I’ve read.
Finn McCool (Class Warfare = Stopping Rich People from TAKING MORE of OUR MONEY)
January 25th, 2012
1:07 pm
suddenly finds that kind of questioning of a Presidential candidate unseemly!”
seriously
JOE Cool
January 25th, 2012
1:08 pm
Man even Castro had to put his 2 cents in on the CONS..lol.
HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro lambasted the Republican presidential race as the greatest competition of “idiocy and ignorance” the world has ever seen
getalife
January 25th, 2012
1:09 pm
“My vote would be that we do it to long-haul trucks first.”
Yes, my hope is to be like Brazil and use very little oil.
If we have the largest natural gas deposits, we should take advantage of this cleaner energy and innovate in this industry..
Major job creator.
Brosephus
January 25th, 2012
1:09 pm
(ir)Rational
Mentone?? Our school used to take field trips to the state park up there. Mom lived in Rome, and I stayed with my grandparents in Gadsden. I can probably still drive up Hwy 411 with my eyes closed and not miss a single curve.
So it’s Gingrich constantly ripping the rich, trashing the Tea Party as racists and hicks, blaming our economic woes on Bush, parading women out to throw accusations at Cain and . . . Gingrich himself?
Of course Gingrich isn’t the one doing that right now. He simply set the tone for the rancor in politics back in the 90’s. Just call him the Godfather of Angry Politics.
moonbat betty
January 25th, 2012
1:09 pm
Anonymous sources have concluded that Nancy P’s October surprise will the the unveiling of her sordid affair with Newt throughout much of the 90s.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 25th, 2012
1:09 pm
J. Cool — “Fidel Castro lambasted the Republican presidential race as the greatest competition of “idiocy and ignorance” the world has ever seen”
And if there’s anyone knows idiocy and ignorance, it’s Fee-del, amirite?
(ir)Rational
January 25th, 2012
1:09 pm
Y’all have a good afternoon. I’m going to go grab a bite and then sit through some meetings this afternoon.
ByteMe
January 25th, 2012
1:10 pm
I don’t think he was a jobs killer, just like I don’t think that Bush caused the recession.
This is true. He didn’t “cause” it, but was the last person to touch the hot potato.
The cause has a 10-12 year history and starts with the repeal of Glass-Steagal and flows through a lack of SEC enforcement of gambling limits by investment banks and rating agencies that took money to give a high rating to crap investments that then got resold to unsuspecting investors all over the world.
Bush was the one who appointed the SEC head who took his eye off the ball. That’s about the extent of his “fault”.
Doggone/GA
January 25th, 2012
1:11 pm
“Bush was the one who appointed the SEC head who took his eye off the ball. That’s about the extent of his “fault”.”
Well, he DID say he was the “decider”
(ir)Rational
January 25th, 2012
1:12 pm
Okay, before I leave. I grew up swimming at DeSoto (I’m assuming that’s the park you’re referring to), either in the pool or at the falls. I went to church in Rome (parent’s still do). The parents live just across the state line from Mentone in “Cloudland,” Georgia. I use quotation marks because it is a joke to act like it is a town or anything.
ByteMe
January 25th, 2012
1:13 pm
There just needs to be more stations that can fill CNG tanks for people. But over the road truckers should be all for the idea.
If you start with the infrastructure to support the long-haul truckers, you get the infrastructure pieces in place without needing the huge supply to flow all at once, like it would need to be for cars. Then you can move to the next phase and do a NG/electrical hybrid car.
And, yes, it’ll be cheaper than diesal fuel.
sam
January 25th, 2012
1:14 pm
the best is when he calls out the “washington insiders” and talk about the fear he puts in the “establishment”..i honestly dont how he does it with a straight face.
jewcowboy
January 25th, 2012
1:14 pm
Not for the faint of heart (or stomach) but quite apropos.
http://www.urantiansojourn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/BigBabyNewt1.jpg
Newtpewt
January 25th, 2012
1:15 pm
Pied piper Newtie is leading his enthralled GOP flock over the cliff.
getalife
January 25th, 2012
1:16 pm
w spewed he never saw it coming when he failed.
The culture of anything goes on Wall Street and they make up rules as they go are to blame. Both parties engaged in this belief.
