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Re: Newt Gingrich, On Eve Of Likely Florida Loss, Unleashes Wild Attacks On Mitt Romney

I well remember thr riots at the Dem convention of '68.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:34 AM, GregfromBoston <greg.vincent@yahoo.com> wrote:

Yikes, were any of y'all alive during the dem primary race of 91/92?

On Jan 31, 9:54 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *"From morning until the last of five events at the end of the day,

> Gingrich branded Romney a liar and cheat, accusing him of suppressing
> religious liberty and trying to "buy the election."*

>
> ========
>
> Romney is a liar, and no question, the Romney campaign has tried to buy
> Florida as well as every other primary. As I wrote earlier, it is going
> to be hard for the Republicans to "Forgive And Forget" at the end of this
> cycle......
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI&feature=youtu.be
>
>
>

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Newt Gingrich, On Eve Of Likely Florida Loss, Unleashes Wild Attacks
> > On Mitt Romney
>
> > TAMPA, Fla. -- Meet Newt Gingrich, the human Roman Candle.
>
> > Gingrich and Mitt Romney on Monday staggered to the end of a brutal
> > week of campaigning in Florida, one in which they took increasingly
> > nasty and personal shots at one another. But the day marked a new
> > level of angry and relentless attacks on Romney by Gingrich, the
> > former House speaker from Georgia.
>
> > From morning until the last of five events at the end of the day,
> > Gingrich branded Romney a liar and cheat, accusing him of suppressing
> > religious liberty and trying to "buy the election."
>
> > The strain of the nastiness showed on both men. Romney's voice was
> > hoarse as he spoke at his last of three events, in front of a few
> > thousand people at The Villages, a massive retirement community 90
> > minutes northeast of Tampa. But in a sign of growing confidence and
> > looseness as a candidate, Romney led the crowd in singing "America the
> > Beautiful," a tune he has mentioned on the campaign trail all month
> > without breaking into song.
>
> > Romney didn't mention Gingrich by name at his last event, after
> > mocking and dismissing him earlier in the day.
>
> > Gingrich, on the other hand, launched himself into the Romney
> > juggernaut with a level of fury and desperation certain to produce
> > uneasiness in the GOP for its poisonous tone. Gingrich has vowed to
> > carry his candidacy all the way to the GOP convention, but his actions
> > Monday bore a wildness that could call his campaign's longevity into
> > doubt.
>
> > Gingrich continued to harp on a charge that Romney, during his time as
> > Massachusetts governor, vetoed funds to expand the provision of kosher
> > food for Bay State retirees. Gingrich said Romney has a "lack of
> > concern for religious liberty."
>
> > "Romney cut off kosher food to elderly Jews on Medicare," Gingrich
> > said, stretching the truth. And Gingrich also hit Romney for a 2005
> > decision as governor to require Roman Catholic hospitals to provide
> > emergency contraception, which many Catholics believe is a form of
> > abortion, to rape victims.
>
> > "You want a war on the Catholic church by Obama? Guess what: Romney
> > refused to allow Catholic hospitals to have conscience in their
> > dealing with certain circumstances," Gingrich said.
>
> > Having called Romney "pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase"
> > on Sunday, Gingrich added the title "pro-gay rights" on Monday, in an
> > acidic interview with Fox News. He rewound his last few days of
> > attacks, combining all of his insults and all his vitriol into a
> > string of remarkable assaults on Romney.
>
> > "The conservative movement is not going to sit back and say, 'Oh yes,
> > let's let Wall Street and Mitt Romney buy the election,'" Gingrich
> > said. "So you're going to see a real grassroots fight. It will be
> > people power vs. Goldman Sachs and Mitt Romney."
>
> > Gingrich's campaign began the day by sending out a press release
> > noting that Romney has received $367,000 in campaign contributions
> > from Goldman Sachs, the New York investment bank.
>
> > "Goldman Sachs received $10 billion in emergency loans and bailouts
> > from the Federal Reserve during the Wall Street bailout," wrote
> > Gingrich's communications director Joe DeSantis. "This raises the
> > question: Are Mitt Romney's dishonest attack ads against Speaker
> > Gingrich being indirectly funded by the US taxpayer while Governor
> > Romney uses shady accounting gimmicks to avoid paying his fair share
> > of taxes?"
>
> > Gingrich went after discrepancies on Romney's tax returns as well.
>
> > "How can a guy who's a great manager not file 23 foreign holdings last
> > year when he filed?" Gingrich asked reporters in an unannounced press
> > scrum. "There are a lot of pieces of Mitt Romney that don't hold up
> > once you start looking at them honestly."
>
> > From a stage a few minutes later, Gingrich raged against the Romney
> > campaign's systematic dismantling of his momentum in the week since
> > his win in South Carolina 10 days ago.
>
> > "The New York Times has now reported that the Sunday after South
> > Carolina, the Romney team got together and said, 'Look, we need to
> > destroy Gingrich or we can't win.' So they've now spent $17.5 million
> > on falsehoods," Gingrich said, overstating by $2 million the amount
> > that Romney's campaign and a super PAC supporting him have spent.
> > Nonetheless, Gingrich and his allies have been outspent 4 to 1.
>
> > A spokesman for a super PAC supporting Gingrich, Winning Our Future,
> > amplified Gingrich's attacks with vicious jabs at Romney.
>
> > "Romney has proved to be a disgraceful and despicable candidate. He
> > has no character," Rick Tyler, a former Gingrich aide, said of Romney.
>
> > Romney, who has criticized Gingrich this week directly, did not engage
> > him head-on, dismissing Gingrich as desperate.
>
> > "I know the speaker's not real happy, Speaker Gingrich," Romney told a
> > crowd of hundreds at a park in Dunedin. "He's not feeling very excited
> > these days. I know, it's sad, right? He's flailing around trying to go
> > after me for one thing or the other and you just watch it and you
> > shake your head."
>
> > Gingrich tried to fight off the impression he was headed for a drubbing
> > Tuesday.
>
> > "The polls are all over the place. We just got word of a brand new
> > poll that came out about an hour ago that says we're now tied 35-35,"
> > Gingrich told a crowd of about 200 in a Tampa air hangar.
>
> > The crowd went nuts. The problem was, the poll was nearly a week old,
> > not an hour. It was conducted last Monday to Wednesday, and released
> > on Friday. Every other poll during the last week has shown Romney far
> > ahead of Gingrich, many by double-digits.
>
> > Gingrich has vowed to stay in the race all the way to August, and to
> > take his fight against Romney to the Republican convention, in Tampa
> > from Aug. 27 to Aug. 30.
>
> > More:
>
> >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/31/newt-gingrich-mitt-romney-fl...

>
> > --
> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,
> > Tommy
>
> > --
> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,
> > Tommy
>
> > --
> > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups.
> > For options & help seehttp://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
>
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Re: Occupiers Throw Condoms At Catholic School Girls

I can think of several good uses for "occupiers".

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Keith In Tampa <keithintampa@gmail.com> wrote:

Occupy Wall Street protesters throw condoms, drown out speakers at Rhode Island pro-life rally

by Ben Johnson

Mon Jan 30, 2012 09:59 EST

Comments (49)

Tags: abortion, condoms, occupy movement

PROVIDENCE, RI, January 30, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street movement threw condoms on Catholic schoolgirls, refused to allow a Catholic priest to give a closing prayer, and shouted down a pro-life speaker at a Rhode Island right to life rally on Thursday, according to its organizer. The event marked the third time protesters associated with the movement have disrupted a pro-life meeting in a week.

About two-dozen members of Occupy Providence hiked from Burnside Park to the 39th Annual Pro-Life State House Rally organized by the Rhode Island State Right to Life Committee on Thursday.

Protesters with Occupy Providence.

The pro-life organization's executive director, Barth E. Bracy, told LifeSiteNews.com that, near the end of the rally, the Occupiers "strategically fanned out with military precision."

That's when they "started showering condoms down on some of the girls from a Catholic high school."

