The Gingrich political career, now at an end
“A lot of us who were around him before and didn’t think this was a good idea from the beginning were worried this was the way it was going to end. He’s in danger, I think, of becoming a laughingstock.”
– Rich Galen, former staff member for Newt Gingrich, quoted in Politico
The sense of personal destiny that has driven Newt Gingrich throughout his life, the deep and defining belief that he was fated to do great things and write his name in large letters upon the history books, has finally run aground on the sharp shoals of reality. And that is a hard thing for the former speaker and Georgia congressman to accept.
He has no money and in fact his campaign is deeply in debt. He lacks the resources to travel, let alone buy campaign ads, and the press has abandoned him, raising the age-old question: If a man utters pearls of profound wisdom, and no one is there to hear him, did he really utter them at all? Yet still he presses on, insistent against all evidence that he remains relevant. As he told Fox this week, “I have no incentive to get out because I have a set of ideas that include $2.50-a-gallon gas, etc. So I have every incentive to stay in.”
I’m sorry: “$2.50-a-gallon gas” is not an idea, it is an ill-disguised pander inconsistent with reality. Newt’s inability to distinguish between an idea and a pander betrays a lot about how he thinks, and about why he has fallen so short of his dreams.
To give the man his due, Gingrich has fashioned a political career that by most standards would be considered a huge success. He truly did shock the political world when he led a Republican revolution in 1994 that ended the Democrats’ death grip on the House of Representatives. He was enormously gifted, possessed with a clever mind and one of the sharpest tongues in American political history. And his strong sense of personal destiny insulated him against doubts that might have haunted other men.
But a clever mind is not a wise mind. A man so easily distracted by shiny intellectual objects, flitting from one idea to the next, can never attain the depth suggested by the most prominent words in the Gingrich vocabulary, such as “profound” and “fundamental.” And those who are equipped to lead heady revolutions are almost never equipped for the day-to-day drudgery required to govern and to build.
However, the fatal flaw that ensured that Gingrich would never satisfy the ambition that burned within him was his basic lack of respect for other people. The contempt that he showered upon opponents in public life was reflected in his private life as well, and also in how he treated colleagues and staff. He showed little loyalty and earned little loyalty, and in politics as in life, that makes long-term success very difficult.
– Jay Bookman
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JamVet
March 29th, 2012
9:59 am
Actually Leroy was just Joe Bidening off of Michele B with that $2.50 a gallon thing.
I think she was talking about witch hazel though…
Foghorn Dawghorn
March 29th, 2012
10:00 am
timbo, you are oh so clever, aren’t you?
Recon 0311 2533
March 29th, 2012
10:00 am
“To give the man his due, Gingrich has fashioned a political career that by most standards would be considered a huge success. He truly did shock the political world when he led a Republican revolution in 1994 that ended the Democrats’ death grip on the House of Representatives. He was enormously gifted, possessed with a clever mind and one of the sharpest tongues in American political history. And his strong sense of personal destiny insulated him against doubts that might have haunted other men.”
There you go Becky
Don't Forget
March 29th, 2012
10:01 am
$2.50 gas is not an illusion, in fact, in the last months of the W. administration gas was actually in the $ 1.80 range!!!!
That 1.80 gas had no more significance than the manager’s special on the questionable looking piece of beef that has reached it’s expiration date. It merely reflects the economic collapse of the time.
timbo
March 29th, 2012
10:01 am
Foghorn-
Thank you.
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:01 am
Newton LEEEROOOOOOOOYYYYYY Gingiriiiiiiiich…..
Georgia on my mind...
March 29th, 2012
10:01 am
…..Newt it’s time to get on the train and come back home….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2gKR422nOQ
curious
March 29th, 2012
10:01 am
Don’t worry about Newt and his future; he has 2 jobs lined up.
1- Pope
2- Fox news faith and defense of marriage advisor.
As smart as Newt is, he’ll never have a problem handling the two.
ty webb
March 29th, 2012
10:02 am
doggone,
okay Doggone, your philanderer of choice is not a hypocrite…Despite signing a law the “defends” “family values” by defining what marriage is.
Becky
March 29th, 2012
10:02 am
Recon-that is not a list of accomplishments. Try again or admit you are wrong.
Paul
March 29th, 2012
10:02 am
timbo
“I just read the opinion piece and inserted Obama’s name for Newt. ”
You did?? Really?? That’s just so…. astounding!!!!!
