Video: Newt Gingrich's 1986 Speech on Ronald Reagan's Failures

Video: Newt Gingrich’s 1986 Speech on Ronald Reagan’s Failures

“The Reagan administration has failed … Harry Truman accomplished vastly more”

PoliticsFebruary 2012 • Views: 26,351

In the Republican debates, Newt Gingrich is always the first to invoke the hallowed name of Ronald Reagan, taking credit for helping Reagan implement the foreign policy initiatives that led to the fall of the Soviet Union.

Flashback to 1986, as Newt gives a floor speech blasting Ronald Reagan for the “failure” of his foreign policy initiatives, and praising Democratic President Harry Truman for accomplishing much more in the same time period.

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(h/t: Andrew Kaczynski.)

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107 comments

AK-47% Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:06:56pm

Real Reagan wasn't Idolized-Vision-of-Reagan enough?

erik_t Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:07:45pm

Man, it's so weird watching Newt be almost right about something.

Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:07:54pm

This point of view got old, boring, and sick. He left it for a newer, prettier point of view.

Obdicut Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:08:55pm

Awkward.

funky chicken Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:10:26pm

Gawd what an ass. He hasn't changed a bit or learned a thing since then either.

lawhawk Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:10:47pm

It's that damned left wing media again. If only they focused this much on Obama. /RWNJ

AK-47% Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:12:32pm

I always saw him as a bottomless pit of Evil, but this knocks the bottom even out of that assessment...

What, me worry? Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:14:09pm

I'd really like to look at his playbook. The man is such a sleaze with his lies. Not an ounce of integrity.

Yesterday on Meet the Press, he was having a field day slamming the welfare system, and while I like David Gregory as a host, the show needs someone much smarter, because Gregory never mentioned the fact that NEWT and President Clinton reformed welfare. So if there are any problems with it, it's at least partly Newt's fault. In fact, Clinton kept vetoing the welfare reform bill because he didn't like it and finally settled on having something. The reason it is the way it is today is because of NEWT!

Besides, the reality is that welfare is not designed for people to stay on it indefinitely, because of welfare reform NEWT enacted!

Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:22:27pm

What would we do without our cheezburgers?

[Link: news.icanhascheezburger.com...]

Varek Raith Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:24:10pm

No one's there....

Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:25:18pm

Well... He's critiquing Reagan from the right. This should count for something to the TP crowd.

darthstar Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:25:20pm

He's just going for the "moderate Republican" vote...26 years ahead of when he expects to need their votes...no one could have anticipated that they'd be extinct by 2010.

Daniel Ballard Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:26:24pm

re: #2 erik_t

How many of the seven reasons do you endorse?

Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:27:45pm

re: #13 Rightwingconspirator

How many of the seven reasons do you endorse?

You watched it? I won't give Newt that many minutes of my life.

Charleston Chew Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:27:46pm

My God,... the internet... it's, it's... remembering!

Daniel Ballard Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:28:34pm

re: #14 EmmmieG

Well since I lived through the time, a quick video is not any more painful.

erik_t Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:30:04pm

re: #13 Rightwingconspirator

How many of the seven reasons do you endorse?

Dead honest, I didn't watch it because I'm at work. So let me retract my previous statement. Let's try this one instead:

The idea of Gingrich criticizing Reagan for any reason is refreshing, because I think Reagan sucked in a lot of ways. I should, of course, know better than to assume any of Gingrich's reasons are valid or sensible.

calochortus Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:31:09pm

Sorry this will be both a drive-by and off topic, but I see the Prop 8 decision is supposed to be released tomorrow morning. It will undoubtedly be appealed no matter what.

Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:31:12pm

Good gravy.

One of these pictures is a bit out of place.

(I'm teaching on ferns--a non-seeded vascular plant) tomorrow.

[Link: www.google.com...]

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:32:52pm

Newt's hair is really an alien attached to his head, it hasn't changed in all these years and seems to have a mind of its own.

Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:33:22pm

re: #20 Dreggas

Trump's hair's cousin?

Mocking Jay Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:33:49pm

Anyone who reposts this video is lying.

