Newt Gingrich, on Meet the Press, decrying the intense partisanship in America.
Yes, this is the same Newt Gingrich who shut down the government because he didn’t get to fly on a plane with President Clinton.
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Nah, he was on the plane, but had to use the back door. Shame he didn’t do it while it was still flying . . .
Newt just trying to de-marginalize himself, by playing off the partisan atmosphere he did do much to create. He probably thinks he can look like a moderate, but we remember him for what he is and was.
I seriously think he wants to make a run at the nomination. He’s making face time constantly on FOX News, he’s saying “moderate” things like the NSA tapping is bad and he’s trying to set himself up as a leader from back in the prosperous 90s. There’s got to be more up his sleeve other than he needs attention…
Yes, this is the same Newt Gingrich who shut down the government because he didn t get to fly on a plane with President Clinton.
Dugger has the details — I was going to say, “The only truths in that statement are that Newt Gingrich was Newt Gingrich, and Bill Clinton was Bill Clinton.”
Interesting how no one on the left challenges your ‘people’s’ history. The government shutdown in question was caused by many factors but certainly a large share, probably the largest share, of the blame goes with Bill Clinton and his veto.
“The most recent shutdowns occurred in FY1996. There were two during the early part of the fiscal year. The first, November 14-19, 1995, resulted in the furlough of an estimated 800,000 federal employees. It was caused by the expiration of a continuing funding resolution ( P.L. 104-31) agreed to on September 30, 1995, and by President Clinton’s veto of a second continuing resolution and a debt limit extension bill.” (Sharon Gressle)
But by all means ignore real history and go back to your comic book villains. The chorus here knows no better and is not curious.
Dugger
‘That “snub,” the Georgia Republican said, was “part of why you ended up with us sending down a tougher continuing resolution” — the stopgap spending bill that Clinton vetoed Monday. That veto led to the partial shutdown of the federal government, now in its third day.’
http://www.cnn.com/US/9511/debt_limit/11-16/budget_gingrich/index.html
The shutdown was indeed the result of a failure to compromise from many parties.
That having been said, Gingrich is way too partisan to have his comments be taken seriously.
Sorry Jamey. You are buying into left wing hype. Gingrich indicated that if Panetta and Company would have worked with them on the plane, that the job of sending a stopgap bill would have been easier. “Rep. Chris Shays (R-Conn.) said Clinton’s failure to open budget talks on the trip was “more than a snub. It was a missed opportunity for dialog.”
The latter from USA Today.
Dugger
And you’re wishing away the Speaker’s own words just because the letters C-N-N are next to the dateline.
You can believe in Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. Machts nichts to me.. This was a stark misrepresentation of what really happened and is posted to do nothing but kindle hatred in those too dumb or lazy to research.
Dugger