They gathered around speakers at the podium, shouting them down or otherwise jostling them and members of the audience.

Click "like" if you want to end abortion!

Bracy, who finished only a quarter of his keynote address before being drowned out by chants and catcalls, said the Occupiers – who carried a large sign reading "Occupy Providence" and wore distinguishing arm bands – physically bumped several people. "They're touching you. They're swarming you," he said.

The Providence chapter openly planned its actions on its Facebook page, Bracy said.

Bracy said he was disappointed when he tried to ask a man from the national Occupy Wall Street movement, who identified himself as "Dallas," what opposing the right to life had to do with economics. http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/why-does-occupy-wall-st.-support-big-abortion "You can't have a reasoned conversation with these people," he said, "They simply try to taunt you. They're smug, snarky, arrogant. You won't get a straight answer."

Dallas told Bracy he was on a 13-city national tour to teach Saul Alinsky tactics to local organizers.

"Their actions have made it loud and clear, whatever else they are, they are pro-abortion – and they are willing to attack the pro-life movement," Bracy told LifeSiteNews.

Members of the Occupy movement, which putatively focuses on economic and financial issues, have begun aggressively demonstrating against those who advocate for the rights of the unborn.

Approximately 15 protesters from Occupy D.C. disrupted the March for Life Youth Rally in the nation's capital last Saturday evening.

Last Monday, they disrupted a prayer service for the unborn in front of the Supreme Court.

"What they did yesterday was clearly the most outrageous and egregious thing they've done so far," Bracy said on Friday. "I don't know if this is a sign of what's to come from them, but I think it's important Catholics and pro-lifers know who these people are."

However, such outrageous and offensive tactics may prove counterproductive for the pro-abortion movement. "They couldn't have done us a bigger favor," Bracy said. "We're more popular with the legislators than we've ever been, because they're absolutely appalled at their behavior."

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Occupiers Throw Condoms At Catholic School Girls

Occupy Wall Street protesters throw condoms, drown out speakers at Rhode Island pro-life rally

by Ben Johnson

Mon Jan 30, 2012 09:59 EST
Comments (49)
Tags: abortion, condoms, occupy movement

PROVIDENCE, RI, January 30, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street movement threw condoms on Catholic schoolgirls, refused to allow a Catholic priest to give a closing prayer, and shouted down a pro-life speaker at a Rhode Island right to life rally on Thursday, according to its organizer. The event marked the third time protesters associated with the movement have disrupted a pro-life meeting in a week.

About two-dozen members of Occupy Providence hiked from Burnside Park to the 39th Annual Pro-Life State House Rally organized by the Rhode Island State Right to Life Committee on Thursday.

Protesters with Occupy Providence.

The pro-life organization's executive director, Barth E. Bracy, told LifeSiteNews.com that, near the end of the rally, the Occupiers "strategically fanned out with military precision."

That's when they "started showering condoms down on some of the girls from a Catholic high school."

They gathered around speakers at the podium, shouting them down or otherwise jostling them and members of the audience.

Click "like" if you want to end abortion!

Bracy, who finished only a quarter of his keynote address before being drowned out by chants and catcalls, said the Occupiers – who carried a large sign reading "Occupy Providence" and wore distinguishing arm bands – physically bumped several people. "They're touching you. They're swarming you," he said.

The Providence chapter openly planned its actions on its Facebook page, Bracy said.

Bracy said he was disappointed when he tried to ask a man from the national Occupy Wall Street movement, who identified himself as "Dallas," what opposing the right to life had to do with economics. http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/why-does-occupy-wall-st.-support-big-abortion "You can't have a reasoned conversation with these people," he said, "They simply try to taunt you. They're smug, snarky, arrogant. You won't get a straight answer."

Dallas told Bracy he was on a 13-city national tour to teach Saul Alinsky tactics to local organizers.

"Their actions have made it loud and clear, whatever else they are, they are pro-abortion – and they are willing to attack the pro-life movement," Bracy told LifeSiteNews.

Members of the Occupy movement, which putatively focuses on economic and financial issues, have begun aggressively demonstrating against those who advocate for the rights of the unborn.

Approximately 15 protesters from Occupy D.C. disrupted the March for Life Youth Rally in the nation's capital last Saturday evening.

Last Monday, they disrupted a prayer service for the unborn in front of the Supreme Court.

"What they did yesterday was clearly the most outrageous and egregious thing they've done so far," Bracy said on Friday. "I don't know if this is a sign of what's to come from them, but I think it's important Catholics and pro-lifers know who these people are."

However, such outrageous and offensive tactics may prove counterproductive for the pro-abortion movement. "They couldn't have done us a bigger favor," Bracy said. "We're more popular with the legislators than we've ever been, because they're absolutely appalled at their behavior."

Re: Newt Gingrich, On Eve Of Likely Florida Loss, Unleashes Wild Attacks On Mitt Romney

We're not talking about socialists, communists of Moonbats Greg....We're talking about conservatives, and those RINO's who seemed to be.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:34 AM, GregfromBoston <greg.vincent@yahoo.com> wrote:

Yikes, were any of y'all alive during the dem primary race of 91/92?

On Jan 31, 9:54 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *"From morning until the last of five events at the end of the day,

> Gingrich branded Romney a liar and cheat, accusing him of suppressing

> religious liberty and trying to "buy the election."*

>
> ========
>
> Romney is a liar, and no question, the Romney campaign has tried to buy
> Florida as well as every other primary. As I wrote earlier, it is going
> to be hard for the Republicans to "Forgive And Forget" at the end of this
> cycle......
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI&feature=youtu.be
>
>
>

