News flash! Newt opposes billionaires buying elections!
Writing in Human Events, Newt Gingrich condemns a plan by Karl Rove to raise a lot of money from billionaires and intervene in GOP primaries on behalf of more mainstream, supposedly more electable candidates:
“I am unalterably opposed to a bunch of billionaires financing a boss to pick candidates in 50 states. This is the opposite of the Republican tradition of freedom and grassroots small-town conservatism.
No one person is smart enough nor do they have the moral right to buy nominations across the country.
That is the system of Tammany Hall and the Chicago machine. It should be repugnant to every conservative and every Republican.”
Newt, have you met this man?
His name is Sheldon Adelson. I would have thought that you two knew each other, but apparently not. (Look again … is it the sunglasses throwing you off?)
However, as a man who is “unalterably opposed” to the notion of billionaires buying elections, you should know that Adelson — a casino owner with an estimated net worth of more than $20 billion — gave you and your associated SuperPACS some $30 million in an effort to buy you, Newt Gingrich, the 2012 GOP nomination.
And after you imploded — who saw that one coming, right? — Adelson reportedly went on to give an additional $100 million to other SuperPACs, including up to $40 million to those run by Rove.
Knowing how you feel about such things, I’m sure you’re deeply embarrassed that you let such a thing happen. Say hi to Callista!
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Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 20th, 2013
9:31 pm
Dance betty, dance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WZ33w3B8Hw
getalife
February 20th, 2013
9:31 pm
How many walls del?
Marty Huggins'
February 20th, 2013
9:31 pm
Real Scootter
February 20th, 2013
8:53 pm
Put up what?
Recon 0311 2533
February 20th, 2013
9:32 pm
betty,
Economics has never been the lefts strong suit but Paul Krugman loves it because he can pretend to be an economist in their eyes.
Look before I leap...
February 20th, 2013
9:32 pm
“Obama could have them swimming in a pool full of poop ”
Would you not agree that a swimming pool full of poop is better than the ocean of fecal matter left by the previous administration?
moonbat betty
February 20th, 2013
9:33 pm
dance, Kam, dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb1cpSJtIqM
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 20th, 2013
9:35 pm
Dance betty, dance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5mtclwloEQ
Thulsa Doom
February 20th, 2013
9:35 pm
Look before I leap,
You coulda just said when its cold its global warming and when its hot its global warming. See how easy that is?
moonbat betty
February 20th, 2013
9:36 pm
Recon,
Jackie
February 20th, 2013
9:36 pm
The biography of Paul Krugman
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2008/krugman.html
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 20th, 2013
9:37 pm
http://static1.firedoglake.com/29/files/2012/08/PaulKrugman_Tired.jpg
moonbat betty
February 20th, 2013
9:40 pm
Kam, don’t bring Fred into this.
Dance Kam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj9_yW8tZxs
Look before I leap...
February 20th, 2013
9:40 pm
“Economics has never been the lefts strong suit…”
Interesting article on the US economy and presidential administrations.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2012/10/10/want-a-better-economy-history-says-vote-democrat/
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 20th, 2013
9:40 pm
Dance betty, dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGNiXGX2nLU
Thulsa Doom
February 20th, 2013
9:42 pm
“Mar 25, 2011 – Right now, deficits don’t matter — a point borne out by all the evidence.”- Paul Krugman. I reckon he musta been separated at birth from Cheney.
Soothsayer
February 20th, 2013
9:42 pm
Could it be . . . ? Nah!
Real Scootter
February 20th, 2013
9:44 pm
Dance betty, dance.
Kam,that was awesome!!!!
You and Jam have my vote for Blog DJs.(if I can figure out how to get it on the new site) Whew!
Useless Bookman
February 20th, 2013
9:45 pm
Doggone/GA
“They dont have anything else to do”
Like people who have nothing to do but notice how often others post to a blog?
Its really easy to scroll… And it certainly don’t take a rocket scientist to get around Bookmans failed block.
Which reminds me of what I had to say when he so rudely cut me off last night and he cut me off last night.
When people talk about dolphins being smarter than humans I usually just roll my eyes. But then I come on this blog and read what libs are saying and it makes sense.
Thulsa Doom
February 20th, 2013
9:46 pm
“Would you not agree that a swimming pool full of poop is better than the ocean of fecal matter left by the previous administration?”
Look before I leap,
You coulda just everything is W’s fault.
