Newt Gingrich Is An #$%hole
Forgive my candor, but sometimes, the truth of one’s convictions cannot be conveyed accurately with any but vulgar argot.
Via DCDecoder, I ran into this gem from Gingrich’s victory speech in Georgia, addressing energy policy:
But the president had an alternative to drilling - and this is why debating him would be just one of those moments where you could almost sell tickets for charity. The president said we have to be practical, drilling won’t solve it. And then he offered his practical solution. Anyone here remember what it was? Algae.
This could possibly be one of the most infuriating things that Newt Gingrich has ever said. And he has an impressive catalog that defies even the most skilled archivist to index properly.
Gingrich is referring of course to oil-producing Algae that provide the most efficient bio fuel solution to date:
So far, researchers have been unable to create a process that is efficient enough to achieve cost parity with traditional sources of oil. But the implications of this technology are absolutely astounding. Imagine a world in which we can rely on an indefinitely renewable source of oil to meet our energy needs. No more blood and treasure wasted fighting over real estate in the middle east. No more giant shocks in oil prices whenever political unrest seizes a major oil-exporting country. The gains in political capital and national security alone are worth the candle.
The world runs on oil. There is a limited supply, and if history is any guide, the price will continue to rise. Meanwhile, research on renewable bio fuel sources continues, which will hopefully make the process more efficient, thereby reducing production costs. If both of these trends continue, there will come a time when cost parity between bio fuel production and traditional oil production becomes equal. When that happens, we will conceivably have a way out of our energy dilemma. Finally.
Think of it: a renewable technology that allows us to replace the blood oaths and hush-hush foreign policy deals that we rely on to meet our energy needs, with a natural, sustainable source of oil. We could scrap the oppressive network of global political relationships and unseemly compromises of humane values that litter our public policy when it comes to securing sources of oil for the largest economy in the world. The potential peace dividends alone are amazing to consider. And the opportunity to shed our dependence upon oppressive political regimes whose countries are blessed with fossil fuel is only too welcome a prospect.
For Newt Gingrich, a self-styled man of innovation and ideas, to denigrate one of the few promising technologies by which we could achieve these goals, and for mere political advantage, is the lowest, most disgusting form of political posturing. A textbook example of putting short-term political gain before the long-term good of his own country. This technology holds the promise of freeing us from inconvenient alliances with tyrants, while solving the dilemma of peak oil. A pipe dream that might be possible someday due to oil-producing algae, and similar renewable technologies.
Perhaps I’m totally off-base. I could simply be over-selling it this time around. I readily admit that I practically did a back-flip the day I found out about algae bio fuel and the promise it holds for a sustainable energy solution. I may simply be getting my hopes up without sufficient cause.
But one would at least think that the goals mentioned above were a bipartisan project; and that technologies which hold even the slightest promise of making them possible would find support on both sides of the political spectrum. That Newt Gingrich, a man who purports to be pro-business, could at least get behind that.
But apparently that’s not the case. Making Obama look bad is more important than solving our energy crisis.
Kudos Gingrich. Forsooth, I never thought I’d see the day when I found you to be an even bigger asshole than I thought previously. A herculean effort, to be sure. But you’ve exceeded my expectations. You have my sincerest lack of respect to date. And if there’s ever been a guarantor that you should never be anywhere near the Presidency, your most recent remarks have underwritten that proposition with exquisite profundity.
People who [awkwardly] support Ron Paul.
1. Rick Santorum’s nephew.
2. Five of Mitt Romney’s cousins. (…withholding the temptation to make a Mormon joke here…)
Now if only one of Newt Gingrich’s many wives would come forward in support of the good doctor, it’d make one hell of a public relations campaign.
Just in case somebody was planning on voting for Newt Gingrich…
(via darrellfalconburg)
Is having buyer’s remorse.
About my education. I should not have gone to college. If I had not gone to college. I would not have oppressing education debt. I also could have been working for solid 4 years before the economy went to pot. I also would not be over educated for my area, and there for have better luck finding work.
Why I choose not to go to my caucus
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I choose to skip the caucus. It makes no difference one way or the other who I would have voted for. The GOP has made it clear my wants means nothing. In the end Ron Paul will not be the nominee of the GOP. The insiders want a candidate that can be beat by Obama. Like Romney.
Voting now days is just an illusion of choice and meaningless. This country has no future for freedom. It is dead. USA RIP! Even if Ron Paul manages to get the delegates. It wont matter. They the political elite will do a bait and switch at the GOP convention. If he manages to beat that. Then they will make sure the in the general election. Obama wins threw voter fraud. Then make sure the court toes the line on side of the fraud. We have not had a choice for 50 years. Voting is meaningless.