Excuse me while I drop off the blog for a while to absorb the implications of such an unparalleled insight…..
hryder
March 29th, 2012
10:03 am
Yes, Newt has become irrelevant. This does not alter the given reason that his ideas are not close to reality. This not being cognizant with reality is also true of Obama. Why the lack of most of the political news media seemingly being incapable of reporting this lack? Could this be bias? It is time to VOTE OUT ALL INCUMBENT ELECTED OFFICE HOLDERS IN THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS!
Finn McCool (Class Warfare === Stopping Rich People from TAKING MORE of OUR MONEY)
March 29th, 2012
10:03 am
Who among you will help pay off Newtie’s debt? Pony up, Cons.
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:03 am
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/03/gop_delegate_race_an_animation_of_the_2012_republican_nomination_fight_as_a_horse_race_.html
JamVet
March 29th, 2012
10:04 am
Poor Newt, he loved his country so much, that bad things happened to him.
And as such, is the very poster boy for the Party of No Personal Responsibility…
Finn McCool (Class Warfare === Stopping Rich People from TAKING MORE of OUR MONEY)
March 29th, 2012
10:04 am
Newt 2012 Book Tour begins in 3…2…1…
Mick
March 29th, 2012
10:04 am
rb
**Nothing but hatred spewed on the man from that keyboard week after week after week.**
That’s pretty funny coming from someone like you! What did dandy don used to say? Turn out the lights, the party’s over newtster, don’t let the door hit you on the way out…
Doggone/GA
March 29th, 2012
10:04 am
“Despite signing a law the “defends” “family values” by defining what marriage is”
Nope, it doesn’t do that either. I merely restricts marriage. It has nothing to do with family values.
Paul
March 29th, 2012
10:05 am
Question is, what will Newt come up with next to attempt to show he has some credibility? He’s been thru gas prices, hauling judges before Congress, moon bases and a few other winners. The next one ought to be quite dazzling.
They BOTH suck
March 29th, 2012
10:05 am
$1.80 gas
But, but, but I heard that GWB talked the price down……… He spoke from on high and the price at the pumps automatically rolled back
It was reminiscent of Moses parting the Red Sea or something like that
Recon 0311 2533
March 29th, 2012
10:05 am
Becky, I think you may be so blinded by such a deep contempt for this man that anything that’s said complimentary about him you refuse to accept.
ZoSo
March 29th, 2012
10:06 am
Adam @ 9;56
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/obama_and_democrats_health_care_plan-1130.html
seems clear to me
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:06 am
oops, long link FTL
TaxPayer
March 29th, 2012
10:06 am
Newt could sell off Callista’s Tiffany collection to fund his campaign. She wouldn’t mind.
Doggone/GA
March 29th, 2012
10:06 am
“Newt 2012 Book Tour begins in 3…2…1″
Don’t you mean continues?
Finn McCool (Class Warfare === Stopping Rich People from TAKING MORE of OUR MONEY)
March 29th, 2012
10:06 am
No Moon Base?
aighahahahahahaha!………wincing…..thrashing of nails…….
Say it ain’t so!!!!!
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:07 am
ZoSo: That’s because you are looking only at the surface. Why don’t you take a look at the graph you obviously did not look at?
ty webb
March 29th, 2012
10:08 am
ah yes, it restricts marriage to one man…one woman…and one intern.
They BOTH suck
March 29th, 2012
10:08 am
“Poor Newt, he loved his country so much, that bad things happened to him.”
What did Newt say
“There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate. ”
Yeah boy………… Big talk, little walk
ZoSo
March 29th, 2012
10:09 am
I did look at it Adam. Look at the first column.
There are parts of the healthcare bill that I hope are kept. The indivudual mandate is not one of them.
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
10:10 am
I’m sorry: “$2.50-a-gallon gas” is not an idea
No need to apologize. Enjoy this; you’ve earned it, Jay.
Georgia’s Dumb and Dumber dual candidates of dipstickery
Somewhere, William Safire is smiling.
Don't Tread
March 29th, 2012
10:11 am
“The contempt that he showered upon opponents in public life was reflected in his private life as well”
Never met the guy, but that’s also the vibe I get – he was probably not fun to be around. I get the same vibe from Obama, despite his attempts at polish and sugarcoating. Pelosi, Reid, Romney, Santorum, both Bushes and a host of others come to mind as well. Is it environmental, or is it that people with this pre-existing mindset naturally gravitate to politics?
