Paintings I've finished

Newt @ HQ & Gwinnett Forum

36 pictures from when Newt was last in Atlanta.

Obama loves spending

From athousandnations.com   They should give a prize for whoever can count how many times he says "spending"!

Newt Gingrich by Noah Green

Great video created by Noah Green - talented Film Editor & Newt Gingrich volunteer!

Newt yesterday's Man?

On Fox News, Brit Hume pontificating upon Newt Gingrich says: Newt is seen as yesterdays man while people are looking at the future.

What does that mean?  That we start each day without remembering the day before and that is the key to our success?  Really?

Forget yesterday, that was so um, yesterday!  Tomorrow is the future don'tcha know and the future is um, tomorrow.  We need new ideas for new solutions to, um.... solve OLD problems.  And thats the dirty little secret, the problems we have today come from yesterday.  Why?  Because we might dress better, travel faster, live longer, eat more but we are still Human.  Human Nature has not changed which means neither have our problems or how we solve them.

Make no mistake about it.  Those who tell you that our problems are new therefore more complicated are those who have a vested interested in making or keeping it that way.

Some are simply arrogant.  They know better than the billions that came before them.  But some use this as a technique to control.

Consider these passages:

A civilization without memory ceases to be civilized. A civilization without history ceases to have identity. Without identity there is no purpose; without purpose civilization will wither ~ Michael Kammen

“We are like dwarfs seated on the shoulders of giants; we see more things than the ancients and things more distant, but this is due neither to the sharpness of our own sight, nor to the greatness of our own stature, but because we are raised and borne aloft on that giant mass" ~ Bernard of Chartres

I think that yesterday's man is quite suited to take on our not so unique or futuristic problems.  I think that yesterdays man needs to remind those with poor memories that he beat all those problems and will do so again.  This time permanently which actually means until we are seduced away from it again by those with their shiny new babbles promising a new life, one suited for the Future & beyond!  All the while carrying our not so new Human Nature with us wherever we tread.  

Give the GOP a gun...

... and it will promptly point straight down and pull the trigger as fast as it can til the foot is evenly riddled with holes.

Its not enough that we've had to suffer through the Dole & then McCain fiasco's but now this election cycle might top them all.

Why is the GOP having debates on CNN or PMSNBC or CNBC??? No Republican watches any of these Leftist media outlets. Aren't these debates supposed to be for a "Republican" primary? Who cares about the 400 unwashed commies who watch CNN??? In the general election throw some ad's on CNN and then be done with them! Why does the GOP give the Leftists so much control over its process of election??? These debates have had horrible formats that have been horrible on purpose - to make Republicans look stupid and to discourage primary voters. And they've been very successful with it. To be fair, Chris Wallace & Fox News have been no better which begs the question, why Fox, why? Its as if they are desperate for the love of the Leftist media that they copy those who hate them and who will never stop hating them. Then again that would describe most of the GOP as well. They so desperately want to be liked & never will... get over it GOP! (and Fox)

Perry announces an Economic plan that is an absolute rip-off of Newt Gingrich & Herman Cain. Worse, its being reported as if he were the first with Newt & Herman joining Perry's lead. Typical behavior by the Leftist media but also now by Conservative media outlets??? Really??? Again, give the GOP a gun...blah blah blah.

The choices we are being given are polished talking heads, bobble-heads, a corporate head, a gargoyles head, and an academic head. So far, the GOP is too busy admiring the holes in their foot to look up and see that they need an academic head versus the other puffed up heads. But I digress.

What makes me truly angry is not that we are headed for another election where the DNC chooses our candidate but that this candidate might win. I say "might" since all the candidates,with the exception of Newt Gingrich, would fail terribly in a debate against the master of lies, Obama. If a GOP candidate actually won, they would fail... again, with the exception of Newt Gingrich. And when they fail, so does the legitimacy of any Conservative movement which will plunge the country futher into the putrid swamp of Socialism.

It is our fault that this country has fallen as far as it has, now is the time to correct our mistakes and make America a truly Exceptional nation again. Not just for our sakes but for those who need to escape the tyrannies of Socialism in this World. This World needs a shining example of something better than the man-made religion of Socialism... America used to be that example.

Cartoons from 1994

Tell me again how times have changed? 

Its the same ole stuff only much worse today. 

How much longer are we going to live like this? 

Here are a few cartoons that tickled my funny bone from 1994 with the last picture being the answer to this insane merry-go-round that America has been on since then:

Cain or Gingrich?

One thing that is not lacking in a campaign is the amount of sunshine people like to blow up someone's backside.  Right now all the sunshine is directed towards Herman Cain which worries me for him & for this Nation.

In life I've found that brilliant people are only brilliant when in the right place at the right time.  When they are there, in that place, many people then mistake their brilliance for a type of omnipotent brilliance, one that transcends all therefore making the brilliant person - brilliant, at any or every thing they set their mind too.  In real life its not so neat.  There are the fortunate few who have a couple or more successes in life.  Most people get one chance and some of those may even get a second chance.  Herman is looking for another chance & Newt is here for a second chance.

Herman Cain is brilliant, no doubt about it.  And a heck of a nice guy.  He knows business and has had successe in business.  But his success in business does not make him a Brain surgeon nor a great President of the United States of America.