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Gingrich betrayed Reagan
Gingrich says the American people don’t want a liberal governor from Massachusetts, for that he is right. But they also don’t want another liberal big government long time Congressman like him either.
Because the Gipper is not here to say, “There you go again!” to Mr. Gingrich, and because the choice of a new president is so critical to the nation today, it falls on us who served with Reagan and are still around to tell America the truth about Mr. Gingrich and his repeated attempts to thwart Reagan’s cornerstone achievement: the defeat of global tyranny in the form of the Soviet Union and the final rejection of communism as a failed experiment.
Although Mr. Gingrich was an unknown congressman after being elected in 1978, he was one of the very few Republicans who voted for the creation of the Department of Education under Jimmy Carter, a position Reagan abhorred and a central campaign whipping boy in the 1980 campaign. That telltale vote should have prepared us for Mr. Gingrich’s regular ridicules of the president, but we were too occupied with reversing Mr. Carter’s disastrous economic policies at the time to pay attention to a gadfly at the fringes. Nowadays, Reagan is universally appreciated as a hero of vision and determination, but at that time, the battles we fought were challenging, and popular opinion (at least as defined by Washington) often was against us.
The cocktail-party set thought capitalism was the past and socialism the future; they thought Reagan was provoking the Soviet Union when he should have been negotiating with them. The elect in Washington were against every tactic Reagan used to bring down the “evil empire,” and they were many: missiles in Europe aimed at the Soviet Union; research and propaganda for “Star Wars” defense; robust intelligence efforts in Central America, Central Europe and the Soviet Union; communication wars fought by new efforts at the U.S. Agency for International Development, Voice of America and Radio Marti; giant increases in the withered defense and intelligence budgets.
Colleagues such as William J. Casey, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick and Caspar Weinberger were heroes on the front lines of this effort, and they would have lambasted Mr. Gingrich at his first self-serving attempt to attach himself to Reagan’s name. But they are no longer with us. They were our friends, and those of us who served with them cannot stand by and watch Mr. Gingrich claim that he was in any way a part of this noble effort that saved freedom on the face of this earth.
Mr. Gingrich called the Reagan administration’s efforts against the Soviet Union a failure. He went so far as to say that the president had “weak policies which are inadequate and will ultimately fail.” At other times he said the administration had “no strategies to defeat the empire … the burden of this failure must be placed first on President Reagan.” He called Reagan’s efforts to defeat communism in the Third World “pathetically incompetent.” Unbelievably, for the record, he said, “Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire’s challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail. … President Reagan is clearly failing.”
Cardinal-Designate Timothy Dolan “Skeptical” Of Obama’s Word (by GOPICYMI)
On CBS Cardinal-Designate Timothy Dolan discusses his conversations with Pres. Obama over the contraception issue (February 9, 2012)
Its rigged.
I have come to the conclusion. This election is rigged. Every time Ron Paul gets high in the caucuses and primaries. They recount the vote to were someone like Newt gets more votes.They do it until Ron Paul is marginalized.
It has happen in every state so far. There is no hope Ron Paul will get the party nomination. As the media and the people will not fight the crimes being put upon us. Most people don’t care how their person gets the nomination, even if it means there is illegal activity involved. Were the ends justify the means.
Our party nomination will most likely in my opinion will be Newt Gingridge. Romney will not get if, for some reason only. He is Mormon. Ron Paul of course will not get it because the system is gamed. Then you have a large amount of Evangelicals who are supporting Newt. Who are most likely backed by the National counsel of Churches.
Our nation is lost.
Troubles abound at special Las Vegas caucus
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Angry Ron Paul supporters overtook a special caucus Saturday night for religious voters who honor the Sabbath, prompting long lines, frantic GOP officials and voter fraud complaints.
The Las Vegas caucus was supposed to start hours after the rest of the state concluded its Republican presidential caucuses. But party officials were still frantically trying to sign in voters an hour after it was scheduled to start, further delaying election results from Nevada’s most populous county.
Part of the trouble was some Paul supporters told voters they could show up for the late-night caucus at a suburban Jewish private school for whatever reason. But voters could only participate if they signed a declaration affirming that they couldn’t vote during the regular morning caucuses because of their faith.
Most supporters signed the declaration without hesitation, after confirming to an Associated Press reporter that they had missed the earlier caucuses for other reasons.
Stay-at-home mother Cindy Koogler, 33, said she tried to vote in the morning, but was turned away after arriving an hour late because she was caring for her young son. A Paul supporter told her about the Saturday night caucus.
