Newt is watching it all fall apart.

[no_hypocrisy]

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1995 when Newt took over as Speaker of the House. Contract for America (more like Contract on America). He thought he was more powerful than Bill Clinton in the WH.

Newt's MO: Remake the Republican Party. Only hyperpartisan Republicans. Moderates and Liberals would be primaried out, to be replaced with younger Conservatives. And this new block of Republicans would follow Newt off the proverbial cliff. And that was the House. Newt's program would extend to the Senate, where every single Republican would vote as their Leader commanded, no matter what their constituency wanted or public opinion. (The House and the Senate would become indistinguishable.) Lemmings. They would repeat their talking points, even knowing they were wrong. Even admonishments to Republicans to stop socially associating with their democratic brethren. No lunches. No drinks. No dinner parties. And above all, no bipartisan compromising. Republicans would legislate without a single democratic vote indefinitely.

And here we are: Republicans denying their leadership and running away from Trump like the plague. Publicly denouncing him, not asking for Trump's endorsement. Openly stating they will vote for Joe Biden, a Democrat. Heresy.

Newt is watching his dream of permanent partisanship fall apart. From the Vatican, no less.

If/When Joe Biden is elected, there will be no definable role or space for Newt. He will be in the same place as Trump. A footnote.

[Delphinus]

1. His wife

is the ambassador to Vatican City, right?

[CurtEastPoint]

3. you mean crazy eyes Calistoga?

[keithbvadu2]

7. Calista must not let him out of her sight.

Calista must not let him out of her sight.

She herself is proof positive that he cannot be trusted to not cheat.

[2naSalit]

21. Yikes.

I have noticed that those evangelical womens all have that Clockwork Orange wide-eyed look. Check out that handmaid about to be placed on the SCOTUS.

ANd whom on earth would want to be near that ogre let alone married to it?

[plimsoll]

24. She's nominally Catholic.

So evangelical perhaps, but not of the Protestant / mega church variety.

[Klaralven]

52. She is Opus Dei. Also converted Newt to Catholicism. She's doing God's work.

[plimsoll]

56. There are certain "confessional" alignments where capitalizing god my be incorrect.

Technically speaking.

[jmowreader]

26. It's all in the makeup, my friend

Line inside your lashes with white eyeliner and you’ll look like a Republican too.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

62. Botox and/or facelifts, as well.

Can you blame her. I mean, too many signs of age and hubby will have no qualms about dropping her and picking up a hot young RWer to replace her.

[plimsoll]

22. She just makes sure she doesn't get sick.

He only leaves them when they’re too weak to do anything.

[Pacifist Patriot]

23. Ooo, I like that dress.

The contents not so much.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

25. Botox smile

[smb]

11. That Job Keeps Her Away From The House At Predictable Hours, Right? Asking For A "Friend".... nt

[JHB]

2. He'll go back to what he was doing before, grifting from billionaires like Shelly Adelson...

...and working with his fellow dead-enders to sabotage recovery from his poisonous legacy.

[getagrip_already]

17. yup. they never seem to fall away into obscurity.....

There is always a cable news show, or a speaking engagement, or a twitter feed, or a fool in the wh who will give them prominent appointments......

They never seem to be gone until they die.

And even then, sometimes they keep getting dragged up from the grave.

The french had it right. For some, there is no rehabilitation possible .......

[ms liberty]

4. He is responsible for a lot. GOPAC, the first PAC ever and his memo

Outlining the strategy of using key words and phrases to describe liberals and democratic policies as weak or bad. He listed words and phrases that were good and like sheep, the GOP followed it so slavishly that it was obvious to anyone paying attention, and by anyone I mean me. He is pond scum.

[CurtEastPoint]

5. He is 77 year old pond scum. There is hope yet for..... well, you know.

[Mr. Ected]

6. They're all pond scum, a common ingredient in swamp water

Drain the effing swamp.

[GB_RN]

46. Not fair!

Pond scum actually has a biological purpose. Reichwing Douchebags like Newt Gingrich, not so much.

[tanyev]

8. Oh, fig! Newton will lose his wife's cushy Vatican appointment if Biden wins.

That's not fair at all!

