GOP in danger of losing control of Congress, Gingrich says

[sabra]

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/14235576.htm

GOP in danger of losing control of Congress, Gingrich says

WASHINGTON - A dozen years after he engineered his party's takeover of Congress, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warned Friday that his fellow Republicans could be swept out of power themselves.

"They are seen by the country as being in charge of a government that can't function," he told Knight Ridder editors and reporters in a wide-ranging luncheon interview. "We could lose control this fall."

He cited a series of blunders under Republican rule, from failures in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to mismanagement of the war in Iraq. He said the immigration bill passed by his former colleagues in the House of Representatives is unrealistic and too harsh toward undocumented immigrants, called congressional efforts to regulate lobbying "much too weak" and said the government has squandered billions of dollars in Iraq.

Long known as a provocateur, Gingrich said he was leveling his pointed criticisms to try to shake up his party. "I'm trying to get the government and my party to change this year," he said.

[jpak]

1. What goes around comes around asshole

n/t

[mvd]

28. My thoughts exactly

:applause:

[AuntiBush]

30. Karma!

:hi:

[saltpoint]

2. My god in heaven can't a nail be found that's long enough to drive

through the heart of this shameless vampire?

You could be on the blogs for a matter of a few days and reach the same conclusion.

More self-promotional codswallop from a disgraced Republican.

[C_U_L8R]

3. knock on wood

[Burried News]

4. Get them to change? Change what? The best part ... if we take the

congress ... do unto them as they have done to us.

Late night votes, marginalization of minority party committee members etc. etc. With two exceptions, give K street a good scrubbing and scrupulously tell the truth.

[Virginia Dare]

5. Suck it up, Newty my boy....n/t

[Deja Q]

6. Well, he can't blame the Dems this time!

been 12 years, buddy. That "Contract for America" ain't chillin' with da homies no more, Gingrich.

Why couldn't you politicians change 2 years ago? Or 18 months ago?

Stop the hot air. Show us you are really something.

And I say that for ANY politician these days.

[Ian David]

7. Newt cites all the things the GOP is doing wrong...

and he doesn't think they deserve to lose control?

The GOP is like Newt's wife with cancer-- time for a divorce.

[NoAmericanTaliban]

8. Nutgingrich was banging some women while complaining about Monica

and Clinton. If he decides to run for prez. that will be a big topic. That said. he is a good political anaylist and lets hope he is right. He is been saying this for a while now & I hope they do not listen to him.

[wordpix]

16. Is that why he left? I recall that Larry Flynt was digging up dirt on Con

gressmen's sex lives and that's why they called off the impeachment proceedings. Wasn't Newt the one who asked for a divorce when his wife was in the hosp with cancer? Nice guy.

The repukes didn't want the Clinton impeachment to go to the Senate b/c more dirt was in the offing, thanks to Larry Flynt.

[AuntiBush]

31. Where's Larry Flynt Now?

We sure could use his courageous exposes.

[Syrinx]

32. I'm not sure when he posted this, but it's good

Get out, Mr. Bush. It's time to leave. We won't ask why you're leaving, whether it's because of incompetence, corruption, treason, criminal negligence or whatever. We just want you to resign and take that war profiteer Dick Cheney with you. We are sick and tired of the Vice President's corrupt cronies at Haliburton getting no-bid contracts to clean up the messes you have made.

Don't try and lie your way out of what happened in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Along with everything else, you were too slow to muzzle the press, to slow to set up your spin machine. Americans have at last seen the truth with their own eyes. They will not be deceived again.

You stole your office both in 2000 and 2004, and consequently have no legitimate claim to it. You lied us into a war that not only has killed 2,000 U.S. troops and 100,000 innocent Iraqi men, women and children, but also tied up our national guard when it was desperately needed here. You have gutted our civil rights, defunded the Treasury and put the American people at poverty's doorstep.

Now, with the help of Hurrican Katrina, you have allowed New Orleans-a major city in your own country-to be destroyed. Don't deny it. FEMA's National Response Plan makes it clear that the federal government must be help accountable, not state and municipal governments. In any case, it was you, Mr. Bush, who defunded the levee project that would have protected the Crescent City and its citizens.

We are done with you. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

Larry Flynt
Publisher,
HUSTLER Magazine

http://larryflynt.com/statements/leave_office.html

[wordpix2]

35. he obviously posted within last year since it mentions Katrina

[sofa king]

33. It was his aide, of course.

In 1980, Gingrigh asked for a divorce from his first wife--his high school geometry teacher, whom he secretly dated in high school. His reason for asking for a divorce (and trying to discuss it in the hospital while the first wife was recovering from cancer surgery) was because he was already having an affair with his future second wife.

In 1999, Gingrich asked his second wife for a divorce (on Mother's Day, while she was wondering if she had multiple sclerosis) because for the past five years and throughout every single day of the Monica Lewinsky scandal--Gingrich was conducting an affair with Callista Bisek, his $55,000/yr aide. He married her in August, 2000. It is theorized that Dick Armey and Tom Delay threatened to expose this relationship (a relationship that even I--a lowly paralegal--heard about before the impeachment of Bill Clinton) to the press and that, rather than his psychotic behavior in the House, is what forced his retirement.

Interestingly, Victoria Toensing, who has been rightly villified here at DU as a right wing shill for white collar criminals of a certain pachydermal ilk, represented Newt's second wife in the divorce proceedings. Toensing has more recently weighed in in favor of the perpetrators in the burning of Valerie Plame Wilson.

Here's a picture of Newt with his new (or perhaps soon to be traded in) wife and some no-talent hack:

[wordpix2]

36. thanks for digging the dirt on Nut Gingrich, sofaking! Wife #3 is young

enough to be Nut's daughter, maybe even granddaughter. Ewww!

