About the 1995 shutdown. Newt Gingrich Crybaby.

[madfloridian]

From the New York Daily News 2012, explaining their cover from 1995.

Newt Gingrich, crybaby: The famous Daily News cover explained

Here was Newt Gingrich, leader of the Republican Revolution and defender of civilization on this planet, forced to sit for 25 hours in the back of Air Force One, waiting for President Clinton to stop by and negotiate a budget deal. But Clinton never came back. So Gingrich, in his rage, drafted two resolutions that forced Clinton to bring the federal government to a grinding halt.

The extraordinary behind-the-scenes tale Gingrich told yesterday morning at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast is either comedy or tragedy, or junior high school cafeteria intrigue, take your pick. It surely was not what you expect to hear from the stewards of your government.

Gingrich had been invited aboard Air Force One last week to fly to the funeral of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. With a budget crisis pending, he expected Clinton would take time out during the flight to talk about a possible solution.

But Clinton, who seemed to be genuinely grieving over Rabin's death, stayed up front in a cabin with former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George Bush on both the outward-bound and return trips.

In Gingrich's own words.

[murielm99]

1. I read Hillary Clinton's

"Living History," and looked at the photos in the center. Crybaby Newtie is sitting at the front of the plane in one of the photos. Hillary captions that photo, and points this out succinctly.

Boner cries more than Newtie. Let's give him a good reason to cry.

[madfloridian]

2. I find myself wondering how such people became leaders in our country.

It's pathetic. And both cry too much.

[madfloridian]

3. And Newt's back in the spotlight on Crossfire. That's sad.