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:33:56pm

re: #21 Sergey Romanov

I think you might be on to something there, there's an invasion underway I am sure of it.

darthstar Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:34:03pm

re: #21 Sergey Romanov

Trump's hair's cousin?

Clone.

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:35:17pm

re: #22 JasonA

I just have to laugh that he's giving this speech, on the house floor, with no one present. Add the that the whole schtick about the "McGovernite Left", everythings the same only the names have changed.

Daniel Ballard Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:35:20pm

I wonder exactly how many politicians have been consistent since the 1980's? My guess is 3 or less. One of them might be Ron Paul, LOL LOL.
Newt's speech here should help him with the TP wing. he attacks Reagan for wildly inadequate conservative actions.

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:36:49pm

re: #26 Rightwingconspirator

Nah he's praising truman and FDR and Teddy Roosevelt (the heretic) that alone should lead to tar and feathering.

Charleston Chew Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:36:51pm

re: #12 darthstar

He's just going for the "moderate Republican" vote...26 years ahead of when he expects to need their votes...no one could have anticipated that they'd be extinct by 2010.

In his defense, Gingrich couldn't have envisioned a time in the distant future when a speech didn't just get broadcast once on cable tv to an audience of 30 people on treadmills at the gym (and with the sound turned off) and then thrown into the back of a closet at C-SPAN.

And even if 2012 Newt got in a time machine made out of a Delorean and traveled back to 1986 to warn himself, 1986 Newt wouldn't believe him and would just laugh and say, "Yeah, right. When a black guy's President!"

Daniel Ballard Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:37:26pm

If we edited out the Soviet/cold war references how much would be left of this? Maybe 2 minutes?

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:38:34pm

re: #28 Charleston Chew

if Now Newt and Then Newt were in the same room it would be the equivalent of dividing by zero and ending life as we know it.

Daniel Ballard Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:39:00pm

re: #12 darthstar

He's just going for the "moderate Republican" vote...26 years ahead of when he expects to need their votes...no one could have anticipated that they'd be extinct by 2010.

How did you get that? He's hitting Reagan as not far right enough.

engineer cat Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:39:10pm

I thought this commerical was well-made. Who doesn’t like Clint, right?

But the ad invites criticism. Would Dirty Harry ask for a handout? Hell no, he wouldn’t. He could build a car made out of his melted Smith and Wesson handgun, all while eating a sandwich and zinging bad guys with one-liners.

so, business loans are now to be considered "handouts"

bratwurst Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:39:53pm

Anti-Reagan or not...this is, above and beyond anything else, a load of blather.

SidewaysQuark Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:40:13pm

By today's right-wing standards, Reagan is (easily) a RINO™.

He's only hallowed among right-wing circles because he

A) was charismatic
B) happened to be around when the USSR inevitably fell
C) is dead

Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:40:19pm

re: #30 Dreggas

if Now Newt and Then Newt were in the same room it would be the equivalent of dividing by zero and ending life as we know it.

The two sets of hair would mate and then the Earth would be overrun with Tribbles that shriek when they detect liberals or RINOs.

Daniel Ballard Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:43:27pm

re: #34 SidewaysQuark

The economy did not improve?

Oh and the wall fell during the HW Bush term

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:43:35pm

re: #35 oaktree

that's a sc-hairy proposition.

wrenchwench Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:43:56pm

re: #10 Varek Raith

No one's there...

I have a feeling the room was full when he started.

How many times does he say "McGovernite"?

Lidane Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:44:08pm

re: #18 calochortus

Sorry this will be both a drive-by and off topic, but I see the Prop 8 decision is supposed to be released tomorrow morning. It will undoubtedly be appealed no matter what.

The wingnuts are already freaking out, too. Lots of blather about black robed tyrants and the activist judges who are trampling over God and man from the RWNJ's. Also, lots of prayers that SCOTUS will overturn it, except they really can't, IIRC, because the case is entirely based on California state law.

engineer cat Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:45:06pm

re: #36 Rightwingconspirator

The economy did not improve?

it did pretty well, maybe even better, under clinton

don't know why bill isn't a hero to all the republicans and businessmen that got rich in the 90s...

Eventual Carrion Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:47:13pm

re: #36 Rightwingconspirator

The economy did not improve?

