by Kathy W.
Member since:
May 2, 2007

The best, definitative, overwhelmingly comprehensive article on Newt the Toot!

December 13, 2011 02:35 PM UTC
views: 0 | 6 people recommend this | comments: 40

When I was a wee lassie, and being a fuss-budget, or a whiney-child, my gran would say, "You're really on a toot!"  Well, Newt is certainly "on a toot!"  And, he shouldn't even be given the time of day, in my ns Humble Opinion...Here's why:  Newt Gingrich is a lousy human being. 

This article is a summation of every reason why Americans really don't want Newt anywhere NEAR the Oval Office.  After reading this, I don't even want him hired as a minimum wage janitor to clean the Oval Office after hours.  This whole article is going into my desktop folder as anti-repug fodder quick reference, as the links to other "proof" and statistics will help quickly counter the TeaPublicans outrageous misquotes and Faux Noise Blurbs. 

Speaking as a Died-in-the-Wool Dem, I don't want either Newt or Mitt (what's with these names?  Why can't they have normal names, like Barack Hussein Obama?  GRINS!!!) 

However much it chokes me to say it, after doing the research, I would prefer Mitt over the Eye of Newt.  He is a thoroughly disgusting person.  This article, with all of it's many links, shows him up for EXACTLY what he is.  A Big, Super-Nasty, White Toad.

And as for the tax plans so touted by the Repugs?  Here's an analysis of what they'd do TO AMERICANS broken down by income levels.  This you gotta see!

Wow.  The numbers just don't lie.  They actually reflect the disconnection between reality and republicans.

Your thoughts?  Let me know, if you follow some of the Newt-links, and what you thought of them.  I've been reading all morning, and I have to say, I am SO NOT impressed!

 

Never, Never, Never-Ever, Ever vote Republican.  You'll be voting against your own income, against your family, against your neighbors, against your friends, against your parents, against your schools, and against logic and reason.  Those should be enough reasons to avoid making this titanic error. 

Comments: 40

tame mainstay Dec 13, 2011, 3:11pm UTC
Extract: However much it chokes me to say it, after doing the research, I would prefer Mitt over the Eye of Newt. He is a thoroughly disgusting person. This article, with all of it's many links, shows him up for EXACTLY what he is. A Big, Super-Nasty, White Toad.

tame: When I can stop laughing, I'll check out the links!
tame mainstay Dec 13, 2011, 3:31pm UTC
Extract: ...If it seems Newt Gingrich hates all things government, that's only part of the story. Because while he does oppose using the government to help those who most need help, he does seem to love its ability to enrich himself. In fact, lest anyone forget, Gingrich's long career in public office came to an ignominious end after he was caught using tax-exempt funds for overt political propagandizing, the wider investigation of which by the House Ethics Committee he obstructed by providing false information, the result of which was an enormously bipartisan House vote to make him the first Speaker of the House ever to be disciplined for ethical wrongdoing. And within a year, and just four years after leading the GOP to a House majority, he was so unpopular within his own caucus that he was forced to abandon his leadership, and soon his tenure in Congress. After which he went on to become a very well-paid non-lobbyist lobbyist. Newt Gingrich has never demonstrated any interest in helping make the world better for all, but he does love to make the world a better place for Newt Gingrich. Indeed, he seems to abide by a credo of asking not what he can do for his country but what his country can do for him...
Kathy W. Dec 13, 2011, 4:15pm UTC
Even the Repubs (Especially the established Repubs--if not the newly elected TeaPubs) DON'T want Newt. THAT should send a hell of a message.
I think they'd be afraid of retaliation and revenge.
he was so unpopular within his own caucus that he was forced to abandon his leadership, and soon his tenure in Congress.