Newt Gingrich is an even more brilliant man, absolutely no doubt about that.  And a heck of nice guy.  He knows Politics, has had tremendous success in Politics but that does not make him a Brain surgeon nor a great or even competent CEO/Savior of a pizza company.

Herman Cain cannot walk into Newt's "House" and succeed anymore than Newt Gingrich could walk into Herman's business and succeed.

Herman Cain is being set up.  If he becomes President, he will fail & so will the Conservative movement which then dooms us all to Democrats getting back into power with more & more & more Socialism.  This also means, we are being set up as well.

Time Mag Man of the Year - 1995

Monday, Dec. 25, 1995

NEWT GINGRICH'S WORLD

By LANCE MORROW

 

 

LEADERS MAKE THINGS POSSIBLE. EXCEPTIONAL LEADERS make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional. All year--ruthlessly, brilliantly, obnoxiously--he worked at hammering together inevitabilities: a balanced federal budget, for one. Not so long ago, the idea of a balanced budget was a marginal, we'll-get-to-it-someday priority. Other urgent work needed doing: the Clintons' health-care program, for example, which would have installed elaborate new bureaucratic machinery. Today, because of Newt Gingrich, the question is not whether a balanced-budget plan will come to pass but when.

Gingrich has changed the center of gravity. From Franklin Roosevelt onward, Americans came to accept the Federal Government as the solution to problems, a vast parental presence. Ronald Reagan preached that government was the problem, but his Administration focused mostly on the Evil Empire; it did not overturn the grand centralizing legacy of New Deal and Great Society. Newt Gingrich wants to reverse the physics, make American government truly centrifugal, with power flowing out of Washington, devolving to the states.

A sometimes unlovely blur of headlong energy and pinwheeling, roughhouse creativity, the Speaker has transformed both the House of Representatives and the Speakership into unprecedented instruments of personal and political power. It has been an amazing performance and, for all its scattershot quality, a display of discipline that is either impressive or scary, depending on one's sympathies.

Having organized an insurrectionist crew in the House, Gingrich seized the initiative from a temporarily passive President and steered the country onto a heading that the Speaker accurately proclaimed to be revolutionary. His venture is in a stormy mid-passage now. It may ultimately be forced back, or even sunk. Yet Gingrich did the work--crude, forceful, effective--that compelled the voyage in the first place. It is for that reason he is Time's Man of the Year.

Gingrich envisions a promised land--an America that may lie just over the horizon, in his cherished Third Wave Information Age, where traditional values connect to the future. He hopes to get to a place beyond poverty and violence and moral decay by leaving behind the welfare state and the deadening, blockheaded bureaucratic mind of Washington: a renewed civilization, says Newt--Norman Rockwell in the 21st century, a wholesome Utopia. Newt's destination has the refulgence of a never-never land--that is, an ideal. But in America, ideals have always been a necessary and efficient form of national energy. Which came first--Newt's vision of the future? Or his fierce personal ambition? Which one drives the other? The nearest answer may be found in W.B. Yeats' line (in language prettier than Gingrich might use): "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" Gingrich decided not to run for President in 1996. That may be just as well. The polls say more than half the American people disapprove of him. His negatives reached critical mass just before Christmas. Whereupon Democrats began to rouse themselves amid the wreckage leftfrom '94 and to tend small campfires of hope again.
They worked on the idea of running in 1996 against one man, Newt Gingrich, a vividly inviting target who virtually poses for cartoons of himself. Enemies picture Newt as the Simon Legree of school lunches and Medicare, the golfing partner of capital gains, the Churchill from K Mart, the nerd pistolero of the punitive right, the all-purpose villain.

IF GINGRICH WERE TO RUN for president, of course, he might be applying for a job inferior to the one he has created for himself as Speaker of the House. Whatever his fortunes in the polls and in the hands of a special counsel to the House ethics committee, Gingrich has the American genius for reinventing himself. The Gingrich Republicans, however, may be in danger of exercising their party's perverse talent for throwing away its advantages with both hands. Clinton is a superb campaigner, himself a gambler with a gift for new lives. And Republicans underestimate him.

Americans in 1995 kept a wary, ambivalent eye on both Clinton and Gingrich, the famous fraternal twins of American power, yin and yang of the Baby Boom, polar extremes of Pennsylvania Avenue. A generation or two ago, leaders were father figures. For better and for worse, Clinton and Gingrich--powerful yet indefinably immature--give off a bright, undisciplined energy, a vibration of adolescent recklessness.

Justice Holmes judged that Franklin Roosevelt had a "second-class intelligence but a first-class temperament." Newt Gingrich has a first-class intelligence that fires through a strangely refracted temperament that is not exactly second-class but agitated and sometimes grandiose enough to make Americans nervous. He has proved himself an impresario of leverage in using Congress to change America, a sort of hothouse genius. Americans may discover in 1996 whether Gingrich can evolve outward--as a truly popular leader in the open air.
 

All Newt covers from 1994

If people remembered 1994 they would know it was then as it is now and Newt was the only one that stopped it from going as far as it has today.  We need Newt again!