Just let this jackass run for pres. hahahaha, that will be lots of fun.

[Demeter]

9. Newt Should Be Calling For Impeachment

It's the only thing that would save the GOP bacon, frankly.

I doubt that GOPpers have the vision or guts to pull it off, though.

[glitch]

34. I think this time we are letting them suicide.

No more free passes, like the New Deal (where FDR saved Capitalism from itself), Warren Commission, Watergate (I believe that Nixon resigning was a pass to save the Republican Party) and Iran-Contra and BCCI (which Clinton dropped because he wanted to heal the country after the ravages of Reagan-Bush :eyes:), and of course the 9/11 Commission.
We'll see how the other current investigations turn out, but I am hoping their free ride is over.
They've been rotten from corruption a long time, time to pull the plug, hold the funeral and bury the corpse.

[against all enemies]

10. Gingrich is a whore running for President. Nothing he says has

any value. He is the prick that poisoned bipartisanship that ruined this country. Screw him

[NNadir]

11. I agree. If he wants to know what's wrong with the country he should

look in a mirror.

He is the orginal hypocrite. But for once in his pathetic criminal life, he may be right. If the Repukes are not voted out of office, they will so destroy the country that it will disintegrate.

[bemildred]

12. They ARE in charge of a government that can't function. Duh? nt

[wordpix]

17. They aren't going to turn things around by Nov., they've screwed up

way too badly for that

[UpInArms]

13. Newt Gingrich's 1996 GOPAC memo - Language: A Key Mechanism of Control

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4443.htm

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[wordpix]

18. bwahahaha - all the "contrasting words" describe repukes perfectly

[bluestateguy]

14. First thing that we should do when we get back in...

is to re-open the House Bank.

:sarcasm:

[symbolman]

15. I agree with him

Gingrich is absolutely correct, he's nailed it, except for the Impeachment part which would just be a bandaid with another scumbag slipping into the corporate musical chair..

I hate to agree with him, but he's nailed these guys :)

Now, if we took him and all the rest of the scumbags running this country and tossed them into a volcano, along with a virgin for good luck, we'd all be a lot better off..

(This is satirical Mr Gonzales, I mean no harm to anyone, by the way, don't you have a Mexican Flag to BURN?)

[cap]

19. it's the logical outcome of the contract on america

Newtie boy.... you reap what you sow.

[VegasWolf]

20. LOL!!! "Contract ON America!" nt

[lovuian]

21. I'll add this too Bush didn't deliver and will NEVER Deliver

the Christian fundies the Abortion Issue... He NEVER intended getting rid of it... and Republicans will use the issue again

but the Fundies have to realize they gave them control of Congress Supreme court and presidency and we still have Abortion

When will it sink into these peoples heads they have been betrayed and used...

[superconnected]

22. It's kind of cool how the republicans are scared of the dems all the time.

Even when they have both houses and the presidency, fear prevails.

[mwooldri]

23. So if he wants to change his party....

Ok, let's quote him...

Long known as a provocateur, Gingrich said he was leveling his pointed criticisms to try to shake up his party. "I'm trying to get the government and my party to change this year," he said.

Well, if he wants the government and his party to change this year then he needs to change his party affiliation to Democratic! That would be the easiest way for him to get his party to change this year, by changing the party he supports himself - and if by hook or by crook (more likely by crook) the Republicans win in '06, well 1 out of 2 isn't bad then is it?

(ok, shall I duck for cover now?)

Mark.

[Olney Blue]

24. It's too late. They betrayed the U.S. and they must pay.

[rocktivity]

25. Who cares what he thinks?

And what about the "blunder" that knocked HIM out of politics: carrying on a ten-year affair while persecuting Clinton over a single sexual indiscretion?

:headbang:
rocknation

[tabasco]

26. They can only fool the required number of gullible working people

to gain the reins of power every generation or so.

Then there is a big steaming pile of crap left for the Democrats to clean up.

Why must we repeat this process over and over again??

[Pryderi]

27. I don't think it will happen. Please take this poll

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=806022&mesg_id=806022

Also, according to Charlie Cook the Dems won't win in '06

http://cookpolitical.com/overview/2006.php


The number of open seats that any party has to defend is the biggest predictor of how many seats that party could lose in the upcoming election. As of mid-December, there were just 21 open seats (14 Republicans and 7 Democrats). Of those 14 GOP seats, just three of them are highly vulnerable: AZ-08 (Jim Kolbe), CO-07 (Bob Beauprez) and IA-01 (Jim Nussle). There are three more open seats that are competitive but lean Republican: CA-50 (Duke Cunningham), MN-06 (Mark Kennedy) and WI-08 (Mark Green). A big question today is how many of the four seats that are currently rated as Likely Republican end up coming into play. For example, Democrats are playing hard in IL-06, the Republican-leaning suburban Chicago district where longtime GOP Rep. Henry Hyde is retiring. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rahm Emanuel, who represents a Chicago district, has recruited Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth into the contest.

Democrats have fewer open seat vulnerabilities, but they do have one seat in toss-up, OH-06 (Ted Strickland) and one that Leans Democratic, VT-AL (Bernie Sanders).

[EFerrari]

37. I would be interested in knowing what voting equipment

AZ 08, CO 07 and IA 01 are using for their voter reg database AND for casting their ballots. Bookmarking.

[EFerrari]

38. Okay, IA-01 is mostly Diebold DREs. n/t

[EFerrari]

39. Can't find specific equipment in AZ-08 but Sec of State's site

notes a requirement for a reciept when casting an electronic ballot. Hmm.

[EFerrari]

40. CO-07 is a combination of touchscreen and op scan. n/t

[AuntiBush]

29. "They are seen by the country as being in charge of a government that can'

That's putting it mildly. Thanks for the light of hope, sabra.

:hi: