The media and the blogosphere are full of speculation the last two days about how a philanderer and ethics violator like Newt Gingrich could win South Carolina and win it big. It’s pretty simple, actually. Marianne Gingrich (and Drudge and ABCNews) provided Gingrich with all he ammo he needed to blast
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Red Tory v.3.0.3: Only in America!
Quite an appropriate theme song by Toby Keith playing at last night’s victory rally in South Carolina… Truly it can be said that “Only in America” could a pompous, selfishly scheming, ethically-challenged, morally bankrupt hypocrite like Newt Gingrich – who once grandiosely described himself as “the definer of civilization” –
Continue readingThis can’t be good. Newt Gingrich gives shout out to Stephen Harper.
Eww. If you thought Stephen Harper was a little creepy and his methods suspect, you will think even less of our PM after last night’s South Carolina GOP primary. Newt Gingrich, disgraced in so many ways over his career for not just his philandering but his breach of ethics, referenced
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Newt Gingrich Thanks Harper for Being a Pro-American Conservative
Rick Santorum may get his fashion tips from Stephen Harper, but Newt Gingrich likes the whole package. The first truly pro-American prime minister of Canada. What’s not to love? What Newt doesn’t understand is the power of the people, who are just as determined to stop the Northern Gateway Pipeline,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your weekend. – As Thomas Walkom notes, it’s an open question as to who will take up the cause of defending universal public health care in Canada – but easy to figure out who poses the greatest threat to it: Writing in The Globe and Mail
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OC Transpo wants to keep the GPS data all to themselves – it’s all about the money! The head of OC Transpo told Ottawa’s transit commission the transit provider didn’t want to make information about bus locations and other data open to the public until it could determine how much
Continue readingKarma’s a cold-hearted bitch on wheels
Marianne Gingrich, aka Mrs. Newt Gingrich II, is warped, bitter, twisted and trash-talking at top speed as if the world doesn’t already know what Vile Scum with Snail Slime on Top her ex really is: Marianne Gingrich said she first heard from the former speaker about the divorce request as
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Down & Dirty
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned… This isn’t the first time that Newt’s embittered second wife has emerged in the media to seek revenge for being cheated on and dumped for another woman, although it will most certainly be the last and most decisively inopportune. Karma is such
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Stephen Harper and Newt Gingrich May be Reunited After All
When Newt Gingrich and the Republicans stole the Mid-terms in 1994, Gingrich gave much of the credit to Preston Manning and the Reform Party. Manning’s lieutenantt at the time was Stephen Harper. In the contest for the Republican presidential candidacy, Newt Gingrich was a long shot, but that shot just
Continue readingMarianne Gingrich lays an egg. Drudge fails again. Gingrich’s career does not ‘end in a single interview’.
It hasn’t been broadcast yet but from what was revealed from interviewer ABCNews’ Brian Ross talking on The View this morning, Newt Gingrich’s second wife reveals little that isn’t already known, certainly nothing that could end the candidate’s career. Mostly revolving around Gingrich’s infidelities, the revelations are certainly salacious but
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Who’s Afraid of Kerry Emanuel? Why Republicans Are Attacking a Republican Climate Scientist
kerry emanuel.jpg Last week, MIT climate scientist and hurricane specialist Kerry Emanuel received email threats for his view on climate change. These were quickly and appropriately condemned by the progressive and environmental blogosphere—as they are condemned by me—but I want to go a bit further and contemplate why Emanuel’s views
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Mad as a Newt
Newt Gingrich is going all out to snatch the Republican presidential nomination from the man nobody seemingly wants, Mitt Romney. And Newt figures the guy most Republicans are looking for, the man who’ll keep them from voting Romney, is an outright lunatic. He recently told a coven of South Carolinians
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Thoughts on the GOP South Carolina Debate
Despite the GOP nomination contest being all but over, there is still some entertainment value to the sports team contests that are the seemingly never ending debates. What follows is a few miscellaneous thoughts on the most recent South Carolina debate. Attacking Romney’s Bain Record: Following a couple weeks of attacks
Continue readingThe Gingrich who stole Christmas: fire all government employees with liberal views
This is so perfectly representative of the right-wing mind. So fearful of freedom of thought and progress of any kind, the reactionary right-wing mind would rather not just silence liberal thought but obliterate it any way it can. This statement by Newt Gingrich deserves an award for bald-faced authoritarianism and
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: King of Bain
The complete film by the SuperPAC supporting Newt Gingrich called “When Mitt Romney Came to Town.” It’s quite an artful hatchet job. As expected, the Republican establishment and most of the corporate media is pushing back strenuously against what it chooses to regard as an outrageous attack on Capitalism. Here,
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This is a devastating ad by Newt Gingrich. It is a brutal attack on Mitt Romney. No, it’s actually a slap across the face of capitalism unbound. Right wingers are shocked, disappointed and plain livid. Their outlaw hero Newt has gone Occupier. No Democrat would have dared been so nakedly
Continue readingArmagedddon time for the American right. Gingrich is now a ‘Socialist’ and Perry is ‘like something out of Occupy Wall Street’.
Hey Newt, pass me that copy of Little Red Book. Sure Rick, how about we spark one up? As the US right does everything it can to destroy not only its own reputation but the economic and human health of its citizens (excepting of course the 1%), it keeps tainting
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Mitt Romney: “Job Creator”
Interesting discussion from this weekend’s “Up w/ Chris Hayes” program about the true nature of Mitt Romney’s dubious wealth-extracting endevours in the “free market” as a private equity investor (the polite term for “corporate vampire”). Oblivious to ironic contradiction on multiple levels, the anonymous SuperPAC backing Newt Gingrich has released
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: The Evolution of Negative Advertising
The absurdly hypocritical “Pot v. Kettle” sniping towards the end of yesterday’s MTP debate between Newt Gringrich and Mitt Romney over the legitimacy and moral superiority of the viciously negative ad campaigns being waged by their respective Super-PACs reminded me of this classic bit of satire from the wonderful HBO
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The biggest loser in Iowa: the Tea Party
Among the Iowa winners were Mitt Romney (establishment candidate), with Rick Santorum (Evangelical candidate) trailing by 8 votes, then Ron Paul (Libertarian candidate). Trailing significantly was Newt Gingrich, an old guard brand all to himself. Where then was the Tea Party candidate? For several decades, there has been an establishment
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