Doggone/GA
March 29th, 2012
10:11 am
“ah yes, it restricts marriage to one man…one woman…and one intern”
Gonna be a LOT of joyful people around when they find out that a 3 way is embodied in that law!
gm
March 29th, 2012
10:12 am
But wait, what does this say about the idiots of the conservative party in Georgia who voted for him? Why do the rest of the USA conservatives know something that the idiots of Georgia dont?
Hey Newt, how did all those racial comments you made work for you? or the $2.50 gallon work, Deal and Sonny backed this loser and you wonder why no one takes Georgia conservative serious.
Finn McCool (Class Warfare === Stopping Rich People from TAKING MORE of OUR MONEY)
March 29th, 2012
10:12 am
“There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.
Example Numero Uno of the Party of No Responsibility.
They BOTH suck
March 29th, 2012
10:12 am
Don’t Tread @ 10:11
You might be on to something
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
10:14 am
Oh, and since someone needs to be a scold, I’ll do it…
[Newt] got a lot farther than [Jay] ever did (or could have).
Let’s see—Jay has a wife and family who, I’m gonna stick my neck out here, love him and can trust him. He has colleagues who admire his work, and his work ethic.
That puts him miles ahead of that disgusting, lying little has-been whose fetid water you’re carrying, Mister “I’m-such-a-big-deal-of-a-Christian-it-hurts!”
Oscar
March 29th, 2012
10:14 am
I guess his downfall started when Clinton made him get off the back door of that plane. Never recovered from the public’s reaction to his response to that.
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:14 am
ZoSo: JUST looking at the first column is intellectually dishonest. But thank you for at least pretending to make an attempt to see my point.
Normal, Plain and Simple
March 29th, 2012
10:14 am
Paul
March 29th, 2012
10:05 am
He will join the Mormon Church and talk up polygamy…it’s in his blood…
man behind the curtain
March 29th, 2012
10:15 am
“I just loved a’marryin’, I mean America so much…..that I did bad things to gain her attention and show her my love.”
Finn McCool (Class Warfare === Stopping Rich People from TAKING MORE of OUR MONEY)
March 29th, 2012
10:15 am
Jay, I hope you publish this in the AJC. Good work.
timbo
March 29th, 2012
10:15 am
ZoSo,
What are you doing just looking ‘at the surface’? You must look at the graphs, they tell the story. Don’t look at just numbers. Only graphs can tell the story. And pie charts, those are really colorful. I myself like the 3D graphs where they do shading to make it look like they are coming right off the paper. And they have to be in color. Black and white pie charts don’t tell the whole story. And PowerPoint presentation pie charts! Now those really tell you the story.
They BOTH suck
March 29th, 2012
10:15 am
Since he loves to hear himself talk so much about his “BIG IDEAS”
Those of American Indian descent probably call him “Babbling Bear: the one with many fork tongues that change with the season”
Wade Hampton
March 29th, 2012
10:15 am
Not unlike ColdPlay, Collective Soul, proggies, and/or Bill and Shillery Clinton…………….you will NEVER stop seeing and listening to Moonshoot Newt.
.
That eighth admendment thing is ignored like all of the rest of them.
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:16 am
Doggone: I dunno, having a 3 way marriage built into law might cause the 3rd wheel to want more rights. We wouldn’t want that
carlosgvv
March 29th, 2012
10:16 am
Students of history know to beware of those who have a “sense of personal destiny” and use politics as their vehicle. History is filled with characters like this who fulfill their destiny at the brutal expense of the people. George W. Bush had such a sense of personal destiny that he actually thought God wanted him to be President. We paid a huge price for his success, most painfully in blood and treasure fighting his useless wars. We are still paying. Consider it a blessing Gingrich apparently won’t succeed and hope Obama and Romney don’t have such feelings.
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:17 am
And btw, here’s the entire poll that graph is based on, with NUMBERS to look at! GASP!
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/03/27/us/03272012_polling_doc.html
Don't Forget
March 29th, 2012
10:17 am
This has been missed by most yesterday:
On Wednesday, Reps. Jim Cooper and Steve LaTourette managed to put Simpson-Bowles to a vote before the House of Representatives. It didn’t just fail. It got crushed. The final tally was 382-38. Twenty-two of the supporters were Democrats, while 16 were Republicans. But overall, the rejection was overwhelming, and overwhelmingly bipartisan.
