i'm starting to like newt a bit more....he's showing a more positive light and is starting to call out the mainstream media on their complete and utter bullcrap.
But still he does not have the enthusiastic supporters of Ron Paul!
Please!!!! Call your psychiatrist first thing in the morning.
Hand him this printed list:
05/04/1979 - He voted for a
federal land grab that put tens of millions of acres of land in the hands of Washington bureaucrats.
09/20/1979 - He voted to
raise the debt ceiling for the first time.
09/27/1979 - He voted to establish the Federal
Department of Education.
06/04/1980 - He voted to
raise the debt ceiling for the second time.
02/05/1981 - He voted to
raise the debt ceiling for the third time.
06/28/1984 - He voted to
raise the debt ceiling for the fourth time.
04/02/1987 - He cosponsored the 1987
Fairness Doctrine (anti 1st Amendment legislation)
02/22/1989 - He cosponsored the
Global Warming Prevention Act of 1989.
03/--/1993 - He was "passionately in favor" of sending $1.6 Billion in foreign aid to
Russia.
11/19/1993 - He voted for the
NAFTA Implementation Act.
11/27/1994 - He supported the
GATT Treaty giving sovereignty to the U.N.
04/10/1995 - He supported Federal taxdollars being spent on
abortions.
06/--/1995 - He wrote the foreword to a
book about tearing down the U.S. Constitution and implementing a Fascist World Government.
08/27/1995 - He suggests that drug smuggling should carry a
death sentence.
01/06/1996 - He himself conceived a secret
CIA mission to topple the Iranian leadership.
04/18/1996 - He voted for Federal restrictions on
laser sighting devices.
04/25/1996 - Voted for the single largest increase on Federal
education spending ($3.5 Billion)
06/01/1996 - He helped a
"Clinton Clone" Democrat switch parties in an attempt to defeat constitutionalist Ron Paul in the
1996 election.
09/16/1996 - He voted for the anti-gun Brady Campaign’s
Lautenberg Gun Ban, which took away gun rights for people involved in certain misdemeanors.
09/25/1996 - Introduced
H.R. 4170, demanded life-sentence or execution for someone bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across the border.
09/28/1996 - He voted for the
"Gun Free School Zones Act" which resulted in schools being easier targets for shooters, and disarming law-abiding citizens.
--/--/1996 - He earned a
"D" rating from the Gun Owners of America.
01/22/1997 - Congress gave him a record-setting $300,000 fine for
ethical wrongdoing.
11/05/1998 - He
resigned from his House seat three days after being elected to his 11th term.
10/13/2005 - He called for "universal but confidential"
DNA testing of citizens.
11/29/2006 - He said that
free speech should be curtailed in order to fight terrorism. Wants to stop terrorists from using the internet. Called for a "serious debate about the 1st Amendment."
11/29/2006 - He called for a "
Geneva Convention for terrorists" so it would be clear who the Constitution need not apply to.
02/15/2007 - He supported Bush's proposal for
mandatory carbon caps.
04/04/2007 - He says that there should be a clear distinction about what weapons should be reserved for only for the
military.
04/11/2007 - He had a public debate with John Kerry on
global warming, in which Newt agreed with Kerry and his views on the environment, praised his book, and almost hugged him.
04/20/2007 - He praised NYC Mayor
Michael Bloomberg; said that he "takes his hat off to the mayor for proving government can be effective."
04/24/2007 - He praised the corporatist business-model of
Freddie Mac, saying it would be effective for space travel to Mars.
04/24/2007 - He said about
Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs): "conservatives should embrace [them] and want to extend as widely as possible."
05/20/2007 - He would
bypass the court system by establishing a "military tribunal system to lock people up the way Abraham Lincoln would’ve done it."
05/20/2007 - He would "establish a
nationwide ID card with biometrics so you can actually track everybody in the country."
04/17/2008 - Made a
commercial with Nancy Pelosi on Climate Change.
04/28/2008 - He said that
allow some terror to happen, to keep the people afraid.
04/28/2008 - He wants
yet another new Federal agency to be "very aggressive" against "terrorists" and have "extraordinary abilities" that are not restricted by the constitution.