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Newt Gingrich, On Eve Of Likely Florida Loss, Unleashes Wild Attacks
> > On Mitt Romney
>
> > TAMPA, Fla. -- Meet Newt Gingrich, the human Roman Candle.
>
> > Gingrich and Mitt Romney on Monday staggered to the end of a brutal
> > week of campaigning in Florida, one in which they took increasingly
> > nasty and personal shots at one another. But the day marked a new
> > level of angry and relentless attacks on Romney by Gingrich, the
> > former House speaker from Georgia.
>
> > From morning until the last of five events at the end of the day,
> > Gingrich branded Romney a liar and cheat, accusing him of suppressing
> > religious liberty and trying to "buy the election."
>
> > The strain of the nastiness showed on both men. Romney's voice was
> > hoarse as he spoke at his last of three events, in front of a few
> > thousand people at The Villages, a massive retirement community 90
> > minutes northeast of Tampa. But in a sign of growing confidence and
> > looseness as a candidate, Romney led the crowd in singing "America the
> > Beautiful," a tune he has mentioned on the campaign trail all month
> > without breaking into song.
>
> > Romney didn't mention Gingrich by name at his last event, after
> > mocking and dismissing him earlier in the day.
>
> > Gingrich, on the other hand, launched himself into the Romney
> > juggernaut with a level of fury and desperation certain to produce
> > uneasiness in the GOP for its poisonous tone. Gingrich has vowed to
> > carry his candidacy all the way to the GOP convention, but his actions
> > Monday bore a wildness that could call his campaign's longevity into
> > doubt.
>
> > Gingrich continued to harp on a charge that Romney, during his time as
> > Massachusetts governor, vetoed funds to expand the provision of kosher
> > food for Bay State retirees. Gingrich said Romney has a "lack of
> > concern for religious liberty."
>
> > "Romney cut off kosher food to elderly Jews on Medicare," Gingrich
> > said, stretching the truth. And Gingrich also hit Romney for a 2005
> > decision as governor to require Roman Catholic hospitals to provide
> > emergency contraception, which many Catholics believe is a form of
> > abortion, to rape victims.
>
> > "You want a war on the Catholic church by Obama? Guess what: Romney
> > refused to allow Catholic hospitals to have conscience in their
> > dealing with certain circumstances," Gingrich said.
>
> > Having called Romney "pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase"
> > on Sunday, Gingrich added the title "pro-gay rights" on Monday, in an
> > acidic interview with Fox News. He rewound his last few days of
> > attacks, combining all of his insults and all his vitriol into a
> > string of remarkable assaults on Romney.
>
> > "The conservative movement is not going to sit back and say, 'Oh yes,
> > let's let Wall Street and Mitt Romney buy the election,'" Gingrich
> > said. "So you're going to see a real grassroots fight. It will be
> > people power vs. Goldman Sachs and Mitt Romney."
>
> > Gingrich's campaign began the day by sending out a press release
> > noting that Romney has received $367,000 in campaign contributions
> > from Goldman Sachs, the New York investment bank.
>
> > "Goldman Sachs received $10 billion in emergency loans and bailouts
> > from the Federal Reserve during the Wall Street bailout," wrote
> > Gingrich's communications director Joe DeSantis. "This raises the
> > question: Are Mitt Romney's dishonest attack ads against Speaker
> > Gingrich being indirectly funded by the US taxpayer while Governor
> > Romney uses shady accounting gimmicks to avoid paying his fair share
> > of taxes?"
>
> > Gingrich went after discrepancies on Romney's tax returns as well.
>
> > "How can a guy who's a great manager not file 23 foreign holdings last
> > year when he filed?" Gingrich asked reporters in an unannounced press
> > scrum. "There are a lot of pieces of Mitt Romney that don't hold up
> > once you start looking at them honestly."
>
> > From a stage a few minutes later, Gingrich raged against the Romney
> > campaign's systematic dismantling of his momentum in the week since
> > his win in South Carolina 10 days ago.
>
> > "The New York Times has now reported that the Sunday after South
> > Carolina, the Romney team got together and said, 'Look, we need to
> > destroy Gingrich or we can't win.' So they've now spent $17.5 million
> > on falsehoods," Gingrich said, overstating by $2 million the amount
> > that Romney's campaign and a super PAC supporting him have spent.
> > Nonetheless, Gingrich and his allies have been outspent 4 to 1.
>
> > A spokesman for a super PAC supporting Gingrich, Winning Our Future,
> > amplified Gingrich's attacks with vicious jabs at Romney.
>
> > "Romney has proved to be a disgraceful and despicable candidate. He
> > has no character," Rick Tyler, a former Gingrich aide, said of Romney.
>
> > Romney, who has criticized Gingrich this week directly, did not engage
> > him head-on, dismissing Gingrich as desperate.
>
> > "I know the speaker's not real happy, Speaker Gingrich," Romney told a
> > crowd of hundreds at a park in Dunedin. "He's not feeling very excited
> > these days. I know, it's sad, right? He's flailing around trying to go
> > after me for one thing or the other and you just watch it and you
> > shake your head."
>
> > Gingrich tried to fight off the impression he was headed for a drubbing
> > Tuesday.
>
> > "The polls are all over the place. We just got word of a brand new
> > poll that came out about an hour ago that says we're now tied 35-35,"
> > Gingrich told a crowd of about 200 in a Tampa air hangar.
>
> > The crowd went nuts. The problem was, the poll was nearly a week old,
> > not an hour. It was conducted last Monday to Wednesday, and released
> > on Friday. Every other poll during the last week has shown Romney far
> > ahead of Gingrich, many by double-digits.
>
> > Gingrich has vowed to stay in the race all the way to August, and to
> > take his fight against Romney to the Republican convention, in Tampa
> > from Aug. 27 to Aug. 30.
>
> > More:
>

> >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/31/newt-gingrich-mitt-romney-fl...

>
> > --
> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,
> > Tommy
>
> > --
> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,
> > Tommy
>
> > --
> > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups.

> > For options & help seehttp://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
>
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Re: Newt Gingrich, On Eve Of Likely Florida Loss, Unleashes Wild Attacks On Mitt Romney

Yikes, were any of y'all alive during the dem primary race of 91/92?

On Jan 31, 9:54 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *"From morning until the last of five events at the end of the day,
> Gingrich branded Romney a liar and cheat, accusing him of suppressing
> religious liberty and trying to "buy the election."*
>
> ========
>
> Romney is a liar, and no question, the Romney campaign has tried to buy
> Florida as well as every other primary. As I wrote earlier, it is going
> to be hard for the Republicans to "Forgive And Forget" at the end of this
> cycle......
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI&feature=youtu.be
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Newt Gingrich, On Eve Of Likely Florida Loss, Unleashes Wild Attacks
> > On Mitt Romney
>
> > TAMPA, Fla. -- Meet Newt Gingrich, the human Roman Candle.
>
> > Gingrich and Mitt Romney on Monday staggered to the end of a brutal
> > week of campaigning in Florida, one in which they took increasingly
> > nasty and personal shots at one another. But the day marked a new
> > level of angry and relentless attacks on Romney by Gingrich, the
> > former House speaker from Georgia.
>
> > From morning until the last of five events at the end of the day,
> > Gingrich branded Romney a liar and cheat, accusing him of suppressing
> > religious liberty and trying to "buy the election."
>
> > The strain of the nastiness showed on both men. Romney's voice was
> > hoarse as he spoke at his last of three events, in front of a few
> > thousand people at The Villages, a massive retirement community 90
> > minutes northeast of Tampa. But in a sign of growing confidence and
> > looseness as a candidate, Romney led the crowd in singing "America the
> > Beautiful," a tune he has mentioned on the campaign trail all month
> > without breaking into song.
>
> > Romney didn't mention Gingrich by name at his last event, after
> > mocking and dismissing him earlier in the day.
>
> > Gingrich, on the other hand, launched himself into the Romney
> > juggernaut with a level of fury and desperation certain to produce
> > uneasiness in the GOP for its poisonous tone. Gingrich has vowed to
> > carry his candidacy all the way to the GOP convention, but his actions
> > Monday bore a wildness that could call his campaign's longevity into
> > doubt.
>
> > Gingrich continued to harp on a charge that Romney, during his time as
> > Massachusetts governor, vetoed funds to expand the provision of kosher
> > food for Bay State retirees. Gingrich said Romney has a "lack of
> > concern for religious liberty."
>
> > "Romney cut off kosher food to elderly Jews on Medicare," Gingrich
> > said, stretching the truth. And Gingrich also hit Romney for a 2005
> > decision as governor to require Roman Catholic hospitals to provide
> > emergency contraception, which many Catholics believe is a form of
> > abortion, to rape victims.
>
> > "You want a war on the Catholic church by Obama? Guess what: Romney
> > refused to allow Catholic hospitals to have conscience in their
> > dealing with certain circumstances," Gingrich said.
>
> > Having called Romney "pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase"
> > on Sunday, Gingrich added the title "pro-gay rights" on Monday, in an
> > acidic interview with Fox News. He rewound his last few days of
> > attacks, combining all of his insults and all his vitriol into a
> > string of remarkable assaults on Romney.
>
> > "The conservative movement is not going to sit back and say, 'Oh yes,
> > let's let Wall Street and Mitt Romney buy the election,'" Gingrich
> > said. "So you're going to see a real grassroots fight. It will be
> > people power vs. Goldman Sachs and Mitt Romney."
>
> > Gingrich's campaign began the day by sending out a press release
> > noting that Romney has received $367,000 in campaign contributions
> > from Goldman Sachs, the New York investment bank.
>
> > "Goldman Sachs received $10 billion in emergency loans and bailouts
> > from the Federal Reserve during the Wall Street bailout," wrote
> > Gingrich's communications director Joe DeSantis. "This raises the
> > question: Are Mitt Romney's dishonest attack ads against Speaker
> > Gingrich being indirectly funded by the US taxpayer while Governor
> > Romney uses shady accounting gimmicks to avoid paying his fair share
> > of taxes?"
>
> > Gingrich went after discrepancies on Romney's tax returns as well.
>
> > "How can a guy who's a great manager not file 23 foreign holdings last
> > year when he filed?" Gingrich asked reporters in an unannounced press
> > scrum. "There are a lot of pieces of Mitt Romney that don't hold up
> > once you start looking at them honestly."
>
> > From a stage a few minutes later, Gingrich raged against the Romney
> > campaign's systematic dismantling of his momentum in the week since
> > his win in South Carolina 10 days ago.
>
> > "The New York Times has now reported that the Sunday after South
> > Carolina, the Romney team got together and said, 'Look, we need to
> > destroy Gingrich or we can't win.' So they've now spent $17.5 million
> > on falsehoods," Gingrich said, overstating by $2 million the amount
> > that Romney's campaign and a super PAC supporting him have spent.
> > Nonetheless, Gingrich and his allies have been outspent 4 to 1.
>
> > A spokesman for a super PAC supporting Gingrich, Winning Our Future,
> > amplified Gingrich's attacks with vicious jabs at Romney.
>
> > "Romney has proved to be a disgraceful and despicable candidate. He
> > has no character," Rick Tyler, a former Gingrich aide, said of Romney.
>
> > Romney, who has criticized Gingrich this week directly, did not engage
> > him head-on, dismissing Gingrich as desperate.
>
> > "I know the speaker's not real happy, Speaker Gingrich," Romney told a
> > crowd of hundreds at a park in Dunedin. "He's not feeling very excited
> > these days. I know, it's sad, right? He's flailing around trying to go
> > after me for one thing or the other and you just watch it and you
> > shake your head."
>
> > Gingrich tried to fight off the impression he was headed for a drubbing
> > Tuesday.
>
> > "The polls are all over the place. We just got word of a brand new
> > poll that came out about an hour ago that says we're now tied 35-35,"
> > Gingrich told a crowd of about 200 in a Tampa air hangar.
>
> > The crowd went nuts. The problem was, the poll was nearly a week old,
> > not an hour. It was conducted last Monday to Wednesday, and released
> > on Friday. Every other poll during the last week has shown Romney far
> > ahead of Gingrich, many by double-digits.
>
> > Gingrich has vowed to stay in the race all the way to August, and to
> > take his fight against Romney to the Republican convention, in Tampa
> > from Aug. 27 to Aug. 30.
>
> > More:
>
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>
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Re: The Rise Of The New Hate