Well the manufacturing unemployment numbers improved after he put burger flippers in the "manufacturing" job category. Maybe that is where Rich Perry got the idea to push for shit level service jobs to make it look like Texas was a wonderland of good jobs.

Lidane Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:47:30pm

re: #40 engineer dog

don't know why bill isn't a hero to all the republicans and businessmen that got rich in the 90s...

Whitewater! Interns! Blue dresses! Cigars! Eleventy!

engineer cat Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:47:32pm

???

wondering why the Gallup Daily numbers haven't been updated for the past three days...

???

Daniel Ballard Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:49:40pm

re: #40 engineer dog

it did pretty well, maybe even better, under clinton

don't know why bill isn't a hero to all the republicans and businessmen that got rich in the 90s...

Easy to explain-Partisan distortions of the facts.
That recession was not nearly as bad so one would not expect as dramatic a recovery. Reagan may be the most lied about President ever or maybe tied with Clinton. The right exaggerates about how great, the left exaggerates the negatives.

wrenchwench Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:49:44pm

re: #29 Rightwingconspirator

If we edited out the Soviet/cold war references how much would be left of this? Maybe 2 minutes?

There would be nothing left. The speech is about defeating communism. He's telling Reagan what he needs to do to accomplish that.

engineer cat Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:50:41pm

re: #36 Rightwingconspirator

The economy did not improve?

Oh and the wall fell during the HW Bush term

harry truman, dwight eisenhower, john kennedy, lyndon johnson, richard nixon, gerry ford, and jimmy carter would like to say Ahem they were all working hard on defeating the soviet union as well thank you very much kthxbai

nines09 Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:51:05pm

re: #28 Charleston Chew

In his defense, Gingrich couldn't have envisioned a time in the distant future when a speech didn't just get broadcast once on cable tv to an audience of 30 people on treadmills at the gym (and with the sound turned off) and then thrown into the back of a closet at C-SPAN.

And even if 2012 Newt got in a time machine made out of a Delorean and traveled back to 1986 to warn himself, 1986 Newt wouldn't believe him and would just laugh and say, "Yeah, right. When a black guy's President!"

He just wishes people would stop quoting him with his own words. He has no defense.

engineer cat Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:51:43pm

re: #44 Rightwingconspirator

Easy to explain-Partisan distortions of the facts.
That recession was not nearly as bad so one would not expect as dramatic a recovery. Reagan may be the most lied about President ever or maybe tied with Clinton. The right exaggerates about how great, the left exaggerates the negatives.

i'm sorry - which lies are you referring to?

there are so many

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:51:44pm

OT but here's another republican punk'd by the Onion

Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:54:04pm

re: #44 Rightwingconspirator

Easy to explain-Partisan distortions of the facts.
That recession was not nearly as bad so one would not expect as dramatic a recovery. Reagan may be the most lied about President ever or maybe tied with Clinton. The right exaggerates about how great, the left exaggerates the negatives.

How bad a recession is, for an individual, depends on how it hits your individual family.

The 80's recession was terrible for my family. This one has had much less of an impact on my husband and me. (I am not underplaying it, I'm just saying it hasn't had nearly the impact on my family that the 80's recession did.)

jamesfirecat Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:54:08pm

re: #49 Dreggas

OT but here's another republican punk'd by the Onion

To punk someone don't you have to be trying to fool them in the first place?

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:55:13pm

re: #51 jamesfirecat

Very true.

SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:56:06pm

re: #4 Obdicut

Awkward.

It's not flip-flopping if your last name doesn't end in y.

Daniel Ballard Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:58:29pm

re: #50 EmmmieG

How bad a recession is, for an individual, depends on how it hits your individual family.

The 80's recession was terrible for my family. This one has had much less of an impact on my husband and me. (I am not underplaying it, I'm just saying it hasn't had nearly the impact on my family that the 80's recession did.)

That recession cost me a 3 generation legacy that was the half million dollar a year gross retail/mfg jewelry business started in the late 1800's and delayed my marriage 2 years. This recession has hit me harder. That having been admitted, we should look at the hard economic numbers. Like a Page I put up last week.

