I'll take the budget "deficits" (note the quotes) under Clinton (which the Congress under Newt was responsible for) over any other.
Posted on 01/07/2013 7:24:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
NEWT GINGRICH: Let me ask you this. And I appreciate E.J.'s support here. But I want to make a point that probably he may not be as enthusiastic about. They have two vehicles. They have a continuing resolution, which is at the end of March, and they have the sequester bill. Now, these are legitimate government spending bills. The debt ceiling is different because it triggers all of these international financial problems and triggers the credit of the United States. They don't have to say, "We're going to be wimps." I've helped closed the government twice. It actually worked. Bill Clinton came in and said, "The era of big government's over," after two closings. Not before.
DAVID GREGORY: You also wrote in your memoir that you regretted it from the point of view, you relied too much on the enthusiasm of the activists and didn't factor in the disdain of the American people.
NEWT GINGRICH: But, no, we got reelected for the first time since 1928. And we would argue we would never have gotten to a balanced budget and we would have never have gotten welfare reform without that fight. So I think if the Congressional Republicans want to say, "You're going to have a really hard time with continuing resolution," that's perfectly legitimate. And it's a exactly the right grounds. And then take the president's speech from yesterday in which he said, "Once you have spent it, you have an obligation." And that's when I say, "Terrific. We agree."
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“When Noot was Speaker, he didn’t have the balls to shut the government down. After Clinton shut it down, Noot allowed Clinton to place all the blame on him. If Noot had been worth a damn, he would have told Clinton, “Damn right I shut it down. And everyone can see now that all that money you spend serves no critical purpose”. But no, instead Noot shows what a weak ass he is and immediately increases the debt ceiling for Slick while getting absolutely nothing in return.”
Good call. Big Media blamed Republicans for shutting down the government when the Great Clinton did it. Newtie takes responsibility when it’s politically expedient for him to do so.
Thatjoeguy: What do you have besides talking down to posters here to defend Newtie?
This is becoming too often from the same posters. Newt left the speakership because his lieutenants ( people that he help to bring on with the positive agenda) were worried that they would loose their jobs since the media went after Newt for impeaching their tool for their agenda Bill/the real woman chaser. More important, the big liar. It was pay back. He wrote a book. He taught a traditional history class. O My word! That was all it was. He was punished by some followers for his marriage problems. He has never blamed the standard of right and wrong for his sins. Why can't we get that settled.
He could have hidden in a room and not said to his lieutenants ( Like Santorium) don't pursue Clinton's lying under oath. He went after Clinton when they said..we must stop or we can suffer political damage. Who admires that. Clinton is a disgrace. Now, people build him up like he's all that. Clinton's appeasement and failures brought 9/11 and his hag wife, made sure her media and Bill's help to put the pressure on Newt to leave. You guys want change then complain someone speaks tough. Clinton did change due to Newt. Now, Obama has turned it all back around. Thanks in part to the weak republicans as he is saying. ( I will never forget Clinton what he did and did not do in Kosovo. He should be in prison IMO.) Now he's walking around like some freaking statesman. Same stupid/agenda driven people now build him up along with his corrupt wife.. and some are worried about Newt. Grow up and stop rewriting history. Let the government be helped for reforms.
You are correct but you will be labeled an extremest ideologue that cannot compromise.
Which clown SHOULD we listen to, in your opinion ?
“It only blew up because the liberal faction of his own party set out to destroy him. He was being too effective.”
And they have kept conservatives excluded or ineffectual within the GOP ever since.
As intended.
Sorry for the double posts. Mod, you can remove one.
I wrote in to ask.
People can say what they want, Newt would have made a great President. He should have been our candidate.
“People can say what they want, Newt would have made a great President. He should have been our candidate.”
I’m beginning to think FR has jumped the shark.
We seem to be about as politically divided as the country, with one substantial proportion virtually indistinguishable from most leftist Hussein Head Democrats.
| 09/28/1990 | 3,233,313,451,777.25 |
| 09/30/1991 | 3,665,303,351,697.03 |
| 09/30/1992 | 4,064,620,655,521.66 |
| 09/30/1993 | 4,411,488,883,139.38 |
| 09/30/1994 | 4,692,749,910,013.32 |
| 09/29/1995 | 4,973,982,900,709.39 |
| 09/30/1996 | 5,224,810,939,135.73 |
| 09/30/1997 | 5,413,146,011,397.34 |
| 09/30/1998 | 5,526,193,008,897.62 |
| 09/30/1999 | 5,656,270,901,615.43 |
As you can see, our total debt increased every single year during the 90s. The budget was never in balance. There was never any surplus.
You read why right here and yet you refuse to see it. That is a liberal trait that seems strange to FreePers.
Pointing out the faults in a person does not mean they hate them, just that they under stand their shortcomings.
Thanks for the input. Sad that we are broke. I still believe that if we attack and package it properly we can win the day.
Ughh... I was not aware of that, but I do clearly remember smiling that we finally had Clinton on the ropes, and then feeling my jaw crash to the floor when Gingrich inexplicably caved.
The only people who care about "government shutdowns" are the moochers who vote Democrat anyway.
SHUT IT DOWN.
Yup. If losing five seats in the House was itself enough to cost Gingrich the Speaker's gavel, Boehner would be gone by now.
These so-called “balanced budgets” were complete illusions. If they had been real, our debt would have disappeared during the Bush years when we had both the Congress and the WH for 6 years. Newt did nothing to repeal the Clinton tax hikes, his budgets were very little different from Clinton’s, and included the kind of pork that allowed Clinton (to whom Repubs gave the line item veto) to score political points against selectively targetted Repub budget excesses (never, of course, Dem excesses).
We had real chance to kill the Clinton mythology and to get real balanced budgets. We blew it. Newt was on record attacking the Ryan plan, that should have told you everything about Newt.
He did indeed.
But you have those who hear only what they want to hear and nothing else.
Newt comes up with plenty of bombs, like now he says the GOP should repeal DOMA, but sometimes he comes up with some good ideas like the ones here,
He knows first hand how easy it is to get trapped in one of these budget-shutdown fights and have public opinion turn against him and has had plenty of time, almost 20 years to consider this sproblem..
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