{"id":4818,"date":"2011-05-12T02:30:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T09:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4818"},"modified":"2011-05-12T02:30:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T09:30:02","slug":"newts-contract-on-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/12\/newts-contract-on-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt’s Contract ON America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newt Gingrich made it official yesterday, formally announcing his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.  I\u2019m amazed that he has the audacity to run, considering his hypocrisy and lack of integrity.  The sad thing is that he just might have a chance considering the weakness of his Republican competition.  Newt promises a new contract with America.  However, as we shall see, anything this \u2026 person<\/em> tries to implement is sure to be a contract ON America.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"12NeuterNewt\"<\/p>\n

Newt Gingrich of Georgia, the latest entrant into the 2012 Republican presidential race, says he will offer a new "Contract With America" similar to the 1994 document that helped him become the first Republican House speaker in 40 years.<\/p>\n

Gingrich, who formally announced his candidacy yesterday, said on Fox News Channel’s "Hannity" that he would ask Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio to join him with an agenda that a Republican Congress would pass and a Republican president would sign into law.<\/p>\n

"If we had a contract in the fall of 2012 and we had an election on core principles, we would have a mandate on the very first day," said Gingrich, 67\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>><\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to find a bigger hypocrite than Newt.  He dumped his first wife while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer to marry his mistress.  Then, at the same time he was trying to impeach Bill Clinton for a BJ, he was screwing another mistress.  He dumped his second wife to marry her.  Look at this article from August 2010.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"12NewtHypocrite\"The September issue of Esquire features an interview with Marianne Ginther<\/a>, the second wife of perennial Republican presidential nominee Newt Gingrich. The two were married for more than 18 years, as were Gingrich and his first wife, Jackie Battley. The Ginther and Battley unions each lasted nearly twice as long as his third and current marriage, to former congressional aide Callista Bisek, with whom Gingrich had been having an affair while still married to Ginther<\/a>. Actually, in a uncomfortable twist, Gingrich first courted Ginther while still married to Battley. If you\u2019re confused, that\u2019s because it\u2019s confusing. For a helpful gloss to the former Speaker of the House\u2019s matrimonial ecstasy and agony, consult our complete guide to Gingrich\u2019s wives\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Vanity Fair<\/a>><\/p>\n

Part of his plan is to restore America’s morality to Republican standards.  He uses hatred for the LGBT community and opposition to women\u2019s rights to distract us from the truth that Republican morality begins with \u201cim\u201d.<\/font><\/p>\n

He is also the only Speaker in history to be fined and censured for ethics violations, as this January 1997 article shows.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"12NewtFined\"The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reprimand House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and order him to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House’s 208-year history it has disciplined a speaker for ethical wrongdoing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The ethics case and its resolution leave Gingrich with little leeway for future personal controversies, House Republicans said. Exactly one month before yesterday’s vote, Gingrich admitted that he brought discredit to the House and broke its rules by failing to ensure that financing for two projects would not violate federal tax law and by giving the House ethics committee false information…<\/p>\n

…The 395 to 28 vote<\/strong> closes a tumultuous chapter that began Sept. 7, 1994, when former representative Ben Jones (D-Ga.), then running against Gingrich, filed an ethics complaint against the then-GOP whip. The complaint took on greater significance when the Republicans took control of the House for the first time in four decades, propelling Gingrich into the speaker’s chair\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Washington Post<\/a>><\/p>\n

Look at that vote count.  His corruption was so egregious that even his GOP pals wouldn\u2019t goose-step behind him.<\/font><\/p>\n

The danger is that he\u2019s as slick as he is shallow, and he has lots of financial backing, from Citizens United, for example, so it\u2019s important that America remembers Newt as the scum-bag he is, with apologies to more respectable scum-bags.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newt Gingrich made it official yesterday, formally announcing his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.  I\u2019m amazed that he has the audacity to run, considering his hypocrisy and lack of integrity.  The sad thing is that he just might have a chance considering the weakness of his Republican competition.  Newt promises a new contract with […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}