Recon 0311 2533
February 20th, 2013
9:47 pm
Ummm, Steve Forbes has contributors of differing economic and political persuasions. Hartung has written things that I agree with and many things I disagree with.
moonbat betty
February 20th, 2013
9:47 pm
dance kam dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqGXM23WUbs
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 20th, 2013
9:49 pm
Dance betty, dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwb9-OlQimc
getalife
February 20th, 2013
9:51 pm
How many rw economic experts predicted the collapse.
Zero.
appleseed
February 20th, 2013
9:51 pm
centimeter little less than1/4 inch. or about 3 centimeters in an inch. I suppose that about the size #8 buckshot.
Brosephus™
February 20th, 2013
9:52 pm
Marty
Haven’t been around any explosions, but I’ve seen quite a few shootings, even to the point of having birdshot falling on me like it was raining. Those kind of things you never forget. The sight of someone getting shot point blank isn’t easy to forget either.
I’ve never had to shoot anyone, and I’m hoping that I won’t have to do so either. That said, if I’m in the situation where I need to, I hope my training kicks in like instinct and I’m able to survive and do my reports like I’m trained to do.
I have a friend who’s played Europe and Russia. From what he’s told me, I’ll let y’all have that to yourselves.
————–
Recon
I witnessed it for the first time when I was at the academy. We didn’t lose a single female in our class to firearms quals. It is indeed a sight to behold, even better when you’re doing the teaching and can see the results right in front of you.
moonbat betty
February 20th, 2013
9:53 pm
Geez, Kam
OK Kam
Dance your heart out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmAYwGw_eDI
Brosephus™
February 20th, 2013
9:53 pm
Y’all have fun. Gotta catch a nap when I can right about now.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 20th, 2013
9:55 pm
Dance betty, dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z7fV-wB2z8
Look before I leap...
February 20th, 2013
9:55 pm
@Thulsa
Correct me if I am wrong, but did you not infer that people who think global warming is actually occurring are kooks?
“And the global warming kooks on the Bookman blog say “What””
And correct me again if I am wrong, but did you not intend to indicate that global warming could not be true due to the fact that it is snowing on a mountain, in southern AZ, in February as proof?
BTW the Accenture is being played in Marana, not Scottsdale.
JamVet
February 20th, 2013
9:56 pm
No doubt, Look. This sucker could go down. does not fit in a swimming pool!
Hemorrhaging gawd knows how many jobs and TRILLIONS of dollars. Gone. In no time flat.
Welcome to Compassionate Conservatism. Wall Street and K Street style.
And Christian Conservative seems bent on going out in the same imploding fashion. Only to come back in some even more degraded form!
Maybe some music will soothe his savage breast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h11GolBkh8
Thulsa Doom
February 20th, 2013
9:56 pm
“When people talk about dolphins being smarter than humans I usually just roll my eyes. But then I come on this blog and read what libs are saying and it makes sense.”
Definitely deserving of a
B
O
O
M
!
moonbat betty
February 20th, 2013
10:01 pm
anyone can dance to this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRadA7074wk
Marty Huggins'
February 20th, 2013
10:01 pm
Brosephus™
February 20th, 2013
9:52 pm
In playing professionally for 6 years and in about 25-30 countries I have seen the best and the very worst of society.
We have problems here at home but I have found it better than any of the alternatives I’ve been able to see first hand.
Real Scootter
February 20th, 2013
10:02 pm
Here’s to Kam and moonbat!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBu8h1Js5Fg
A little blast from the past.
Recon 0311 2533
February 20th, 2013
10:03 pm
Well y’all it’s about time to get my 6 or 7 in before the time to get my little girl up for school, she’s sound asleep now. If someone had told me seven years ago at my age what lay ahead in my near future I would have rolled on the floor in laughter. Sometimes I wonder if the good Lord loves me or is punishing me. Based on the joy he must love me, though if that’s true, I’m undeserving. Taps
Look before I leap...
February 20th, 2013
10:05 pm
@recon 2533
I don’t find Hartung to be particularly partisan.
He is a numbers guy (which makes him near and dear to my heart).
An analysis I did sometime ago actually indicates that the US economy performs best under Democratic administrations with Republican control of the House – the Senate demographics seem to have little impact one way or the other.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 20th, 2013
10:06 pm
Thanks Scootter.
Back atcha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjRD5u0MOVU
moonbat betty
February 20th, 2013
10:06 pm
Real Scootter,
I like.
You are a gentle soul.
Now, can I get back to out-dancing Kam?
getalife
February 20th, 2013
10:06 pm
Collapsed the economy, blew up the deficit, lost two occupations, etc..
Yeah, you cons are really not very intelligent but your arrogance is way up there.
