Gingrich slams attempt at border deal, says it was 'stupid' to start by trying to work with Democrats
Source: The Hill
02/07/24 7:16 PM ET
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Wednesday slammed Senate Republicans over the attempted border deal, saying it was “stupid” for them to try to work with Democrats.
Gingrich appeared on an episode of the “Cats & Cosby Show” hosted by John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby, where he said he had just recorded a podcast with Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and “neither one of us can figure out how these guys talked themselves into doing something that is just stupid.”
Senate Republicans voted Wednesday against advancing a bipartisan border deal that was part of a larger emergency foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Indo-Pacific security. The deal failed in a 50-49 vote, with most of the Senate GOP conference voting against it. The development marked a dramatic shift among Republicans in the chamber, who for months said any funding intended for Ukraine must be paired with reforms for the southern border.
“Anytime you try to get a bipartisan agreement with the Democrats, you are going to get ripped off because their interests are so radically different than ours,” Gingrich said.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4454708-gingrich-slams-attempt-at-border-deal-says-it-was-stupid-to-start-by-trying-to-work-with-democrats/
He is the architect of the current GOP loon Congress and he is still behind the scenes pulling strings.
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Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump’s rise. Now he’s reveling in his achievements.
Story by McKay Coppins
November 2018 Issue
Updated on October 17, 2018
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On June 24, 1978, Gingrich stood to address a gathering of College Republicans at a Holiday Inn near the Atlanta airport. It was a natural audience for him. At 35, he was more youthful-looking than the average congressional candidate, with fashionably robust sideburns and a cool-professor charisma that had made him one of the more popular faculty members at West Georgia College. But Gingrich had not come to deliver an academic lecture to the young activists before him—he had come to foment revolution.
“One of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty,” he told the group. “We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal, and faithful, and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the campfire but are lousy in politics.” For their party to succeed, Gingrich went on, the next generation of Republicans would have to learn to “raise hell,” to stop being so “nice,” to realize that politics was, above all, a cutthroat “war for power”—and to start acting like it.
The speech received little attention at the time. Gingrich was, after all, an obscure, untenured professor whose political experience consisted of two failed congressional bids. But when, a few months later, he was finally elected to the House of Representatives on his third try, he went to Washington a man obsessed with becoming the kind of leader he had described that day in Atlanta. The GOP was then at its lowest point in modern history. Scores of Republican lawmakers had been wiped out in the aftermath of Watergate, and those who’d survived seemed, to Gingrich, sadly resigned to a “permanent minority” mind-set. “It was like death,” he recalls of the mood in the caucus. “They were morally and psychologically shattered.”
But Gingrich had a plan. The way he saw it, Republicans would never be able to take back the House as long as they kept compromising with the Democrats out of some high-minded civic desire to keep congressional business humming along. His strategy was to blow up the bipartisan coalitions that were essential to legislating, and then seize on the resulting dysfunction to wage a populist crusade against the institution of Congress itself. “His idea,” says Norm Ornstein, a political scientist who knew Gingrich at the time, “was to build toward a national election where people were so disgusted by Washington and the way it was operating that they would throw the ins out and bring the outs in.”
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/
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I can't believe he's still getting headlines. Hopefully Gingrich and Chump are both going to croak soon, or else maybe they'll take a plane to Moscow and never return.
