Newt Gingrich

way beyond the bad blood between a 25-year House veteran and an upstart back-bencher. The real significance that their dispute throws into sharp relief is that the House of Representatives no longer functions. It has paralyzed itself with the help and assistance of state legislatures that can’t resist drawing congressional district lines in ways that enable members of Congress from both parties to pick their voters. It’s called gerrymandering, and it has run amok with devastating and unpredictable consequences. Speakers of the House have become an endangered species. Five of the last six Speakers, dating back to Democrat Jim Wright in 1989, have been ousted. In addition to Wright the list includes Democrat Tom Foley, and Republicans Newt Gingrich, Dennis Hastert and now Boehner. Boehner says he had decided to announce his retirement on his 66th birthday, Nov. 17. But he abruptly advanced the timetable when he sensed rising conservative opposition to his leadership as Congress was about to consider stopgap funding for the government. Boehner knew that the most intransigent members of his caucus, the 40 or so ideologues who comprise the Freedom Caucus, were planning to force another shutdown of the government if they could not defund Planned Parenthood. Boehner knew their effort would fail because the president would veto any bill that defunded Planned Parenthood. He also knew the GOP would be blamed by the voters if the government shut down again as it had in 2013. And he…

This has actually come back to haunt most of the party; because no matter how many facts outlets, like The Huffington Post, report their supports continue to ignore them. So when they talk about facts dealing with the Donald Trump they simply won’t believe it because they have been trained not to believe the news. This disbelief in facts also extends to the science. Most scientists in this country would agree that climate change exists but the modern Republican party have made it to where their…

Newt Gingrich in “Let’s End Adolescence” refers to a study which found that “19% of eighth graders, 36% of tenth graders, and 47% of twelfth graders” admit to using…

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possible cabinet member appointments are looking old, white, and male. Many of which are qualified to fill their roles in the cabinet. With these appointments being considered: Newt Gingrich being secretary of the state, Rudy Giuliani being attorney general, Trump's finance chair, being secretary of the Treasury, Lew Eisenberg, RNC finance chair considered to be secretary…

Arguing for the motion was New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winner, Paul Krugman and the former Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou. The debaters who were against the motion was the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich and Arthur Laffer who was an adviser to Margaret Thatcher on fiscal policy. Newt Gingrich defended the CON side by arguing that, raising tax rate for the rich is a strategy to force them to give out their money with the idea that they…

besides Rhode Island and New York, eight other states have already signed the National Popular Voting bill including: Vermont, Maryland, Washington, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, California, and Hawaii. With Washington D.C. approving the bill as well, the National Popular Vote bill now controls 165 electoral votes, and is already 61% to completion. Likewise, highly respected politician Newt Gingrich came out endorsing the National Popular Vote bill last year with a hand-written letter.…

The general argument made by Newt Gingrich in the article “Let’s End Adolescence” is that we, as a society, need to get rid of the period we refer to adolescence because it is causing us to fall behind other nations and our teenagers to become lazy. According to Gingrich, “once we decide to engage young people in real life, doing real work, earning real money and thereby acquiring real responsibility, we can transform being young in America. And our nation will become more competitive in the…

In his article, History Re-Membered: Forrest Gump, Postfeminist Masculinity, and the Burial of the Counterculture, Thomas Byers argues his point by presenting two conflicting views about the movie, Forrest Gump. Steve Tisch, one of the producers of the movie, states that the film is about humanity, not politics. However, Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, claims the movie is a conservative film that upholds the view that counterculture destroys people and their basic values. While Byers…

gridlock as either not effecting the passage of important laws or that it improves the quality of legislation that happens to pass. Mayhew has generated a massive amount of research where he concludes “that divided government, and increased polarization and partisanship, have not decreased the passage of “important legislation by Congress.” While Rawls’ ideology centers on his theory of the benefit of the bipartisan gear, which provides for a slow and heavily contested progress protects the…