Let's look at the facts for a moment: Republicans have more tricks up their sleeves to stop the health care bill than Democrats have to pass it. The chances of it passing are extremely slim and the outcome is political suicide. It two short years...everything gained will have been lost...again.
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WTF is Titus wearing? She looks like a charlie brown character
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Why can't I be sexually harrassed by a Congressman for once! Am I that ugly? So unfair.
What is the dirt with Massa?
No panic, just morbid curiosity as to when Bunning strokes out or punches someone.
The extension will be passed this week. No need to panic.
Thank you Senator Bunning (R-Dementia) for being you.
And your staff is right out of the Gingrich quote:
While Bunning frets over the future, Mike Johnsen worries about today.
The U.S. government he works for is not on the case protecting the
public, because Bunning's legislative maneuver stops civil servants
from doing their work. Johnsen tried to tell that to Bunning's office,
but a staff member there apparently didn't want to hear it.
"I've tried to contact Sen. Bunning's office several times, and I
finally found an office in Lexington," said Johnsen, who, like other
employees, makes it clear that he is not speaking for his agency. "When
I got through, I informed the staffer I wanted to leave a message to
the senator about what I do with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, so he has an idea of the impact of his actions. His
staffer hung up on me numerous times before I could explain. . . . I
never was able to explain the important work I do in preventing large
truck and bus fatalities on our nation's roadways."
Thank you Senator Bunning (R-Dementia) for paying road construction companies to perform no work.
i care -- it's ridiculous. Should be a HoH piece. Tons of swine flu vaccine nothing for the regular flu. Now everyone around me is getting sick.
Thank you Senator Bunning (R-Dementia) for suspending reimbursement to doctors for Medicare. Seniors and the rich doctors are your natural constituency.
Thank you Senator Bunning (R-Dementia) for tossing 2,000 additional people out-of-work.
"who spent their entire life being arrogant"
Subsequent posts: QED.
You have bigger problems than losing me Mr. Gingrich...you just lost my vote.
dun dun DUN!!!
An elitist professor in an ivory tower with no real job experience.
I'm typing this with my word processor at 3am.
This was Speaker Gingrich's background before Congress.
Early life
Newt Gingrich was born Newton Leroy McPherson, on June 17, 1943, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to nineteen-year-old Newton Searles McPherson and sixteen-year-old Kathleen Daugherty, who were married in September 1942.[2][3] His mother raised him by herself until she married Robert Gingrich, who then adopted Newt. Gingrich has a younger half-sister, Candace Gingrich.
Gingrich was the child of a career military family, moving a number of times while growing up and attending school at various military installations. He ultimately graduated from Baker High School in Columbus, Georgia, in 1961. He received a B.A. degree from Emory University in Atlanta in 1965. He received an M.A. in 1968, and then a Ph.D. in Modern European History from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1971.[4] His dissertation topic was Belgian Education policy in Africa. While at Tulane, Gingrich, who at the time belonged to no religious group, began attending the St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church to pursue an interest in the effect of religion on political theory; he was soon baptized by the Rev. Mr G. Avery Lee.[5]
Gingrich taught history at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia, from 1970 to 1978. He also taught a class, Renewing American Civilization, at Kennesaw State University in 1993.[6]
[edit] Early political career
[edit] Campaign for Congress
In 1974 and 1976, Gingrich made two unsuccessful runs for Congress in Georgia's sixth congressional district, which stretched from the southern Atlanta suburbs to the Alabama state line. Gingrich lost both times to incumbent Democrat Jack Flynt. Flynt, a Democrat, had served in Congress since 1955 and never faced a serious challenge prior to Gingrich's two runs against him. Gingrich nearly defeated Flynt in 1974, a year that was otherwise very bad for Republicans due to Watergate. A 1976 rematch was similarly close, despite the presence of Jimmy Carter on the presidential ballot.
Flynt chose not to run for re-election in 1978. Gingrich ran for the seat a third time, and defeated Democratic State Senator Virginia Shapard by almost 9 points.[7][8]
Gingrich was reelected six times from this district, facing only one close race. In the House elections of 1990, he defeated Democrat David Worley by 978 votes.
well, at least he said we were nice.
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This is about you.
"Of course it's the nature of the modern Congress, which hires lots of
nice young staffers who have never had a real job, who spent their
entire life being arrogant to visitors from back home, who end up
thinking they know a lot because they stay up until 3 o'clock working
on a word processor, and who write legislation as though they have some
contact with reality."
-- Newt Gingrich, quoted by CNN.
