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“Former House speaker Newt Gingrich called for replacing the Environmental Protection Agency with an ‘environmental solutions agency’ as part of a broader re-assessment of American energy policy in his address to the Conservative Political Action Conference today in Washington,” the Washington Post’s Cillizza writes.
New York Times: “Gingrich called his party’s 2010 midterm victories ‘the appetizer’ and said ‘2012 is the entrée’ in a speech to conservative activists on Thursday. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Mr. Gingrich declared that ‘Barack Obama is no Ronald Reagan.’ But he offered a pointed suggestion to the audience: invite President Obama to give the keynote speech at the conference next year.”
“One theme of Rick Santorum's CPAC speech was that President Obama has his priorities all wrong, because he ‘doesn't believe America is exceptional,’ does see America as a ‘force for disruption, and even evil,’ and won't ‘say that jihadism is evil,’ Talking Points Memo recounts. “Santorum also called social issues ‘the issues that bind us,’ and that when it comes to those issues, ‘just because it's not popular doesn't mean it's not true.’”
The Washington Post on CPAC's first day: "There was, as always, a carnival atmosphere, with attendees scurrying about the hotel and exhibitors peddling books, posters and political philosophies. Despite a boycott by some conservative groups protesting the participation of GOProud, an organization that supports gay rights, there was little evidence of a real battle for attention between social and fiscal conservatives."
“It was Donald Trump, a real estate investor who became a reality show star, who finally got the crowd's 2012 election juices going on the first day of the Conservative Political Action Committee conference. And it sure sounded like the Donald was running for president,” Time writes. “’Considering the state of the country we need a competitive person,’ Trump said, after noting the Business Week had named him ‘the world's most competitive business person.’”
Politico: “CPAC to Trump: You're hired!”
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Who will be the next divider and exploiter of Christians?
Who will be the next leader of the hypocritical and ignorant tragedians?
Doesn't matter one bit because whoever it is, will still simply be a puppet for the banks and big industry.
Besides stoking anger at Democrats and Obama, just what is the Republican Party offering? Tax breaks? We've been down this road before. Dividing people with emotional exploitation, screaming for tax breaks and ending of industry regulation is all the Republican Party is about and is absolutely funded by the companies that benefit directly from the tax breaks and deregulation.
I'm tired of Republicans. It was all a nice puppet show. Foolish elderly Republican voters actually think that Republicans are going to repeal the Heath Care Reforms and ban earmarks and bring "freedom" back.
Would you hire a confessed animal hater to run a pet store? No? Then why would you elect politicians who freely admit to despising government?
Republicans rally against regulation of industry, and then America sees how that turns out when BP spills a million barrels of oil in our seas.
Republicans will rally against gay people, stripping them of civil rights, and then you find them tapping their toes in airport bathrooms looking for their gay lovers.
Republicans will rally against non-existent communists but have no problem driving an economy with Karl Marx like spending of tax dollars on endless wars against enemies that did not attack us.
After the last ten years of watching Republicans one word stands out as defining them all perfectly; hypocrites.
People in government should believe in government, and that's exactly why Democrats will get my votes for years to come.
Gingrich thinks that 2010 was just an appetizer? Gingrich and the Republicans needs to forget about 2012, and start thinking about getting the country moving forward again, as they so dilligently promised during the campaigning. The Republicans promised to cut $100 billion out of the budget, but couldnt. They wasted time on a meaningless vote to overturn the Health Care act, which they knew beforehand would not suceed, but its the taxpayers time and dime so why not? Gingrich, Bachman and the rest of these wannabe's need to either start working together with the Democrats and the president to get this country moving forward again, or the only entree they will be getting in 2012 is the one at the nearest Denny's. When the Republicans had complete control of BOTH Houses, along with the White House, they nspent money like no ones business, and did not accomplish much of anything, now, they want to have complete control again, and for what? They have not accomplished anything they campaigned to do. They talk of how they just couldnt cut $100 billion out of the budget, some of these people were in office before the 2010 elections, didnt they actually know what was in the budget< or, they just wanted to say anythin g to either get, or keep their seat.
The way to sucessfully raise money is to continue to tell people what to be afraid of, and who to blame for it, show no compromise, and continue to bad mouth the opposing party, which is fine, except now, the Republicans HAVE to produce and, for some reason cannot. No snappy slogans, no 30 second sound bite stunts to save them, they HAVE to produce, and they simply cannot do that, because to do so, they would have to compromise.
That is NO way to run a country, and it isnt going to get another win for them in elections. Either produce or get out of the way. This country is to important for these people to only worry about the next election. Produce results and get re-elected, lie, and get defeated.
Seems to be exactly what you are doing
How about we give the republicans the same 2 years to ignore ther campaign promises that the democrats had for the previous 2 years?
Chef,
I am scaring people? Why, for stating the obvious about such luminary figures as Gingrich, Palin, Bachmann and others? What have I said that is scary?
Why should we give the REpublicans the same two years we gave the Democrats? Is it not true that the Republicans promised that getting America going by getting jobs for the people was job 1? And what have they done? Lets see, they promised to cut $100 billion from the budget, except they cannot, they promised jobs, except they decided to debate and have a vote on repealing the Health Care act, which they knew in advance was a non starter. So far, they have not done anything they have promised, nor have they even tried to do anything they have promised. Defend them if you want, and obviously you do, but, you will find it extremely hard to defend against facts.
Apostasy==Hurray for you! I couldn't have said it any better and you saved me the frustration of lots of typing. I do have a concern that values voters can get any smarter.