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kurth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 10:45 AM
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Gingrich calls Lamont supporters "insurgents"
Newt Gingrich Considers Political Opposition, American Citizens, to be an ''Insurgency''
A. Alexander, August 7th, 2006

Some have expressed concern over Newt Gingrich's use of the term "insurgency", while referring to Ned Lamont supporters in Connecticut. From a personal perspective, Gingrich was correct in obliquely referring to America's blogosphere and directly Lamont supporters, as being an "insurgency". Gingrich, of course, meant the term to be derogatory and a means of linking those that oppose Bush's war follies with terrorists. Still, Crazy Newt the serial divorcer was correct in more ways than he fully understands and, too, revealed the Neo-Conservative agenda in a clear and yet, unintended way.

That Gingrich would openly refer to those who oppose Bush-Republican Neo-Conservative madness as being an "insurgency" is, in a very real sense, the first public admission that the Bush regime and Republicans are at war with the American people. It is a blatant confession of the ultimate Neo-Conservative agenda, i.e. a deliberate and swift movement toward a very real Executive dictatorship wherein those who dissent or disagree are "the enemy" or members of an "insurgency". Gingrich's use of the term "insurgency" when referring to fellow Americans reveals in no uncertain terms the reality that the Neo-Cons recognize a movement forming that consists of the American people and that is designed to directly challenge their drive toward a nationalist imperialistic dictatorship.

Open and truly democratic governments don't view their political opponents as "enemies" whose opposition is looked upon as an "insurgency", and they certainly don't feel a need to be at war with the people they govern. For Gingrich, Bush, Republicans and the entire Neo-Conservative movement; however, the reality is that the American people are increasingly questioning their "right to rule" and are, therefore, considered enemies or, as Newt Gingrich more aptly said, an "insurgency".

The fact of the matter is that Newt Gingrich is right! There is no better way of defining and describing those American citizens who have formed and continue forming a direct and spirited opposition to the Neo-Conservatives' madness, as being anything other than an "insurgency". Bush and Republicans have busied themselves at the task of disregarding American laws; International laws; have committed war crimes; lied to the American people in order to engage in war with Iraq; unilaterally exempted themselves from the Constitution; committed treason by revealing an undercover CIA agent's name; undermined a free press; illegally spied upon American citizens; instituted a policy of merging church and state; stacked the courts with nefarious individuals that would knowingly and willingly support an Executive dictatorship; provided their crony pals with government appointments and large government contracts that have resulted in grotesque profits without services being provided; raped the nation's treasury; supported big oils' obscene profit taking at the expense of the American people; left New Orleans to rot and refused to help while more than 1,300 citizens perished, and through stygian deception refused to hold anyone to account...

http://progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1231
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bluerum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 10:46 AM
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1. Gingrich is a right wing politcal operative and scammer using RW
language and framing methodology.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 10:47 AM
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2. How ironic.
:eyes:



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stepnw1f Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 10:59 AM
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8. The Grand Oil Party Lobbying for Lieberman...hmmmm
Buh bye Joe, you gotta go!
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 10:50 AM
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3. Come November newt it will be like a levee breaking
on the grand ole party.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 10:52 AM
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4. Newt is priming the machine to deal with dissent and holding people
accountable as insurrection and sedition. We'll start sliding fast now if these jokers are kept in power. The Rs have legislated enough to make this a reality quickly.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 10:53 AM
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5. "Crazy Newt the serial divorcer"
Edited on Mon Aug-07-06 10:57 AM by LSK
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 10:54 AM
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6. That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me, Newt!
:loveya:
rocknation
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 10:55 AM
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7. Alien and Sedition act here we come
At least Adams had a brain.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 11:11 AM
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9. Why are so many Republican's so concerned?
This is a Democratic primary. If I didn't know better I'd swear they considered Holy Joe to be one of their own.
:shrug:
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 11:17 AM
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12. Because Democrats are punishing a Democrat for being subservient
to the GOP instead of the GOP punishing Democrats for bucking them and they can't stop it. The Genie's out of the bottle. The other Democrats who are enabling the GOP know that they might be next. The corporate Dems can't pretend they don't know what their Party wants.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 11:12 AM
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10. Call it what you want, Newt. Nobody cares what you say, anyway.
You're a has-been.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 11:17 AM
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11. Every time he rears his chubby head, he needs to be reminded...
Edited on Mon Aug-07-06 11:17 AM by JHB
...that he -- personally -- is a disease on the American body politic.

People talk about the "coarsening" of plotical discourse: in some ways that's like a traffic jam -- you can't blame any one person, there's just more cars on the road than it can handle...

But Newt is one of the few people who CAN be singled out for making things worse: HE theorized on it, HE practiced it systematicly, HE encouraged other "conservative activists" to do the same...
He's the guy who taught Ann Coulter, Mike Savage,and the other batshit nutters their vocabulary.

He rose to prominence by just reflexively blaming the Democrats for anything his audience would be repelled by, with no regard for fact or the truth, and not a jot of "Christian" concern about "bearing false witness", and just plain embodying everything he accused his opponents of being.

The man is pond scum an needs to be treated like that whenever he tries to affect public policy again.
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 11:25 AM
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13. I call Gingrich a lowlife scumbag sleazeball maggot.




I could be more articulate, but this seems to fit the occasion.




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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 11:46 AM
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14. A vote for LIEberman is a vote in support of this statement about fellow
Democrats. Kick LIEberman out tomorrow, Connecticut DUers. Please kick him out.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 12:43 PM
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15. Guess that makes us the 2006 version of "communists" and/or
"fellow travelers". Great, time for a new Blacklist in this country.
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