The Newt that walks like a man has come down on the OWS demonstrators, claiming that they are just a bunch of lazy, dirty, do nothings who are leaching off society. This led to the conclusion that it is okay to mace them and mistreat them because they didn’t pay for the parks anyway so why should they have any right to use them? I have always said that Newt was a very smart, very devious guy with no moral center. I’m no longer sure I was right about the smart part.
Then I heard Senator Kyl agree with Newt and I knew I was wrong about the smart part.
Just for laughs let’s take Newts moronic statement apart. No they didn’t pay for the parks, Newt, neither did you or I or anyone who uses it or any of the other parks in the country. We all did, through taxes, that stuff the Republican’s don’t want to pay. There’s no way you can, with any certainty, say that the occupiers don’t pay taxes. I know for a fact that at least a couple of the people who I saw in Zuccotti Park pay a hell of a lot of taxes, probably more than you.
Of course some of them are do nothings, just like any crowd of people but many of them are hard working folks who have lost their jobs because of the massive screw-up caused by Republican demands to cut regulations on the financial sector, demands led by you and Kyl for your own financial benefit. I’m talking here about lobbyist fees and campaign funding from big business. You know what lobbyist fees are, Newt. They’re the $1.6M you got from Freddie Mac as a “consultants fee.” You and Kyl are as guilty of killing jobs as Jamie Dimon and his den of thieves over at JP Morgan ever were.
I don’t like Newt Gingrich, Surprise! But the editorial about him in the Washington Post this week is an example of Republican attack politics rather than fair reporting.
Yes, the Newted thing calls for the abolition of child labor laws but he then goes on o explain himself and what he says makes sense… to a degree. Letting kids work, earn money and acquire some self respect is indeed a good thing, the problem is that such a situation is quickly taken advantage of, by Newt’s unconscionable big business supporters who will soon have child sweat shops back in full swing. It would indeed be nice if some kind of compromise between no child works and five years olds working twelve hour shifts were possible, but there are just too many greedy bastards out there looking to take advantage of any unscrupulous opportunity to scrape out anther dime.
The brilliant Paul Krugman has come up with an interesting point of view on the Republican candidates. He contends that they fall into two camps. Romney on the one side who absolutely doesn’t believe in the Right wing ideology and the rest of the fools and nuts, Does this mean that the problem is that the Republican ideology only works for fools and nuts?
On the fools and nuts side, Santorum is having his surge and why not? Newt is actually the smartest of the Republican candidates, but Rick is the biggest God monger (now where does that leave the rest of them?) Rick depends on an earnest demeanor, to lay his spread of phony religious baloney on the masses heads. Newt is slick and clever and he knows how to charm the masses, but his comeuppance will arrive when it becomes clear what a despicable liar and morally bankrupt slime he truly is. Rick will get his when the true believers realize what a dark and morally corrupt individual he really is. The Pennsylvania voters got it the last time he ran. We’ll all get it this time.
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And while we’re speaking about Right Wing slime, the deficit reduction committee or the gang of twelve as they were scornfully known did not come up with a solution to the deficit problem allowing the decisions to go to Sequester. Why? Why can’t twelve men, good and true come up with the answer to a problem that is plaguing our country? The answer is that at least six of those men are not good and true. Six of them are restrained by a pledge they have made to the paid lobbyist for rich anti-tax positions, the evil gnome, Grover Norquist. Why are congressmen groveling before this ridiculous nobody? Why have supposedly grown men allowed this sycophant of the rich to dictate their actions? The answer is simple. Money. Norquist, as the slimy servant of the rich, promises them the rewards of eternal campaign contributions in exchange for their subservience to his commands. He does worse, he promises the retraction of those rewards if they fail to kneel before his fetid feet. This obeisance to a promise other than their oath of office is tantamount to treason because they are putting an outside influence above said oath. The Congressional Oath of Office states, “…I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion…”
Norquist’s pledge is very specifically a mental reservation and it’s purpose is notably the evasion of the Constitution which states definitively that, “Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises to pay the debts and provide for common defense and general welfare of the United States.”
It’s pretty clear that anyone who has signed Norquist’s pledge is in direct violation of their Constitutional responsibilities and should be drummed out of office, all their post congressional privileges stripped from them and they should be forbidden from ever again holding public office.
It’s more than clear that the only reason Norquist hasn’t been run out of Washington is congressional cowardice. Why do we need a bunch of quivering dogs running our country? I call for a national moratorium that states that any member of the government who doesn’t publically reject Norquist and his pledge be driven out of office regardless of any other position he may hold on any other topic. This does not mean that members of congress cannot vote against taxes. This is specifically an attack on Norquist and the un-democratic kind of government brought on by such pledges weather for or against taxes or anything else. Our legislators must approach all legislation with open minds and unbound by any outside influence or the last vestiges of democracy will be trampled in the mud.