Newt Gingrich feels snubbed so closes US govt. (for real)

[donsu]

pg.317-318 Living History

'95

Bill invited a lot of people to go on Air Force One to Rabin's funeral. Included was Newt.

On the trip home, Newt didn't like his accommodations on the plane (thought they should be better) and didn't like being asked to deplane on the rear stairway, along with many others.

So, when the Repugs wanted "both a huge tax cut and a balanced budget in seven years, a combination that defied the laws of arithmetic and could be achieved only with deep reductions in education, environmental protection and health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. They proposed a welfare reform package that included draconian social-engineering ideas such as denying welfare payments - for life - to single mothers under eighteen. They vowed to cancel a scheduled decrease in Medicare premiums, effectively raising rates for seniors."

Bill vetoed the bill and the govt. shut down. (remember that?)

"Each side of the aisle blamed the other for the government shutdown, but Gingrich tipped his hand at a breakfast meeting with reporters on November 15. Gingrich suggested that he had sent a tougher version of the budget resolution to the White House because he felt that Bill had snubbed him on Air Force One during the return trip from Prime Minister Rabin's funeral.
'It's petty, but I think it's human,' Gingrich said. 'You've been on the plane for twenty-five hours and nobody has talked to you and they ask you to get off the plane by the back ramp...You just wonder, where is their sense of manners? Where is their sense of courtesy?"
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So here we are again with Newt and company still wanting and succeeding to destroy america and make it over into their vile vision.

Sigh

[oneighty]

1. Poor

little creepy lizard.

180

[susu369]

2. Oh, and Newt is SUCH a gentleman

"You just wonder, where is their sense of manners? Where is their sense of courtesy?"

This from the jerk who went to the hospital to tell his wife (who was there with cancer), that he was divorcing her.