MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MAMA SAID THERE'D BE DAYS LIKE THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwhmckHcBeg
Oh my God
REP. GINGRICH: I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering. I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate. I think we need a national conversation to get to a better Medicare system with more choices for seniors. But there are specific things you can do. At the Center for Health Transformation, which I helped found, we published a book called "Stop Paying the Crooks." We thought that was a clear enough, simple enough idea, even for Washington. We--between Medicare and Medicaid, we pay between $70 billion and $120 billion a year to crooks. And IBM has agreed to help solve it, American Express has agreed to help solve it, Visa's agreed to help solve it. You can't get anybody in this town to look at it. That's, that's almost $1 trillion over a decade. So there are things you can do to improve Medicare.
MR. GREGORY: But not what Paul Ryan is suggesting, which is completely changing Medicare.
REP. GINGRICH: I, I think that, I think, I think that that is too big a jump. I think what you want to have is a system where people voluntarily migrate to better outcomes, better solutions, better options, not one where you suddenly impose upon the--I don't want to--I'm against Obamacare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change.
I am heartily sorry
Now the Georgia Republican is worried that opponents might use those words against him or the Republican Party.
“Any ad which quotes what I said Sunday is a falsehood,” he told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren Tuesday.
For having offended thee
There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate," said Gingrich during an interview with CBN's David Brody. "What I can tell you is that when I did things that were wrong, I wasn't trapped in situation ethics, I was doing things that were wrong, and yet, I was doing them," he continued, going on to say that he had sought "God's forgiveness. Not God's understanding, but God's forgiveness
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/03/newt-gingrich-passion-for-the.html
And I detest all my sins
I made a mistake," Gingrich told Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, recounting his apology call to Ryan earlier in the day. “The fact is that I have supported what Ryan’s trying to do on the budget,” he said. “The budget vote is one that I am happy to say I would have voted for
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55186.html#ixzz1dx00ysVw
Because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of hell
“I have made mistakes in my life. I’ve had to go to God for forgiveness and to seek reconciliation,” Gingrich said on NBC’s "Meet the Press." “I ask them to look at who I am today, look at the strong marriage that Callista and I have. Look at the close relationship I have with my two daughters and their husbands.”
“I have a large number of social conservatives who support me because as we’ve talked this through, they’ve reached a different conclusion about what America needs and what I can bring in trying to fill that role as a leader."
But most of all because
People ask me when I decided to become Catholic," said Gingrich, who formally converted in 2009. "It would be more accurate to say that I gradually became Catholic and then realized that I should accept the faith that surrounded me."
They offend thee my Lord
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said during a Nov. 9 debate that he earned a $300,000 fee to advise Freddie Mac as a “historian” who warned that the mortgage company’s business model was “insane.”
Former Freddie Mac officials familiar with the consulting work Gingrich was hired to perform for the company in 2006 tell a different story. They say the former House speaker was asked to build bridges to Capitol Hill Republicans and develop an argument on behalf of the company’s public-private structure that would resonate with conservatives seeking to dismantle it.
Who are all good and deserving of all my love
Newt Gingrich made between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in consulting fees from two contracts with mortgage company Freddie Mac, according to two people familiar with the arrangement.
The total amount is significantly larger than the $300,000 payment from Freddie Mac that Gingrich was asked about during a Republican presidential debate on Nov. 9 sponsored by CNBC, and more than was disclosed in the middle of congressional investigations into the housing industry collapse.
I firmly resolve, with the help of
Newt states that Jefferson wasn't a deist. Ok, some on this blog have made that connection. However, he sure wasn't a Christian either, a simple truth (and Newt claims to be all about truth) that is omitted from his presentation
2.) Newt tries to connect the quotes on the Jefferson Memorial (many of them disputed by the way) with Jefferson's "Christianity." Just silly.
3.) Newt points to Jefferson's "Sworn on the altar of God" quote as proof of his piety. However, he forgets that Jefferson swore hostility to the ORGANIZED RELIGION of his day!!!
