NOOOT GINGRICH: "Fire federal workers who voted for Clinton"

[CousinIT]

One of the new atrocities Republicans in the House put in place was a reiteration of the Holman rule that allows any individual legislator or Republican Congress to unilaterally summon, interrogate, terminate or cut the salary to $1 of any private citizen working for the government who fails to hew closely to the Trump-Republican ideology and all the badness it entails. Top Trump supporter and advisor, Newt Gingrich, has an addendum to the Holman rule that mandates firing any federal employee at any level who voted for Trump’s opponent and winner of the popular vote Hillary Clinton. This tyrannical and anti-democratic concept is not as far away from reaching fruition as one might think at first blush. In fact, it is a very real and present danger with a Republican Congress, vindictive lying occupant of the White House and an ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation plan to enact wholesale discretionary spending cuts intended to dismantle every last aspect of the government.

The disgraced, and corrupt, Gingrich was speaking at, where else, the Heritage Foundation when he was wetting his underpants over the horrendous Heritage plan Trump-Republicans intend to use as a blueprint to take apart the government. What seems to have given Gingrich a waking wet dream is the plan to kill over 20 percent of the federal workforce. In fact, Trump’s inhumane transition team led by former Heritage Foundation employees has been meeting for months with “career officials in the White House to outline its plan for massive cuts to the workforce.” The plan is the result of the Heritage Foundation model that “essentially calls for cutting nearly all of the government’s discretionary spending.”

Gingrich is seriously excited that Trump will give Republicans the Koch vision of America, one he’s called for over a couple of decades that deconstructs the government. He told a bunch of cruel and inhumane Heritage event attendees that, “I would say by one week after the inaugural, it will be very interesting to look at how many things have changed.” But good old Newt sees one risk to the Trump’s immediate demolition of the government; instantly slashing a federal agency to death will lead other employees “to find ways to sabotage each new cabinet secretary as soon as they walk through the door.” Gingrich is describing the typical Trump-Republican voter, not any Democrat.

His solution, “perhaps the most nakedly political argument for mass firings of federal employees,” is summarily terminating every single federal worker who voted for Hillary Clinton. He said, “all those bureaucrats overwhelmingly voted for Clinton. There won’t be any real cooperation until we change federal law so we can fire them.”

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/24/trusted-trump-advisor-demands-federal-workers-voted-clinton-fired.html

[JHan]

1. These people haven't a clue... I followed the link to his speech...

...............

[Dan]

2. And every single Federal Employee

Should walk...just walk. Then NOOOT and Trump can really run the country.

[Volaris]

5. In less than 30 days every county courthouse in the nation would be on fire.

You think grandma won't start lighting shit up if her soc.sec doesn't get cut cause Trump doesn't know how how to personally run the printing press?

Mine would =)

[democratisphere]

3. Gingrich is a piece of garbage that needs to be thrown out.

Sounds very Putinish to me. "Give me your loyalty or I will give you death."

[2naSalit]

7. What's truly mindblowing is that

he is still breathing. He's so full of hate for this country and rage at all of we the people, I wish his head would literally explode from all the hot air inside. Maybe if someone could tape his mouth shut for an hour that might happen.

[milestogo]

4. So how does he propose to find out who federal workers voted for?

[Mariana]

8. Waterboarding. What else? nt.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. THIS is exactly why we moved from a government of the spoils system

-- the winner of an election got to appoint or hire the vast majority of civil employees -- to the merit system of civil service that we have now.

In fact, Candace Millard's amazing book, The Destiny of the Republic deals with this issue.

[DonCoquixote]

9. there is no clearer sign of GOP decay

Than the fact that Newt Gingrich, a man who was driven from office in disgrace, thanks to his own admission that he "through too many interceptions" is now even allowed to so much as pontificate, much less influence any current administration. The guy should be a signpost that shows the waters that no sane sailor where deer approach.

The very idea that this incompetent crock is still relevant in 2015 does not merely show the wickedness of the GOP, but their sheer incompetence. Any sane president would be trying to distance themselves from Newt Gingrich, a.k.a. he whose failures were the best gift to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

[pansypoo53219]

10. lincoln + his sycophants was a good model.

[malaise]

11. To quote another asshole

See you in court

[WinkyDink]

12. Given that an individual's vote is secret---never mind that one need not vote---this is absurd on

its face.

But in the event...I'd simply lie! #AlternativeFacts #LookIntoMyHeart