Wade Hampton
March 29th, 2012
10:17 am
And @ 10:01———–Newt AIN’T from Georgia.
.
He’s a dang yank.
ty webb
March 29th, 2012
10:18 am
“or is it that people with this pre-existing mindset naturally gravitate to politics?”
Ding ding! Great point! It’s called egotism. Afterall, the ones who run for president think they can be “leader of the free world”.
Oscar
March 29th, 2012
10:20 am
Wade Hampton
March 29th, 2012
10:17 am
And @ 10:01———–Newt AIN’T from Georgia.
.
He’s a dang yank.
_______
Last I heard he had lived in Virginia the last few years. Why do they keep saying he is from Georgia. Thought we were done with him years ago.
allen981
March 29th, 2012
10:21 am
I covered Newt as a local reporter in his early campaigns. He was arrogant and dismissive then, and despite his intellect and ideas, I personally couldn’t stand him. He would make you think he was your best friend, then ignore and insult you two weeks later.
His persistence was his greatest strength, and once elected, he knew how to pull the levers correctly to stay elected.
It is a blessing that he’s done, because had he, by some miracle, been the Republican nominee, it would have ensured Obama’s reelection.
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:21 am
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/03/27/us/03272012_polling_doc.html
And with this poll, those who would argue that a majority of Americans are against the whole law and want it struck down are speechless, and those that say a majority are against the mandate are correct – showing that people want all of the benefits of the health care law without having enough “personal responsibility” to pay for any of it.
ZoSo
March 29th, 2012
10:21 am
Adam,
Intellectually honest? Look at the link I sent where the vast majority of the polls taken are opposed. Your statement: “Let’s then move on to the “most Americans don’t want the health care law”. Now who’s being intellectually dishonest? We all know something needs to be done, but this bill is not it as is demonstrated by these poll numbers.
too little time
March 29th, 2012
10:23 am
Adam wrote: Let’s be clear – if you base your entire platform, or most of it, on having to LIE in order to get your way, that’s built on a house of cards. It will come down eventually, no matter how skilled you are at stacking those cards. Let’s also be clear, I’m talking about THE RIGHT.
One word: “Obamacare” .
A 2700 page piece of legislation that nobody read , funded by an unconstitutional mandate with a projected budget based on accounting gimmicks, passed in the middle of the night via a “pass and deem” partisan vote that takes control of 15% of the economy. Pushed by a President who declared that this would save money.
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:23 am
And btw, that poll has historical numbers also, going back to just after passage of the bill. So if you’re about to say “But that was just this week/today/recent/whatever,” you’ve just been caught NOT READING THE POLL and making up your opinion based on a preconceived notion.
Facts and figures. Ignore them. Stay ignorant, my friends.
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:26 am
ZoSo: As demonstrated by the numbers, this bill is in FACT the way to go. People don’t want “ObamaCare” by the majority, and don’t want “the mandate” by a majority (meaning they don’t want to have to pay for it). Everything else they want, by much larger majorities. “We all agree something has to be done” is incorrect, because I do not agree with that statement since something has ALREADY been done, and your representatives want to take it apart and not even bother replacing it.
They BOTH suck
March 29th, 2012
10:26 am
Zoso
Does most Americans not wanting the overall law as it stands in itself make the law illegal?
The SCJs are not looking at polls but legality? yes they could strike it down and I think there is a high probability that at least the mandate will be stuck down. I promise no matter how they decide, there will be no wording that deals with polls one way or the other
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:27 am
A … piece of legislation that nobody read
Bullsh*t. Prove it.
funded by an unconstitutional mandate
Bullsh*t. Prove it.
with a projected budget based on accounting gimmicks
Bullsh*t. Prove it.
ZoSo
March 29th, 2012
10:28 am
Adam, you said that the right was lying about this, How is this a lie when the facts and figures prove you wrong? People want some form of healthcare reform, they just don’t want this particular bill.
Common Sense isn't very Common
March 29th, 2012
10:28 am
Doggone/GA@
10:11 am
Gonna be a LOT of joyful people around when they find out that a 3 way is embodied in that law!
——————————————-
Are you one of the joyful?
Couldn’t resist LOL
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
10:31 am
On Wednesday, Reps. Jim Cooper and Steve LaTourette managed to put Simpson-Bowles to a vote before the House of Representatives. It didn’t just fail. It got crushed.
I know they weren’t specifically voting “no” to servile, corporate skank-ho’ –dom, but I’ll take it.