4.) The "Jefferson supported missionary work" comment is stupid. It was part of the treaty NEGOTIATED BY THE INDIANS THEMSELVES! Jefferson didn't create this on his own, he was simply honoring the wishes of the Indians in the treaty.
5.) Newt should be smart enough to realize that the Washington Monument was built roughly 65 years after the death of Washington himself. The "Laus Deo" inscription was NOT the idea of any single founder, but of the archetect.
Thy Grace
Candidly, the degree to which the Arab Spring may become an anti-Christian spring, is something which bothers me a great deal…. Christians … are being persecuted under the new system, having their churches burned, having people killed. And I’d be pretty insistent that we are not going to be supportive of a regime which is explicitly hostile to religions other than Islam."
To sin no more and to
“We must expect the Soviet system to survive for a very long time. There will be Soviet labor camps and Soviet torture chambers well into our grandchildren’s lives.” Example of New Gingrich’s prophetic grasp of the future.
“Kill jobs and lead to a recession, force people off of work and onto unemployment and will actually increase the deficit.” Gingrich again waxing prophetic regarding President Clinton’s 1993 budget bill. Gosh, how wrong can a person be?” Newt Gingrich
“Public Broadcasting is a sandbox for the rich. The NEA and the HEH are simply enclaves of the left using your money to propagandize your children against your values.” Newt Gingrich
“They still don’t realize that the appropriation is gone, that the game is over. The power of the Speaker is the power of recognition, and I will not recognize any proposal that will appropriate money for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. What they should be doing is planning for the future.” Newt Gingrich
“In Washington DC 800 babies are left in dumpsters a year.” Newt Gingrich with a very big lie. It was not 800, it was four. But considering his views on abortion and welfare he may just help his lie come true.” Newt Gingrichetc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
avoid the near occasion of sin.
Another major point from Gingrich was the absurdity of money-for-nothing welfare-state programs. “Nobody should get something for nothing unless they have a very severe disability,” he declared. “If you’re an able-bodied person, and you’re getting something for nothing, we’re pretty stupid for giving it to you."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIhwX7jxBWM&feature=fvst
Comments
Wow, talk about knowing when you've stepped in it. This guy is claiming that if you're quoting him, you're necessarily lying. Well, I suppose there's some truth to that, even if they lie is by proxy…
by Verified Atheist on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 6:35am
He might as well say, "I never tell the truth, anyone who quotes me is spreading lies".
by NCD on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 9:02am
YEAH!
It is like he does not understand that for the last half century, there are tapes and other recording tech! ha
by Richard Day on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 9:48am
Deconstructing Newt last night on Hardball.
My transcript of end of the segment:
Earlier in the segment, Matthews also opines that he's a serial fibber and that
he's not a human being, he's a gaseous state.
by artappraiser on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:41am
If he was still married to his first and only wife, I think he'd still have a shot.
by Donal on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:21am
In politics, there's nothing like creating a narrative by sticking a wet finger in the wind to see which way the wind is blowing. It's just that in Newt world, the wind is apparently changing like several times a day.
by artappraiser on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:50am
I loved that whirling dervish reference.
Matthews can certainly enrage me at times but he can also send me into thriving gaiety.
I usually can tell when he is proud of himself, when he actually came up with the words!
by Richard Day on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:40am
Along those lines, if you want a few good chuckles to brighten your day, watch Barney Frank respond about Gingrich's debate comments that he should be arrested, on the October 12 Hardball:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4m1RRlxYoI
Myself, when I see Newt bloviate, I always think of what Charles Dickens or William Hogarth would do with him as a character. I don't know why.
by artappraiser on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:56am
Interesting. Many Christians on the political Right dislike government because they consider a "nanny" government to be placing itself above God in caring for man. In a moral society, fellow citizens will care for widows and orphans. The government is viewed as an idol. Government makes it less likely will perform their duty to the poor.