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:

The Rise Of The New Hate

-by Arthur Goldwag

No, all Republicans aren't racists--there are any number of reasons
that a principled person might oppose Obama that have nothing whatever
to do with race. But as the contest for the Republican nomination
tightens, the clamor of racial, McCarthyist and conspiratorial dog
whistles--what I have come to call "the New Hate"--has become as
deafening to those who can hear them as the blare of vuvuzelas at a
World Cup soccer match.

"Nobody even knows what's going on in Libya," the born-again birther
Donald Trump (who brags of his "great relationship with the blacks")
complained back in April. "[Obama] said he has no control over
[gasoline] prices, which he does if he gets on the phone or gets off
his basketball court or whatever he is doing." Back in November, Rush
Limbaugh coined the word "uppity-ism" to describe what he saw as
Michelle Obama's overweening sense of entitlement. "There's no
question in my mind," he opined to his radio audience just a few weeks
ago, "That [Michelle and Barack Obama] view [the presidency]... as an
opportunity to live high on the hog without having it cost them a
dime. And if they justify it by thinking, we deserve this, we're owed
this because of what was done to our ancestors, who knows."

Ron Paul has long-standing ties to the John Birch Society and has been
a frequent guest on Alex Jones's 9/11 denialist radio show; he has
delivered thoughtful speeches about the great wrong that was done to
the South in the Civil War, has had documented associations with white
supremacists, and has allowed racist and homophobic writings to be
published over his byline. For all that (maybe it's precisely because
of that), his presidential campaign has been relatively free of
hate-mongering.

The same can't be said of the Republican front runners. During an
interview with Forbes in 2010, Newt Gingrich talked about Dinesh
D'Souza's book, The Roots of Obama's Rage.

"What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension," he asked of our
Hawaiian-born president (whose Kansas-born mother was white), "that
only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin
to piece together [his actions]?....This is a person who is
fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to
have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now
president."

In South Carolina two weeks ago, Gingrich repeatedly called Obama "the
food stamp president."

Not to be undone, Mitt Romney--who had already accused Obama of
wanting to "make us a European style welfare state....where
government's role is to take from some and give to others"--kicked off
his Florida campaign by telling a rally that "it's time we had someone
in the White House who knows how to create jobs because he's had a
job."

Gingrich is nothing if not ecumenical in his hatreds. He has
fulminated against Shariah law in words that evoked Henry Ford's
attacks on the Jewish Kahal in the 1920s, and has been demonizing his
critics as Communists, traitors, and degenerates since he first
entered politics in the 1970s.

"The centerpiece of this campaign," Gingrich said during his victory
speech in South Carolina, "Is American exceptionalism versus the
radicalism of Saul Alinsky....The founding fathers of America are the
source from which we draw our understanding of America. [Obama] draws
his from Saul Alinsky, radical left-wingers and people who don't like
the classical America."

Some baffled pundits wondered if any of Gingrich's constituency even
knew who Alinsky was. In fact, Gingrich was taking a page out of Glenn
Beck's book, who invokes Alinsky's name almost as frequently as he
does George Soros's, another left wing Jew. And why woudn't he?
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are both on the record as Alinsky's
admirers. The mainstream media rushed to fill in the blanks about
Alinsky for their readers, but they overlooked the most important
thing. Alinksy dedicated his 1971 book, "Rules for Radicals" to
Lucifer--"the first radical known to man who rebelled against the
establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own
kingdom."

Alinsky was being facetious of course, but for millions of Americans
(hundreds of thousands of whom believe Barack Obama is the
Antichrist), the Prince of Darkness is no laughing matter. For that is
what this particular dog whistle is really about - the left's supposed
alliance with Satan. And if you don't believe me, just Google
"Alinksy" and "Lucifer" and see what comes up.

This is the power of the New Hate. What reels susceptible voters in
isn't the policy prescriptions that go with this or that expression of
it, but the narratives that justify them - horror stories about the
impending erasure of white Christian heartland values (and at their
most highly wrought, of white heartland Christians themselves). This
is how a serial adulterer can lay claim to the moral high ground--by
channeling a set of meta-stories whose antagonists are still lurking
in the darkest corners of the collective imagination. Gingrich and
other angry populists evoke the specters of Godless Dr. Frankensteins,
tinkering with human life in their sinister laboratories; of angry
black men and wandering Jews, thirsty for revenge; of predatory women
who've strayed from their husbands' kitchens, and gays who've emerged
from their closets, like vampires from their coffins, in search of new
blood. Peel back yet another layer and there are witches and devils
and changelings.

Heartfelt and sincere or cynical and opportunistic, the New Hate
poisons our political discourse and divides us even more than we are
already. But it operates most effectively beneath the threshold of
consciousness. Subject its premises to critical or historical
analysis, or merely expose them to the light of day, and they lose
much of their potency. Just ask Ron Paul.

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arthur-goldwag/populist-right-hate_b_1242293.html?ref=politics&ir=Politics

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Re: Newt Gingrich, On Eve Of Likely Florida Loss, Unleashes Wild Attacks On Mitt Romney

"From morning until the last of five events at the end of the day, Gingrich branded Romney a liar and cheat, accusing him of suppressing religious liberty and trying to "buy the election."

========

Romney is a liar, and no question, the Romney campaign has tried to buy Florida as well as every other primary. As I wrote earlier, it is going to be hard for the Republicans to "Forgive And Forget" at the end of this cycle......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI&feature=youtu.be

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:

Newt Gingrich, On Eve Of Likely Florida Loss, Unleashes Wild Attacks
On Mitt Romney

TAMPA, Fla. -- Meet Newt Gingrich, the human Roman Candle.

Gingrich and Mitt Romney on Monday staggered to the end of a brutal
week of campaigning in Florida, one in which they took increasingly
nasty and personal shots at one another. But the day marked a new
level of angry and relentless attacks on Romney by Gingrich, the
former House speaker from Georgia.

