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PhillySane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-10 05:01 PM
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Newt's New Model: Safety, Prosperity, Freedom
Washington (CNN) - Newt Gingrich rallied his supporters Thursday to oppose two major pieces of legislation that Democrats want to pass before the end of the lame-duck Congress.
In an email to the 1.2 million members of his advocacy group American Solutions, Gingrich called the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill "outrageous" because it includes roughly $8 billion in earmarks.

He accused Democrats of "blackmail" - threatening the American people "with a shutdown of the government if we don't accept their pork barrel spending."
And the former House speaker said it would be "dangerous and irresponsible" to pass the New START Treaty in the lame duck before properly considering "whether the treaty limits further development of our missile defense systems."
"We must stop the irresponsible spending," Gingrich said, urging his backers to call their senators. "We must stop the rushed consideration of a treaty that threatens to compromise America's right of self defense. And once we've rejected the Left, we must start in January to replace their obsolete ideology and policies with a new model of safety, prosperity and freedom."
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Newest Reality Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-10 05:29 PM
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1. The only pork I see now is
Orwell's pigs parading around on their back hooves and boy are they getting obese.

Of course, the kind of safety ol' newt means assures us of no personal freedom. So, to paraphrase: " ... a new model of safety from the fears we induce in you so that we, the rulers, can have our freedom to prosper at your expense." He just left out some words, that's all.

That makes more sense, all things considered.
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PhillySane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-10 05:32 PM
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2. Yea
Exactly





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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-10 05:39 PM
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3. This from the same bloated old fool that shut down govt. in '95
Still a jerk after all these years.
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