Posted on 01/17/2008 7:21:28 AM PST by 1rudeboy
That would be mostly your personal failure as speaker newt.
Newt became Speaker in 1994.
btt
And your point is???
People will value what they pay for, not what I pay for on their behalf.
Actually in 1995.
right, of course
I should of wrote after the 1994 election. Thanks
bttt
bttt
My point is that you are stretching when putting the failure of that legislation as mostly fault of Newt.
He was the Speaker of the House, not the President. I think that he would make an above average president of the USA in spite of his “Baggage”.
Anyway, Newt is doing very interesting thing now with his American Solutions project. He ventured to find out if there is indeed a huge 50/50 divide in the country with a hunch that its not really. In the Platform of the American People he lists unifying issues that have support of a majority of Republicans, a majority of Democrats, and a majority of independents. The list of these common issues is quite long. If any candidate adopted it, he'd be guaranteeing himself support (and maybe even vote - there are too many die hard partisans) of majority of the people. Implementation of the list would do lots of good for the country. The points of disagreements can be worked on after the points of agreement are accomplished. I'd love to see it implemented.
Maybe that he didn’t do ____ about it when he was there.
A more effective argument would be to point out that Newt ran on “The Contract With America,” which did not have border security as a major point. To try and blame him for that now is silly.
Those are your words, mine are are, that newt was there for a good many years and he did not do jack. He was one of the major problems, no leadership at all on this matter. Like in many other area's a complete failure.
“Those are your words, mine are are, that newt was there for a good many years and he did not do jack. He was one of the major problems, no leadership at all on this matter. Like in many other area’s a complete failure.”
You are exactly right, but Newt did damage as well. Before the past few months when Newt found his ‘immigration legs’, he was doing all he could with his open border buddies to push Bush’s amnesty. He also as a congressman in Georgia stopped workplace enforcement.
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Moore, along with Norquist, Newt Gingrich, Tamar Jacoby and other amnesty advocates penned a letter to the Wall St Journal proclaiming Bush’s guest worker plan as “a humane, orderly, and economically sensible approach to migration.”
Newt Gingrich, Conservative? NOT on immigration!
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2007/02/newt-gingrich-conservative-not-on.html
What is Newt thinking when he suggests working with Kay Bailey Hutchison on immigration?
Kay Bailey Hutchison just gutted the border fence and Newt thinks working with her is key to a successful immigration plan?
If we want a truly successful immigration plan we need to send Kay Bailey Hutchison back home to bake cookies.
ping
That was a head-scratcher to me as well. He must be referring to something she proposed during that period.
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