Run Newt, Run

[The Straight Story]

Newt pressed his first wife to sign divorce papers while she was still in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. He also graciously said "She isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife." But his second marriage hasn't been that smooth either. Newt and Marianne have been separated - "frankly", she told the Washington Post in June 1989, "it's been on and off for some time."

Remember the House Banking scandal, where so many congressmen wrote rubber checks on government money? Newt hopes you don't, because he bounced 22 himself, which almost cost him reelection in 1992. His vote for the secret House pay raise, and the chauffeur who drove him around Washington in a Lincoln Town Car, didn't help.

http://www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm

House Reprimands, Penalizes Speaker

By John E. Yang
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 22 1997; Page A01

The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reprimand House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and order him to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House's 208-year history it has disciplined a speaker for ethical wrongdoing.

The ethics case and its resolution leave Gingrich with little leeway for future personal controversies, House Republicans said. Exactly one month before yesterday's vote, Gingrich admitted that he brought discredit to the House and broke its rules by failing to ensure that financing for two projects would not violate federal tax law and by giving the House ethics committee false information.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/leadership/stories/012297.htm

Newt Gingrich was against TORTURE too - ONCE APON A TIME

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OCTOBER 30, 1997

The Speakers STATEMENT ON VISIT OF PRESIDENT JIANG
Washington, D.C. -- House Speaker Newt Gingrich released the following statement today following his meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin.

"As I said in China this spring, there is no place for abuse in what must be considered the family of man. There is no place for torture and arbitrary detention. There is no place for forced confessions. There is no place for intolerance of dissent." "While we walked through the Rotunda. I explained to President Jiang how the roots of American rule of law go back more than 700 years, to the signing of the Magna Carta. The foundation of American values, therefore, is not a passing priority or a temporary trend."

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/coonsey/2009/04/gop-were-against-torture-befor.php

Gingrich calls it quits
November 06, 1998

Today I have reached a difficult personal decision. I will not be a candidate for Speaker of the 106th Congress, Gingrich said in a written statement released Friday evening.

....

Sources say Gingrich made the choice when he was told as many as 30 Republicans would refuse to vote for him on the floor of the House. Another close associate of Gingrich said the speaker did not want to be the center of attention and distract his party for the next two years.

http://articles.cnn.com/1998-11-06/politics/gingrich_1_republican-caucus-bob-livingston-party?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS

And that is just a small sampling of what is to come. Guess I am just in a bad mood tonight.

The repub candidates all have way too much baggage. Can't wait until election time. Assholes.

[Lint Head]

1. Newter the Repigs!

[MADem]

2. I wonder if any of his old staffers, particularly the ones who walked in on his

knob polishing sessions with Calista, will come forward....

[Angry Dragon]

3. No need to

he has admitted that when he gets patriotic he gets an erection and just needs a place to vent

[blkmusclmachine]

4. It'll be Romney and a Christofascist/Talibangelical:

COUNT on it. There's always 1 on their ticket.

[_eh]

5. Do you think the wingnuts care???

They just want to get the Black Guy out of the White House. They'd nominate Putin if they thought he could win.