We need a new word for these fake blowhards.
Lets call them bushers.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 20th, 2013
10:07 pm
Dance betty, dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOK7jSATMa0
Thulsa Doom
February 20th, 2013
10:10 pm
“Correct me if I am wrong, but did you not infer that people who think global warming is actually occurring are kooks?”- Look before I leap
First of all I imply and you infer. Got it? That’s the first correction.
Secondly I did not imply that people who think that global warming is occurring are kooks- I believe I said the Bookman kooks which would denote that I am speaking specifically of SOME of the kooks on his blog.
I myself happen to believe that the earth is in a slight warming trend. Where I and other rational people and many scientists disagree with the chicken little crowd is if and how much of the warming trend is directly attributable to man made activities.
“And correct me again if I am wrong, but did you not intend to indicate that global warming could not be true due to the fact that it is snowing on a mountain, in southern AZ, in February as proof?”
Um. No. Frankly I’m a little disappointed in you that you can’t pick up on the satire of the point- which is that its foolish to use one day weather events to point out a case for long term weather patterns. I used this in a mocking point of all the Kook claims that we’ve seen on here as evidence of global warming every time there is a one day weather event that they think proves global warming. My apologies. I forgot to use my patented kd (kook disclaimer) to point out satire to the liberals who usually don’t get it. And sure enough you didn’t get it.
Look before I leap...
February 20th, 2013
10:11 pm
@Doom
I did not say everything was W’s fault.
Orange13
February 20th, 2013
10:12 pm
Getalife,
Who blew up the deficit?
Ken
February 20th, 2013
10:14 pm
But Obama takes tax payers money to buy votes !!!!!!!!!!!! That ok Jay ?? Two billion dollars for Obama phones !!! Billions for GM UAW votes !!!
moonbat betty
February 20th, 2013
10:14 pm
Dance, Kam, dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR8D2yqgQ1U
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 20th, 2013
10:15 pm
Dance betty, dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXfXTB7UcuU
getalife
February 20th, 2013
10:18 pm
Orange,
w had a surplus and blew out the deficit. Fact.
JamVet
February 20th, 2013
10:19 pm
Who blew up the deficit?
Originally?
Ronald Reagan.
By a country light year…
комиссар (Occupation)
February 20th, 2013
10:19 pm
“Economics has never been the lefts strong suit ..”
Chuckle, chuckle …
Orange13
February 20th, 2013
10:20 pm
Getalife,
Obama has added close to 6 Trillion to the National Deficit in his first 4 years. Fact.
Soothsayer
February 20th, 2013
10:20 pm
What you talkin’ ’bout?
getalife
February 20th, 2013
10:22 pm
ken,
How much did the nation building cost?
Here a hint:
Trillions.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 20th, 2013
10:22 pm
Deficits?
Did someone mention deficits?
Which brings us to the economic level. The deficits that Bush ran up in the years in which the country was teetering on the verge of a serious recession had the beneficial effect of righting the economy. In that sense, deficits not only didn’t matter, but were a force for economic good.
Translation: IOKIYAR
getalife
February 20th, 2013
10:23 pm
Orange,
Bailouts are not free.
getalife
February 20th, 2013
10:24 pm
Deficits did not matter until the gop lost.
Orange13
February 20th, 2013
10:24 pm
Getalife,
“How much did the nation building cost?”
Whose nation are you referring to? China?
Look before I leap...
February 20th, 2013
10:25 pm
@Doom:
“And the global warming kooks on the Bookman …”
Thanks for the grammar lesson. It was the only intellectually honest thing in your post.
The attempt to pass off snark as satire did make me smile though.
td
February 20th, 2013
10:26 pm
JamVet
February 20th, 2013
10:19 pm
Who blew up the deficit?
Originally?
Ronald Reagan.
By a country light year…
You progressives can not have it both ways. If it is only Congress that can cut spending under Obama then it was only the Democratic Congress during the Regan years that blew up the debt and the Democratic Congress under the last year of GWB and the first two years of Obama that blew up the debt this time.
getalife
February 20th, 2013
10:27 pm
Orange,
Iraq and Afghanistan.
Here is a hint.
Trillions.
Orange13
February 20th, 2013
10:28 pm
Getalife,
“Deficits did not matter until the gop lost.”
That’s BS, of course they do. I don”t agree with the Bush economics. But the Obama economics have just about pushed us over the edge. Don’t you think?
getalife
February 20th, 2013
10:30 pm
Don’t you think?
Nope,. steady job growth until the sequester.
You can shut up about the economy job killers.
