Newt And the Bi-Partisan Love-In of 1994
By Gordonskene Tuesday Aug 18, 2009 6:00pm
(Newt Gingrich 1994 - "Who's yer daddy?")
When the party is in power the talk overflows with the milk of human kindness - Bi-partisanship is on the lips of every triumphant candidate. The sentiments "Come, let us reason together" are slathered over every press conference with a spatula - we are all one big happy family and the thought of revenge never enters our minds . . . .much.
And so was the case when the Republicans gained control during the mid-season elections in 1994.
November 11, 1994 - newly designated Majority Speaker Newt Gingrich held a press conference outlining his "Contract With America" - pouring forth big plans, big ideas and big love - all the trappings only one handed a family sized bottle of Power could enjoy.
Gingrich: “It’s very important to understand, this country has sent the congress a very powerful signal for change . . this is a city which is like a sponge; it absorbs waves of change and it slows them down and softens them and one morning they cease to exist. We want to, every way we can, bias the opportunity in favor of the American people, actually getting the changes they’re asking for – and now obviously every member is going to play a major role, every member is going to participate.”
Joining him for this episode of the Love Fest were Dick Armey, Jim Nussle, Frank Wolf, and Pat Roberts. Armey went out of his way to let people know he wasn't "in it for revenge". Although the underpinnings of it were plainly visible - smiling, happy faces notwithstanding.
My, how times have changed.
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Look...another irrelevant GOP douchebag!!!
indeed. Why does ANYONE listen to this guy? When will he be on Dancing With The Stars?
who happen to own corporations and are very wealthy.
I am constantly awed by the working stiffs who support these feudal lords.
"Please make me destitute so everybody will know how patriotic I am!"
I need to ask Liberal and Proud how it was that he managed to emigrate later in life.
I think that I've had enough.
Please make me destitute.........
Gallop Poll October 2008: 90% say the country is in worse shape ever!
election day, 46% vote for more of the same McCain and crazy Palin.
What a great line. Good job!
I remember President William Jefferson Clenis warning the nation after 1994 regarding the Iranians, and then later about the use of the internet for terrorist cells, and terrorists themselves, and the mantra from the republicans was, "Oh he's just still trying to make it sound like he counts."
Of course boosh did a hell of a lot of damage with his "mandate" based on a scarce majority courtesy of activist conservative judges on the Supreme Court, than President Obama has even tried, and he had a no question major landslide.
whattafucKKKinglyingassedpieceofshit.
CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents
Sort of OT, but what the hell, have to share this.
See how Rep. Barney Frank handles a rather partisan question at his townhall today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlZiWK2Iy8
Nancy will probably stroke out but this just had to be said.
:)
Belongs in Open Thread too.
Hope you don't mind I posted it there, credited ya.
Andy says 'Hey'...
Thanks for reposting it later. I was too tired to wait for the open thread. :)
is more like it. Newt's Cosa Nostra
10 lies, er, promises-in-reverse.
I looked up "asshole" in the dictionary and found that picture of Newt. Damn, they must have just substituted it for the picture of Bill-O that used to be there. Those dictionary guys just keep changing things...
the same Dick Armey who famously said that only "bills supported by the majority of the majority" would see the light of day as long as he was House Majority Leader. Feel the love...
I came upon this tidbit.
Wikipedia- In 1998, during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a reporter asked him what he would do if he were in President Bill Clinton's position. He replied "If I were in the President's place I would not have gotten a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood, hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'" This caused several of his former female economics students to go public with stories of his sexually harassing them — harassment allegedly so severe that at least one student transferred to another school. He would later divorce his wife and marry one of his students.
You just have to laugh.
Why should we finance them with our purchases?
1-800-PetMeds
ADT Security
Binder & Binder
Bosley
Brita
Campbell’s Soup
Cinergy Health
CNN
DirectTV
DITECH.com
FreeCreditReport.com
HSBC Life Insurance
Johnson Law Group
HealthMart Pharmacies
Kellog’s
Kraft Foods
Lanacane
Lear Capital
Liberty Medical
NewsMax
Pearl Vision
Pfizer
Regions
Quicken Loans
Repower America
Rosland Capital
UPS
U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
The Scooter Store
Vonage
Campbells, Kelloggs, Kraft--will look at other options.
USPS--less than $100/yr--OK
CNN--I don't pay for it when I do see it (motels), not at home.
Thanks for the list.
Not the scooter store!
Shit man, is nothing sacred anymore?
I contacted them because of their presence on the COC list. Promised no cash for clunker money as long as they are on fox.
The Repugs are turning up with assault rifles at venues where the President is speaking.
It is important to remember, that the US elections are usually a 50-50 affair, with approx. 50% of the electorate actually getting off their ass to vote.
Approx. 40% of the Republican base are the looney-tunes we have been seeing reports about. Now 40% of 50% of 50% = 10% of the population trying to turn the country into something Stalin would be proud of in terms of repressing the vox populi.
Newt shut the government down because he was miffed with regard to Air Force One. It is perhaps time that the Democrats shut the country down, by calling for a general strike, if the spirit of "politics as usual" is propagated in Washington.
No march on DC, just a walk out of the workplace or refraining from a walk too the workplace.
Where by the republicans became the lying sacks of shit we all know an well!
republicanism is a mental illness!
Times haven't changed at all. "Bipartisan" was just another talking point that - hysterically - happened to occur at the same time as the Republican's Contract With America. And that was bullshit, too.
Contract With America
* require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply to Congress;
* select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
* cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
* limit the terms of all committee chairs;
* ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
* require committee meetings to be open to the public;
* require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
* and implement a zero base-line budgeting process for the annual Federal Budget.
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