09/28/2008 - Says if he were in office, he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B
TARP bailout.
09/28/2008 - He says that
McCain's vote for TARP bailouts "is the greatest single act of responsibility ever taken by a presidential candidate".
12/08/2008 - He was paid $300,000 by
Freddie Mac to halt Congress from bringing necessary reform.
03/31/2009 - Says we should have Singapore-style
drug tests for Americans.
10/16/2009 - He angered conservatives by
endorsing super liberal Dede Scozzafava.
06/10/2010 - He's cozy with VeriChip/PositiveID, a company that specializes in
human-microchipping.
07/30/2010 - Says that Iraq was just step one in defeating the
"Axis of Evil".
08/03/2010 - Advocates
attacks on Iran & North Korea.
08/16/2010 - Opposes property rights of the
mosque owner in NYC.
08/16/2010 - Compares mosque supporters to
Nazis
12/05/2010 - He said that a website owner should be considered an
enemy combatant, hunted down and executed, for publishing leaked government memos.
01/30/2011 - He lobbied for
ethanol subsidies.
01/30/2011 - He suggested that
flex-fuel vehicles be mandated for Americans.
02/02/2011 - He says we are "losing the War on Terror"; the conflict will be as long as the
Cold War
02/13/2011 - He criticized Obama for sending less U.S. taxdollars to
Egypt.
02/15/2011 - His book said that he believes man-made
climate-change and advocated creating "a new endowment for conservation and the environment."
03/09/2011 - He blames his infidelity to multiple wives on his
passion for the country.
03/15/2011 - Says that
NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico.
03/19/2011 - He has no regrets about supporting
Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded liability)
03/23/2011 - He completely flip-flopped on
Libyan intervention in 16 days.
03/25/2011 - He plans to sign as many as 200
executive orders on his first day as president.
03/27/2011 - He says that America is under attack by
atheist Islamists.
04/25/2011 - He's a paid
lobbyist for Federal ethanol subsidies.
05/12/2011 - He was more supportive of individual health-care
mandates than Mitt Romney.
05/15/2011 - Said GOP's plan to cut back
Medicare was "too big a jump."
05/15/2011 - He backed Obama's individual
mandate; "All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care."
05/16/2011 - He also endorsed individual mandates in
1993 when Clinton pushed Universal Health Care.
05/17/2011 - He has an outstanding debt to
Tiffany's Jewelry of between $250K - $500K.
06/09/2011 - His own campaign staff
resigned en masse.
07/15/2011 - His poorly managed campaign is over $1 Million in
debt.
08/01/2011 - He hired a company to create fake
Twitter to appear as if he had a following.
08/11/2011 - His recent criticism of the
United Nations is belied by a long, long history of supporting it.
09/27/2011 - He says that he "helped develop the model for
Homeland Security"
10/07/2011 - He said he'd
ignore the Supreme Court if need be.
11/12/2011 - He advocates
assassinating Iranian scientists and covert war with Iran.
11/19/2011 - He said Barney Frank should be arrested for his close ties lobbying for Freddie Mac, just one month before it became public that Gingrich was also
lobbying for them at the same time.
11/20/2011 - He has been outed as a
paid lobbyist for drug companies, but he still denies it.
11/22/2011 - He supports the
Patriot Act and would like to see it strengthened.
11/22/2011 - He says that matters of National Security should not be encumbered by giving
Due Process to the accused.
11/28/2011 - He thinks its the job of the Federal Government to ban
medical marijuana.
11/28/2011 - He is a
Pharmaceutical lobbyist, and coincidentally thinks that non-Pharma drugs like
medical marijuana should be banned by the Federal government.
11/28/2011 - He said he wants to be "aggressive" with
Cuba topple their government before 2014.
11/28/2011 - He praised
draconian drug penalties in Singapore for the second time.
12/01/2011 - His comments about warning
Freddie Mac of its "insane" business model are proven false when his laudatory interview from 2007 surfaced again.
12/08/2011 - He
pocketed campaign funds -- including paying himself over $40K for a mailing list he already had.