The 'Contract' with Newt

This is from Michael Savage. Interesting but Newt won't take it. I'm actually looking forward to Newt being the Republican candidate. The hate that comes in waves off of this guy will so turn off the moderate voters in America that Obama will win and win big.

Oh and Mr Savage - you have one very, very important thing wrong and why the Republicans may will lose control of the House and won't (although they should and could) take back the majority in the Senate.

You wrote - 'THE MOST PRESSING ISSUE BEFORE AMERICA TODAY IS DEFEATING BARACK OBAMA'.

The most pressing issue before America is JOBS Mr. Savage. That YOU and the REPUBLICAN Party can't even seem to grasp that simplest of concepts, tells moderate voters just how out of touch you are with America and Americans.

'(SUBJECT TO ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS TO BE EXPRESSLY STATED BY DR. SAVAGE, INCLUDING GINGRICH DROPPING OUT WITHIN 72 HOURS OF TODAY)'

'THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL FIELD HAS COME DOWN TO TWO CANDIDATES WHO HAVE A REAL CHANCE OF GETTING THE NOMINATION: NEWT GINGRICH AND MITT ROMNEY. WHILE IT’S TRUE THAT ROMNEY IS NOT AS STRONG A CONSERVATIVE AS MANY WOULD LIKE HIM TO BE, THE MOST PRESSING ISSUE BEFORE AMERICA TODAY IS DEFEATING BARACK OBAMA. AND THAT IS SOMETHING NEWT GINGRICH CANNOT DO. FOR WEEKS ON MY SHOW, I HAVE ENUMERATED THE REASONS WHY GINGRICH CANNOT SUCCEED IN AN ELECTION AGAINST OBAMA':

'•WHEN HE WAS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, GINGRICH FAILED TO DELIVER ON HIS SO-CALLED CONTRACT WITH AMERICA'.
'•HE MADE ADS WITH NANCY PELOSI PROMOTING THE FALSE THEORY OF GLOBAL WARMING'.
'•HE’S IN FAVOR OF AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS'.
'•HE’S TAKEN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FROM FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC, TWO OF THE MOST CORRUPT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN HISTORY'.
'•HE’S CHEATED ON TWO WIVES AND LEFT BOTH OF THEM WHILE THEY WERE BOTH SERIOUSLY ILL, WHICH WILL DESTROY HIS CHANCES AMONG FEMALE VOTERS'.
'•HE CALLED THE REPUBLICAN PLAN TO REFORM MEDICARE “RIGHT WING SOCIAL ENGINEERING.”
'•IN A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE AGAINST OBAMA, REGARDLESS OF HOW WELL HE DOES, ON TELEVISION, HE WILL COME OFF BADLY COMPARED TO OBAMA AND LOOK LIKE NOTHING MORE THAN WHAT HE IS: A FAT, OLD, WHITE MAN'.

'NEWT GINRICH IS UNELECTABLE. MITT ROMNEY IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE WITH A CHANCE OF DEFEATING BARACK OBAMA, AND THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN THAT FOR FUTURE HEALTH, SAFETY, AND SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THEREFORE, I AM OFFERING NEWT GINGRICH ONE MILLION DOLLARS TO DROP OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE FOR THE SAKE OF THE NATION'.

'IF NEWT GINGRICH REALLY LOVES THIS COUNTRY AS MUCH AS HE SAYS HE DOES, IF HE REALLY WANTS WHAT IS BEST FOR AMERICA, HE WILL SET HIS EGO ASIDE, CALL ME, AND ACCEPT MY OFFER. HIS CONTINUED CANDIDACY SPELLS NOTHING BUT RUIN FOR CONSERVATIVES, REPUBLICANS, AND ALL TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOTS. ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN EXCHANGE FOR PRESERVING THE NATION, NEWT. I SAY TAKE THE MONEY… AND DON’T RUN'.
From : http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/2011/12/savage-offers-gingrich-1-million-to-drop-out-of-the-race-will-announce-on-show-today/

Newt Gingrich and 'child labor laws are stupid'

First of all, here is the link to the video of Newt :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvCXwjj3Uf0

At 40 sceonds, he outlines a specific plan to 'get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the schools.'