From morning until the last of five events at the end of the day,
Gingrich branded Romney a liar and cheat, accusing him of suppressing
religious liberty and trying to "buy the election."

The strain of the nastiness showed on both men. Romney's voice was
hoarse as he spoke at his last of three events, in front of a few
thousand people at The Villages, a massive retirement community 90
minutes northeast of Tampa. But in a sign of growing confidence and
looseness as a candidate, Romney led the crowd in singing "America the
Beautiful," a tune he has mentioned on the campaign trail all month
without breaking into song.

Romney didn't mention Gingrich by name at his last event, after
mocking and dismissing him earlier in the day.

Gingrich, on the other hand, launched himself into the Romney
juggernaut with a level of fury and desperation certain to produce
uneasiness in the GOP for its poisonous tone. Gingrich has vowed to
carry his candidacy all the way to the GOP convention, but his actions
Monday bore a wildness that could call his campaign's longevity into
doubt.

Gingrich continued to harp on a charge that Romney, during his time as
Massachusetts governor, vetoed funds to expand the provision of kosher
food for Bay State retirees. Gingrich said Romney has a "lack of
concern for religious liberty."

"Romney cut off kosher food to elderly Jews on Medicare," Gingrich
said, stretching the truth. And Gingrich also hit Romney for a 2005
decision as governor to require Roman Catholic hospitals to provide
emergency contraception, which many Catholics believe is a form of
abortion, to rape victims.

"You want a war on the Catholic church by Obama? Guess what: Romney
refused to allow Catholic hospitals to have conscience in their
dealing with certain circumstances," Gingrich said.

Having called Romney "pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase"
on Sunday, Gingrich added the title "pro-gay rights" on Monday, in an
acidic interview with Fox News. He rewound his last few days of
attacks, combining all of his insults and all his vitriol into a
string of remarkable assaults on Romney.

"The conservative movement is not going to sit back and say, 'Oh yes,
let's let Wall Street and Mitt Romney buy the election,'" Gingrich
said. "So you're going to see a real grassroots fight. It will be
people power vs. Goldman Sachs and Mitt Romney."

Gingrich's campaign began the day by sending out a press release
noting that Romney has received $367,000 in campaign contributions
from Goldman Sachs, the New York investment bank.

"Goldman Sachs received $10 billion in emergency loans and bailouts
from the Federal Reserve during the Wall Street bailout," wrote
Gingrich's communications director Joe DeSantis. "This raises the
question: Are Mitt Romney's dishonest attack ads against Speaker
Gingrich being indirectly funded by the US taxpayer while Governor
Romney uses shady accounting gimmicks to avoid paying his fair share
of taxes?"

Gingrich went after discrepancies on Romney's tax returns as well.

"How can a guy who's a great manager not file 23 foreign holdings last
year when he filed?" Gingrich asked reporters in an unannounced press
scrum. "There are a lot of pieces of Mitt Romney that don't hold up
once you start looking at them honestly."

From a stage a few minutes later, Gingrich raged against the Romney
campaign's systematic dismantling of his momentum in the week since
his win in South Carolina 10 days ago.

"The New York Times has now reported that the Sunday after South
Carolina, the Romney team got together and said, 'Look, we need to
destroy Gingrich or we can't win.' So they've now spent $17.5 million
on falsehoods," Gingrich said, overstating by $2 million the amount
that Romney's campaign and a super PAC supporting him have spent.
Nonetheless, Gingrich and his allies have been outspent 4 to 1.

A spokesman for a super PAC supporting Gingrich, Winning Our Future,
amplified Gingrich's attacks with vicious jabs at Romney.

"Romney has proved to be a disgraceful and despicable candidate. He
has no character," Rick Tyler, a former Gingrich aide, said of Romney.

Romney, who has criticized Gingrich this week directly, did not engage
him head-on, dismissing Gingrich as desperate.

"I know the speaker's not real happy, Speaker Gingrich," Romney told a
crowd of hundreds at a park in Dunedin. "He's not feeling very excited
these days. I know, it's sad, right? He's flailing around trying to go
after me for one thing or the other and you just watch it and you
shake your head."

Gingrich tried to fight off the impression he was headed for a drubbing Tuesday.

"The polls are all over the place. We just got word of a brand new
poll that came out about an hour ago that says we're now tied 35-35,"
Gingrich told a crowd of about 200 in a Tampa air hangar.

The crowd went nuts. The problem was, the poll was nearly a week old,
not an hour. It was conducted last Monday to Wednesday, and released
on Friday. Every other poll during the last week has shown Romney far
ahead of Gingrich, many by double-digits.

Gingrich has vowed to stay in the race all the way to August, and to
take his fight against Romney to the Republican convention, in Tampa
from Aug. 27 to Aug. 30.

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/31/newt-gingrich-mitt-romney-florida_n_1243015.html?ref=politics

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The Rise Of The New Hate

-by Arthur Goldwag

No, all Republicans aren't racists--there are any number of reasons
that a principled person might oppose Obama that have nothing whatever
to do with race. But as the contest for the Republican nomination
tightens, the clamor of racial, McCarthyist and conspiratorial dog
whistles--what I have come to call "the New Hate"--has become as
deafening to those who can hear them as the blare of vuvuzelas at a
World Cup soccer match.

"Nobody even knows what's going on in Libya," the born-again birther
Donald Trump (who brags of his "great relationship with the blacks")
complained back in April. "[Obama] said he has no control over
[gasoline] prices, which he does if he gets on the phone or gets off
his basketball court or whatever he is doing." Back in November, Rush
Limbaugh coined the word "uppity-ism" to describe what he saw as
Michelle Obama's overweening sense of entitlement. "There's no
question in my mind," he opined to his radio audience just a few weeks
ago, "That [Michelle and Barack Obama] view [the presidency]... as an
opportunity to live high on the hog without having it cost them a
dime. And if they justify it by thinking, we deserve this, we're owed
this because of what was done to our ancestors, who knows."

Ron Paul has long-standing ties to the John Birch Society and has been
a frequent guest on Alex Jones's 9/11 denialist radio show; he has
delivered thoughtful speeches about the great wrong that was done to
the South in the Civil War, has had documented associations with white
supremacists, and has allowed racist and homophobic writings to be
published over his byline. For all that (maybe it's precisely because
of that), his presidential campaign has been relatively free of
hate-mongering.

The same can't be said of the Republican front runners. During an
interview with Forbes in 2010, Newt Gingrich talked about Dinesh
D'Souza's book, The Roots of Obama's Rage.

"What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension," he asked of our
Hawaiian-born president (whose Kansas-born mother was white), "that
only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin
to piece together [his actions]?....This is a person who is
fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to
have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now
president."

In South Carolina two weeks ago, Gingrich repeatedly called Obama "the
food stamp president."

Not to be undone, Mitt Romney--who had already accused Obama of
wanting to "make us a European style welfare state....where
government's role is to take from some and give to others"--kicked off
his Florida campaign by telling a rally that "it's time we had someone
in the White House who knows how to create jobs because he's had a
job."

Gingrich is nothing if not ecumenical in his hatreds. He has
fulminated against Shariah law in words that evoked Henry Ford's
attacks on the Jewish Kahal in the 1920s, and has been demonizing his
critics as Communists, traitors, and degenerates since he first
entered politics in the 1970s.

"The centerpiece of this campaign," Gingrich said during his victory
speech in South Carolina, "Is American exceptionalism versus the
radicalism of Saul Alinsky....The founding fathers of America are the
source from which we draw our understanding of America. [Obama] draws
his from Saul Alinsky, radical left-wingers and people who don't like
the classical America."

