That’s very fiscally conservative of him.
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And Facebook.
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Oh. And there's also Greater Than Lapsed on Wordpress for stuff that I actually write that is too long for Tumblr.
Also: Ask me anything
January 27, 2012
Gingrich Pledges To Establish Permanent Base On The Moon 'By The End Of My Second Term' | ThinkProgress
January 19, 2012
"Certainly, she’s one of the people I’d call on for advice. I would ask her to consider taking a major role in the next administration if I’m president, but nothing has been discussed of any kind. And it wouldn’t be appropriate to discuss it at this time."
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LOL?
January 19, 2012
"If the court makes a fundamentally wrong decision, the president can in fact ignore it."
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False. And stupid. And slightly scary.
January 8, 2012
(Apologies to Buzzfeed)
December 23, 2011
"Zany is not what we need in a president. Zany is great in a campaign. It’s great on talk radio. It’s great in the print; it makes for fun reading. But in terms of a president, we need a leader, and a leader needs to be someone who can bring Americans together."
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Best commentary on this? From Melissa McEwan at Shakesville:
How the fuck boring are you if you think Newt Gingrich is “zany”?
December 22, 2011
"Do you want to move towards American exceptionalism, reassert the Constitution, reassert the nature of America, or do you, in fact, want to become a secular, European, sort of bureaucratic socialist society?"
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American exceptionalism is lies and nonsense.
You can’t reassert the Constitution by shitting all over it like Newt Gingrich seems to want to.
And, yes, I want this country to become a secular, European sort of socialist society. The western European socialist countries outperform the United States in nearly every measure of a healthy society—education, healthcare, and so on.
Why wouldn’t people want that except for the fact that we have a culture that glorifies greed and selfishness at the expense of our fellow humans? People in the United States should be appalled at the actions of the rich and powerful in our country; instead, most people nurture the not-so-secret hope that, one day, they too can exploit others in order to make their fortune.
November 30, 2011
"GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich offered himself as their defender when he spoke to supporters at campaign headquarters in Manchester, N.H. “Community banks are 12 percent of the banks right now and 40 percent of the loans to small business,” Gingrich said. “And they are being destroyed by Dodd-Frank."
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PolitiFact | Newt Gingrich says Dodd-Frank is destroying community banks
Then there’s this:
The first thing to note is that one year after the passage of Dodd-Frank, community banks are healthier. By convention, any bank with assets of less than $1 billion is a community bank. According to the latest report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, for that group of banks, a key measure of profitability, return on assets, has doubled in the past year, growing from 0.26 percent a year ago to 0.57 percent in the second quarter of 2011. Return on assets has been higher this year than in any quarter going back to the start of 2008 before the great meltdown.
So, these community banks are doing better now than they have in some years. I guess Newt has some other metric that he’s using? Or maybe there are other measures of success that are being ignored? Or something, right?
We asked the Gingrich campaign to give us the data that informed the former House speaker’s belief. Staffer R.C. Hammond replied “It was his observation. How do you source an opinion?”
Oh, so apparently it’s just Newt Gingrich’s opinion that banks are being destroyed by their increased health and success since Dodd-Frank. I guess it’s just not intended to be a factual statement.
November 20, 2011
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“It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid,” Gingrich said. “Saying to people you shouldn’t go to work before you’re 14, 16. You’re totally poor, you’re in a school that’s failing with a teacher that’s failing.”
Gingrich then proposed a system he said would help those students rise from poverty.
“I tried for years to have a very simple model. These schools should get rid of unionized janitors, have one master janitor, pay local students to take care of the school. The kids would actually do work; they’d have cash; they’d have pride in the schools. They’d begin the process of rising.”
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Gingrich: Laws preventing child labor are ‘truly stupid’ – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs
So, apparently Newt’s solution to failing schools is not to, you know, improve the schools; it’s to get kids working in shitty, dead-end jobs as young as possible.
Clearly, those child labor laws are just “stupid,” and that’s what’s holding kids back these days. It’s definitely not the failure of our society to adequately address the issues of poverty, right?
Right.
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October 2, 2011
"I believe that marriage is between a man and woman,” Gingrich said, the Des Moines Register reports. “It has been for all of recorded history and I think this is a temporary aberration that will dissipate. I think that it is just fundamentally goes against everything we know."
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Gingrich: Gay Marriage Is A ‘Temporary Aberration That Will Dissipate’ | Election 2012
Newt, you have no imagination at all, do you?
Also, I get sick as fuck of seeing this “marriage has always been between a man and a woman” bullshit.
For most of recorded history, marriage was between a man and a woman’s father because women were essentially property of their male relatives. Somehow, appeals to tradition aren’t particularly convincing to me.
July 19, 2011
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Newt Gingrich has decided not to sign — at least, not sign as of yet — an Iowa conservative group’s controversial ‘Marriage Vow’ pledge for Republican presidential candidates to personally and publicly uphold heterosexual monogamy and sexual morality.
“We’re happy to work with you to sharpen it so people understand where we’re going with it,” Gingrich told Family Leader head Bob Vander Plaats, according to Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond, in a National Journal report. “It’s not there yet.”
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Gingrich Seeking To Tweak ‘Marriage Vow’ — From Iowa Conservative Group | TPMDC
That “personal fidelity to my spouse” thing might trip Gingrich up a little.
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“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
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This is what happens when two night owls have a baby. You end up with a child who is wide awake at 12:30am. (Taken with instagram)
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