Posted on 11/09/2011 8:10:24 AM PST by mandaladon
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich demonstrated Tuesday why every liberal media member in the country is scared to death of him winning the nomination and going head-to-head in a debate with Barack Obama.
When CNN's Piers Morgan tried to play his normal cocky role of knowing more than his guest, the former Speaker of the House smartly replied, "I've been involved with politics since 1958, I helped grow the modern Republican Party of Georgia, I helped create a national majority, and you're explaining to me the reality of politics" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
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Thanks for the link!
I I think Cain’s confronters have long passed their statute of limitations. If the deems and media can still idolize Clinton after rape, groping, exposure and what else, they can point out the evidence and timing on Cain is not there.
Where did they dig up this lymmie POS JERK.
What was he supposed to say? Stumped again? Newt was being gracious. I was obvious to others with some nervous laughter from the audience.
Bingo , ha for sure.
Yes it’s smart to defer when you don’t have the content knowledge.
Newt already said how he would handle that. The same way Lincoln did.
I am confident that the only plank that failed to pass was term limits, and that newt himself played a role in it failing.
I’m like some others here,liking Newt but not trusting him...I don’t like the fact that he cozied up to the likes of Pelosi,Hillary and Sharpton-THAT really concerns me. What happened in his personal life doesn’t concern me,especially since,as you point out,it happened so many years ago,and there’s always that “he said she said” factor to figure in.It’s just who he chooses to hang around that bothers me.Add to that the fact that he has made some rather controversial comments,and it just makes me hesitate in my support of him.
No, actually that particular act required 2/3 for passage (as a constitutional amendment) and fell more than 40 votes short. There just wasn’t enough to pass it, but the effort was made.
You and me both! I've said for a long time that I'd love to see someone like Newt debate that idiot Obama.
Even if Newt’s not the nominee, maybe we can still arrange a debate!
2020 - Cain/Palin
I considered that, but I don’t think Palin will be interested in running for office ten years down the road.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d104:HJ00073:@@@S
I still think there was a back room deal, around the time the test-vote amendment was withdrawn.
It made the news at the time.
3/29/1995 8:29pm:
H.AMDT.332 Amendment (A004) in the nature of a substitute offered by Mr. McCollum.
An amendment in the nature of a substitute, identical to the original text of the joint resolution, to limit members of the House to six two-year terms and members of the Senate to two 12-year terms.
3/29/1995 8:29pm:
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 116, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of debate on the McCollum amendment.
3/29/1995 8:29pm:
Mr. McCollum asked unanimous consent that the time for debate on the McCollum amendment be reduced to 30 minutes, equally divided. Agreed to without objection.
3/29/1995 9:10pm:
H.AMDT.332 By unanimous consent, the McCollum amendment was withdrawn.
3/29/1995 9:10pm:
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.J. Res. 73.
3/29/1995 9:10pm:
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
3/29/1995 9:35pm:
On passage Failed by recorded vote (2/3 required): 227 - 204, 1 Present (Roll No. 277).
“According to the Congres- sional Quarterly, “Although House Republicans blamed Demo- crats for the failure of the term limits measure, the GOP had ample problems of its own. The Republican conference was woefully fractured over the issue, with newly elected members who supported term limits at odds with veteran lawmakers who opposed it. Members of the leadership, in- cluding Majority Whip Tom DeLay of Texas, also opposed the amendment. DeLay said that he could not in good faith whip up votes for the proposal so he turned that duty over to his chief deputy, Dennis Hastert of Illinois.”8
Had only junior legislators voted on term limits, the bill would have passed by a margin of 151 to 70, more than the two-thirds majority requirement. The divide between junior Republicans and senior Republicans is demonstrated by their voting behavior: 127 junior Republicans favored the measure; only 11 opposed it. That is, 92 percent of junior Republicans voted for term limits. In contrast, just 68 percent of senior Republicans voted for the bill (Table 12).”
TERM LIMITS AND THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS The Case Strengthens
BY AARON STEELMAN - page 8
-Cato Institute
The Speaker did not whip up the votes...(admittedly, not exactly how I recall the scene)
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