**Newt Gingrich**

[Catherine Vincent]

Since he's back in the news lately, I just thought I'd post this oldie but goodie pic for chuckles.


http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2006/01/big_idea_for_bi.html

:-)

[Peanutcat]

1. ?

What's Newt up to now?

[Lex]

3. Didn't he call for Delay to step down

yesterday?

[havocmom]

5. Trying to look like a reformer. Apalled at the corruption in politics.

Giving DeLay a whole lotta pay back and thinking he finally got himself a wife who can be a First Lady...

He's gonna be a prime target around here for thinking we all forgot the damage he has done to America with his teaching the neocon choir to all sing lies together and on cue.

A newt is a small reptile which abhors light and exposure. evilDUers, you know what to do about his presidential asperations.

[H2O Man]

2. Thanks for that.

It's important to have a good supply of information on this vulture. While he had been disgraced a decade ago, Newt has more juice today than many democrats realize. He is planning to run for president in '08, and it is better not to consider him without the ability to influence national politics.

[Catherine Vincent]

7. You're welcome.

There's a lot of material out there on this snake. When he does run for president, he has a quote out there that should bury him. He said something about how whenever he would meet with Clinton, he'd melt and agree to everything the man says. The dems should turn the tables on the repukes and run that quote in the ground. They use silly stuff like that as if the name Clinton is taboo, well, we can do it too. Unfortunately it would be at the expense of my favorite president!

[TNOE]

4. Yep

Noticed he's been all over the news - but the ONE good thing about this - and I can only think of one - IS that he is really lambasting the current repub bunch saying how corrupt they are - so basically he is saying that HE'LL be different. Yea, right, um, what's he on now - Wife #3?

[Catherine Vincent]

9. Was that his plan all along?

He started all of this with the repuke party and had to resign in disgrace. Take a few years off and come back yelling how corrupt his party is so vote for him and the new republican.

[TNOE]

11. I doubt it

I think he just saw an opportunity for some pay-back.

[deminks]

6. I remember this well! Newt is trying to re-invent himself.

Trying to make himself into the morality tsar. We have memories like elephants, Newt baby, and we kick like donkeys.

:kick:

[PA Democrat]

8. Yes he's updated his "contract with America" to something more timely....

Contract ON America. Has a nice Republican ring to it doesn't it?

[stanwyck]

10. Newt is our Hillary

he raises more money for liberals than anyone. He's the man people love to hate. With good reason.
I will never forgive the man for blaming "liberals" for Susan Smith drowning her two young sons.
Yes. He really did blame liberals.
Nevermind that her Republican committeeman stepfather had been having sex with her since she was 14.
No. Liberals killed those two little boys.
This from a man who served his wife with divorce papers while she was in the hospital with cancer.
And who failed to pay his child support and was taken to court. Meanwhile, his children were supported by his wife's church.
Newt.
Please run for president. You're a dream come true for us.

[tnlefty]

12. Wasn't it Newt who called Smith's stepfather to inform him of what

had happened, and wasn't the stepfather out putting up Christian Coalition literature when Newt called him? Two disgusting poster boys for the "family values" crowd, huh.

[raysr]

13. Newt

"Clearly the system is much too biased in favor of incumbents," said the pol, who led the revolution that unseated more than 30 incumbent Democrats in 1994. Gingrich resigned from the House after the 1998 elections, but has pointedly not ruled out a campaign for the White House in 2008.

For veterans of congressional ethics scandals, Gingrich makes an unlikely champion of clean politics. It is Gingrich, after all, who still holds the distinction of being the only sitting House speaker to be disciplined by his colleagues for ethical wrongdoing. "Gingrich has a tremendous pot-calling-the-kettle-black problem," says Gary Ruskin, director of the Congressional Accountability Project, a watchdog group that hounded Gingrich during the 1990s. "This hardball fundraising strategy was started by Gingrich."

Before the 1994 election, several reports noted that Gingrich had been warning the heads of corporate political action committees to give generously to Republican candidates or face political retribution. It was a threat that soon became conventional wisdom, as Republican leaders built increasingly close ties to the lobbying community and more and more corporate funds found their way into Republican coffers. By 1996, Gingrich found himself saddled with a number of ethical problems similar in type, though not in scale, to the Abramoff scandal. He was accused of misusing nonprofit organizations for political purposes, personally benefiting from political contributions and giving false statements to ethics investigators. The House eventually voted to reprimand Gingrich and require him to pay a $300,000 penalty.

From Salon

[CatWoman]

14. Newt the Loser

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=54208&mesg_id=54208

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. Love that headline! Save it for '08 if babyface decides to run.

Forget it, Newt.

[JHB]

16. Newt is one of the most loathesome creatures to slither across...

...our body politic, at least in modern times and maybe in all 200+ years of American history.

He was one of the most agents in smashing political civility, in demonizing the opposition, and in extremely polarizing the body politic, mostly for his own gain.

Everything that people hate about modern politics should be dumped on his shoulders, to better maroon him on his own political Alactraz.

[happydreams]

17. Newt and Limbaugh sittin' in a tree

hatched a nasty little conspiracy:
to get the democrats on any ethics violation,
to make Clintons sex life look like a threat to the nation.

In early 90's Newt and Limbaugh according to author Sharon Beder "Corporate Assault on Environmentalism" planned to go after dems on ethics stuff

[spanone]

18. I loathe the rat-bastard arrogant self-serving thieving son of a bitch.

For Gingrich to be out there waving the ethics flag is laughable at best.
Google 'Gingrich' and 'ethics' and you get over 240,000 hits. Most unfavorable.

Gingrich Pays Off Ethics Penalty
Wednesday, December 30, 1998; 1:36 p.m. EST

WASHINGTON — Speaker Newt Gingrich has completed payment of a $300,000 penalty imposed for violations of House rules, the ethics committee said Wednesday.

~snip~ Gingrich made the final payment of $150,000, the committee said, and "has now satisfied in full" the obligation imposed in January 1997.

The outgoing speaker originally arranged a loan from ex-Sen. Bob Dole to help with the payments but decided instead to handle the penalty from personal funds.

Gingrich, who also was reprimanded by the House two years ago, admitted he misled the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and should have sought better legal advice before using tax-exempt organizations to advance his political goals.

The money was designed to reimburse the committee for extra investigative costs resulting from Gingrich's misleading statements. ~snip~
© Copyright 1998 The Associated Press

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/leadership/stories/gingrich123198.htm

[Catherine Vincent]

19. LOL!

Who is worse to you? Newty or Karl?

[spanone]

20. They are equally obnoxious and dangerous to me.