Charleston Chew Mon, Feb 6, 2012 12:59:28pm

re: #49 Dreggas

OT but here's another republican punk'd by the Onion

I'm not the sharpest tack in the drawer so I'm sympathetic to people falling for things, but come on. How can one not be suspicious of an article about an "Abortionplex"?

Robert O. Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:01:59pm

Let's face it, folks. This guy is going to be the Republican nominee:

[Link: jeromiewilliamsdotcom.files.wordpress.com...]

Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:03:01pm

re: #54 Rightwingconspirator

That recession cost me a 3 generation legacy, a half million dollar a year gross retail/mfg jewelry business and delayed my marriage 2 years. This recession has hit me harder. That having been admitted, we should look at the hard economic numbers. Like a Page I put up last week.

There is always what I think of as the mental aspect of a recession. People will put off spending money if they fear getting laid off, even if nothing has been said yet. I don't need to explain what this does to businesses.

wrenchwench Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:04:59pm

re: #56 Robert O.

Let's face it, folks. This guy is going to be the Republican nominee:

[Link: jeromiewilliamsdotcom.files.wordpress.com...]

Ooh, I've been spelling it wrong. It's 'Romoney the nominee'. The ignominy!

Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:05:52pm

re: #54 Rightwingconspirator

That recession cost me a 3 generation legacy, a half million dollar a year gross retail/mfg jewelry business and delayed my marriage 2 years. This recession has hit me harder. That having been admitted, we should look at the hard economic numbers. Like a Page I put up last week.

[Link: marketplace-radio.gallup.com...]

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:07:02pm

re: #56 Robert O.

You say that like it's a bad thing? Quite honestly there could not be a better representation of the republican party than Mitt Romney. All he needs is someone like Gingrich as a running mate and you'll have the complete picture. Complete lack of concern for everyone but the rich along with old fashioned hatred and bigotry.

Interesting Times Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:07:18pm

re: #58 wrenchwench

Ooh, I've been spelling it wrong. It's 'Romoney the nominee'. The ignominy!

@LOLGOP
The ten most terrifying words in the English language: "I'm Mitt Romney and I'm here to save your business."

garhighway Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:07:46pm

re: #30 Dreggas

if Now Newt and Then Newt were in the same room it would be the equivalent of dividing by zero and ending life as we know it.

Don't cross the streams!

Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:08:20pm

If the Lesbians don't get me, the Mormon death squads probably will.
-Adam as Rick Santorum on SNL

Mostly sane, most of the time. Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:09:47pm

re: #63 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

If the Lesbians don't get me, the Mormon death squads probably will.
-Adam as Rick Santorum on SNL

The Mormon death squads will feed you butter-heavy funeral potatoes and cream-cheese brownies until your heart clogs up.

Charleston Chew Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:09:53pm

re: #56 Robert O.

Let's face it, folks. This guy is going to be the Republican nominee:

[Link: jeromiewilliamsdotcom.files.wordpress.com...]

Why does Romney spell his name with the Girl Scout logo?

Image: girl-scouts-logo.jpg

Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:09:58pm

re: #63 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

If the Lesbians don't get me, the Mormon death squads probably will.
-Adam as Rick Santorum on SNL

The Mormon death squads - the nicest death squads out there!

///

Daniel Ballard Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:10:00pm

re: #48 engineer dog

Take a look at how fast jobs came back under Reagan and compare that to the three more recent recessions. You will see that jobs came back fast then. This time? Slower than any recession in 60 years. Partisan explanations are rarely (if ever) accurate, economics just don't respond to talking points.

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:13:11pm

More Lulz:

Bachmann: "I was the perfect candidate"

erik_t Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:13:43pm

re: #68 Dreggas

More Lulz:

Bachmann: "I was the perfect candidate"

Only for Jon Stewart and SNL.

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:15:01pm

Ok this is freaking cool

Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:15:06pm

re: #68 Dreggas

More Lulz:

Bachmann: "I was the perfect candidate"

Well, in context, she means a candidate with a perfect conservative ideology. And that might be true, seeing how she was the nuttiest one.

Olsonist Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:16:07pm

This was on Slashdot.

