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Gingrich Jumps the Shark

Posted: December 18, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Republican politics, Republican presidential politics, We are so F'd | Tags: , |25 Comments

What won’t this man say for  a vote?  Since when do Presidents get to arrest judges that disagree with them?  Where did this guy get his history degree?

Right wing attacks on the judiciary are a campaign staple but this takes it a new level.You would think something in this “historian’s” education would have shown him that there are the co-equal branches of government.

Continuing his crusade on the judicial system, GOP presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich said Sunday morning that he wouldn’t mind arresting any judge who he disagreed with.

When asked by CBS’ Face The Nation host Bob Schieffer him if he would “send capital police down” to make any arrest, Gingrich specified further his comments from Saturday.

“Sure, if you had to,” he said. “Or you’d instruct the Justice Department to send a U.S. Marshal.”

Gingrich called the judicial branch of the U.S. government “the weakest branch of the three.”

Damn!  How much of the constitution are you willing to sell out just to pander to the angry, ignorant base?

25 Comments on “Gingrich Jumps the Shark”

  1. ralphb's avatar ralphb says:
    December 18, 2011 at 3:22 pm

    Yuck, he’s a perfect fit for the batshit insane wing.

    • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
      December 18, 2011 at 3:32 pm

      He’s more responsible than any one for the tone and problems in hyperpartisan, ugly congressional gridlock. He just is one of those people that will scream fire in a crowded auditorium if it gets him something.

  2. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    December 18, 2011 at 4:23 pm

    What grounds is he going to arrest these judges on? Is he on drugs?

  3. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    December 18, 2011 at 5:01 pm

    Even Ann Coulter thinks Gingrich’s remarks on judges are nuts.

    http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/coulter-calls-gingrichs-remarks-supreme-co

  4. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    December 18, 2011 at 6:41 pm

    Here’s another crazy Newt Gingrich item:

    He proposed the death penalty for possessing pot, but admitted to smoking it.

    http://www.alternet.org/drugs/153414/gingrich_proposed_the_death_penalty_for_pot_smokers_–_even_though_he_admitted_to_smoking_it_himself

  5. northwestrain's avatar northwestrain says:
    December 18, 2011 at 7:01 pm

    So is Newtie going to arrest the Supremes? Talk about activists judges. That gang is busy trashing settled laws — plus they’ve declared Corporations as equal to living breathing humans beings. What next? Perhaps declare the fertilized egg a human being.

    • jawbone's avatar jawbone says:
      December 19, 2011 at 8:18 am

      He’s channeling Andrew Jackson…early presidency. Newtie must think the Trail of Tears was a Good Thing.

  6. ralphb's avatar ralphb says:
    December 18, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    CNN is reporting that North Korean TV says Kim Jong Il is dead. Apparently he died on 12/17.

  7. ralphb's avatar ralphb says:
    December 18, 2011 at 9:17 pm

    New York Times: North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il, 69, Has Died

  8. Fannie's avatar Fannie says:
    December 18, 2011 at 9:42 pm

    He’s got his history degree in banjoland, and his doctorate at Tulane, and his speciality was Congo History 1945-1960……then in 1994, he was successful in stopping the shoeshine boys in Washington……….How’s that for a toot……………..the man is out throwing habnd grenades in all directions, watch out, incoming blast.

  9. ralphb's avatar ralphb says:
    December 18, 2011 at 11:17 pm

    Glenn Greenwlad on the handling of public figures at death. It’s much broader than Hitchens and another great post.

    Christopher Hitchens and the protocol for public figure deaths

  10. ralphb's avatar ralphb says:
    December 18, 2011 at 11:30 pm

    CannonFire: Ayn gets Gored

    “Ayn Rand’s “philosophy” is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society. . . . To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.”

    — Gore Vidal

  11. ralphb's avatar ralphb says:
    December 18, 2011 at 11:47 pm

    Back to Gingrich …

    Gingrich Implodes in Iowa

    A new Public Policy Polling survey in Iowa finds Ron Paul has taken the lead in the GOP presidential race with 23%, followed by Mitt Romney at 20%, Newt Gingrich at 14%, Rick Santorum at 10%, Michele Bachmann at 10%, Rick Perry at 10% and Jon Huntsman at 4%.

    Key findings: “Gingrich has now seen a big drop in his Iowa standing two weeks in a row. His share of the vote has gone from 27% to 22% to 14%. And there’s been a large drop in his personal favorability numbers as well from +31 (62/31) to +12 (52/40) to now -1 (46/47). Negative ads over the last few weeks have really chipped away at Gingrich’s image as being a strong conservative — now only 36% of voters believe that he has ‘strong principles,’ while 43% think he does not.”

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