So either English is a second language or you'd have to be taking a very slow ride down that river in Egypt to NOT understand that this was a plan that Newt was proposing.

Setting aside the 'child labor laws are stupid' comment - yes lets become a Third World Nation and leave the most vunerable defenceless or better yet, allow 'parents' to rent out their children for profit and companies to exploit them. Oh THAT will re-establish the United States as a World Leader!

Yes I understand Newt is thinking of instilling a work ethic in children but anyone thinking that since they, the children, would be on the bottom of the labor pool ladder - employers and parents WOULDN'T abuse and exploit them- is a fool.

But again setting aside THAT for a moment, Newt very clearly proposes firing a 'union' janitor who more then likely is putting food on the table and a roof over his/her family and replacing them with less expensive in pay and benefits child labor.

So on the one hand you develop a program to instill the values of the work ethic in 'poor' children and on the other you put a person out of work, put them on unemployment, welfare, maybe have their house foreclosed.

Newt Gingrich - creating several new problems to solve one. Leading America back to the 'good old days'.

http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/us_history.html

http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/youthlabor/

Caturday at the Kane's

The 'Republican Establishment' and 2012

Ezra Klein has a good blog on the likelyhood that the 'Republican Establishment' will not 'let' Newt be the nominee.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/newt-gingrich-will-not-be-the-republican-nominee--even-if-it-means-a-brokered-convention/2011/08/25/gIQARQ0DiO_blog.html

He points out that they, the 'Republican Establishment, are 'mobilizing' the likes of Will, Krauthammer, Brooks, Coburn, Coulter and others and and that this will somehow be seen as sage advice and the Republican voters will turn again to 25% Mitt. 

He takes a different route then Nate Silver who, rightly, sees Newt winning Iowa, 2nd in New Hampshire and then building on that, wins in South Carolina and Florida and so on and so on.

Klein ignores the fact that the 'Republican Establishment' is just too late in coming to the 'rescue' of Romney.

That should have happened last May after Palin had spent months teasing the voters and the press, after Bachmann rose in the polls while spouting nonsense about the history of our Nation and the legislative process and especially after The Donald rose in the polls after pushing the 'Obama wasn't a natural born citizen'.

By not stopping THAT, letting The Donald, Palin and then Perry go unchallenged (except for a few asides) in spouting that nonsense, thus giving those three and the 'issue' of Obama's birth 'credibility', the 'Republican Establishment' lost all of it's credibility.

Gingrich is not 'rising'. There simply is no one (with at least a realistic chance) left.

Palin, Bachmann, The Donald, Perry and then Cain. All self destructed. They shoulld have been at best bottom teir candidates but instead the 'Republican Establishment' along with FOX 'news' gave them time and voice which uninformed voters looking to be lead, eagerly accepted them as the role models for the Republican Party.

Newt doesn't have time, although he normally would, to self destruct as the voting begins in just a couple of weeks and Romney is just too weak to attack him. Newt has 25 years expereince attacking others and (usually when he self destructs) responding to attacks on him.

The 'Republican Establishment' blew it last Spring by not stopping the stupidity of what should have been the lower teir candidates and by not encouraging, nuturing the likes of Daniels, Pawlenty, backing Christie when he was considering and maybe even giving greater voice to Jeb Bush.

It doesn't mean that Bush or Christie would BE candidates but it would have shown the general electorate that the 'Republican Establishment' was at least serious about finding intelligent and reasonable representatives for the Grand Old Party.

And THAT would have given them a landslide victory in November 2012 instead of the now more then likely defeat at the Presidential level and also a now growing possibility of a defeat in taking the Senate and maybe even the growing possibllity of losing the House.

The growing backlash of moderates voting not for Obama but against the bitterness of Newt and that carrying over into other races. 

When steam dissipates, you're left with nothing

'The Great Donald Trump Debate (well, maybe slightly less great than its organizers had hoped) is still going forward even with just two committed candidates, its organizers said Friday'.

“We just had a production meeting this morning, and we’re pushing full steam ahead,” said Steve Coz, editorial director of Newsmax Media, which is hosting the debate Mr. Trump is set to moderate on Ion Television on Dec. 27'.

