Are you stoned? Newt is a diehard Progressive posing as a conservative (one of only 18 Republicans - and the only one out of the Northeast - who voted to approve Jimmy Carter's Dept. of Education in 1978). And DeLay was a big government jerkoff - don't you remember how he kept the House floor vote open an extra 2 HOURS to personally bribe or threaten every holdout member in order to get the disgraceful Medicare Part D bill passed?
“Newt is a diehard Progressive posing as a conservative”
Well, I remember Newt being a fearless powerhouse in the House. He took on Tip O’Neal, then took out Speaker Wright. When he became Speaker, he cut all staffs by a third, eliminated committees and sub-committees (there wasn’t a single democrat that couldn’t be called Mr. Chairman), he term-limited committed chairs and his own office, the speakership. When Clinton said that the budged couldn’t be balanced in seven years, Newt said well, we’re going to do it anyway. And they balanced it it three. He forced the ever-shaky senators to act again and again on welfare reform, he lowered taxes, let the ICC expire (the first time an agency ever disappeared. And he put solid conservatives in charge of committees, ignoring the old seniority system.
Newt’s had his liberal moments, yes. But he’s an out of the box thinker and is not afraid to disrupt the established order. I liked Tom Delay because he hammered the democrats. And while Medicare Part D was another entitlement that we didn’t need, for the first time, the medicare program had been changed, and market forces were introduced into health care, which is why Nancy Pelosi gutted it within Obamacare.
We’re not getting anywhere with Boehner and his wine-drinking, establishment loving, “leadership”.