Newt Gingrich, when you do stuff like this (HT: Ace of Spades), I almost forget all my doubts about your abilities as the GOP nominee:
“One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Nancy Pelosi told Talking Points Memo. “When the time is right. . . . I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.”
Gingrich, who served as Speaker of the House, worked with Pelosi in Congress from 1987 to 1999. Pelosi also served on the ethics committee that investigated Gingrich for tax cheating and campaign finance violations in the late ’90s.
Newt responded:
First of all, I’d like to thank Speaker Pelosi for what I regard as an early Christmas gift. If she’s suggesting she’s gonna use material she developed while she was on the ethics committee, that is a fundamental violation of the rules of the House and I would hope members would immediately file charges against her the second she does it.
As Lincoln said of Grant, “I need this man. He fights.”
If Gingrich thinks he's going to deter Pelosi or the other Democrats from releasing information, he's crazy. What does he think she's going to do, call a press conference? She'll release the information the same way they always do, to a selected reporter. And if he thinks the public is going to ignore the revelations because they don't like the way in which the information came to light, he's even more deluded than I've thought.
And you're giving him credit for being a fighter? Sure, but a stupid one.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe Republican nominee shouldn't HAVE to fight serious (and very likely justified) charges of grievous ethical violations.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOh look, a comment completely absent of any facts.
Newt was declared not guilty on 83 out of 84 charges. Just because you want the man to be guilty that doesn't mean he actually is.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIs it a violation of some House rule (or Federal law) to threaten to release information like this? This sounds like extortion to me.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThere is only one problem with Newt's comment -- it doesn't matter. Pelosi will just have one of her staffers leak it anonymously to the press. That way, the damage to Newt is done and no one gets punished. This is the way the DC game is played.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThat's 'fighting' Jim? To respond to damaging info by saying the House was supposed to keep it all secret?
Most people would call that whining and an attempt to maintain a cover-up of his 'guilt.'
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOh my...
You best wake up those in utter denial Mr. Geraghty before it is far too late.
The one's pushing the tired Beltway Insider who swiped 1.8 Million of Taxpayer Funds via Fannie and Freddie are heading everyone for disaster. Newt Gingrich will be the biggest gift to the Democratic Party in 2012. Not only will he be giving Obama another 4 years, he is going to sink all other boats for the GOP in State and Local Elections.
Just as McCain was a disaster, to run a life long Washington Politician without any Private Sector - CEO Experience without any genuine accomplishment (temperament or ability), especially at a time when Americans held the Beltway in historic levels of approval disdain - Newt Gingrich will prove even more ruinous.
For those of us who are saddened by the obsession with imagery and stereotype in the conservative arena, just imagine the disastrous offering posed when facing the very superficial American Public with yet another tired Celebrity Beltway Icon who made his fortune and fame via the Our Federal Government. It is pure insanity.
Gingrich is an utter disaster, his desperate attempt to placate Trump is just another vivid reminder:
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I wonder if Pelosi is even capable of appreciating the irony of violating ethics by releasing ethics committee materials. It's a wonder Nancy has never thrown her own hat in the presidential ring.
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