Mother Davis gets out her measuring tape as she learns,
Republican attack dog Newt Gingrich was sighted this week making a speech in New Hampshire, something that politicians often do as a sign that they plan to run for President in a few years. Clearly we can expect to hear big things from Newt Gingrich in the months to come. But how big?
We got a clue about the Newt’s intentions when, in the middle of his speech, he complained “Washington is trapped in the tyranny of the present and can’t think about big change.”
This is the point at which I understood that Newt Gingrich’s plan is to fully transport the entire United States of America into that parallel dimension of reality in which he lives.
What the heck is he talking about, Washington being afraid of big change?
The problem is not that Washington D.C. is afraid of big change. The problem is that the Republicans who control Washington D.C. have no restraint in their zeal to create big change. They get a crazy idea into their heads and go marching off, with no thought to America’s traditions of liberty and equality.
Let’s not forget that Newt Gingrich was busy selling his ideas for big change in the early 1990s, too. He organized the Contract with America, and promised that it would clean up Washington D.C. As Tom DeLay’s corruption clearly shows, Gingrich’s Contract With America did not clean up our nation’s capitol. It made Washington D.C. even more dirty. Thanks to the Contract With America, our economy is dragging, our international reputation is shot, and our government is controlled by the corporations that write the biggest checks. Newt Gingrich’s credibility should not have much value – and yet, Americans have a short memory.
So here is Newt Gingrich, once again making complaints that the Republicans aren’t able to make big enough changes to American democracy.
Ripping the guts out of Social Security is not big change? Giving the Secretary of Homeland Security the right to overrule any law is not a big change? An official policy to torture prisoners is not big change? Unprovoked war based on imaginary evidence is not big change? Creating government databases to keep track of lawful citizens’ private behavior is not big change? Air Force programs to help citizens spy on and report about their neighbors to the military is not big change? Revoking bankruptcy protections is not big change? Record government spending is not big change? Direct government funding of religious worship is not big change? Sending out government agents to infiltrate and undermine political opposition groups is not big change? The “nuclear option” in the United States Senate is not big change?
Just what is this big change that Newt Gingrich and his cohort of Republican extremists have in mind, if they regard these changes as small potatoes?
Looking at the fine print in the contract and seeing the big picture,
Mother Davis
Well done, Mother Davis!
this is just the beginning. Don’t forget about jailing citizens without charges or access to legal representation, demonization of minorities (religous and ethnic), wiping out the middle class, the widespread accecptance of the above changes by people who are afraid or too damn lazy to ask questions, a lazy whore press (mainstream)that allows said trangressions occur without challenging the obvious law breakers, ethically challenged individuals in charge.
I am disgusted with the american populace; they are just cattle.
We need to keep a watch on Newt. I read this morning that he had his eye on the Presidency…scary thought!
Noted, Ambriel: Ein volk, ein Reich, Ein Newt….Naw, that doesn’t have a ring to it, does it? The man does have Chutzpah, tho’, doesn’t he? No ethics, COMPLETLY out of touch with reality, it would seem…But Chutzpah? Mountains of it…
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