Thulsa Doom
February 20th, 2013
10:30 pm
“Thanks for the grammar lesson.”
You’re welcome
“It was the only intellectually honest thing in your post.”
Sez the poster who seems to think global warming is proven science.
“The attempt to pass off snark as satire did make me smile though.”
Don’t hate the playa. Hate the game.
Orange13
February 20th, 2013
10:33 pm
Getalife,
Once again. Here you go.
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
It’s not going backwards.
Thulsa Doom
February 20th, 2013
10:33 pm
Good grief. Bunnies trying to talk all economical stuff. Fun- knee.
Orange13
February 20th, 2013
10:35 pm
Getalife,
Come on. Tell me that clock is a lie.
Thulsa Doom
February 20th, 2013
10:35 pm
Oh noes. The national debt clock. Its to libs what garlic is to a vampire.
Who am I kidding? They don’t give a sheet about the debt. Debt? What debt the kooks say?
getalife
February 20th, 2013
10:35 pm
You blew your chance cons.
Get to the back of the bus and be the silent tiny minority.
getalife
February 20th, 2013
10:36 pm
Deficits don’t matter.
Jm
February 20th, 2013
10:37 pm
Funny blog post jay
Newt will say anything
And everything
Jm
February 20th, 2013
10:38 pm
Get 10:36
Tell that to Greece
Orange13
February 20th, 2013
10:38 pm
Getalife,
Come on. You can come up with something a little more plausable than “get to the back of the bus” can’t you?
moonbat betty
February 20th, 2013
10:40 pm
Dance once again, Kam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEfg6XU9tdQ
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 20th, 2013
10:40 pm
Come on. You can come up with something a little more plausable than “
get to the back of the busI don”t agree with the Bush economics.” can’t you?Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 20th, 2013
10:41 pm
Dance betty, dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o4_IsY8jTc
getalife
February 20th, 2013
10:42 pm
Orange,
How about fight your lil civil war with the establishment and let the adults solve our problems.
Orange13
February 20th, 2013
10:44 pm
Getalife,
This isn’t 1861. When is Obama going to show some leadership?
JamVet
February 20th, 2013
10:45 pm
Of course, td; they were spineless enough to give him pretty much the budget he asked for. Every time, if memory serves.
Duh?!
BOTH Parties are spendaholics. The Republicans and the Republican-lites. The only difference is that the GOP has gone berserk and damn near fascistic in this monied interests are god game.
Reaganomics/trickle down killed middle and lower class wages in this country (you can look it up!) but the Chamber of Commerce and the giant multinationals that have no loyalty this country (other than as an ATM) are doing great! Staggering record profits thank you very much!!
But you knew that.
But pay no attention to the record number of corporate crimes as well. Most, resulting in a slap on the wrist or completely unpunished by the compliant and complicit Uncle Sam…
But you knew that too.
The worst government that dirty money can buy…
getalife
February 20th, 2013
10:47 pm
“When is Obama going to show some leadership?”
Leader of the free world 2.
cons nothing.
Look before I leap...
February 20th, 2013
10:48 pm
@Doom
“Sez the poster who seems to think global warming is proven science.”
I am pretty sure I never said that.
I linked to an article that talks to some of the effects of global warming.
I am certainly open to a reasoned debate about the causes of the current cycle of warning.
Citations to reputable scientific study welcome – bald opinion – not so much.
Orange13
February 20th, 2013
10:48 pm
Getalife,
Nobody told you to dance. Just answer the question.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 20th, 2013
10:49 pm
When is Obama going to show some leadership?
Osama bin Laden says, “What?”
getalife
February 20th, 2013
10:49 pm
He led two victories over con bushers.
Orange13
February 20th, 2013
10:51 pm
“Leader of the free world 2.”
Two nuclear capable Russian bombers flew over Guam.
Chinese Army unleashes a potent cyber hack attack on USA.
Leader of the free world 2?
JamVet
February 20th, 2013
10:52 pm
Citations to reputable scientific study welcome – bald opinion – not so much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UbbFoEAE1I
JamVet
February 20th, 2013
10:54 pm
Orange, don’t get frightened.
The “libs” have become militarists and the war weary “cons” have gone soft!
Look before I leap...
February 20th, 2013
10:55 pm
Once again. Here you go.
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
It’s not going backwards.
The last time the national debt actually shrank was in the late 50’s
Top marginal tax rates were 91% too.
getalife
February 20th, 2013
10:55 pm
orange,
The gop said no to cyber security and Russia are just playing games.
putin is having health problems.