Alan Turing was a gay computer scientist who worked at Bletchley Park as a cryptanalyst during WWII. And his reward for that patriotic work was a criminal prosecution and chemical castration. It drove him to suicide.

It would be fitting to pardon him posthumously. It would be simply decent. But no:

A posthumous pardon was not considered appropriate as Alan Turing was properly convicted of what at the time was a criminal offence.

Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:16:22pm

re: #70 Dreggas

Ok this is freaking cool

Way cool. "The future we've been waiting for".

erik_t Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:17:37pm

re: #72 Olsonist

This was on Slashdot.

Alan Turing was a gay computer scientist who worked at Bletchley Park as a cryptanalyst during WWII. And his reward for that patriotic work was a criminal prosecution and chemical castration. It drove him to suicide.

It would be fitting to pardon him posthumously. It would be simply decent. But no:

And to hell with that devious registration-card-burning Ghandi.

Kragar Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:18:24pm

Pat Robertson Says You Should be Christian First and American Second, But Attacks Muslims Who Put Religion Ahead of Nationality

Mocking Jay Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:19:10pm

re: #72 Olsonist

This was on Slashdot.

Alan Turing was a gay computer scientist who worked at Bletchley Park as a cryptanalyst during WWII. And his reward for that patriotic work was a criminal prosecution and chemical castration. It drove him to suicide.

It would be fitting to pardon him posthumously. It would be simply decent. But no:

Oh, hey, there's that America that the right wing wants to take us back to.

Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:21:00pm

re: #76 JasonA

Oh, hey, there's that America that the right wing wants to take us back to.

It's Britain, though. I don't believe in the US gays were chemically castrated by court order.

Charles Johnson Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:21:27pm

As of today, the LGF Blog Engine is no longer filtering out four-letter words in LGF Pages. (The crowd roars!)

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:22:15pm

re: #76 JasonA

Don't give the right any more ideas, this was how the brits handled it back then.

Mocking Jay Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:22:26pm

re: #77 Sergey Romanov

It's Britain, though. I don't believe in the US gays were chemically castrated by court order.

And that's what I get for not clicking the link.

Daniel Ballard Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:22:43pm

re: #39 Lidane

. Also, lots of prayers that SCOTUS will overturn it, except they really can't, IIRC, because the case is entirely based on California state law.

The SCOTUS would be the very next step of appeal. The 2000 Florida vote hanging chad fight was all about state election law. It went to SCOTUS to sort out, famously. The talking points of the left could be in trouble. How can they claim a big RW bias if the supreme court upholds gay marriage?

SanFranciscoZionist Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:24:08pm

re: #66 Sergey Romanov

The Mormon death squads - the nicest death squads out there!

///

Back in the day, one of my college friends was in grad school with a woman who'd overstayed her student visa, and finally been called on it, and was going to have to go back to Canada to redo all the paperwork.

She, and my friend, were carrying on about this as though she was going to be disappeared as she got off the plane in Ontario.

My father didn't stop making jokes about British Columbian death squads for months.

Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:24:49pm

re: #70 Dreggas

That is awesome.

Kragar Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:26:06pm

re: #78 Charles

As of today, the LGF Blog Engine is no longer filtering out four-letter words in LGF Pages. (The crowd roars!)

Fuck yeah!

Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:26:57pm

Notably, one of the staunch opponents of decriminalization of homosexuality in GB was Sir David Maxwell Fyfe. The same guy who was a chief prosecutor from GB at the Nuremberg trial.

Which just shows how far the West has progressed.

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:27:26pm

re: #81 Rightwingconspirator

If the supreme's get it they may just throw it back to the state saying it's the state's issue to sort out. For the conservatives on the bench it would be a CYA move, they can say they aren't being biggoted and don't have any bias while at the same time saying to the right "hey, states rights". The SCOTUS, at this time, has a rightward tilt. Citizen's United proved that.

Kragar Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:28:23pm

re: #82 SanFranciscoZionist

Back in the day, one of my college friends was in grad school with a woman who'd overstayed her student visa, and finally been called on it, and was going to have to go back to Canada to redo all the paperwork.