A 2700 page piece of legislation that nobody read
The proud anti-intellectualism, the “Ah ain’t botherin’ with nothin’ that can’t be ‘splained on the TeeVee in seven seconds!” continues apace I see.
timbo
March 29th, 2012
10:31 am
Adam-
Most Americans are against ObamaCare. Spin it anyway you like by posting graphs, charts, whatever you want. Reputable news sources have been reporting this for 2 years now. SCOTUS is going to throw it out, so all your whining is for nothing. We can’t afford it, it is unconstitutional, and the majority of folks don’t want it.
getalife
March 29th, 2012
10:32 am
The newt has always been a joke and Americans just proved it.
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:32 am
ZoSo: It’s a lie that Americans don’t want the health care law. Their responses to the provisions in it prove that they DO WANT THE LAW. How can I make this more clear to you? It’s like saying you don’t like peas, UNLESS someone gives them to you for free. Then they’re yummy.
What people don’t like is the concept of a law that is a straw man that a majority have bought into. What has happened here is people who say they don’t want the law do not realize what is actually in it, they just think there’s a ton of stuff in it that’s BAD BAD BAD HULK SMASH.
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
10:33 am
Spin it anyway you like by posting graphs, charts, whatever you want.
oh, that won’t be necessary. Obama will be out on the stump informing voters that his Gooper opponents are working tirelessly to deny you and yours with insurance coverage, and I suspect it won’t be a real tough case to make.
ZoSo
March 29th, 2012
10:33 am
they both suck
I’m not sure what your point is. Of course they shouldn’t be looking at polls. The individual mandate sets a very bad precedent if it passes.
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:34 am
stands: Pay no attention to the man on the ignore list
Doggone/GA
March 29th, 2012
10:34 am
“Are you one of the joyful”
I’ll never tell!
Doggone/GA
March 29th, 2012
10:35 am
“they just don’t want this particular bill”
Yep, a LOT of us wanted single payer
Normal, Plain and Simple
March 29th, 2012
10:35 am
I dunno, the individual mandate sounds fair to me. It’s no more or no less than like paying for the right to drive. Or mandatory car insurance. Everybody pays in and no one can scam the system. I don’t see the push back at all…
They BOTH suck
March 29th, 2012
10:36 am
Zoso
My point is that if for some reason the SC does not strike down the law, it could be an albatross around the Democrats neck at election time, but those polls will have not meant much……… because it will be the law
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:37 am
ZoSo: The individual mandate sets a very bad precedent if it passes.
Oh really? You mean like when the SCOTUS decided in both Wickard v. Filburn and United States v. Lopez that if you pull yourself out of the market, that affects interstate commerce, and therefore your personal growing of both wheat and marijuana can be regulated?
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
10:37 am
It’s no more or no less than like paying for the right to drive. Or mandatory car insurance.
but, but, but, only something like 90% of all Americans of working age own a car so that totally doesn’t count!
TM
March 29th, 2012
10:37 am
“I’m sorry: “$2.50-a-gallon gas” is not an idea, it is an ill-disguised pander inconsistent with reality”
Kinda like that “Hope and Change” idea?
Normal, Plain and Simple
March 29th, 2012
10:37 am
About the single payer thing…I posted this yesterday…one can hope, I guess…
http://www.thenation.com/blog/167071/if-mandate-fails-single-payer-awaits
USMC
March 29th, 2012
10:37 am
“The Gingrich political career, now at an end”–JAY BOOKMAN
What a stupid statement laced with HATE and ENVY….
Come on Jay, don’t let your petty little ego get in the way.
Quit envying what other people have.
TaxPayer
March 29th, 2012
10:37 am
Republicans just want to be left in peace to die in a cardboard box, free from mandate or any other telling them what to do. Personally I have no problem with that if they would just make arrangements in advance (and paid for from their own hard earned money) for Waste Management to come scoop them up before they start stinking up the place even worse. After all, the least a Republican could do is be considerate of others freedoms to smell clean air.
ZoSo
March 29th, 2012
10:37 am
Adam,
And how can I make this more clear to you? In it’s present form, the American people do not want this bill. Your statement was “the bill”, not a bill. Like I said, there are parts I like and I would be more than willing to pay more if it meant my daughter could stay on my insurance until she is 26. I would be willing to pay more fore covering pre-existing conditions.
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:38 am
ZoSo: In other words, the precedent of regulating people and things who are not “in the market” is already there.