'But Mr. Trump, the reality star and real estate mogul, cast some doubt Friday about whether the debate would still happen in an interview with Fox News’s Megyn Kelly. “We’ll have to see,” he said. He made similar comments to Don Imus earlier in the day'.

'Mr. Trump’s spokeswoman did not return a request to clarify his remarks.

'Whatever the outcome, the incident is a body blow to Mr. Trump’s credibility as a player in conservative politics. He often talks up his political influence with the kind of self-aggrandizing swagger that is his trademark'.

'On Mitt Romney‘s supposed longing for Mr. Trump’s endorsement: “He wants my endorsement. He wants it very badly,” Mr. Trump said this week'.

'On his frustration about never being invited to the White House by President Obama: “I have a big voice. Call up Trump, invite him to the White House. Get him on your side.”

'On why he thinks he has influence: “The candidates look at me and they say, ‘He really does have a lot of people who are listening.’”

'Evidently, the campaigns of Mr. Romney, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann and Jon M. Huntsman Jr. — who have all declined to attend the debate — don’t quite see it that way'.
From : http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/newsmax-says-trump-debate-is-full-steam-ahead/
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'Don't Worry - Be Happy' - 'Preventive Priorities Survey: 2012'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHFDa9efCQU

'The Preventive Priorities Survey (PPS) is intended to help inform the U.S. policy community about the relative urgency and importance of competing conflict prevention demands. The Center for Preventive Action asked a targeted group of government officials, academics, and experts to comment confidentially on a list of contingencies that could plausibly occur in 2012'.

'The list of preventive priorities for the United States is grouped according to three tiers of relative importance to U.S. national interests, based on different levels or categories of risk associated with various types of instability and conflict. The preventive priorities within each tier are not listed in any order of priority or probability'.

Tier I
•a mass casualty attack on the U.S. homeland or on a treaty ally

•a severe North Korean crisis (e.g., armed provocations, internal political instability, advances in nuclear
weapons/ICBM capability)

•a major military incident with China involving U.S. or allied forces

•an Iranian nuclear crisis (e.g., surprise advances in nuclear weapons/delivery capability, Israeli response)

•a highly disruptive cyberattack on U.S. critical infrastructure (e.g., telecommunications, electrical power, gas and oil, water supply, banking and finance, transportation, and emergency services)

•a significant increase in drug trafficking violence in Mexico that spills over into the United States

•severe internal instability in Pakistan, triggered by a civil-military crisis or terror attacks

•political instability in Saudi Arabia that endangers global oil supplies

•a U.S.-Pakistan military confrontation, triggered by a terror attack or U.S. counterterror operations

•intensification of the European sovereign debt crisis that leads to the collapse of the euro, triggering a double-dip U.S. recession and further limiting budgetary resources
From : http://www.cfr.org/conflict-prevention/preventive-priorities-survey-2012/p26686?cid=nlc-news_release-news_release-link4-20111209

Protecting the 'job creators'

The payroll tax holiday extension being debated in the Senate right now, was to be orginally paid for with a .2% tax on making over $1,000,000. The so-called 'Millionaires Surtax'.

This caused NPR to do, or attempt to do a story on the who and how the surtax would affect.
With interesting results...............

'The argument is that many small-business owners report company profits on their individual taxes because of the way their businesses are structured. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., says the surtax would hurt their ability to hire'.

"It's just intuitive that, you know, if you're somebody who's in business and you get hit with a tax increase, it's going to be that much harder, I think, to make investments that are going to lead to job creation," says Thune.

'We wanted to talk to business owners who would be affected. So, NPR requested help from numerous Republican congressional offices, including House and Senate leadership. They were unable to produce a single millionaire job creator for us to interview'.
 
'So we went to the business groups that have been lobbying against the surtax. Again, three days after putting in a request, none of them was able to find someone for us to talk to. A group called the Tax Relief Coalition said the problem was finding someone willing to talk about their personal taxes on national radio'.
From : http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/12/09/143398685/gop-objects-to-millionaires-surtax-millionaires-we-found-not-so-much

To paraphrase Ed Schultz - where are the 'job creators'?