Some baffled pundits wondered if any of Gingrich's constituency even
knew who Alinsky was. In fact, Gingrich was taking a page out of Glenn
Beck's book, who invokes Alinsky's name almost as frequently as he
does George Soros's, another left wing Jew. And why woudn't he?
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are both on the record as Alinsky's
admirers. The mainstream media rushed to fill in the blanks about
Alinsky for their readers, but they overlooked the most important
thing. Alinksy dedicated his 1971 book, "Rules for Radicals" to
Lucifer--"the first radical known to man who rebelled against the
establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own
kingdom."

Alinsky was being facetious of course, but for millions of Americans
(hundreds of thousands of whom believe Barack Obama is the
Antichrist), the Prince of Darkness is no laughing matter. For that is
what this particular dog whistle is really about - the left's supposed
alliance with Satan. And if you don't believe me, just Google
"Alinksy" and "Lucifer" and see what comes up.

This is the power of the New Hate. What reels susceptible voters in
isn't the policy prescriptions that go with this or that expression of
it, but the narratives that justify them - horror stories about the
impending erasure of white Christian heartland values (and at their
most highly wrought, of white heartland Christians themselves). This
is how a serial adulterer can lay claim to the moral high ground--by
channeling a set of meta-stories whose antagonists are still lurking
in the darkest corners of the collective imagination. Gingrich and
other angry populists evoke the specters of Godless Dr. Frankensteins,
tinkering with human life in their sinister laboratories; of angry
black men and wandering Jews, thirsty for revenge; of predatory women
who've strayed from their husbands' kitchens, and gays who've emerged
from their closets, like vampires from their coffins, in search of new
blood. Peel back yet another layer and there are witches and devils
and changelings.

Heartfelt and sincere or cynical and opportunistic, the New Hate
poisons our political discourse and divides us even more than we are
already. But it operates most effectively beneath the threshold of
consciousness. Subject its premises to critical or historical
analysis, or merely expose them to the light of day, and they lose
much of their potency. Just ask Ron Paul.

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arthur-goldwag/populist-right-hate_b_1242293.html?ref=politics&ir=Politics

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Re: Welfare Drug Testing Bill Withdrawn After Amended To Include Testing Lawmakers

I actually agree with the "Lawmaker Drug Testing" clause of this proposed bill. If "we" are going to test welfar recipients, I see nothing wrong with testing the lawmakers who are doling out the American taxpayer's hard earned money.

A dollar and a beer says that the "Lawmaker Drug Testing" mechanism never sees the light of day.....

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:

Welfare Drug Testing Bill Withdrawn After Amended To Include Testing Lawmakers

A Republican member of the Indiana General Assembly withdrew his bill
to create a pilot program for drug testing welfare applicants Friday
after one of his Democratic colleagues amended the measure to require
drug testing for lawmakers.

"There was an amendment offered today that required drug testing for
legislators as well and it passed, which led me to have to then
withdraw the bill," said Rep. Jud McMillin (R-Brookville), sponsor of
the original welfare drug testing bill.

The Supreme Court ruled drug testing for political candidates
unconstitutional in 1997, striking down a Georgia law. McMillin said
he withdrew his bill so he could reintroduce it on Monday with a
lawmaker drug testing provision that would pass constitutional muster.

"I've only withdrawn it temporarily," he told HuffPost, stressing he
carefully crafted his original bill so that it could survive a legal
challenge. Last year a federal judge, citing the Constitution's ban on
unreasonable search and seizure, struck down a Florida law that
required blanket drug testing of everyone who applied for welfare.

McMillin's bill would overcome constitutional problems, he said, by
setting up a tiered screening scheme in which people can opt-out of
random testing. Those who decline random tests would only be screened
if they arouse "reasonable suspicion," either by their demeanor, by
being convicted of a crime, or by missing appointments required by the
welfare office.

In the past year Republican lawmakers have pursued welfare drug
testing in more than 30 states and in Congress, and some bills have
even targeted people who claim unemployment insurance and food stamps,
despite scanty evidence the poor and jobless are disproportionately on
drugs. Democrats in several states have countered with bills to
require drug testing elected officials. Indiana state Rep. Ryan Dvorak
(D-South Bend) introduced just such an amendment on Friday.

"After it passed, Rep. McMillin got pretty upset and pulled his bill,"
Dvorak said. "If anything, I think it points out some of the
hypocrisy. ... If we're going to impose standards on drug testing,
then it should apply to everybody who receives government money."

Dvorak said McMillin was mistaken to think testing the legislature
would be unconstitutional, since the stricken Georgia law targeted
candidates and not people already holding office.

McMillin, for his part, said he's coming back with a new bill on
Monday, lawmaker testing included. He said he has no problem
submitting to a test himself.

"I would think legislators that are here who are responsible for the
people who voted them in, they should be more than happy to consent,"
he said. "Give me the cup right now and I will be happy to take the
test."

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Newt Gingrich, On Eve Of Likely Florida Loss, Unleashes Wild Attacks On Mitt Romney

Newt Gingrich, On Eve Of Likely Florida Loss, Unleashes Wild Attacks
On Mitt Romney

TAMPA, Fla. -- Meet Newt Gingrich, the human Roman Candle.

Gingrich and Mitt Romney on Monday staggered to the end of a brutal
week of campaigning in Florida, one in which they took increasingly
nasty and personal shots at one another. But the day marked a new
level of angry and relentless attacks on Romney by Gingrich, the
former House speaker from Georgia.

From morning until the last of five events at the end of the day,
Gingrich branded Romney a liar and cheat, accusing him of suppressing
religious liberty and trying to "buy the election."

The strain of the nastiness showed on both men. Romney's voice was
hoarse as he spoke at his last of three events, in front of a few
thousand people at The Villages, a massive retirement community 90
minutes northeast of Tampa. But in a sign of growing confidence and
looseness as a candidate, Romney led the crowd in singing "America the
Beautiful," a tune he has mentioned on the campaign trail all month
without breaking into song.

Romney didn't mention Gingrich by name at his last event, after
mocking and dismissing him earlier in the day.

Gingrich, on the other hand, launched himself into the Romney
juggernaut with a level of fury and desperation certain to produce
uneasiness in the GOP for its poisonous tone. Gingrich has vowed to
carry his candidacy all the way to the GOP convention, but his actions
Monday bore a wildness that could call his campaign's longevity into
doubt.

Gingrich continued to harp on a charge that Romney, during his time as
Massachusetts governor, vetoed funds to expand the provision of kosher
food for Bay State retirees. Gingrich said Romney has a "lack of
concern for religious liberty."

"Romney cut off kosher food to elderly Jews on Medicare," Gingrich
said, stretching the truth. And Gingrich also hit Romney for a 2005
decision as governor to require Roman Catholic hospitals to provide
emergency contraception, which many Catholics believe is a form of
abortion, to rape victims.

"You want a war on the Catholic church by Obama? Guess what: Romney
refused to allow Catholic hospitals to have conscience in their
dealing with certain circumstances," Gingrich said.

Having called Romney "pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase"
on Sunday, Gingrich added the title "pro-gay rights" on Monday, in an
acidic interview with Fox News. He rewound his last few days of
attacks, combining all of his insults and all his vitriol into a
string of remarkable assaults on Romney.

"The conservative movement is not going to sit back and say, 'Oh yes,
let's let Wall Street and Mitt Romney buy the election,'" Gingrich
said. "So you're going to see a real grassroots fight. It will be
people power vs. Goldman Sachs and Mitt Romney."

Gingrich's campaign began the day by sending out a press release
noting that Romney has received $367,000 in campaign contributions
from Goldman Sachs, the New York investment bank.

"Goldman Sachs received $10 billion in emergency loans and bailouts
from the Federal Reserve during the Wall Street bailout," wrote
Gingrich's communications director Joe DeSantis. "This raises the
question: Are Mitt Romney's dishonest attack ads against Speaker
Gingrich being indirectly funded by the US taxpayer while Governor
Romney uses shady accounting gimmicks to avoid paying his fair share
of taxes?"

Gingrich went after discrepancies on Romney's tax returns as well.