They BOTH suck
March 29th, 2012
10:38 am
Since we are speaking of Newt…… he is on record as of 2009 backing a mandate……. Heritage foundation was pushing it as far back as 20 yrs ago
Things changed when it was pushed by Obama and the Democrats……
Newt went on to say…. uh, well… us I really meant state mandates………
But come June we will know what the SC says and if there is a strike down
I will want to know what the replace is in “repeal and replace”
mm
March 29th, 2012
10:38 am
“Adam, you said that the right was lying about this, How is this a lie when the facts and figures prove you wrong? People want some form of healthcare reform, they just don’t want this particular bill.”
If you righties think the repubs are going to do anything to improve healthcare in this country, I have a superbowl ready football team to sell ya. All they care about is the insurance companies profits. Actually, all they care about are companies, period. They don’t care about individuals. Wake up.
ty webb
March 29th, 2012
10:39 am
“than like paying for the right to drive.”
Driving is a privilege…other than that, your comment actually has no other legitimate point.
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:39 am
ZoSo: So if you would keep parts of the bill, would you agree that your representatives should look at ways to fix the problems that are in it, rather than repealing the entire thing?
Normal, Plain and Simple
March 29th, 2012
10:39 am
TM
March 29th, 2012
10:37 am
Nope. $2.50 gas is a pipe dream, but “hope and change” was doable…if everybody worked for the same purpose of making America better, but those pesky Republicans…they just don’t play well with others…
carlosgvv
March 29th, 2012
10:40 am
The black community is still demanding justice for Trayvon. For some reason, they haven’t said a word about justice for Irvin Jefferson. I wonder why that is?
Don Abernethy
March 29th, 2012
10:41 am
Gingrich’s political career may be ending but so is Obama’s.
mm
March 29th, 2012
10:42 am
So have you righties finally figured out that the repubs were not looking out for your best interest? They were merely trying to make Obama look bad.
They BOTH suck
March 29th, 2012
10:42 am
Zoso
Atlanta’s largest private employer which is just south of downtown is already offering their employees the option of keeping their children on until 26……
I know two very conservatives individuals who work there, they can’t stand Obama or Obamacare, but couldn’t sign up fast enough to insure their kids…..
If it wasn’t for the law and the employer being ahead of the game….. their kids would be purchasing much more expensive insure and not have any
But they still can’t stand Obama… and that is their choice even though they can’t see the hypocrisy in that particular issue
Butch Cassidy
March 29th, 2012
10:43 am
They BOTH Suck – “I will want to know what the replace is in “repeal and replace”
We touched on this yesterday. The overwhelming opinion was that “nothing” was better than Obamacare. I’m waiting for the the GOP to come out fully with their plan of “Repeal and Do Nothing” slogans for the General Election.
ZoSo
March 29th, 2012
10:43 am
Adam,
If this passes, what else will the government require us to buy? What other mandate will be called for?
stands for decibels
March 29th, 2012
10:44 am
Driving is a privilege…
And it’s pretty much a requirement, in America, for those of working age. Yes, there are exceptions. (and the ACA recognizes some exceptions.)
Do try again.
Ley
March 29th, 2012
10:44 am
The fact that Newt won the GA GOP Primary just shows how far out of the political mainstream GA is right now. We have become irrelevant in the national political picture for both Repubs and Dems.
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:44 am
Obamacare battles are is a lose-lose for the right: If the law gets struck down in whole or in part, it makes health insurance more expensive and repeals certain good provisions in the law. If the law remains, they lose because they spent all this time making the entire law all about Obama, handing him a win for the 2012 election.
ty webb
March 29th, 2012
10:45 am
“Do try again.”
okay, driving is a privilege.
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:46 am
If this passes, what else will the government require us to buy? What other mandate will be called for?
Nothing and none, respectively.
Butch Cassidy
March 29th, 2012
10:46 am
ZoSo – “What other mandate will be called for?”
If I recall correctly it will be the right of Primae Noctis.
Doggone/GA
March 29th, 2012
10:47 am
“The black community is still demanding justice for Trayvon. For some reason, they haven’t said a word about justice for Irvin Jefferson. I wonder why that is”
Because Trayvon is a symbol of injustice – just as the unknown soldier is a symbol of all soldiers who died in battle and whose names are lost to history.
Adam
March 29th, 2012
10:47 am
okay, driving is a privilege.
So is voting.