[Buckeye McFrog]

say WHA???

It totally blew-up in Mr. Newt’s face (with tons and tons of help from the MSM, who are a thousand times more in Obama’s corner even than they were in Clinton’s)

Methinks Mr. Newt wants John Boner to claim the albatross from around his neck.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: It totally blew-up in Mr. Newt’s face

Sure it did... but we got a balance budget for the trouble. What is it we want? To win politically, or what’s good for the country?

[plain talk]

It blew up because of bob dole. In 1995 we had both the senate and house. we had newt in the house but the weak link was dole. Now we only have the house and the speaker is essentially a ‘bob dole’.

With this weak team - conservatives in the house must go around the MSM and try to convince voters that we don’t want to be greece.

[oldbrowser]

It totally blew-up in Mr. Newt’s face

Obama has already said he will negotiate, but everything is off the table except what he wants.

So we can either "negotiate" on Obama's terms or we can we can bring to bear the constitutional authority and responsibility of the House.

[DManA]

It only blew up because the liberal faction of his own party set out to destroy him. He was being too effective.

[hinckley buzzard]

Republicans forced a balanced budget and the welfare reform act of 1996. They gained two Senate seats in the next election (1996) and retained control of the House with the loss of only a couple seats. Not exactly getting totally blown up.