Gingrich: I'm a Tea Party Fan

[Matt Collins]

Gingrich: I'm a Tea Party Fan

In an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says America's tea partyers are trying to take the country in the right direction.

“I like the tea party movement, "he said. "[They] are serious people studying the Constitution, trying to find a way to get back to balanced, limited government with balanced budgets and much less power in Washington."


See and read it all here:
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/newt-gingrich-tea-party/2010/08/01/id/366232

[Matt Collins]

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[TNforPaul45]

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I'm taking the country in the RIGHT direction!

WHY SO SERIOUS?

[ctiger2]

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Ethics sanctions

On January 21, 1997, the House voted 395 to 28 to reprimand Gingrich for ethics violations dating back to September 1994. The House ordered Gingrich to pay a $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House's 208-year history it had disciplined a Speaker for ethical wrongdoing.[20]

Eighty-four ethics charges, most of which were leveled by House Democratic Whip David Bonior, were filed against Speaker Gingrich during his term. These included charges that he claimed tax-exempt status for a college course run for political purposes. Eighty-three of the 84 allegations were dropped.[21] Gingrich denied the charges over misuse of tax-exempt funds; however, he admitted to providing inaccurate statements during the probe over the college course and agreed to pay $300,000 for the cost of the investigation.[20][22] The House Ethics Committee concluded that inaccurate information supplied to investigators represented "intentional or ... reckless" disregard of House rules.[23]

The full committee panel did not reach a conclusion about whether Gingrich had violated federal tax law and instead opted to leave it up to the IRS.[24]

In 1999, the IRS cleared the organizations connected with the "Renewing American Civilization" courses under investigation for possible tax violations.[25]

Resignation

By 1998, Gingrich had become a highly visible and polarizing figure in the public's eye, making him a target for Democratic congressional candidates across the nation. His approval rating was 45% in April 1998.[27]

Republicans lost five seats in the House in the 1998 midterm elections — the worst performance in 64 years for a party that didn't hold the presidency. Polls showed that Gingrich and the Republican Party's attempt to remove President Clinton from office was widely unpopular among Americans.[28]

Gingrich suffered much of the blame for the election loss. Facing another rebellion in the Republican caucus, he announced on November 6, 1998 that he would not only stand down as Speaker, but would leave the House as well. He had been handily reelected to an 11th term in that election, but declined to take his seat. Commenting on his departure, Gingrich said, "I'm willing to lead but I'm not willing to preside over people who are cannibals. My only fear would be that if I tried to stay, it would just overshadow whoever my successor is."[29]

[youngbuck]

He's just being set up to run for pres for 2012. I suspect he'd be worse than Obama. He seems more innocuous than Bush to the average, know-nothing conservative, and here he is joining in on the co-opting of the tea party movement and thus many other republicans/so-called conservatives.

[HOLLYWOOD]

charges over misuse of tax-exempt funds; however, he admitted to providing inaccurate statements...
The full committee panel did not reach a conclusion about whether Gingrich had violated federal tax law and instead opted to leave it up to the IRS Any normal American citizen it's 5-10 in Federal penitentiary.

Republicans lost five seats in the House in the 1998 midterm elections — the worst performance in 64 years for a party that didn't hold the presidency. Yes... swapping BAD for BAD, election year after election year: Both Wings of the same vulture.

Gingrich said, "I'm willing to lead but I'm not willing to preside over people who are cannibals. Guess what Newt, your all Cannibals! I thought it was vultures, but Cannibals sounds even better, (Two mouths of the Same Congressional Cannibal), with the exception of a select few we know.