Posted on 02/16/2007 4:34:15 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
A former speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, is also a proponent of the system. In an interview this week, he said the rest of the country could learn valuable lessons from New York City's successes over the last decade.
"I talk about it virtually everywhere I go," he said. "If crime is a significant concern, and it should be, then New York is the most successful experiment in saving people's lives and stopping crime in modern times."
Mr. Gingrich said that since 2005 he has been advocating inside the Department of Defense, State Department, and the White House for Compstat to be used to "manage projects like Iraq and Afghanistan."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1784447/posts
Are you talking about the Christ-like Alan Keyes?
Thank you Newt.
Another leg kicked out from under the stool of the Rudy naysayers.
To: Melas
Hey, if you consider the Contract with America to be deep thinking, that's your business.
152 posted on 02/16/2007 8:18:38 PM CST by EternalVigilance
To: onyx
It was pap. Of course, that was what the electorate was ready for, so it worked, in some degree.
But it was hardly brilliant statesmanship.
And there were many more things in play in '94 than just Newt's Contract.
The election was primarily a backlash to Bill Clinton, the largest tax increase in world history, passed with only Democrat votes, and to HillaryCare.
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That's not a conservative, that's a fruitcake!!
Oh, he's in the wings... never actually stopped running:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38bc8add3436.htm
It is quite despicable.
Aren't you busy tonight, like you were last night, claiming that FReepers are too racist to vote for Pete Sessions because he has a Hispanic wife?
Wow. Impressive. An inaccurate SeeBs story from 2000.
How "up to the minute" you are...
Someone once described him as "Harold Stassen on steroids."
In earlier times, he would have been a snake oil salesman or a carny barker. These days, he would make a great professional wrestling heel manager.
That's quite an obsession with Keyes you've got there.
An outstanding post.
The passage of CwA and the 1996 election are two different things. First of all, the CwA was passed in 1994, 1 year into Clinton's term, and had nothing to do with any "backlash" of Bill Clinton or his largest tax increase (of 1993 - inside of his first year in office). It had everything to do with cleaning up the corruption in Washington, particularly the Congress. It failed miserably, and it cost them in 2006.
You're just sore that Newt is throwing his support toward Rudy.
If there was any backlash at Clinton, I didn't see it. All I saw were a bunch of folks like you supporting third party candidates that kept Clinton in office for two terms.
It's quite amusing to watch, isn't it?
Not an obsession. Just an observation.
As someone else said, it's like watching street theater. Complete with the clowns.
To: Darth Sidious
One purpose Keyes serves is that no one has an excuse for voting for the lesser of two evils. If they vote for McCain or Bush as long as Dr. Keyes is in the race, they are voting against a greater good and what's right and are willfully choosing one of the two evils.
17 Posted on 02/29/2000 21:00:54 PST by Keyes For President (No Income Tax)
I have a feeling that's exactly what's going to happen this time. I'm sure Keyes must be running low on $$$ about now.
thank you.
I was also going to add another thing - if Hillary is elected and NYC is hit by a nuke, I AM PROBABLY DEAD. So I have a personal stake in this.
I could hardly believe those words as they scrolled by; only a complete idiot would say such a thing.
Barring a miracle, we're screwed. Right now, it looks like a Hillary victory in 2008, plus Democratic increases in both houses. Damn! :(
And a damn good one.
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