What killed me most was that he divorced his 1st wife as she was in for her 3rd cancer treatment. The Schmuck! There is NO love, and NO loyalty in this glob of newt. He's an egomaniac, and that is dangerous in a president.
tame mainstay Dec 13, 2011, 4:23pm UTC
He also went after President Clinton's jugular. Wonder how long his present wife will last.
Thomas R. Dec 13, 2011, 4:31pm UTC
Why Tame, he will do it in a moral manner! He will marry the next one too! ;>)
tame mainstay Dec 13, 2011, 4:39pm UTC
That's right, Thomas. He's just having good CLEAN fun playing Serial Monogamy. We don't know what we're missing! xo
Thomas R. Dec 13, 2011, 4:55pm UTC
Sounds like fun to me too! Does this mean Newt is also a Mormon?
Kathy W. Dec 13, 2011, 5:34pm UTC
@ John: The Religion of Newt. Priceless!

Well, as a woman who never went back for "seconds?" I, personally can't even imagine 3rds or 4ths. That whole idea blows me away.

@ Thomas: No, because he divorces his first wife (and children, for which he didn't cover expenses) before he took on his first "trophy wife." Who he also dumped.

You gotta love the ego of a man like him.

Or not. You can love the concept of "family" instead.
tame mainstay Dec 13, 2011, 6:56pm UTC
Thomas: Sounds like fun to me too! Does this mean Newt is also a Mormon?

tame: I don't think Mormonism would have him. Newt doesn't take child support seriously enough. :)
Thomas R. Dec 13, 2011, 3:39pm UTC
John, I think his followers are the same people that became homeless when all of the mental institutions were closed!
Kathy W. Dec 13, 2011, 4:18pm UTC
Well, Regan actually performed that task (LOVE US SOME REPUBS, WHAT?) But I'd say that his peeps are on a cocktail of purple penis pills, Cymbalta, Lunesta, and whatever else big pharma is pushing over the counter at Walgreens that totally diverts logical thinking and stops the compassion gene from surviving.

Did you see where that repub wants to give people on unemployment regular drug tests?

I'd prefer to make these Maniacally Depressed Repugs that represent us take a pee-test every Monday Morning.
Lori F. Dec 13, 2011, 4:33pm UTC
Good ole Newty.
Jim G. Dec 14, 2011, 1:33am UTC
Okay, for the last 30 years they have proposed "Triclke-down economics", described as"Voodoo Economics" by GHWB which has long been proven to be a disaster. So it's time to propose something "Newer" like a regressive flat tax, which has only been around since Steve Forbes ran for Prez. I feel like Yossarian in "Catch-22", either the rest of the electorate is crazy, or I am. I can't stand to be dragged down by a dumbed-down sheeple electorate.....
Kathy W. Dec 14, 2011, 4:00am UTC
Next article: The dumbed-down sheeple electorate... Your words. Watch for it tomorrow. (Sir, please don't leave for the islands til after the election. We may need your vote.)
Jim G. Dec 14, 2011, 1:42am UTC
I'm planning to move to a desert island that has water, a copy of Gibran's "The Prophet" (My Bible) & Jennifer Aniston by my side. Sayonara, Y'all.....
Kathy W. Dec 14, 2011, 3:59am UTC
Better take a couple extra books along. Jes' sayin...

And maybe a bottle of wine (for Jennifer.)
(((grins!)))
Jim G. Dec 14, 2011, 9:21am UTC
Don't need the wine. She's been after my body for years. BTW, some entertainment mag just named her the sexiest woman in the world. Lucky me.
Kathy W. Dec 14, 2011, 9:39am UTC
So...now I have to go find a picture of her, I guess. Some days, I think my "google" will open eyes on my screen, and look at me to say: "You want me to find "WHAT?" GRINS. I always seem to have 3 google pages open, with multiple searches on whatever topic I'm playing with.
Now, I have to go look at a fashionista. Actress, or a model, right?
Kathy W. Dec 14, 2011, 9:40am UTC
AND, I'm old school: I didn't mean bring the wine as a bribe. I meant bring the wine as a gift. Geeesch!
Jim G. Dec 14, 2011, 10:05am UTC
She's on the "Friends" TV sitcom replays. She divorced Brad Pitt - He's a stupid A-hole. I think that I'm in love with her because she reminds me of an old girlfriend. Sitcoms are my escape from reality, lol.
Kathy W. Dec 14, 2011, 3:58am UTC

Gingrich's plan would provide small tax cuts to those at the bottom of the income ladder, giving those making less than $10,000 an average cut of $222 under one scenario, the analysis found. The Tax Policy Center is a joint project of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, two respected think tanks in Washington.

