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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsfuck you newt... Gingrich: Obama 'desperate frenzy' to save legacy
"His legacy is like one of those dolls that, as the air comes out of it, shrinks and shrinks and shrinks," Gingrich told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday." "He's in this desperate frenzy."
Gingrich, a vice chairman of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, made the comments as he pointed to executive actions Obama has taken just weeks before he surrenders the presidency to Trump.
The Obama administration last week nixed regulations that could have been used to reboot the George W. Bush administration's program known as NSEERS, the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, which required men under 25 from many Muslim-majority countries to register with US immigration authorities. Trump called for
banning foreign Muslims from the US during his campaign.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/25/politics/gingrich-obama-legacy/index.html
dhill926
(16,346 posts)a disgrace as a congressman. why the fuck do we have to listen to his shit?
pkdu
(3,977 posts)MotorCityMan
(1,203 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)who was thrown out of power in disgrace? Whose own election campaign was a fiasco? Newt, if anyone leaves Washington in tatters, it is you.
Never forget the only reason the GOp have any influence is because trump ran as much against you as he did against Hillary. Heaven help you if it turns out Rubles fueled the election.
elleng
(130,974 posts)Worse than paladino???
ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)As is any legacy.
Nobody will remember the mouthings of that butt ugly piece of work Newt
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)Gingrich's legacy is getting kick out of Congress because the GOP felt his philandering would serve as a distraction to their impeachment of Bill Clinton over a consensual BJ.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Newt and his hair spray helmet head screwy wife should retire to the south of Russia.
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)His legacy is just fine. Gingrich is just a POS.
OldYallow
(90 posts)As far as your legacy Newt. History will look upon your record of cheating on wives, scamming folks, shaming the office of Speaker, and god knows how many other things. By the way, you are as much responsible for destroying our democracy as Rush, and Murdoch.
History will look at you as a pile of scum.
What, you don't know it?
I especially like how you served your sick wife divorce papers in the hospital. What a touch of class. For a snake.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)Last edited Sun Dec 25, 2016, 10:32 PM - Edit history (1)
ever to parasitize our body politic, like a big fat leech.
For you young'uns who don't remember the '90s: Newt, like Trump, has been married three times, with the first two marriages ending in divorce after he had affairs with other women. Newt, if you'll recall, dumped his first wife, Jackie, while she was in the hospital being treated for cancer. Supposedly he said of her: "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer." While he was married to the second wife, Marianne (whom he married six months after dumping Jackie), he had an affair with a House staffer, whom he married four months after dumping Marianne.
Back in the 90s Newt engineered a shutdown of the government, claiming he was snubbed by having to use the rear exit of Air Force One (although there is videotape showing him and Bob Dole leaving the plane by the front door just behind Clinton).
While Newt was Speaker of the House, the House reprimanded him for claiming tax-exempt status for a college course he ran for political purposes, and ordered to reimburse the House $300,000 for some of the costs of the investigation. Later, after the GOP lost seats in the House, he resigned under pressure from members of his party.
Newt is cut from the same cloth as Trump; he's just not quite as flamboyant. He lies as easily as he breathes and he has no ethics or decency. Of course he says outrageous things in Trump's defense; they are absolutely birds of a feather.