“When you have a kid and he’s in the middle of potty-training, you can’t take him with you,” she said of the morning vote.
Koogler said she signed the declaration saying she was a religious voter and was not questioned.
But one Paul supporter refused to go along with the ruse, saying Republican leaders were encouraging voters to perjure themselves and refusing to move from the head of the line as Jewish rabbis, families with young children and elderly voters patiently waited in line behind him to be allowed into the caucus location.
“People are lying as they are walking in,” the protester, high school teacher Stephen McLancon, yelled at organizers. “You are setting them up to lie.”
Clark County GOP chair David Gibbs said he wasn’t sure how officials would address the voters who weren’t actually there because of the Sabbath, adding that it was up to each person to tell the truth.
“They have to make that decision for themselves when they sign it,” Gibbs said.
The Paul surge paid off. He won the special caucus with 183 votes. Romney came in second with 61, Gingrich had 57 and Santorum had 16 votes.
The unprecedented contest for religious voters who observe Saturday as a holy day was intended as a sign of inclusivity as Republicans court Jewish voters ahead of the November general election. But it also added to various delays in the release of the election results in Clark County, where most Nevada Republicans live, because local GOP officials refused to provide vote tallies until all ballots had been cast.
Adding to the intrigue was the fact that the school was founded by and named after casino titan and Jewish activist Sheldon Adelson, who has prolonged Newt Gingrich’s struggling campaign by pumping $10 million into a pro-Gingrich super PAC. GOP officials said Adelson came up with the idea for the special caucus last month, but he denied it.
Adelson, who is not an orthodox Jew, sat at the front of the school auditorium where the vote was held with his wife, only days after his spokesman told reporters they would not attend the caucus because the couple could vote in the morning.
To fight off accusations of foul play, party officials asked voters to sign the declaration and essentially promise there would be no funny business. Campaign operatives for Mitt Romney and Paul had expressed concern in recent weeks that the alternative caucus would allow people to manipulate the election results by voting twice.
After the ballots were turned in, about hundred voters stayed and watched as Gibbs counted and added up the results. Many of them were Paul supporters, and they cheered each time his name was called indicating that he had won a vote.
A separate vote for religious voters is largely unheard of, but that’s likely because many states provide alternative ballots for voters who can’t make it on the official Election Day. For example, South Carolina also held its presidential nominating contest last month on a Saturday, but the state-run primary election allowed for absentee voting.
In Nevada, the caucuses are organized and overseen by party officials, not the government. Saturday morning was the only opportunity most Republicans had to cast ballots. Democrats in Nevada held their caucuses Jan. 21.
There are roughly 74,000 Nevadans who identify as Jewish, or 2.8 percent of the state, according to 2010 Census data. It’s unclear how many of those people identify as Republican or observe the Sabbath.
The caucus served somewhat as a welcome party to Jewish voters ahead of the November general election. In recent months, Republicans have stressed that Jewish voters are unhappy with President Barack Obama’s stance on Israel and the Middle East, and the GOP is eager to use that dissonance to attract new voters to their ticket.
Jewish voters, long considered a safe Democratic voting bloc, are increasingly leaning Republican, according to an analysis released this week by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. It found that Jewish voters favored Democrats by a 36-point margin in 2011, compared with a 52-point margin in 2008.
Copyright © 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Casino billionaire behind Gingrich exposed by WikiLeaks
Cable describes shutdown of a $100 million Adelson nonprofit in Beijing and refers to “missteps” in China
We’ve learned this election cycle that casino magnate Sheldon Adelson isn’t afraid to throw around vast sums of money to get what he wants — he and his family have given at least $11 million to help the Newt Gingrich campaign.
It hasn’t gotten any notice since Adelson became a player in presidential politics, but it turns out that the trove of diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks contains an interesting anecdote about how Adelson aggressively promoted his casino and hotel business in the Chinese territory of Macau — and a run-in he had with the central government in Beijing.
First, some context. The news broke last March that Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corp. is under federal investigation into whether it has complied with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The act makes it illegal to bribe foreign officials to obtain business deals.
Newt Gingrich, The Grinch Who Stole Conservatism (by Vitacore)
The Conservative Case Against Newt Gingrich
Hey Obama! Forcing Children to Stay in School Is a Confession of Epic Failure! (by stefbot)
Repeat after me everyone — children are not to be used as hostages, children are not to be used as hostages…
A review of the recent State of the Union address by Barack Obama, and some notes on the scandal emanating from everyone’s favorite Pillsbury doughbag from hell, Newt Gingrich. Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - http://www.freedomainradio.com
