Morally Bankrupt Speakers Gotta Stick Together

I turned on the local news this evening to see a brief clip of Newt Gingrich making the following outrageous claim :

GINGRICH: What if it does turn out that, in fact, this entire thing was rigged by liberals and Democrats, that this entire thing was done deliberately and methodically, and in fact, it is the equivalent of a large dirty trick.

Notice the telltale “if” as in “IF the Republican leaders of the House have been covering up for a sexual predator, it would prove that they care more about winning elections than protecting children”. Of course the big difference is that what I wrote was true and what Gingrich said is complete bullshit. Kinda fitting that he’s popping back up though, since Newt is the one who started the recent trend of GOP House Speakers who’ve been forced to resign in disgrace. Kinda sad to think that for all of his years in public service, the greatest contribution Newt Gingrich has given to this country is a bunch of book reviews he’s written for Amazon.com.


posted by greg on October 6, 2006 @ 11:50 pm

4 comments »

  1. Even IF Newt Gingrich didn’t sound like Kermit the Frog he wouldn’t stand a chance of getting the 2008 GOP nomination.

    Comment by jim marquis — October 7, 2006 @ 2:12 pm

  2. I can’t help but wonder at what point the public will realize that every Republican House Speaker for the last 12 years has left in scandal and disgrace?

    And is it at all possible that the public will connect that the “values” party is anything but?

    Comment by the idiot — October 8, 2006 @ 8:48 pm

  3. Unfortunately, I have to say that if the public could make connections, we wouldn’t have all three branches of the federal government dominated by knuckle-draggers and fat cats (or knuckle-dragging fat cats, in some cases). Yet they keep voting Republican…

    Comment by Ben in VA — October 9, 2006 @ 8:58 am

  4. Well…, in 2003 State of the Union, George Bush asked us to “Imagine those nineteen terrorists this time armed with other weapons supplied by Saddam Hussein.”

    …imaginary

    Comment by Darryl Pearce — October 9, 2006 @ 11:43 am

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