She, and my friend, were carrying on about this as though she was going to be disappeared as she got off the plane in Ontario.

My father didn't stop making jokes about British Columbian death squads for months.

"Excuse me eh? Could you please put this hood on? I think you know what this is aboot."

Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:28:59pm

re: #87 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

"Excuse me eh? Could you please put this hood on? I think you know what this is aboot."

Eh?

Eventual Carrion Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:33:13pm

re: #67 Rightwingconspirator

Take a look at how fast jobs came back under Reagan and compare that to the three more recent recessions. You will see that jobs came back fast then. This time? Slower than any recession in 60 years. Partisan explanations are rarely (if ever) accurate, economics just don't respond to talking points.

It (economy) responds better to comprise and working together.

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:40:09pm

re: #89 RayFerd

The economy responds better when you don't have one party actively cheering for it to tank and kicking it while it is down.

Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:45:49pm

re: #87 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

"Excuse me eh? Could you please put this hood on? I think you know what this is aboot."

Execution by intravenous poutine?
/

Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:49:38pm

re: #90 Dreggas

The economy responds better when you don't have one party actively cheering for it to tank and kicking it while it is down.

Are you implying that if you opened up the top of Cantor's head you'd find a little blue man in a kilt there running the controls who'd look up surprised and yell "Crivens!"?

Kragar Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:49:44pm

re: #91 oaktree

Execution by intravenous poutine?
/

They cut off your Molson's supply.

Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:50:41pm

re: #93 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

They cut off your Molson's supply.

Cruel and unusual punishment. Same if they forced you to start drinking Bud Light Lime.

Olsonist Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:54:30pm

re: #85 Sergey Romanov

I could parse what pardon means but then pardon isn't exactly defined. Rather it's a prerogative, a magic escape clause. So it's better to establish parallels and work towards an operational definition. From Wikipedia:

In 2006 all British soldiers executed for cowardice during World War I were pardoned, resolving a long-running controversy about the justice of their executions.

Turing's pardon was denied because the prosecution was procedurally correct yet the soldiers were pardoned because of questions about the justice of the matter.

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:54:31pm

re: #92 oaktree

I doubt you'd find much if you opened the top of cantor's head.

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:56:29pm

Paul Ryan: "Damn the past and any promises made, here we go again!"

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 1:59:32pm

and more funny

Digital Display Mon, Feb 6, 2012 2:14:23pm

Hi Lizards..If the SuperBowl is going to continue to be on Sunday nights then I think Monday should be a federal holiday.
Note to self..When I'm King of the world make this happen.

100

Petero1818 Mon, Feb 6, 2012 2:18:39pm

OT:
Nevada's orthodox Jewish community loves Ron Paul...oh wait...maybe not:
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]

101

Obdicut Mon, Feb 6, 2012 2:20:22pm

re: #99 HoosierHoops

King of the world!

Youtube Video

102

Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Mon, Feb 6, 2012 2:22:12pm

re: #99 HoosierHoops

Hi Lizards..If the SuperBowl is going to continue to be on Sunday nights then I think Monday should be a federal holiday.
Note to self..When I'm King of the world make this happen.

Hope you brought some treats home for Winston from the Moose shin-dig!

103

Major Tom Mon, Feb 6, 2012 2:26:50pm

I'm willing to accept that this is just me, but does the 'Young Newt' kinda give you a Justin Bieber vibe? The hair, the posture... It's probably just me.

104

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Mon, Feb 6, 2012 2:28:44pm

re: #103 Major Tom

both are inherently evil...

105

Major Tom Mon, Feb 6, 2012 2:30:48pm

Exactly 3 minutes into the video is an image that sums up Newt's career.

106

Gus Mon, Feb 6, 2012 2:38:55pm

And the crowd roared to its feet!

[crickets]

Word cloud: Reagan, McGovernite, Transnational, etc. It's always a gas listening to men like Gingrich speak of transnationalism when they themselves hold onto an ideology of transnationalism themselves.

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HappyWarrior Mon, Feb 6, 2012 9:06:11pm

Romney distanced himself from Reagan and Bush I when he ran against Kennedy.Guess Newt's like this too- against Reagan before he worshiped him.

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