Reply #9: thanks

[elizfeelinggreat]

Thank you for straightening that out. I had the wrong nasty republican!

Here a taste of Newt's attitude on compromise from wikipedia ...

According to Tom Delay, Newt shut down the government because President Clinton hurt his wittle feelings.

"Tom DeLay recounts the event in his book, No Retreat, No Surrender, that Gingrich "made the
mistake of his life" and says the following of Gingrich's mis-step of the shutdown<24>:

"He told a room full of reporters that he forced the shutdown because Clinton had rudely made him
and Bob Dole sit at the back of Air Force One...Newt had been careless to say such a thing, and
now the whole moral tone of the shutdown had been lost. What had been a noble battle for fiscal
sanity began to look like the tirade of a spoiled child..The revolution, I can tell you, was never
the same."
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich


More background on this incident can be found here:

http://www.cnn.com/US/9511/debt_limit/11-16/budget_gingrich/