The same type of interpretation would mean that Catholics are following an idol, the Pope, who has be the method used to transfer earthly prayers to God. Catholics may be just slightly more acceptable than Mormons to the "true" Christian Right. Muslims are just heathens.
Newt's gyrations will create one problem with the Right. His Catholicism may create another.
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:07pm
On of the biggest reasons for early immigration into the wilds this country once was seemed to relate to an extreme anti-papal antipathy.
These incoming Christian sects hated the Pope and would be Popes like Henry VIII.
And somehow these newday Christian Family hypocrites have managed to smooth over the hatred for the Roman Catholic Church.
Oh Hagel and Robertson and the Late Jerry Falwell would forget their place from time to time and rail against the Anti-Christ--that is the Pope.
But all and all the hatred against Catholics has kind of evaporated.
by Richard Day on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:48pm
The "unity" is because of the Catholic stand against abortion. Catholics were stridently anti-abortion from the beginning. Christian Evangelicals became anti-abortion mainly because of the number of abortions performed. Catholics would, in general, have been against the wars in the Middle East and state sponsored executions in the name of justice. Remove abortion and you will find some big divisions.
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 3:09pm
On a larger scale, I see the Christian Right tolerating Catholics as they tolerate Jewish people and support Israel, but the interpretation of the Scripture used by the Christian Right is pretty clear on the fate of Jewish people in the Rapture.
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 3:17pm
by Qnonymous (not verified) on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:52pm
Go Gout Go!!
You can say that again!!
Or, you can say that again!!!
by A Guy Called LULU on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:13pm
rom: greenleegazette.blogspot.com
by Richard Day on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:34pm
Didn't die. Manufactured as robot in secret factory. Composite #8: Equal parts, Bachmann, Coulter And Hasselback. Instructions: change clothes daily and spray with moisturizer every three hours. Do not submerse in water. Do not subject to heat above 90 degrees F---in fact no F's at all.--not responsible for injuries. Please sign the product liability waiver. No returns.
by Oxy Mora on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 3:05pm
Yeah, I kinda see Bachmann there in her eyes. ha
by Richard Day on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 3:37pm
From "Stepford Style" on the "Talking with Tami" blog:
Also too, male version:
by artappraiser on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 3:45pm
How dare you insult Data in that manner!
by Verified Atheist on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 3:47pm
hahahahah
Remember when Data found his clone in pieces?
by Richard Day on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 3:59pm
I think you're referring to Lore in the ST:TNG episode Datalore. There was also B4 in Nemesis.
by Verified Atheist on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 4:12pm
I always suspected that Lore was a Republican.
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 4:15pm
Lorebertarian
by Donal on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 6:57pm
:)
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 9:34pm
The following news has got to be as bad for the conservative faithful as far as Newt is concerned as Romneycare is for Romney no?
by artappraiser on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 7:59pm
I haven't fully thought this one out yet, but it also seems to me that this puts a lie to the idea that Freddie Mac's actions are the results of liberal control… (something I know I've heard from my Republican father).
by Verified Atheist on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 8:05pm
Okay, okay, I mean he had to keep some green coming in so that he could get enough diamonds to keep his dead wife 'kind of' alive.
hahahahahahahahaha
I'm tryin to think about who is the worst liar.
When I was young, Nixon was a liar.
But Nixon really did have a greater good in mind as he killed my collegues.
But Newt has no greater good except for his good. hahahahahaha
Is Mitt any different?
No!
Bachmann is a psycho, and Paul has been out of his mind for decades, and Santorum is attempting to institute the laws against carnal knowledge that were extant for two thousand years. hahahahahaha
House says:
EVERYBODY LIES
It is just that some get away with it. hahaahahah
by Richard Day on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 8:07pm
I lost my favorite song at the top, so four years later I get to amend:
by Richard Day on Fri, 12/18/2015 - 7:49pm