[PatSeg]

9. He'll have to go back to selling his videos

and fake honors. Such a con artist.

[MyOwnPeace]

31. You do know......

that Faux Spews will welcome him with open arms and fists full of cash.........

Then again, they're gonna' have a whole roster of "RepubliCons" looking for work!

[PatSeg]

45. Oh yeah, a whole bunch!

Not sure old Newt will be able to compete. The young blondes with long legs will go to the head of the line. I think Newt's market value has declined tremendously in recent years.

[marked50]

10. I watched a Documentary entitled "Dismantling Democracy" on PBS the other night.

On this program there was some Republican giving us their analysis of things and she said something that just peeved me off. She said that the partisanship we are seeing now started with the Obama Administration. I screamed back at the TV- "No way, it all started with Newt Gingrich!" Again, we see that Repugs can never own up to anything.

[BigmanPigman]

12. What? Obama reached across the aisle

constantly. Every time the GOP bit his hand. He kept trying though and they still bit his hand, even harder.

[MyOwnPeace]

32. You got that, BP!

Never forget Moscow Mitch McTurtle: "We're gonna' make Obama a 1-term president."

[Whiskeytide]

29. It started with Nixon, actually. But Fig ...

... took it to a new level.

What she Really meant was that the overt racism started with Obama. It was previously closeted and “unfashionable”. Obama had the audacity to be black, and that just pissed a lot of them off.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

51. Yes...

... when Newt started getting seemingly daily coverage on the networks with his Contract On America, the gaslighting and ratphuking... that was way out of bounds. Looking for businessmen first, statesmen last to run for GOP offices. Good government and statesmanship were never the goals, unless it was a by-product of their, "business sense", ie... self enrichment.

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. is, always has been, a human turd.

[Cosmocat]

14. All due respect but this is a really bad take

This does not magically go away if we can beat 45 and he leaves office.

They and 1/3 of this country's brains still have been marinated in right wing propaganda so long all they know is liberals are the sum of all that evil in the world.

Their party ALREADY is taking the same kind of steps with Joe they took with his boss, to do everything in their power in congress to stimie his economy and recovery. Yes, BHO turned it around but it would have been a much stronger recovery if they had not fought tooth and nail to hamper the recovery AND THEN spent the next 12 years babbling about how weak it was because they made it weak.

We might see some of these asshats lose their elections, but Mitch will be in the senate and they will uniformly work to obstruct, scumbags like Nunes, Gaetz, Jordan will still be in the House. They will have a strong majority in the SC working, as they did outside of Roberts yesterday, in a highly partisan manner ...

This is not a zombie apocalypse movie where there is a vaccination and the morning we wake up to sunshine and birds chirping.

Two years after BHO won election, we got our asses handed to us in the biggest mid term whipe out in our lives because he passed THEIR FRIGGEN VERSION OF HEALTH CARE REFORM.

Sorry, but these people have jumped the shark, and the air that 40% of this country breathes is hatred of us, the liberal.

[mountain grammy]

16. Well said, thank you.

[no_hypocrisy]

20. Call me Pollyanna, but I believe it's a start.

Yeah, it's hard to permanently break a format. But I feel hopeful that there are fissures. The Republican Party has a choice to stick with Newt's template or change. It's that easy. It won't be overnight. It will be incremental.

[lastlib]

37. They have a choice, but I personally doubt that they will make the right one....

I'm convinced they will make the *right* choice and continue to obstruct and defecate over all that is good in our democracy. It's what this species of GOPhers do. We have to destroy the repuglikan party in order to save it. Burn it to the ground and scatter the ashes at sea.

[Cosmocat]

39. YEP

nm

[Cosmocat]

38. I would not call you a Pollyanna

just feel that they are lost, and the best course of action is to live with that reality and work around it, vs holding out hope they will not be hateful and insane.

I mean, these people up in Michigan were well on on their way to kidnapping the governor, dragging her out in the middle of a great lake and cutting her loose.

