Gingrich reacts to Greene's motion to oust Speaker Johnson: Gaetz 'unleashed the demons'
Source: The Hill
03/23/24 5:38 PM ET
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said that Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) unleashed the demons when he spearheaded an effort last year to oust former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his leadership post.
Gingrich was responding to a question from Fox host Laura Ingraham on why some House Republicans, like Reps. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) and Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.), have been leaving Congress before their terms ended.
Gingrich said that, in part, Gaetzs effort last year that ended McCarthys tenure as speaker should not be downplayed and that since then, the lower chamber has been a disaster.
Well I think, first of all, youd have to have a totally different approach, Gingrich said Friday on The Ingraham Angle. We shouldnt underestimate how bad what Matt Gaetz did was for the whole system. He unleashed the demons, he went after somebody who would raise $480 million, had gained seats for three elections in a row, and he drove Kevin McCarthy out of office. From that point on, it has been a disaster.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4551945-gingrich-reacts-to-greenes-motion-to-oust-speaker-johnson-gaetz-unleashed-the-demons/
getagrip_already
(14,825 posts)They haven't accomplished anything beyond a tax cut for the uber wealthy since well before tsf.
elleng
(131,076 posts)The Gingrich Senators: The Roots of Partisan Warfare in Congress
The Senate of the mid twentieth century, which was venerated by journalists, historians, and senators alike, is today but a distant memory. Electioneering on the Senate floor, playing games with the legislative process, and questioning your fellow senators' motives have become commonplace.
In this book, noted political scientist Sean Theriault documents the Senate's demise over the last 30 years by showing how one group of senators has been at the forefront of this transformation. He calls this group the "Gingrich Senators" and defines them as Republican senators who previously served in the House after 1978, the year of Newt Gingrich's first election to the House. He shows how the Gingrich Senators are more conservative, more likely to engage in tactics that obstruct the legislative process, and more likely to oppose Democratic presidents than even their fellow other Republicans. Phil Gramm, Rick Santorum, Jim DeMint, and Tom Coburn are just four examples of the group that has includes 40 total senators and 22 currently serving senators. >>>
https://www.amazon.com/Gingrich-Senators-Partisan-Warfare-Congress/dp/0199307466
EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)elleng
(131,076 posts)SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)The chaos started with him.
he started much of this.
bedazzled
(1,769 posts)My first thought
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)became a contract on America and republicans have been dismantling our democracy ever since.
All of them paved the way for the worst person in the world to finish the job, and throw our country under the fascist bus.
Fuck off, Newt. 🤬
Roy Rolling
(6,928 posts)The significance of this was a contract was a business apparatusso it was branded as run government like a business bullsh*t.
Its impossible to run government like a business for reasons too innumerable to mention here. But here was the first instance of that theory and the utter disaster it was. History clearly shows chaos has followed every GOP attempt to govern with this failed principle.
JHB
(37,161 posts)The success of the tag-team of Newt and Rush in the 90s became the standard operating procedure for the GOP.
Arthur_Frain
(1,855 posts)Not newties forte.
catrose
(5,073 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,376 posts)(and as we know, used to be SOH and was eventually run out)
catrose
(5,073 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,376 posts)It was very elucidating -
Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trumps rise. Now hes reveling in his achievements.
Story by McKay Coppins
November 2018 Issue
Updated on October 17, 2018
(snip)
On June 24, 1978, Gingrich stood to address a gathering of College Republicans at a Holiday Inn near the Atlanta airport. It was a natural audience for him. At 35, he was more youthful-looking than the average congressional candidate, with fashionably robust sideburns and a cool-professor charisma that had made him one of the more popular faculty members at West Georgia College. But Gingrich had not come to deliver an academic lecture to the young activists before himhe had come to foment revolution.
One of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we dont encourage you to be nasty, he told the group. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal, and faithful, and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the campfire but are lousy in politics. For their party to succeed, Gingrich went on, the next generation of Republicans would have to learn to raise hell, to stop being so nice, to realize that politics was, above all, a cutthroat war for powerand to start acting like it.
The speech received little attention at the time. Gingrich was, after all, an obscure, untenured professor whose political experience consisted of two failed congressional bids. But when, a few months later, he was finally elected to the House of Representatives on his third try, he went to Washington a man obsessed with becoming the kind of leader he had described that day in Atlanta. The GOP was then at its lowest point in modern history. Scores of Republican lawmakers had been wiped out in the aftermath of Watergate, and those whod survived seemed, to Gingrich, sadly resigned to a permanent minority mind-set. It was like death, he recalls of the mood in the caucus. They were morally and psychologically shattered.
But Gingrich had a plan. The way he saw it, Republicans would never be able to take back the House as long as they kept compromising with the Democrats out of some high-minded civic desire to keep congressional business humming along. His strategy was to blow up the bipartisan coalitions that were essential to legislating, and then seize on the resulting dysfunction to wage a populist crusade against the institution of Congress itself. His idea, says Norm Ornstein, a political scientist who knew Gingrich at the time, was to build toward a national election where people were so disgusted by Washington and the way it was operating that they would throw the ins out and bring the outs in.
(snip)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/
EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,400 posts)Young folks might not realize it's a plan, not just abnormal individuals.
ancianita
(36,132 posts)nevermind today's Millennials and Gen Z.
