Hahahahaha..........Gingrich Broke the Law?

[kpete]

Gingrich Broke the Law?
by mcjoan
Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 03:22:04 PM PDT

Hahahahaha.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/3/17/847236/-Gingrich-Broke-the-Law

American Solutions: "Passing Laws Without Voting On Them Is Blatantly Unconstitutional." In an email to supporters, Newt Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future wrote:

Because Speaker Pelosi cannot find enough votes to pass the deeply unpopular ObamaCare bill in a constitutional way, she is hoping you and other Americans won't notice, or won't care, whether she passes ObamaCare in an unconstitutional and blatantly corrupt way.

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As Speaker, Newt Gingrich "Set New Records" For The Amount Of Self-Executing Rules. According to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars:

When Republicans took power in 1995, they soon lost their aversion to self-executing rules and proceeded to set new records under Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). There were 38 and 52 self-executing rules in the 104th and 105th Congresses (1995-1998), making up 25 percent and 35 percent of all rules, respectively. Under Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) there were 40, 42 and 30 self-executing rules in the 106th, 107th and 108th Congresses (22 percent, 37 percent and 22 percent, respectively). Thus far in the 109th Congress, self-executing rules make up about 16 percent of all rules. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 6/19/06



http://mediamattersaction.org/factcheck/201003170004

[Jennicut]

1. Newtie always was the King of Hypocrisy. Mr. Family Values

asked his wife for a divorce when she was in the hospital.

[spanone]

2. laws rarely apply to republicans

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Again? nt

[KharmaTrain]

5. The Democrats Misplayed This Badly

Surely Pelosi, Hoyer and Reid knew the rules but tried to be "bipartisan" or "accomodating" that allowed for this debate to drag on way to long and bring them back to where they could have been a year ago. Now it appears they're using slight of hand...and the GOOP is working overtime, with their corporate media toadies, to make it seem like this bill is being passed despite the legislative. It's all perception and one that could come back to haunt Democrats in November.

The GOOP never wavered from their abuses of the rules...never gave a shit about what the Democrats thought and when jobbing the rules didn't work, they just ignored them altogether. I find it gauling to hear rushpublicans who kissed DeLay's ass now whining about "process" considering how corrupt things had gotten under his reign of terror.

The good thing is we'll be past this long ordeal in a few days and onto the next consternation.

[Dappleganger]

6. He's a hypocrite...

but I don't like this business of justifying one's actions by claiming just because 'they' did it it's ok to do the same. Or maybe real political sausage-making is just too horrifying for me to continue looking.

[progressoid]

7. And the sun rises in the east.

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