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I love Gingrich, as proof of how fucked up the Repugs are.
He's the "smart" one.
Either that or a mormon. We had a black muslim president but we draw the line at mormons.
It chills me that a glib, self-serving, morally indeterminate tub of goo like Newt Gingrich, is still in the picture.
As ever, we get the politicians we deserve.
Did you feel that way about Clinton?Quote:
Originally Posted by Winehole23
Noot has so much baggage
Gingrich Proposed the Death Penalty for Pot Smokers -- Even Though He Admitted to Smoking it Himself
Over the weekend, struggling Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson reminded MSNBC viewers that GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich had once to called to punish some drug offenders with death.
“Newt Gingrich, in 1997, proposed the death penalty for marijuana — for possession of marijuana above a certain quantity of marijuana,” Johnson explained. “And yet, he is among 100 million Americans who’ve smoked marijuana.”
“I would love to have a discussion with him on the fact that he smoked pot, and under the wrong set of circumstance he proposed the death penalty for, potentially, something that he had committed. I have troubles with that,” he added.
Johnson, a former New Mexico governor who has advocated for marijuana legalization since 1999, is at least partially correct about Gingrich’s position.
As Speaker of the House, Gingrich introducedthe “Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996.”
The bill would have required a “sentence of death for certain importations of significant quantities of controlled substances.” It would have applied to anyone convicted more than once of carrying 100 doses — or about two ounces — or marijuana across the border. Defendants would have had a window of 18 months to file their one and only appeal.
“If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs, it is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children,” the Georgia Republican said at a fundraiser for Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA) in 1995. “I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this.”
“The first time we execute 27 or 30 or 35 people at one time, and they go around Colombia and France and Thailand and Mexico, and they say, ‘Hi, would you like to carry some drugs into the U.S.?’ the price of carrying drugs will have gone up dramatically.”
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/153414
Marijuana destroys children?
BigPharma has murdered Ms more than all the illegal drugs combined.
1. Palin
2. Bachman
3. Perry
4. Cain
and now gingrich
it's just the flavor of the month in a long list of circus freak shows. He is actually dropping in the polls as each state reaches their voting date.
Clinton's platform wasn't based on the bullshit that the Repugs claim are important (family values and whatever else they use to stir up fear in old white people). During the Clinton Administration, minority families had livable household incomes, so even with face-fucking a fat intern he still gets a pass - as he should.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
Whoever the Repugs nominate will end up like Dole in 1996, it's gonna be a huge victory for sure. I secretly hope it's Gingrich, those debates would be hilarious cuz he's such a limp dick fatty.
I didn't know the cartels were so polite.Quote:
“The first time we execute 27 or 30 or 35 people at one time, and they go around Colombia and France and Thailand and Mexico, and they say, ‘Hi, would you like to carry some drugs into the U.S.?’ the price of carrying drugs will have gone up dramatically.”
“If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs, it is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children,” the Georgia Republican said at a fundraiser for Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA) in 1995. “I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this.”
:lol :wow and this guy is close to being the GOP nominee???
mules are often forced by cartels under threat of death to themselves or their family.
Noot's head has always spewed out lots of ideas, which enrapture his egocentric self, not anybody else.
2nd post, here's Mo pegging and destroying Noot
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/op...ef=maureendowd
Newt’s Tax Plan, and Why His Polls Rise the More Outrageous He Becomes
Newt Gingrich has done it again. With his new tax plan he has raised the bar from irresponsibility to recklessness.
Every dollar estimate I’m about to share with you comes from the independent, non-partisan Tax Policy Center – a group whose estimates are used by almost everyone in Washington regardless of political persuasion.
First off, Newt’s plan increases the federal budget deficit by about $850 billion – in a single year!
To put this in perspective, most forecasts of the budget deficit cover ten years. The elusive goal of the White House and many on both sides of the aisle in Congress is to reduce that ten-year deficit by 3 to 4 trillion dollars.
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Newt goes in the other direction, with gusto. Increasing the deficit by $850 billion in a single year is beyond the wildest imaginings of the least responsible budget mavens within a radius of three thousand miles from Washington.
http://www.truth-out.org/robert-reic...mes/1323874711
Not a novel idea. In fact, we're already doing it...on the books since 1988.Quote:
Originally Posted by cheguevara
Drug Kingpin Executed in Indiana Federal Prison
drug kingpin, not mule, executed for murders, not for drug importation.
St Ronnie increased cocaine distribution in USA by his messing around in Central America supporting murderous, genocidal right-wingers, but he escaped execution.
I think Mr. Gingrich's statement to the effect "...if you are prepared to get rich..." precludes the mule in favor of the kingpin.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
I never liked Clinton.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild Cobra
I'm sure the 3 murder convictions (and evidence of 5 others presented to the jury) didn't help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonivore
Gingrich's words are pretty clear and have nothing to do with your example. Gingrich is talking about killing somebody for carrying 2 ounces of weed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonivore
If you can prove that someone carrying 2 ounces of pot has murdered 8 people, I think executing that person is fair.Quote:
Originally Posted by cheguevara
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Originally Posted by cheguevara
I've helpfully bolded, colored red, and provided commentary on the words that clearly demonstrate you're an idiot.Quote:
Originally Posted by cheguevara - earlier
http://www.nationaljournal.com/colum...amble-20111213Quote:
The challenge for Gingrich is whether voters will view him as the ultimate Washington insider or an authentic change agent who learned from his time in political exile. To many voters, Gingrich’s tumultuous reign as speaker seems like ancient history. And the more longtime Republicans in Congress, party insiders, and the media criticize Gingrich, the more he comes across as an anti-establishment, independent operator. Voters have notoriously short memories, and if Gingrich can rebrand himself as a Reagan-like conservative promising fundamental change to a broken system, he could ride the anti-Obama wave.But if he comes across as undisciplined and unstable, it could have devastating general election consequences.
Nominating Gingrich for president would be about as risky as asking Steve Jobs to return to Apple after building an undistinguished track record in his time away from the company. It’s a formula that could be a disaster, but carries the hint of success as well. Indeed, deciding whether to go with the safe choice (Romney) or gamble on Gingrich is the GOP’s real $10,000 bet this primary season.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...t_pretty_.htmlQuote:
"Just remember the higher a monkey climbs on a pole," Axelrod said, quoting an expression a Chicago Alderman taught him, "the more you can see his butt. So, you know, the speaker is very high on the pole right now and we’ll see how people like the view.”
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Originally Posted by Yonivore
you sir, are an imbecileQuote:
Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996(Sponsor Newt Gingrich) - Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to direct the court to sentence a person convicted of bringing into the United States a proscribed quantity of a mixture or substance containing a controlled substance in an amount the Attorney General has determined is equal to 100 usual dosage amounts to life imprisonment without possibility of release (or, if the defendant has violated such provision on more than one occasion and if certain requirements under the Federal criminal code are met, to death)