Gingrich's plan would be most generous to those making more than $1 million a year, delivering an average tax cut of almost $614,000 a year. At the same time, it would give them with a lower overall federal tax rate — 11.9 percent — than most people making less money, that is, everyone making between $40,000 and $1 million.

With Gingrich leading the field in polls for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, his tax proposal sets up a stark contrast in a potential showdown with Democratic President Barack Obama, who wants to raise taxes on wealthier Americans, not cut them.

"Gingrich's option would be a win for most households," concluded Howard Gleckman, editor of the Tax Policy Center's blog, TaxVox.

But the delivery of the largest tax cuts to wealthier Americans while potentially adding to the deficit and debt — it would deliver $850 billion less in revenue to the treasury in 2015 than current policy would — might make it harder to sell as a political winner to all voters.

http://www.nationofchange.org/gingrich-tax-plan-would-give-lion-s-share-rich-1323794470
Farmer Slim dancing barefoot in the mud Dec 14, 2011, 6:05am UTC
Jon Huntsman. Republicans should take a really hard look at Jon Huntsman....providing they actually want a seemingly sane candidate.
Kathy W. Dec 14, 2011, 10:08am UTC
You know, Slim, I just wrote a post on why I think they DON'T want a sane candidate. I can't believe this is as sane as it gets.
Got a new article going up later today on why the tea party evolved, psychologically. I'm pretty surprised.
I think they're "cracked" or "dinged" or something. But it shows up.
Farmer Slim dancing barefoot in the mud Dec 14, 2011, 2:06pm UTC
Delusional. Once exceptions to reality are allowed in order to rationalize (allow for...accommodate) ones beliefs..anything goes.
I find the graph confusing. It's OK, I think the phrase "visual aids" is an oxymoron. I can see that the bars are going in the negative direction and, if I refer to the legend I can remind myself which candidate the bars refer to. On the x axis, what do the labels 0-20 through 1 refer to?

I'm one of the fewer than ten people in the world who prefers tables to graphs, especially when they represent data sets like the one above. :)
Gingrich is no worse than his rivals, except maybe for Huntsman who currently is the snowball in hell of the group. All of them represent increased freedom for corporations and the wealthy combined with tighter control over most everyone else. As far as I can see the difference is mainly in packaging. Of course I'm not planning on voting for the GOP nominee, whoever that might be. I'm wavering between a protest vote and Obama. I'll probably fall back on Supreme Court appointees and electability and go with Obama. So far he's turned out to be a bit worse than I expected. I didn't expect him to be any farther to the left than he has been, but I don't think he's strong enough in the administrative department. I'd rather have someone who combines the politics of FDR and the nuts and bolts skills of Lyndon Johnson. An amphibian can dream. :)
Karl Leuba Dec 14, 2011, 12:38pm UTC
the numbers, 0-20 through 1 represent income brackets, in Thousands of dollars, except the 1 represents a thousand thousands.
Karl Leuba Dec 14, 2011, 12:45pm UTC
Now that I have made it clear that I like Graphs, I would like to tell this Nippy Katz person that I would like to see Obama communicating better with those of us who think he is better than his present image. I think he needs to turn his Vice President loose...Give Joe Biden permission to delve into his darker instincts and we might just have a chance of avoiding a revolution. There are a few ways to stop a runaway train. The brakes is the best option, followed by derailing, dynamiting the tracks, or hoping it will run out of fuel before it wrecks more than just a train.

MAGIC DOES NOT APPLY TO THE REAL WORLD.

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