Thanks for Making the Connection Explicit, Newt…
And of course, the push for civil rights legislation was an utter failure, and produced no positive consequences of note for Americanswhite southern men.
But former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich said Obama and the Democrats will regret their decision to push for comprehensive reform. Calling the bill “the most radical social experiment . . . in modern times,” Gingrich said: “They will have destroyed their party much as Lyndon Johnson shattered the Democratic Party for 40 years” with the enactment of civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
Today I have stood, where once Jefferson Davis stood, and took an oath to my people. It is very appropriate then that from this Cradle of the Confederacy, this very Heart of the Great Anglo-Saxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears before us done, time and time again through history. Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny … and I say … no health care reform today … no health care reform tomorrow … no health care reform ever.
Newt’s history is, um, off. The Dems continued to hold the House till 1994, right? So they managed to destroy their party while keeping control of one body of the legislature for nearly 30 more years. I’ll take that kind of destruction.
Newt is right. Johnson was able to paint Republican opponents as extremists, paid such a terrible price in the election after the bill passed that he only beat Goldwater by 22 points, and his party was only able to hold onto the House for another measley 30 years.
…as much as LBJ shattered the party…(among white males in southern states)….
Well, at least it shows that they are on the wrong side of history… again. They know it, hence the panicky rhetoric.
Obviously what Newt was saying is that only Southern white men count.
…of course, they don’t vote D anyway, but hey, noone ever accused Newt of being a genius.
Let’s all give a wag of the finger a la Colbert on this one. To the man who is wrong about just about everything. Here’s to you, Newter.
On a loosely related note, the Chicago Tribune printed letters in response their editorial to replace Grant with Reagan on the $50 bill.
An excerpt from one letter: “… After Abraham Lincoln, the man most directly responsible for the abolition of slavery was Grant. … Ronald Reagan began his 1980 campaign in Philadelphia, Miss. advocating ’states rights’. Grant, in his memoirs wrote, ‘As time passes, people, even of the South, will begin to wonder how it was possible that their ancestors ever fought for or justified institutions which acknowledged the right of property of man.’”
The Republicans certainly are relentlessly consistent.
You can’t make the lack of shame any clearer than that can you? Of course, Newt’s not much of a historian either, so he’s wrong about the politics just as he’s wrong to put the politics of the vote before the moral urgency of the vote.
Note to incredibly stupid asshole Newt Gingrich….it’s very simple, you dick…what happened there in the mid-60’s was a oner, a sui generis as they say, a gift given to you one time and one time only, you racist asshole.
Namely, we handed over the fucking bigots to you. It was necessary…and yes, had very painful consequences. BUT YOU ONLY GET ALL THE WORST BIGOTS IN THE UNITED STATES HANDED TO YOU ONCE. This here is not comparable in any way, shape or form. In fact, you know what this is, Newt, you fuck? This is THE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE of you taking all of those losers in. Short term gain (true, 40 years of it), long term pain. Your party BECAME these people. That’s why you’re losing your grip, finally, on EVERY OTHER PLACE (except for a certain other racist group of states even less important than the deep south).
Enjoy your memories, you irrelevant Nazi crapweasel.
Couldn’t get tenure; ran for congress instead. The tenure committee at the University of West Georgia has much to answer for . . .
University of West Georgia
Now there’s an elite school!
And the Netwtnik couldn’t get tenure there?
*AND* he’s the “intellectual voice” of the Republican Party?
Nice!