Newt’s Erroneous Ethics Alibi

[Cali_Democrat]

Newt’s Erroneous Ethics Alibi
Posted on December 8, 2011

Newt Gingrich falsely claimed the House ethics panel that voted to reprimand him in 1997 was “a very partisan political committee.” He was also off base when he said the inquiry was “a Pelosi-driven effort.”

In fact, the House Committee on Ethics is the only House panel evenly divided by party. And Pelosi was a relatively junior House member and not in a leadership position at the time. It’s true she was one of four members on the subcommittee that conducted the investigation, but she was just one of eight members on the full committee — which dismissed 83 of the charges that other Democrats brought against Gingrich.

The ethics panel was far from a “partisan” committee. Three of the panel’s Republican members joined all four Democrats in the 7-1 vote to recommend that the full House reprimand Gingrich — on a single charge of misleading the committee. On the day the committee released its final report, the Republican chairwoman praised Pelosi and other subcommittee members for working “in a collegial, nonpartisan manner in a difficult environment.”

And far from being “driven” by Pelosi, the case against Gingrich actually was pressed most prominently by Rep. David Bonior of Michigan, who was then the Democratic whip. Pelosi was still years away from joining the ranks of the Democratic leadership, which she did when she succeeded Bonior as whip in January 2002.

http://factcheck.org/2011/12/newts-erroneous-ethics-alibi/

[Kingofalldems]

1. Repubs, especially Newty, can and will lie about anything.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Is newt promising to do everything bi-partisan??

he must be forgetting that $300,000 fine they gave him
newt reminds me of a old rotten toadstool

[Old and In the Way]

3. The vote to sanction Gingrich's actions and pay a $300,000 fine weren't partisan

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

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.

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The 395 to 28 vote closes a tumultuous chapter that began Sept. 7, 1994, when former representative Ben Jones (D-Ga.), then running against Gingrich, filed an ethics complaint against the then-GOP whip.

[The Genealogist]

4. So he lied about his ethics trial

Ethics fail about his ethics fail. Surprise, surprise.

[Old and In the Way]

5. It's going to be fun watching Newt try to spin this turd into gold thread.

The facts, Newt, are well documented and obviously have a liberal nias. :rofl: