Posted on 04/14/2012 4:35:57 PM PDT by CutePuppy
More on Newt’s conservative accomplishments...Mitt is not even in Newt’s class. Welfare reform
A central pledge of President Bill Clinton’s campaign was to reform the welfare system, adding changes such as work requirements for recipients. However, by 1994, the Clinton Administration appeared to be more concerned with universal health care and no details or a plan had emerged on welfare reform. Gingrich accused Clinton of stalling on welfare, and proclaimed that Congress could pass a welfare reform bill in as little as 90 days. Gingrich insisted that the Republican Party would continue to apply political pressure to the President to approve welfare legislation.[46]
In 1996, after constructing two welfare reform bills that Clinton vetoed,[47] Gingrich and his supporters pushed for passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, which was intended to reconstruct the welfare system. The act gave state governments more autonomy over welfare delivery, while also reducing the federal government’s responsibilities. It instituted the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which placed time limits on welfare assistance and replaced the longstanding Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. Other changes to the welfare system included stricter conditions for food stamp eligibility, reductions in immigrant welfare assistance, and recipient work requirements.[48]
Gingrich negotiated with Clinton by offering accurate information about his party’s vote counts and by persuading conservative Republicans to vote for it.[47] The bill was signed into law on August 22, 1996.
In his 1998 book Lessons Learned the Hard Way, Gingrich encouraged volunteerism and spiritual renewal, placing more importance on families, creating tax incentives and reducing regulations for businesses in poor neighborhoods, and increasing property ownership by low-income families. Gingrich praised Habitat for Humanity for sparking the movement to improve people’s lives by helping them build their own homes.[49]
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Go back to Nov. 1, 2011. The only real surprise of the campaign so far was the moderate, but not enough, “surge” of Santorum. Everything else was entirely predictable from the start, including the lingering Newt-Paul people hanging on.
Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Com is for Romney; the National Right to life endorsed Romney and Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, a Christian legal group, and a supporter of Mr. Romney, said the “stark contrast” between Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama in their visions of America would energize evangelicals as well as attract independent voters.
There are others!
She was on mark levin's show, I think, 2 days ago, and was congratulating him for staying in the fray and endorsing Romney, when "we" didn't get our First Choice.
If you didn't hear, Levin came on the day after Santorum dropped out, and said "we conservatives have to work together and pull out a victory for Romney."
It was an amazing thing to hear, to say the least.
Sarah seems to have gotten quite good with her little teases for Newt, support Newt rage against the machine, If I were voting in SC I would vote for Newt, and voting for him in Alaska without campaigning for him or helping him out.
She needs to get on the battlefield instead of sitting on the sidelines with her little winks and tweets. I am totally disappointed in her, she is behaving like a political hack and not a patriot, in my estimation.
Only her fans are so hardcore, they would never demand anything of her, and anything she does is okay with them.
Please don't give up on Newt...
Please try to help in any way you can...
www.newt.org
www.newt.org/donate
www.grassroots.newt.org Newt's brand new grassroots site for volunteers and supporters. It rocks!
www.newtsnetwork.com National phone banks where you can make calls for Newt, they provide a script and everything.
Whomever is running against nobama will win in 2012. That is precisely why the GOPe was so determined to keep out anyone who might upset their apple (access and control of the money)cart and knew Mitt, being one of them, would protect that interest above all others.
Right on
GO NEWT!!!!
I WILL STAND WITH NEWT ‘TILL THE END.
I understand and sympathize with your sentiments about the UN, but until that obscene and corrupt organization is flushed down the toilet completely - - or at least marginalized to irrelevance - - it IS "influential", and to pretend it isn't is naive.
I don’t believe it was me on this thread calling people names. I just gave my opinion even though I was called moron and other names.
This is an election, not a church service. I propbaly know quite a lot about forgiveness due to struggles in my own life. I did learn that forgiveness doesn’t really come with a promise of elevation to be leader of the country. While a person can be forgiven for personal faux pas, that doesn’t mean there are no consequences to our actions that we end up paying for like it or not.
Perhaps you could repeat your post to some of your Newt supporters as far as treating others who disagree with respect. It does go both ways.
There is no law that says I have to respect Newt’s political history. While he is a good debater at times, he also has some past that is not very conservative. I really do not like his personality either. Sorry, I just don’t.
No doubt. My statement was, do not include THIS evangelical in that lineup, nor those in my circle. I was astonished to find out how many were as determined against Romney as I am.
This is a time of sifting. Those who are endorsing Willard have gone over to the tophet on the right, because it is supposed to be a kinder, gentler tophet than the one one the left. Left or right, each is a tophet, and they will have their reward for going there.
I noticed that you and your friends aren’t in that group. I am just stunned that some of the evangelical leaders are..I don’t trust Mitt because of his huge flip flops on being pro choice. Honestly, I don’t trust him on anything
Good question.
Spoken like somebody who was in a drug-induced coma between 1994 and 1998.
“PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THE GOP E AND THE EVANGELICALS CAN FORGIVE MITT ROMNEY FOR BEING PRO-CHOICE SUPPORTING BABY KILLERS BUT CAN’T FORGIVE NEWT HIS DIVORCES?”
They have NOTHING else on Newt’s impeccable conservative record to carp about, so they pile on that. That’s despicable.
In a country where 50% of marriages end by a divorce, the fake indignation is ridiculous. His first wife forgave him, he has excellent relations with his daughters and grand-children, as for his second wife, Marianne, she left him in 1987 emptying the house of furniture and taking away the family car ... While they were separated he met Callista and fell in love with her in 1993 and married her in 2000. It is obvious that he loves her dearly and that they are happy together. The private life should remain just that - private.
Karen Santorum also made mistakes in her youth, but that’s not and should not be an issue. The GOP gossipers should STFU already about Gingrich’s private life as well.
A central pledge of President Bill Clinton’s campaign was to reform the welfare system, adding changes such as work requirements for recipients. However, by 1994, the Clinton Administration appeared to be more concerned with universal health care and no details or a plan had emerged on welfare reform. Gingrich accused Clinton of stalling on welfare, and proclaimed that Congress could pass a welfare reform bill in as little as 90 days. Gingrich insisted that the Republican Party would continue to apply political pressure to the President to approve welfare legislation.[46]
In 1996, after constructing two welfare reform bills that Clinton vetoed,[47] Gingrich and his supporters pushed for passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, which was intended to reconstruct the welfare system. The act gave state governments more autonomy over welfare delivery, while also reducing the federal government’s responsibilities. It instituted the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which placed time limits on welfare assistance and replaced the longstanding Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. Other changes to the welfare system included stricter conditions for food stamp eligibility, reductions in immigrant welfare assistance, and recipient work requirements.[48]
Gingrich negotiated with Clinton by offering accurate information about his party’s vote counts and by persuading conservative Republicans to vote for it.[47] The bill was signed into law on August 22, 1996.
In his 1998 book Lessons Learned the Hard Way, Gingrich encouraged volunteerism and spiritual renewal, placing more importance on families, creating tax incentives and reducing regulations for businesses in poor neighborhoods, and increasing property ownership by low-income families. Gingrich praised Habitat for Humanity for sparking the movement to improve people’s lives by helping them build their own homes.[49] wiki
Wow - this entire post is great and new info to me - atleast in such concentrated form.
RE "In his 1998 book Lessons Learned the Hard Way, Gingrich encouraged volunteerism and spiritual renewal, placing more importance on families, creating tax incentives and reducing regulations for businesses in poor neighborhoods, and increasing property ownership by low-income families. Gingrich praised Habitat for Humanity for sparking the movement to improve people’s lives by helping them build their own homes."
this is an absolute diamond find - I have been trying to get some resources together to appeal to Santorum supporters after they get a little mourning time, and I am going to check that book out... he has written so many, it is difficult to be familiar with the content of all of them...
Are you familiar with any other Newt stuff that reflects the similarities between him and Santorum re this particular issue, the spiritual realm, because his support is so evangelical and very hard to convince..
THANKS BUNCHES!!
Nothing stuns me at this point. Sicken and appall, yes. But not stun.
Decent people are scared, bullied and driven into irrationality. They have lost all sight of first things, and are willing to do anything to prevent the sky from falling. Several times I have seen posts where people actually say they would vote for Satan if it got rid Obama, as (omitting caps and exclamation points): “nothing could be worse than Obama”. Think about that! A nadir of confusion, hatred and despair. Who is the author of such things? Are there really so few people that see they are being driven by that author? They bend the knee to their doubt and despair. Big mistake. The biggest they could ever make.
God help us. Again, God help us all.
I believe you were in a coma. If you notice, most of the primary voters must agree with me.
Got it? I am done taking the insults. So what? I don’t
agree.
I have never taken drugs and I have taken very few pills most of my life. So I don’t appreciate what you said.
I wish I could agree but can't.Any one of the Republicans who've been running *SHOULD* be able to beat Osama but remember...Bill Ayers's most famous student is gonna have a BILLION dollars to carpetbomb a half dozen swing states with ads that would make a two bit hooker blush but just might work nevertheless.Osama Obama has brought this country to its knees and has done so deliberately.Imagine what damage he could do when he knew that he didn't have to worry about a single voter ever again...or raising a single campaign dollar ever again.
Although it shouldn't be that way I'm convinced that Romney is the only one still in the race who can survive that billion dollar s**tstorm that's in the wind as I type.
The haters are not very bright. One word they latch on and run with an entire rewrite about what Newt Gingrich said (like his speech at the NRA). I think they are Romney supporters. I blame Santos for this mess more than anyone though I don't get up each day hating him like some here at FR do of Newt. Can you image their own lives to have this much hate. They are judging Newt and by doing so will end up with a man who allowed babies to die and same sexes to have special rights.
There is a long list of the Santorum Romney supporters here who have stated that Mitt's policies are exactly what they did not want. They did this to the little babies that are asking for help. I don't think Mitt will be pro life when the libs get through with him. Gay marriage side would have won-their guy from MA carried the agenda first into law. Mitt Romney/Mr. Gay Marriage-You tell me how Christians get out there and applaud this guy at rallies. This entire scheme is hard to watch. Keep up the good work of getting the truth out.
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