A few years ago, I wrote an extended piece bearing the title The Republicans: WTF Happened to this Party?. Recently, in response to a couple of engaging (relatively) meas culpas—Matthew Continetti’s The Right The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism and Tim Miller’s Why We Did It—I began preparing an update. I originally planned to…
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Political Notes From All Over, Volume II
Barack Obama and the Ministry o’ Truth Oy vey, mon president! In a recent interview with the BBC former President Barack “if you like your health care plan you can keep it” Obama complains about the lack of truthiness currently available in the USA: There are millions of people who subscribed to the notion that…
Why Donald Trump will be our very worst president, by a very wide margin
Donald Trump will be our very worst president, by a very wide margin, because Donald Trump is the apotheosis of the Tea Party, the culmination of Republican lawlessness—that is to say, an impatience and contempt for “rules” that eventually transforms itself into a delight in their violation—that has been growing stronger and stronger since the…
The Republican Trifecta
Back in 1998 Republicans went through three Speakers of the House of Representatives before they finally impeached President Bill Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice: The president provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony to the grand jury regarding the Paula Jones case and his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. The president obstructed justice in an…
Newt Gingrich hath no bottom
It’s difficult to be funny about Newt Gingrich’s latest excess—his shameful exercise in unsourced innuendo in defense of Michele Bachmann and the “National Security Five” that headlined recently in Politico, whose owners are apparently desperate to score free tickets to the upcoming Newt n’ Callista blockbuster, “We Hate Muslims!” Anyone who followed the blow-out presidential…
Newt goes down: the party’s over
I guess I’m not really ahead of the crowd on this one: the odds are very good that Mitt Romney will squash Newt Gingrich tomorrow like a thrice-married June bug. It gets worse: Despite all his bravado—and, surely, despite all his anger at being outspent by a margin of more than five to one—Newt will…
“Newt’s Moon Speech: Not Actually Crazy”—Just Total Bullshit
Newt Gingrich is getting a lot of ink, photons, & pixels with his “promise” to Cape Canaveral area folks that he’s going to establish a permanent American colony on the moon, concluding his pitch with the following Gingrichian flourish: “When they have 13,000 Americans living on the moon,they can petition to become a state.” Over…
Newt Gingrich is not a racist. He only makes grossly racist statements. All the time.
Over at the Daily Beast, Peter Beinart ties himself into knots trying to explain why “non-racist” Newt Gingrich says racist things, to wit, that black people (and only black people) somehow need to be told that they should stop collecting food stamps and get jobs instead. “Gingrich’s problem isn’t racism,” claims Pete earnestly, the sweat…
So Unfair! To Arianna, I mean.
“Howie” Carr, who, according to David Weigel, is “probably the most influential talker in New England,” has recently labeled Newt Gingrich “a butch Arianna Huffington.” Funny! Funny, because I had always tabbed Arianna as a butch Newt Gingrich. What goes around comes around, I guess.
David Weigel: Newt Gingrich, totally not a racist, though I went out of my way to provoke people into calling him one. Shame on them!
This is the gist of Dave’s posting, explaining, or, rather, explaining away, an earlier posting that I and others picked up on, in which a feisty Newt Gingrich told a New Hampshire crowd: “I will go to the NAACP convention and tell the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.” Well,…