[no_hypocrisy]

40. In reciprocity, they will be primaried out in the future.

[Nay]

27. You're exactly right. The well has been poisoned, there's no getting around it, except

by pushing through TRUE reforms that help the majority of citizens. But I doubt that will happen. I do expect that the gushing blood may be slowed to a trickle, but we aren't going to be seeing any major changes.

[Cosmocat]

36. Reform is the only hope

If it turns out the way it looks, they will have the mandate for it, and for ONCE Ds gotta have a spine and push forward with it cause if they will get slammed by Rs for passing THEIR form of heathcare reform, it does not matter. They are going to be called socialist, cat killing pedophiles regardless of what they do, might as well go for the gold.

PR and DC statehood, find a way to depoliticize the SC, add judges to the lower courts to make up for McConnell's holding them up for BHO and slamming them through for 45, elections reform, etc. Another go at campaign finance reform ...

Level the playing field and let the chips fall where they fall.

[lastlib]

42. Add a National Court of Appeals.....

(Pack it with 25 good young progressive judges.) All appeals from district & appeals courts go to it. Strip the Supreme Court of all appellate jurisdiction (yes, Congress can do this) and leave it with just its constitutional original jurisdiction.

We get the judges, Clarence can take all the naps he wants, BeerBoy can have his hangovers, and we get justice. Problem solved. No worries about tRump's packed lower courts.

[Cosmocat]

44. That is interesting

nm

[Paladin]

15. Heard it years ago, still very much true:

Newt Gingrich is what really stupid persons imagine a really smart person sounds like.

[Darwin2019]

18. Newt is the best argument for abortion ever....would that he was never born

[AllaN01Bear]

19. tom delay was another one .

absolute FAIL.

[safeinOhio]

28. Converted to marry his wife.

Converts are always the worst.

[Marcuse]

30. It's risky to be one of Newt's wives; hence the cleverly disguised yellow hard hat.

[PatrickforO]

33. Interesting. But didn't Newt, or Grover, or some other ultra-conservative say

the ideal would be to have a stupid president in the White House who merely exists to sign legislation sent to him by the Republican Congress.

Judging by the last four years, I'd say the stupid president theory is what has backfired for that whole program.

[mdbl]

47. It worked during the GW Bush years

dumb as a stump and did exactly what uncle dick told him to do.

[PatrickforO]

54. Yep. But then they courted their crazy base and Trump came along,

opportunist that he is, and capitalized on the crazy holy-rollers, the Kluxers, the paranoids, and the rest of the 'basket of deplorables.'

I read something that said when the guy was elected, those in power in what Trumpy calls the 'deep state,' as well as the Republican party rank and file, hoped he would be content with merely 'looking' presidential, and allow them to do the job.

Too bad for them that Trumpy brought his management-by-chaos style to the office. Good for us though, because a lot of Americans have awakened. I'm a bit more optimistic than some about ultimately saving the republic. We'll see how it plays out. Biden/Harris will for sure win, and I do think we'll take the Senate and of course keep the House.

And don't get me wrong - when I say good for us, ALL I mean is that a tipping point has been reached with Americans being more aware of how policy affects them. There is nothing good about the dead from COVID, or from the crash of the economy. But the founders gave us this republic whose success depends on an engaged and aware populace, and we haven't had that for decades. What is good about Trump is that more people HAVE become aware and engaged.

But we will have lost the Supreme Court and the Federal Appellate courts for a generation. And all the greed will still be there in the form of lobbies and special interests. Watch when Biden tries to reform health care. The health insurance companies will fight tooth and nail, line by line, 24/7/365, just like they always have.

So, like I say, we will see how it plays out. But I'll repeat - people have awakened, so I'm somewhat optimistic.

[certainot]

34. it's even worse than that for that lying wife-cheating hypocritical scumbag

remember, gingrich and rove rode the limbaugh bandwagon, just like trump did

the record partisanship, like ALEC's success, started earlier in the 90s when the talk radio monopoly was really starting to get going. it was limbaugh/talk radio that gave them the congress in 94 and that's why they gave limbaugh an honorary seat.

and now limbaugh is dying (thoughts and prayers) and he won't be there to keep making reagan and gingrich saints anymore

[mdbl]

50. how long is limbaugh going to die

wish he would go already and put us out of our misery. He's a boil on a cyst on the ass of humanity.

