Gingrich: Obama's Bipartisan Sham

[Archangel]

Gingrich: Obama's Bipartisan Sham

Sunday, March 8, 2009 8:20 PM


Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday that the controversy
surrounding Rush Limbaugh is nothing more than a political maneuver
orchestrated by the Obama White House to distract from its economic
failures.
It is "a deliberate strategy by the White House," to distract from the
massive, $410 Congressional spending bill laden with 9,000 earmarks,
Gingrich said. He specifically cited the "intense partisanship" of Chief
of Staff Rahm Emanuel as the mastermind of the Limbaugh/GOP attack.
Earlier in the week, Gingrich compared Emanuel to the dirty tricksters
who ran the Nixon White House.
"I think what they did with the whole Rush Limbaugh thing - they can't
defend signing the 9,000 earmarks, they can't defend an energy-tax
increase, they can't defend [Treasury Secretary Timothy F.] Geithner's
failure to pay his income taxes, so they decide, 'Let's have a fight
over Rush Limbaugh.' It is the exact opposite of what the president
promised ... to focus on large things, not small things," Gingrich said.
“The president promised to focus on large things, not small things; he
promised to bring us together, not divide us,” Gingrich continued. “… It
has to trouble you to have that level of intense partisanship as chief
of staff if we're going to in fact come together as a country. And I
just think either Emanuel's got to change, or the president's got to
understand he is--he is going to have a very partisan regime.”
Gingrich said that Limbaugh is not the head of the Republican Party;
he’s a radio personality.
“No, it's like saying does Chris Matthews help or hurt the Democratic
Party? The fact is he has a large audience, he--the audience believes
him, the audience calls their members, the audience has an effect,’’
Gingrich said. “He's (Limbaugh) not the leader of the Republican party.
And Michael Steele's one of the leaders. Bobby Jindal, who you had on
recently, is one of the leaders. Sarah Palin's one of the leaders. Eric
Cantor's a rising new leader. Paul Ryan's a--I mean, there are tons of
leaders in the Republican Party. It is a deliberate strategy by the
White House.”

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ARCHANGEL

[Dennis M]

Post by Archangel
It is "a deliberate strategy by the White House," to distract from the
massive, $410 Congressional spending bill laden with 9,000 earmarks,
Gingrich said. He specifically cited the "intense partisanship" of Chief
of Staff Rahm Emanuel as the mastermind of the Limbaugh/GOP attack.

<guffaw> Newt Gingrich became a household name by being intensely partisan
himself, lobbing bombs at Clinton from the House floor until the late hours
almost every night and knowing C-SPAN would be carrying it live. Some of us
have an attention span that dates back before Nov. 1994 (not the ignorant
dorks he plays to though).

[AnAmericanCitizen]

Post by Archangel
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday that the controversy
surrounding Rush Limbaugh is nothing more than a political maneuver
orchestrated by the Obama White House to distract from its economic
failures.

Exactly and most people are not being suckered in. In fact, Rush's numbers climb
every day....AAC

Every day is PR day for this administration. I was surprised the other day to hear
Michelle state that they are "going to make the White House the people's house."
Would someone please tell her that it's always been the people's house and always
will be?....AAC