Orange13
February 20th, 2013
10:56 pm
Jam,
I’m not frightened. I just stated a couple of facts for Getalife’s benefit.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 20th, 2013
10:57 pm
The last time the national debt actually shrank was in the late 50’s
Top marginal tax rates were 91% too.
Union membership was at all time high around 35%.
Thulsa Doom
February 20th, 2013
10:57 pm
“I am pretty sure I never said that.”
You didn’t. Its just the impression that I get which is why I stated “it seems”
“I linked to an article that talks to some of the effects of global warming”
I get that. I’ve seen plenty of credible articles from both points of view regarding global warming and I’m more interested in the science as opposed to opinion. I’ll give you a good example. The hurricane that hit NJ and NY. I’ve seen a lot of nonsense from the left saying that this sort of “weirdness” in the weather of hurricanes hitting NY and NJ is proof of global warming wreaking all kinds of havoc. Then I saw a meterologist speak on it who predicted we would see several storms over the next 4-5 years that would roll up the northeastern corridor. The culprit was an ocean occilation of some sort and the same thing happened in the late 50s where several storms ran up the northeastern coast.
And as I said I believe we are in a slight warming trend. Why has not been ephatically proven and if its due to manmade activities we do not know exactly how much of it is due to our activities. That is the part that we don’t know for sure which several of the libs on here seem to think that we know with certainty. In other words their bald opinion.
getalife
February 20th, 2013
10:57 pm
We are a center left country now.
Orange13
February 20th, 2013
10:59 pm
Getalife,
“The gop said no to cyber security and Russia are just playing games.”
What? Proof please.
And you are saying bombers flew over Guam because Putin is sick. Does that pretty much sum up what you just posted?
moonbat betty
February 20th, 2013
11:00 pm
“We are a center left country now.”
FAAAAAAAA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsIuWn1xoYI
td
February 20th, 2013
11:01 pm
JamVet
February 20th, 2013
10:45 pm
Of course, td; they were spineless enough to give him pretty much the budget he asked for. Every time, if memory serves.
Duh?!
“BOTH Parties are spendaholics. The Republicans and the Republican-lites. The only difference is that the GOP has gone berserk and damn near fascistic in this monied interests are god game.”
Some truth to that statement.
“Reaganomics/trickle down killed middle and lower class wages in this country (you can look it up!) but the Chamber of Commerce and the giant multinationals that have no loyalty this country (other than as an ATM) are doing great! Staggering record profits thank you very much!! ”
You can believe that if you it makes you feel better but that does not mean it is true. Global competition and the break up of the family are the real factors of middle class wages being stagnate for the past 30 or so years. The single parent family is the cause of a great deal of our problems in this nation (there are exceptions). It is a problem that neither political party wants to address and until it is addressed and solved our underlying economic problems, education problems and criminal problems will not be resolved.
JamVet
February 20th, 2013
11:02 pm
Orange, OK. Bad choice of words on my part, sorry.
BHO has punked the post-Bush GOP repeatedly. National security is just one example.
They were completely wrong about him being some super-liberal, huh?. But then they seem to be doing a whole lot of misjudging of people (and isms) lately.
Thus, their expanding RINO problem…
getalife
February 20th, 2013
11:02 pm
Russia flew over Guam because we are shifting focus from the ME to that area.
Do you even bother to listen to our President?
If you did, you would not ask stupid questions.
moonbat betty
February 20th, 2013
11:02 pm
Come on, Kam.
$15.
Thulsa Doom
February 20th, 2013
11:04 pm
“The last time the national debt actually shrank was in the late 50’s
Top marginal tax rates were 91% too.”
Yes. But that’s also quite misleading seeing as how we were the world’s lone industrial power with Europe, Japan, and China’s industrial heartland of Manchuria all laid to waste. By the early 60s they were starting to catch up and it was so obvious the drag effect that the high taxes were having that a Democrat slashed those high tax rates to keep us competitive.
And if anyone thinks high capital gains taxes bring in high govt revenues on a consistent basis then all you have to do is look at the empirical evidence. Go back and look at the IRS tax tables from the 1920s through today and you will generally find that the lower the cap gains tax rate the higher govt revenues as a % of the economy. The ideal rate from what I’ve seen is around 20% max.
moonbat betty
February 20th, 2013
11:06 pm
getalife, do you get to drive your own drone?
Orange13
February 20th, 2013
11:08 pm
Getalife,
Yeah, I’ve been listening to him say that the impending sequester is the fault of the Republicans even though his party approved the sequester. Do you call that leadership?