Gingrich brags that Republicans are coming for everything FDR accomplished

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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“Every Republican wants to do a big number on Social Security, they want to do it on Medicare, they want to do it on Medicaid,” President-elect Donald Trump warned on the campaign trail. “And we can’t do that.”

Just over a month before Trump is expected to take the oath of office, however, one of his closest allies told a conservative gathering not to worry. Referring to this specific moment in history, when Republicans are about to take control of all three branches of government, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told an audience at the Heritage Foundation that “this is the third great effort to break out of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt model.”

Gingrich is a close ally of Trump and was once viewed as a top contender for a cabinet position until the former speaker announced that he wasn’t interested in such a job.

His full speech to Heritage on Tuesday was a mix of gloating, hero worship directed at Trump, paranoia, and grievance. “Something profound is breaking in the old order… a genuine revolution is building,” Gingrich proclaimed, shortly after he credited Donald Trump for giving Americans permission to “say Merry Christmas again.”

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What pisses me off is for how often Gingrich has bad mouthed the federal government that dumb fuck has almost never worked in the private sector. His only private sector work is his grifting that's posed as conservative political fund raising.

There are so many of his type (hello Paul Ryan) that we as Democrats need to call out their hypocrisy. This charade has gone unchallenged for far too long.

[Hugin]

1. Yep... Including beating the fascists.

That, there was FDR.

[Dawson Leery]

6. We would not be here if there was a GOP President instead of FDR.

Churchill and DeGaulle were not like the American right. They knew the enemy and made the deal (dirty as it was) to align with Russia against the fascists.

I am CERTAIN a Republican President would have aligned the US with Nazi Germany.

[lastlib]

20. Prescott Bush (who begat us Poppy...

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who begat us Dubya, Jeb and Neill): "If I could only talk to Adolf, I'm sure all this unpleasantness could be avoided....."

Yeah, we'd've been goose-steppin' with the Nazis if the Repigs had been in power in the 1930s.

[Dawson Leery]

29. Certainly.

[Lint Head]

2. Even giving Germany back to the Nazis. Steve Bannon and

his White Supremacist as kissers would love thier homeland back. Maybe Trump and the GOP will reopen the death camps.

[Angry Dragon]

13. they are shooting for Death Panels

[duffyduff]

3. Newt is full of shit.

His party would be DOA if they tried any of that shit, and he knows it.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. This isn't the first time they've had all three branches

and George W. Bush got burnt when he tried to privatize Social Security in 2005. Them going after Medicare and even repealing ACA is looking increasingly perilous as well. Not that I'm discouraging Republican overreach that will only burn them in 2018 and 2020.

[SammyWinstonJack]

28. It would seem they don't think that is the case.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Despicable

He should be ashamed, not proud

[colsohlibgal]

7. Here We Go

I would imagine that thousands daily are realizing they got played.

This recalls one of the Kochs saying he just wanted his fair share, which in his case was all of it.

It is lamentable. We may be in for a long dark night.If the forces of good and right ever take over again, I would hope that Fox News and their like will be looked at like Tokyo Rose or Joe McCarthy. The damage their propoganda will cause is incalculable.

[sarcasmo]

8. ACA, Medicare, Social Security, USPS in that order.

[spanone]

9. just like them to win with putin's help and be arrogant about it

[lpbk2713]

10. They have never let up.

This has been their goal for over 75 years.

[summerschild]

11. I hope Gingrich dies a very poor man.

He has all the humanity of a cock roach.

[resistance2016]

25. I think he's already dead

He's like a zombie, he just won't go away. His existence is a stain on the state of Georgia.

[Angry Dragon]

12. The Newt is nothing more than an adulterer and a cheat

remember he was fined $300,000 for ethics fraud as Speaker ............. the only one

[rug]

14. That means the resurrection of the Third Reich.

No wonder Bannon's there.

[smirkymonkey]

15. What a sick f**k!

There is no depth to the hatred I have for these people!

[sinkingfeeling]

16. Thanks to Don the Con I will never say Merry Christmas to

anybody again.

[roamer65]

17. The disintegration of the American republic is what they stand for...

right along side their buddy Putin.

[YOHABLO]

18. He's nothing but a blowhard; just full gas.

[trusty elf]

23. .....

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[Zambero]

19. It's now the New Steal

The New Deal? Dead after 80+ years. Trickle down is back with a vengeance, on steroids this go-round. And false equivalency ("OK to say Merry Christmas now folks!&quot is close behind as the mandatory distraction.

[pipi_k]

21. Yeah?

Just let 'em try it.

Because, yeah...only Democrats get Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid




Mess with any of those, and I predict rioting in the streets like they never saw before.

[czarjak]

22. To be fair...

Thinking "something profound is breaking in the old order" is the zenith of delusion.

[mfcorey1]

24. Professor, stay in your lane, dimwit! eom

[pfitz59]

26. FDR prevented a Civil War with his brave actions

Take away the protections he installed and that juggurnaut starts up again. Wait until the angry Trump voters find out there is no instant miracle cure to their poverty and despair...

[Vinca]

27. Time to invest in poor farms!

[JHan]

30. These morons are going to behave as if they won in a landslide...

and that will be their undoing.