[redrockcoulee]

Isn't there a private army in Africa somewhere that's made up of children? Once indoctrinated and trained, each recruit is ordered to go back home and kill the parents, as a sign of loyality? Modeled like so, this has the secondary effect of a rapid reduction in welfare recipients and the adult unemployment rate.

I did have them in mind when I posted. I listened to a podcast about one former child soldier and what he had to do and now has to endure in his mind. Nobody should have to do that least of all a child.

[boriscleto]

Gingrich: Abolish 'Socialist' Congressional Budget Office | Crooks and Liars

"Reality," Stephen Colbert famously told President Bush to his face, "has a well-known liberal bias." That inconvenient truth is at the heart of the expanding Republican war on the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Increasingly frustrated by CBO analyses showing that the 2009 economic stimulus worked as designed, that the Paul Ryan GOP Medicare rationing plan would massively shift costs to seniors, that income inequality is at record levels and, most damning of all, the Affordable Care Act reduces the national debt, Republican leaders have slandered the agency's work as "smoke and mirrors" and "budget gimmicks, deceptive accounting, and implausible assumptions used to create the false impression of fiscal discipline."

[jogiba]

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- In the most significant endorsement of the GOP race so far, the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper endorsed former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich as his campaign surges in polls both nationally and locally. Despite his tumultuous political past, Gingrich was cited by the paper to have conservative credentials they believe to be critical to win the GOP nomination.

First Read - Surging Newt Gingrich nabs New Hampshire Union Leader's endorsement

[jeffkrol]

First Read - Frank announces retirement from Congress, but not politics

"I will neither be a lobbyist nor a historian," he said, referencing Gingrich's explanation at a recent debate of his work for troubled mortgage giant Freddie Mac as being in his capacity as a historian. "One of the advantages to me of not running for office is I don't even have to try to pretend to be nice to people I don't like ... and the notion of being a lobbyist, and having to go and try to be nice to people I don't like -- it would be ridiculous."

Gingrich and Frank have sparred publicly over the course of their respective careers, most recently when Gingrich suggested that Frank should be jailed for the policies the Massachusetts Democrat had supported, which Gingrich said had effectively triggered the housing crisis.

"I did not think I've lived a good enough life to be rewarded by Newt Gingrich being the Republican nominee. It still is unlikely, but I have hopes. I think he is," he said, calling the former Speaker's boomlet a repudiation of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

[jogiba]

Gingrich said he didn’t need to be a lobbyist after his congressional career because he was paid so handsomely merely to give speeches. “I did no lobbying of any kind – period,” Gingrich said. “I’m going to be really direct, OK? I was charging $60,000 a speech.”

Gingrich himself criticized Barack Obama in 2008 for accepting contributions from executives of Freddie Mac and its larger sister institution, Fannie Mae, and said the Democrat should give the money back.

Pressed on the matter in Iowa earlier this month, Gingrich said he provided Freddie Mac with “strategic advice for a long period of time.”

Poll: Gingrich new S.C. leader - S.C. Politics - TheState.com

This fat couch potato is a world class BS artist and the Tea Party loves him.

[stevewig]

Poll: Gingrich new S.C. leader - S.C. Politics - TheState.com

This fat couch potato is a world class BS artist and the Tea Party loves him.

AS the TEA PARTY successfully cuts off Romneys chance at the Presidency all Liberals should be happy to see Gingrich pushed to the front!

[mikemike]

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[stanleyk]

AS the TEA PARTY successfully cuts off Romneys chance at the Presidency all Liberals should be happy to see Gingrich pushed to the front!

Yes he will be easy to beat. He's not that bright, he's got the dumping his dying wife issue, then there's the money he took from the Student Loan people, the Tiffany charge account, and that's just for starters. Actually in a general election Romney is the only candidate they have that has a remote chance of winning. I'm sure the money people from the Republican party and wondering about the value of their Tea Party allies at this point.

[boriscleto]

then there's the money he took from the Student Loan people

That's Sally Mae. Gingrich took money from Fanny Mae, the mortgage company.

[GeneV]

That's Sally Mae. Gingrich took money from Fanny Mae, the mortgage company.

I think it was actually from Freddie Mac, the other mortgage company.

[boriscleto]

I think it was actually from Freddie Mac, the other mortgage company.

Either one, does it matter?

[boriscleto]

Daily Kos: Newt Gingrich declares victory: 'I?m*going*to*be*the*nominee'

Arrogant little dough boy isn't he?

[GeneV]

Either one, does it matter?

Nope. Just keeping the record accurate.

[jeffkrol]

Newt the Democrat............

Amazing! Newt Gingrich led Congress to balance the budget, while increasing defense spending and cutting taxes. Although balancing the budget is nothing to crow about, (It led to the 2001 recession — as budget cuts invariably do — cured only by the Bush deficits), I’m fascinated with the math that allows tax decreases plus spending increases to equal a balanced budget. Anyone think there may be some numbers missing from Newt’s self-written adulation?

Monetary Sovereignty – Mitchell

[boriscleto]

Daily Kos: Newt Gingrich: Poor kids 'have no habits of working ... unless it's illegal'