Those days are over thanks to our President.
We will not go back to that so they did learn that lesson.
Doggone/GA
January 25th, 2012
1:18 pm
“Pied piper Newtie is leading his enthralled GOP flock over the cliff”
Talk about mixed metaphors! Nothing like combining rats, sheep, and lemmings all in one short sentence! Bravo!
AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.
January 25th, 2012
1:19 pm
Nationwide, he’s viewed favorably by just 27 percent of the American people, which means that outside the Republican base, he has almost no support whatsoever.
Paul and I have a long running joke that 20% or so will believe anything. In this case that Newt is not repugnant to the point of nausea.
The other highly salient fact?
He was disgraced out of office BY HIS OWN PARTY.
Maybe he needs to cheat on the adulteress Callista. His favorable numbers would likely go up with the twisted family values crowd in the Party of No…
barking frog
January 25th, 2012
1:19 pm
“The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is — and I mean this seriously — the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been,” -Fidel Castro
ByteMe
January 25th, 2012
1:19 pm
Those days are over thanks to our President.
Believe that at your own peril. The controls are still not in place to prevent them from doing it again. Example: if Europe goes over a cliff, who holds the counter-party derivatives on it? We won’t know until a bank or two go bankrupt and leaves us holding the bag, because derivatives are not publicly traded instruments, so there’s no record except between the parties on both sides of the derivative.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 25th, 2012
1:21 pm
Doggone — “combining rats, sheep, and lemmings”
I tell you, Rick Santorum is going to have something to say about how *unnatural* all that is.
getalife
January 25th, 2012
1:21 pm
I think voting for a pol that resigned in disgrace is a disgrace.
What in the world do you cons not understand?
They ran the newt out of Washington on a rail.
Normal
January 25th, 2012
1:21 pm
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2012/01/25/funny-pictures-i-really-really-hate/
Rockerbabe
January 25th, 2012
1:21 pm
ByteMe: let them explode! Deserves them right for putting Dubya in office. Up next to President Obama, Newt is well a newt. Anyway, I do not think the American people, especially women are accepting of a homewrecker as FLOTUS.
Bring on the comedy; I hope it get real good, no matter who the GOP nominee is. I will vote for Prez Obama gladly.
Atlantan
January 25th, 2012
1:23 pm
You conveniently ignore the personal attacks on Oliver North in the 80’s, Clarence Thomas in the early 90s, the Clintons, etc (all lead hard charging by the honest and ethical progs)…… Oh facts are stubborn things…..
Doggone/GA
January 25th, 2012
1:23 pm
“I tell you, Rick Santorum is going to have something to say about how *unnatural* all that is”
Yeah, well, at least he won’t have to bring in the “sanctity” of human life!
ByteMe
January 25th, 2012
1:25 pm
ByteMe: let them explode! Deserves them right for putting Dubya in office.
I happen to be one of those people who think that two competitive candidates fighting for one job makes both candidates better.
In this case, though, I might have to make an exception.
Doggone/GA
January 25th, 2012
1:27 pm
“I happen to be one of those people who think that two competitive candidates fighting for one job makes both candidates better”
Doesn’t it matter, though, if they are fighting to the top or to the bottom?
getalife
January 25th, 2012
1:27 pm
“Believe that at your own peril.”
Global governments are reforming so they will not follow Wall Street off the cliff again.
Our corrupt congress reform is weak but keep in mind the gop are still trying to kill that weak reform.
ByteMe
January 25th, 2012
1:28 pm
Doesn’t it matter, though, if they are fighting to the top or to the bottom?
Depends on whether you’re standing on your head.
Andy Dufresne (from St Simons)
January 25th, 2012
1:29 pm
Newt!! Up to 6-7 point lead in latest Fla poll.
hahahahaahahaha hohohoho heeheeeheee
today, we are all tea potty ‘merkans – let’s get Newt nominated!
hahahahaahahaha hohohoho heeheeeheee
CNN will have to put up a basketball sco-board on election night
Doggone/GA
January 25th, 2012
1:30 pm
“Depends on whether you’re standing on your head”
There is that!
getalife
January 25th, 2012
1:31 pm
“CNN will have to put up a basketball sco-board on election night”
They will call this one early for four more years.
Doggone/GA
January 25th, 2012
1:31 pm
Just last week, the former speaker led off a debate in South Carolina by complaining about the “destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media,” charging that it “makes it harder to govern this country and harder to attract to decent people to run for public office.”
I heard this quoted too, and while I don’t disagree with Jay’s take on it…the thing that struck ME most strongly is that Newt is obviously placing himself among those “decent people”
HDB
January 25th, 2012
1:32 pm
Jm
January 25th, 2012
11:51 am
“The banking system would be collapsing today after obama’s SOTU
If it were not for a Republican House”
Lest you forget: When the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, asked Congress for the TARP authroity, he BEGGED the Speaker of the House to NOT abandon the process…..and work with the Administration. That Speaker was Nancy Pelosi!! The Speaker is elected by the MAJORITY party…..which at that time was the DEMOCRATIC Party!!
Please re-check your history!!
ByteMe
January 25th, 2012
1:33 pm
Global governments are reforming so they will not follow Wall Street off the cliff again.
Again, believe that at your own peril. Most of Europe is technically bankrupt, but they’re hoping for time to figure out how to get out of the mess. Here’s how it works: the government “guarantees” the bank deposits, because that’s how it’s done everywhere. But the government has a huge debt and structural deficits, so they can’t pay in case the banks go bankrupt. And who owns most of the government debt? The banks! (Thank you, thank you, I’m here every night and twice on Sunday.)
The only “easy” way out of this mess is to “print money” to pay down those debts. Except that Euro-land countries can’t print money.
The number they need is somewhere north of 2 trillion euros to get out of the mess.
They don’t have their stuff together at all. And we might be counter-party to some of the sovereign debt (word is that JPM/Chase is a big offender in this area).
Mick
January 25th, 2012
1:33 pm
jewcowboy
That chart was worth a thousands words, will they believe or even understand it? Nahhhhhhhhh
Plus – fidel castro is an evil genius that has the repubs mentality down cold – it’s that transparent all you water carrying rubes…
Guy Incognito
January 25th, 2012
1:33 pm
“a gift of that which you want the children and grandchildren of Nebraska to accept.”
16 Tril in Debt?
Talking Head
January 25th, 2012
1:34 pm
Jay Bookman is OBSESSED with Newt Gingrich, he thinks and talks about it way too much.
Granny Godzilla
January 25th, 2012
1:35 pm
Guy
Nope, Bush put that on YOUR credit card.
Have a steamy cone of oil sand crude for your Grand-Baby Guy….or
do you have some sense?
Normal
January 25th, 2012
1:37 pm
Newt reminds me of the guy in the circus parade…you know the one, the guy with the broom and bucket following the elephants…
godless heathen
January 25th, 2012
1:38 pm
If Newt did win the presidency (and I’d give it slim odds) it would be fun watching all the libs’s heads exploding like watermelons at a Gallagher show.
Talking Head
January 25th, 2012
1:39 pm
Jay, this is for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Lec3m1pLY
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 25th, 2012
1:39 pm
Jay Bookman is OBSESSED with Newt Gingrich, he thinks and talks about it way too much
Cause he is skarid? Hmmmm a political commentator talking about matters in national politics, why would that include Newt? But I bet you $10,000 that Jay would love to talk about a lot of matters other than Newt, do you think you can get Newt to quit and just go away like most would hope for him?
Granny Godzilla
January 25th, 2012
1:40 pm
Talking HEad
would that same logic then support the concept that you are
OBSESSED with Jay?
jewcowboy
January 25th, 2012
1:40 pm
Mick,
“will they believe or even understand it? Nahhhhhhhhh”
There will be a few, but most of them won’t even click on the link, nevertheless believe its veracity. It doesn’t support their narrative.
sasha
January 25th, 2012
1:40 pm
OMG—would you please run for PRESIDENT???? We couldn’t be any worse off? Jay, go for it!
jewcowboy
January 25th, 2012
1:42 pm
AmVet,
“Paul and I have a long running joke that 20% or so will believe anything”
To back that up: 22% of Americans have personally seen and/or felt the presence of a ghost.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/29/opinion/polls/main994766.shtml