"How can a guy who's a great manager not file 23 foreign holdings last
year when he filed?" Gingrich asked reporters in an unannounced press
scrum. "There are a lot of pieces of Mitt Romney that don't hold up
once you start looking at them honestly."

From a stage a few minutes later, Gingrich raged against the Romney
campaign's systematic dismantling of his momentum in the week since
his win in South Carolina 10 days ago.

"The New York Times has now reported that the Sunday after South
Carolina, the Romney team got together and said, 'Look, we need to
destroy Gingrich or we can't win.' So they've now spent $17.5 million
on falsehoods," Gingrich said, overstating by $2 million the amount
that Romney's campaign and a super PAC supporting him have spent.
Nonetheless, Gingrich and his allies have been outspent 4 to 1.

A spokesman for a super PAC supporting Gingrich, Winning Our Future,
amplified Gingrich's attacks with vicious jabs at Romney.

"Romney has proved to be a disgraceful and despicable candidate. He
has no character," Rick Tyler, a former Gingrich aide, said of Romney.

Romney, who has criticized Gingrich this week directly, did not engage
him head-on, dismissing Gingrich as desperate.

"I know the speaker's not real happy, Speaker Gingrich," Romney told a
crowd of hundreds at a park in Dunedin. "He's not feeling very excited
these days. I know, it's sad, right? He's flailing around trying to go
after me for one thing or the other and you just watch it and you
shake your head."

Gingrich tried to fight off the impression he was headed for a drubbing Tuesday.

"The polls are all over the place. We just got word of a brand new
poll that came out about an hour ago that says we're now tied 35-35,"
Gingrich told a crowd of about 200 in a Tampa air hangar.

The crowd went nuts. The problem was, the poll was nearly a week old,
not an hour. It was conducted last Monday to Wednesday, and released
on Friday. Every other poll during the last week has shown Romney far
ahead of Gingrich, many by double-digits.

Gingrich has vowed to stay in the race all the way to August, and to
take his fight against Romney to the Republican convention, in Tampa
from Aug. 27 to Aug. 30.

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/31/newt-gingrich-mitt-romney-florida_n_1243015.html?ref=politics

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Welfare Drug Testing Bill Withdrawn After Amended To Include Testing Lawmakers

A Republican member of the Indiana General Assembly withdrew his bill
to create a pilot program for drug testing welfare applicants Friday
after one of his Democratic colleagues amended the measure to require
drug testing for lawmakers.

"There was an amendment offered today that required drug testing for
legislators as well and it passed, which led me to have to then
withdraw the bill," said Rep. Jud McMillin (R-Brookville), sponsor of
the original welfare drug testing bill.

The Supreme Court ruled drug testing for political candidates
unconstitutional in 1997, striking down a Georgia law. McMillin said
he withdrew his bill so he could reintroduce it on Monday with a
lawmaker drug testing provision that would pass constitutional muster.

"I've only withdrawn it temporarily," he told HuffPost, stressing he
carefully crafted his original bill so that it could survive a legal
challenge. Last year a federal judge, citing the Constitution's ban on
unreasonable search and seizure, struck down a Florida law that
required blanket drug testing of everyone who applied for welfare.

McMillin's bill would overcome constitutional problems, he said, by
setting up a tiered screening scheme in which people can opt-out of
random testing. Those who decline random tests would only be screened
if they arouse "reasonable suspicion," either by their demeanor, by
being convicted of a crime, or by missing appointments required by the
welfare office.

In the past year Republican lawmakers have pursued welfare drug
testing in more than 30 states and in Congress, and some bills have
even targeted people who claim unemployment insurance and food stamps,
despite scanty evidence the poor and jobless are disproportionately on
drugs. Democrats in several states have countered with bills to
require drug testing elected officials. Indiana state Rep. Ryan Dvorak
(D-South Bend) introduced just such an amendment on Friday.

"After it passed, Rep. McMillin got pretty upset and pulled his bill,"
Dvorak said. "If anything, I think it points out some of the
hypocrisy. ... If we're going to impose standards on drug testing,
then it should apply to everybody who receives government money."

Dvorak said McMillin was mistaken to think testing the legislature
would be unconstitutional, since the stricken Georgia law targeted
candidates and not people already holding office.

McMillin, for his part, said he's coming back with a new bill on
Monday, lawmaker testing included. He said he has no problem
submitting to a test himself.

"I would think legislators that are here who are responsible for the
people who voted them in, they should be more than happy to consent,"
he said. "Give me the cup right now and I will be happy to take the
test."

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/welfare-drug-testing-bill_n_1237333.html?ref=mostpopular

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Re: JP Corruption in Pakistan is widespread

HERO OF PAKISTAN.

OUTH OF JUDGES. ??????

INSIDE THE COURT ROOM.??????

IN THE LAHORE HIGH COURT, LAHORE.

CRIMINAL MISC NO.1/1999 In,

WRIT PETITION NO. 117/R/1994.

PRESENT:

MR. JUSTICE MIAN SAQUIB NISAR.

Petition U/s 151 CPC praying that

a Stay order to maintain the STATUS QUO

may kindly be issued.

PARTY NAME ATTACHED.

ORDER P.T.O...

IN THE LAHORE HIGH COURT, LAHORE.

WRIT PETITION NO.117/R/1994.

ORDER:

01/11/1999.

CRIMINAL MISC NO.1/1999.

Mr. Talib H. Rizvi, Advocate.

Notice In the meantime STATUS QUO

WITH REGARD TO ALIENATION AND POSSESSION.

Sd/---Mian Saqib Nisar,

Judge.

From: Munir Kakrali <munirkakrali@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: **JP** Corruption in Pakistan is widespread

ASSLAM-O-ALLAICUM,

HONOURABLE CHIEF JUSTICE OF PAKISTAN SAHIB NY FURMAYA AWAM & ADVOCATE SAHBAN

CORRUPTION KI NUSHAN DAHI KURIAN. (GIVE INFORMATION ABOUT CORRUPTION).

ONLINE NEWS WWW.URDUPOINT.COM DATED 14/09/2010 .

MUNIR HUSSAIN S/O GHULAM NABI S/O ALLAH DAD, send historical corruptions world record

In Fever of HONOURABLE ACTING/CHIEF JUSTICE OF PAKISTAN SAHIB,

FOR SUO MOTO AND REQUEST FOR FULL JUSTICE (INSAF) BY REGD LETTER NO. RRALN 326117 AE

ON DATED 04/07/2007 , WHICH WAS HAND OVER ONDATED 12/07/2007 WITH EVIDENCE AND

BY OCS NO. GRT/MO 12111 0034720 ON DATED 28/08/2007

1:----MUNIR HUSSAIN S/O GHULAM NABI receive OVERSEAS PAKISTANIS FOUNDATION LETTER

OPF NO. 3014/02/2594/COMPLAINT CELL , WITH REGARD,

(A). LETTER FROM The Executive District Officer (Revenue) Gujranwala

NO.EA(R)/KC/517/G/EDO (R), DATED 24/04/2004,

(B). LETTER FROM The Executive District Officer (Revenue) Gujranwala

NO. EA(R)/KC/452/G/EDO(R), DATED 06/04/2004,

ORDER

Complaint No.5881/2002-POP/C--II--427/2002,

MUNIR HUSSAIN S/O GHULAM NABI AND OTHERS.

Agency. BOARD OF REVENUE.

Subjest. RESTORATION OF POSSESSION OF THE LAND ALLOTTED UNDER

JAMMU & KASHMIR REFUGES RESETLEMENT SCHEME.

DATE. 31/07/2003.

The reply further shows that multiple litigation started between the

parties which is still pending in various Courts of Law.

WRIT PETITION NOS. 103/R/1993, 117/R/1994 AND 432/W/1993

WITH REGARD TO ALLOTMENT OF EVACUEE LAND AGAINST VERIFIED

CLAIMS ARE STILL PENDING FOR ADJUDICATION IN THE LAHORE

HIGH COURT, LAHORE.

