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Newt was the last Speaker to balance a budget.
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One, the budget was NEVER balanced. Debt went up year after year.
Not by his own decisions either, you say it like the Speaker is the dictator of the House. Boner can say the same, because there hasn’t been an Obama budget passed under his watch but then you’d not want Boner in charge. We the people sent the Republicans to the House to clean up the mess. We got Clinton redux, and the terrible economy over the last 10 years as a result of decisions.
Newt could have stopped so many bad things that did happen that continue to screw us over, but they either flew under the radar or he reached around the aisle.
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He was the first minority leader in 40 years to successfully engineer a take over of congress.
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Boner did the same. We should make Boner president.
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McCain would never try, let alone succeed, at any of that.
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You’re right. McCain was fond of reaching around the aisle. McCain was 100 percent prolife, stayed married to his wife, served in the army, was a war hero, survived captivity in Vietnam, etc.
Newt screwed around on two wives, stayed home.
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To compare those two is witheringly ignorant. And Cain would agree.
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Absolutely. Newt just doesn’t have it. Newt vs McCain is very much in McCain’s favor.
You are breathtakingly ignorant - I mean really shockingly. But you fell into my Boehner-Newt bait swallowed it whole. Congratulations.
To compare Boehner and Newt is so flawed as to be laughable. Boehner had nothing to do with the 2010 election and was largely out of step with the electorate. Newt in 94 with the Contract was very much central in mobilizing the electorate.
Clinton did have balanced budgets, and it was thanks to the Republican congress and Newt was very much more powerful as speaker than Boehner.
So all of your Boehner comparisons simply show that you have a very shallow mindset and think that all speakers are the same as all others.
You hate Newt. Fine. Just don’t bore me with your ignorance. I am well aware of this flaws. You benefitted from his successes but are too ignorant to accept it.
In other words, my opinion is informed and yours is not.
stayed married to his wife,
Actually McCain got rid of his first wife. It was one of the ugliest divorces in the history of divorces. As an aside, she never came to the legal proceedings and the divorce was declared in her absence.
served in the army
Navy actually like his father and grandfather.