Shoot, Newt Gingrich would outsource management of a guest worker`

[Skidmore]

program to the credit card companies. Just said that now on Washington Journal.


Please someone call in and call him on his "rule of law" crap regarding Clinton. Said we're about rule of law and if we just let someone off because he's popular then we're headed down a slippery slope to some form of despotism. What about *, Newtie?

Please call in, if you can.

[salin]

1. my fairly conservative brother is beginning to be bothered by the

outsourcing. His big question is ... why are they helping move us to a service economy (which only concerns him now, because his kids are growing up and starting to consider various careers, which has made him wakeup to the changing economy.) My response resonated with him - as in stopped to make him think (something that hasn't happened in political discussions before)... that the pursuit of power and greed (more and more money) has moved some major figures to having allegiance to the pursuit of more power and money over allegiance to country.

That is a meme we should hone it on and repeat. To whom or what do these folks, like newt, have greater allegiance - to those pursuing great personal wealth or to the overall economic health of this country and this country's citizens.

[Yavin4]

3. "has moved some major figures to having allegiance to the pursuit..."

"has moved"??? Try moved a long, long time ago. China, that dirty Commie country, is now our number one supplier for all manufactured goods. They are the world's factory floor.

The global corporatists do not see nations. They only see pools of labor and what they costs.

[salin]

4. hey - I was trying to use language that would keep in engaged

in the conversation. For the past five years any political discussion (always introduced by him) quickly devolved into his turning off his brain and spewing rw talking points.

You are correct (per global corporatists) - but my bro (and folks like him) are just starting to catch a whiff that something is off... and while they may do okay in their old age (I got mine/syndrome) things are looking increasingly problamtic for their kids. Edging them into this realization with the question of allegiance... even if one has to frame it as a "power corrupts" type argument (as in happening over time... ) gets the question asked and pondered rather than discarded and responded to with familiar rw talking points. It was the most ground I had gained in getting my brother to start thinking and stop just accepting all things GOP as good for the country as I have had since bush was elected.

[napi21]

2. Yep, I'm listening to this turd right now!

I happen to think Newt is one of, if not THE MOST, dangerous Pub in the Country. We as Dems dislike him and don't trust him, and perhaps some of the extreme RW feel the same, but there's a LOT of others who like him. He's a very good speaker, and he has a charisma that comes across well on the TV camera.

I BET you're going to see this dangerous man go back into active politics, and he's going to be very difficult to defeat!