[certainot]

55. he gave medical report yesterday. sadly, he thought he was going to be 'rounding third base for home

but got caught stealing and has to go back to second base...... had a setback in treatment.....

says he prays every night to wake up every morning and has a very close relationship with jesus

i hope he's worrying about the hot pitchfork up the ass for all the death and destruction, including iraq, health care, environmental deregulation global warming, and most recently getting thousands sick and killed by convincing the fucking dittoheads COVID is a hoax

[certainot]

35. it's even worse than that for that lying wife-cheating hypocritical scumbag

remember, gingrich and rove rode the limbaugh bandwagon, just like trump did

the record partisanship, like ALEC's success, started earlier in the 90s when the talk radio monopoly was really starting to get going. it was limbaugh/talk radio that gave them the congress in 94 and that's why they gave limbaugh an honorary seat.

and now limbaugh is dying (thoughts and prayers) and he won't be there to keep making reagan and gingrich saints anymore

[Cosmocat]

43. Dude, the world post AM radio is even worse

You are correct on your assessment of what occurred in the 80s with all the silent majority, religious bullshit, the advent and explosion of AM radio right wing propadanda, etc.

But, we are are well into the next, even more cancerous evolution of conservative mind control - the right wing internet.

The talk here in the 2000s was the web was going to save the day cause it would be that channel that truth would reign ... Except it it the channel where they can, like cock roaches, flock into the dark, underbelly of human hatred even more entrenched in their right wing bubbles.

[certainot]

53. dude, most of the russian and RW american trolling piggybacks 30 years of rw radio

that's why russians told trump to get someone - sam nunberg in trump and stone's case - to listen "to 1000s of hours of talk radio" in 2014, the same year a russian troll says he "got a list of topics to write about".

why would they count on a bunch of russians to make things up when they can piggyback 30 years of well established lies and racism?

at $1000/hr x 15 hrs x 1200 radio stations that's worth $90M/WEEK FREE!to them.

and unlike other mass media that can be targeted to the Zipcode level - nunberg wasn't listening to limbaugh, trump's friend, who puts his transcripts out so all the rw media and politicians can be on the same page

and all the other forms of media are part of the free speech spectrum - unlike talk radio - an unchallenged 95% monopoly

trump is in the white house because the country was baked in 30 years of lies and swiftboating - a lot of it aimed at demms like clintons. those swing states with all those union and middle class blue collar workers voting to give billionaires tax breaks are primary, secondary, and tertiary recipients of 30 years of pro corporate repetition. democrats don't have to go right to get them, as the 'pundits' keep saying - liberals and democrats just have to pull their earbuds out of their asses and stop ignoring the biggest political propaganda operation in history

it never gets polled for, and we even let 87 universities support 260+ limbaugh stations

[Cosmocat]

58. No $hit

I agree with everything you just wrote.

But, Limbaugh dying or AM radio's influence perhaps waning won't end the drive to right the right wing hell hole we are in.

That was my point.

[certainot]

59. i think the left will be very surprised when he croaks and the ad industry starts to break up

the monopoly and the RW's focused messaging falls apart

they can't replace him

[Evolve Dammit]

41. Stay within the walls of the Vatican Newt. You are a vile "person" and kharma remembers all.

[Hotler]

48. He's still breathing????????? geez.....

edit to add:
That's called hardball. And that is what we will need to play if we gain control. The days of playing nice are over, at leasdt for a couple of presidential terms. We have a lot to claw back before we can move forward.

[Sherman A1]

49. Couldn't happen to a "nicer" guy

[Blue Owl]

57. Payback's a Gingrich

n/t

[moondust]

60. They can march in lockstep behind Newt

all the way into history's graveyard. Say hi to the Whigs!

[JudyM]

61. He distorted their view, blurred the horizon so integrity no longer had value if it conflicted with

whatever the party line happened to be. Had them all read ayn rand and click their heels.

In a perfect world, he and mcconnel would be publicly shamed for life, beyond redemption.