Unwind Your Mind
(2,042 posts)But youre right of course, we need to remember the history and remind the younger ones
underpants
(182,868 posts)He bemoaned political discord (no seriously) and planted the seed that foreclosing on Trump properties would get him elected.
BumRushDaShow
(129,376 posts)2naSalit
(86,765 posts)Often return to the scene of the crime.
Onthefly
(178 posts)called it The Contract on America. At least thats what I called it.
ificandream
(9,385 posts)agingdem
(7,853 posts)desperate to stay relevant..that said, I think it's time for the DU powers that be to stop posting anything dinosaurs Newt/Karl Rove/John Bolton spew on Fox or any cable network...
LittleGirl
(8,291 posts)This is the DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND, not the republican agenda nightmare were living. Just look at the front page, nothing but trump, trump trump.
elleng
(131,076 posts)Gingrich!!!
4lbs
(6,858 posts)Just how far off the rails have you gotten when THOSE turds are the voices of reason?
DoBW
(611 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,564 posts)Last edited Sun Mar 24, 2024, 05:48 AM - Edit history (1)
Save Trump's Johnson
Red Mountain
(1,737 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,564 posts)Onthefly
(178 posts)It is a major perspective that created the current chaos in congress.
BumRushDaShow
(129,376 posts)Arne
(2,068 posts)the idiots here kept wishing they would run Newt.
I said if that happens you'll have a newt for president.
Attilatheblond
(2,197 posts)rubbersole
(6,721 posts)...does that mean the repubs should be taken to the dump? You know, for the children...
Mr.Bill
(24,317 posts)that under today's rules he probably wouldn't last long as Speaker either.
Nor will any republican they pick.
surfered
(517 posts)Newt was first to unleash the demons in the 90s. Gaetz is just following in Newts footsteps.
dchill
(38,518 posts)... trying to undermine democracy. Do a fake faint, Newt. Fan yourself a little. These are your kids!
JustAnotherGen
(31,869 posts)To know a demon.
Hekate
(90,774 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,564 posts)MTG is your progeny.
FakeNoose
(32,723 posts)We were saying this all along. Oh well!
None of us feel bad for Kevin either, so there's that.
DownriverDem
(6,231 posts)He gave the no compromise order when he was speaker. He told the then repubs not to stay in DC on weekends & interact with the Dems. This mandate has been in place since the 90's. It is full tilt now. repubs don't legislate.
Carlitos Brigante
(26,501 posts)relayerbob
(6,551 posts)Gingrich's part is that he set the stage for demons to take over the GOP. He should STFU.
dchill
(38,518 posts)... holding up a bunch of garlic? Or a crucifix?
Blue Owl
(50,489 posts)Demons that need to be exposed and not kept hidden away from public view....
kairos12
(12,869 posts)Original arsonist of the House.
Vile, cheating trash.
Upthevibe
(8,068 posts)Thanks for this post.
Newt Gingrich is one of the key operators that got us where we are. The catastrophic result of his machinations simply can't be overstated. IMHO, he emits evil energy (Yes. I believe there are evil humans among us).
AverageOldGuy
(1,542 posts)It was one Newt Gingrich who set in motion the dysfunction we have today. It's all on you, asshole.
orleans
(34,072 posts)seem generally far more... decent in their replies than i intend to be.
my reply is simply this:
fuck him. and fuck them all! they can all go to hell
cstanleytech
(26,317 posts)Backseat Driver
(4,394 posts)when he looks in the mirror! -- Hah, maybe his potion steeped too long!
no_hypocrisy
(46,160 posts)Layzeebeaver
(1,631 posts)That about says it all.
Skittles
(153,182 posts)started with that CONTRACT ON AMERICA and has been on a roll ever since - GO FUCK YOURSELF
tanyev
(42,601 posts)Martin68
(22,853 posts)Unfortunately, that affects the entire country. The Representative Branch has become dysfunctional, thanks to MAGA. Will Republicans ever grow a spine and start governing?
JHB
(37,161 posts)You set them on this path, they're all following the example you set.
You built that.
"My name is Newtimandious. Behold, ye mighty, and despair."
cstanleytech
(26,317 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)Made it a part of their standard operating procedure.
Never diminish his role in making the GOP into the shit pile it has become.
cstanleytech
(26,317 posts)A large mouthpiece granted but still a mouthpiece.
cstanleytech
(26,317 posts)flying_wahini
(6,641 posts)brought a lot of memories back for me.
Gingrich is an ass.
[link:https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/1998/11/09/gingrich.html|
wolfie001
(2,264 posts)No thanks Newt!!! who served his former wife divorce papers while she was in the hospital fighting cancer. Well, that's a mouthful.
VanceFan
(4 posts)Gingrich thinks the answer to Republican failure and dysfunction is to elect more Republicans. What an idiot!
D23MIURG23
(2,850 posts)lonely bird
(1,687 posts)Newt hasnt gotten a quarter of the kicking around he deserved. He was, is and always will be a piece of crap. He was a major part of the Republican attack on democracy. That anyone anywhere considers any opinion out of his piehole as being worthy of broadcast is astounding.
Dave Bowman
(1,874 posts)republianmushroom
(13,663 posts)Craw back under your rock, newt.
truthisfreedom
(23,152 posts)and fresh out of high school, Gaetz has no idea what to do with it. That is the crux of the problem. Gaetz isnt congressional material. If hes not robbing the cradle hes incapable of doing anything.