POINT NO.2:---- TWO REVISION / REVIEW PETITIONS ARE ALSO PENDING

IN THE BOARD OF REVENUE. ( WITH OUT PETITION NOS. ETC.)

2:--- IN OVERSEAS PAKISTANIS FOUNDATION ON DATED 24/07/2004

GIVE OF WRIT PETITION NOS. 432/W/1993, 117/R/1994 AND 103/R/1993.

LAHORE HIGH COURT LAHORE DISMISSED THESE PETITIONS.

NOTE:---- IN THESE PETITIONS REFUGEES JAMMU AND KASHMIR ARE NOT

PETITIONERS OR RESPONDENTS.

CASE IS PENDING IN LAHORE HIGH COURT LAHORE.

CASE IS RECORDED IN LAHORE HIGH COURT LAHORE.

WRIT PETITION NOS. 939/R/1968 TO WRIT PETITION NO.947/R/1968

WITH EVIDENCE. AND WATING FOR FULL JUSTICE.

3:------- RECEIVE OPF LETTER DATED 18/10/2005 WITH REGARD,

(A). NO 892-93/NTO, DATED 06/10/2005 EDO (R) GUJRANWALA

ALSO SEND TO GOVERNMENT PUNJAB

NO.DOP/OPCC/178/2004

(B) COPY OF COMPLAINT NO. 5881/2002-POP/C-II-427/2002,

31/07/2003 HONOURABLE OMBUDSMAN SAHIB PUNJAB PENDING

PETITION CAME OUT FROM THE BOARD OF REVENUE.

HISTORICAL COURT CORRUPTIONS WORLD RECORD.

(D) LETTE FROM PRIME MINISTER OVERSAES PAKISTANIS COMPLAINT CELL

NO. 287/2004 AND GOVT PUNJAB NO. 178/2004,

(E) REPURT FROM FILED STAFF REVENUE, CASE IS PENDIN IN THE LAHORE

HIGH COURT , LAHORE DATED 26/02/2004.

SHOW TO THE WORLD WHERE REFUGEES JAMMU

AND KASHMIR PETITIONERS IN WRIT PETITION NOS.

103/R/1993, 117/R/1994 AND 432/W/1993 ETC.

FOR MORE EVIDENCE FROM LAHORE HIGH COURT

LAHORE COURT NOTICE NEWS PAPER DAILY MASHRIQ

LAHORE DATED 15/06/1969 WRIT PETITION NOS.

939/R/1968 TO WRIT PETITION NO. 947/R/1968 AND

COURT NOTICE NEWS PAPER DAILY TOOFAH GUJRANWALA DATED 13/02/1968.

SARFRAZ KHAN S/O ALLAH DAD, GHULAM NABI S/O ALLAH DAD, HAKIM ALI S/O ALLAH DAD, ALI AKBAR S/O ALLAH DAD, MUHAMMUAD SHARIF S/O SHAH MUHAMMAD , WALI MUHAMMAD S/O SHAH MOHD, QASIM ALI S/O ALI MUHAMMAD, WALI MUHAMMAED S/O MEHTAB ALI , QASIM BIBI D/O ALLAH LOOK

ETC.---------------REFUGEES JAMMU AND KASHMIR------------PETITIONERS.

HERO OF PAKISTAN.

I REQUEST TO FREE MEDIA

GIVE INFORMATION HONOURABLE CHIEF JUSTICE OF PAKISTAN SAHIB.

PLEASE TAKE ACTION AGAINST COURT CORRUPTION.

THANK YOU.

From: Shoaib Habib Memon <shoaibhmemon@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 4:52 AM
Subject: **JP** Corruption in Pakistan is widespread

Dear Friends,

Corruption in Pakistan is widespread, particularly in the government and lower levels of police forces. The country has had a consistently poor ranking at the Transparency International'sCorruption Perceptions Indexwith scores of 2.5 in 2011,2.3 in 2010,and 2.5 in 2009out of 10.In 2011, Pakistan ranked 134 on the index with 42 countries ranking worse.

Pakistan was created as a result of the partition of Indiaand the Britishleft behind a strong bureaucracyand army. The country was divided again when Eastern Pakistanseceded to form Bangladesh. A factor in this division was that Bengal's elite and ruling classhad been Hinduswho were displaced by the partition, while the Punjab's rich land-owning class were Muslimsand so had retained power.

National Accountability Ordinance

Individuals convicted under the National Accountability Ordinance are prohibited from holding political office for ten years.

Corruption by sector

Courts

In 2010, 69% of those surveyed reported that they or someone in their household was subjected to an act of corruption when interacting with the judicial system. Of 339 affirmative respondents asked to identify the actors involved in corruption, 119 said court employees, 84 said a public prosecutor, 50 said a witness, 44 said a judge, 29 said an opponent lawyer, 16 said magistrates, and 12 said others.

Education

As of 2010, 24% of those surveyed reported that they themselves or a family member received educational admission through non-normal. The countries biggest issue is presence of non uniform educational system.On one hand there are institutions modeled on western educational system; This system is run by private sector educational institutes that charge fees a ordinary citizen cannot afford. So essentially these institutes are utilized by the elite class( Politicians , Technocrats, Bureaucrats,Business class) .The same is also the reason for deteriorating standards of Public Sector educational institutes.As the elite class only enroll there children in private schools modeled on western institutes.

Than there are Government run public schools that face increasing challenges and due to incompetence of consecutive Governments has only accelerated the rate of their decline.Lack of funding, Elite class non utilization, Poor Governance ,Under qualified Faculty are some of the reasons for their falling standards.Corruption in education sector is not a novice in Pakistan . Embezzlement of funds , Thousands of ghost schools ( those that only exist in papers), taking bribe to sell confidential material to candidates,Poor utilization of funds, Educational Ministry run by illiterate politicians that lack vision for education.

Health care

In 2010, 42% of surveyed individuals reported gaining access to hospital services by a method other than standard admission, and 48% reported either having to pay additional costs for essential services or being forced to utilize the services of a designated affiliate. Of the respondents who were asked to identify which parties orchestrated the corrupt acts, 61% reported hospital staff, 25% reported doctors, and 13% reported nurses.

Law enforcement and the police

Corruption is evident in the lower levels of the police in Pakistan. In fact, many citizens believe that the police is the most corrupt sector of the Pakistani government.In July 2010, the Transparency International noted that the major cause for corruption in this sector was due to the lack of accountability and merit, and low salaries.Payment of bribes in order to escape and avoid charges was also commonplace; 31% of 4,224 respondents reported paying bribes to the police.

In 2005, Prime Minister Shaukat Azizordered an investigation into claims by a 23-year-old woman who alleged that, in retaliation for attempting to reveal police corruption, police falsely detained her for fifteen days and raped her.

As of 2010, videos captured of officers taking bribes in various locales such as Peshawarand Quetta

Public utilities

As of 2002, 96% of surveyed individuals reported corruption issues with electrical utility officials during the past year.The most common types of corruption were billing related. Some consumers admitted to illegally reducing their utility bills, while others reported being harassed with inflated bills intended to solicit bribes. Out of the pool of corruption-affirmative respondents, 71% reported that money was "demanded directly by the actor"

Sports

In August 2010, reporters from News of the World orchestrated a sting operationwhich was able to identify three Pakistani cricket players – Salman Butt, Mohammad Asifand Mohammad Amir– and a bookmaker Mazhar Majeedof being complacent in a row over spot-fixingin the fourth England-Pakistan test match at Lord's.The cricketers each received 30 months, one year and six months jail term respectively while the bookmaker received two years and eight months jail term in a verdict issued by the Southwark Crown Court on November 3, 2011.Following these events, on 15 November 2011, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Zaka Ashraf established an anti-corruption unit to prevent players from becoming involved in illegal betting practices

Taxation

According to the 2002 study, 99% of 256 respondents reported facing corruption of taxation. Furthermore, 32% of respondents reported paying bribes to have their tax assessment lowered, and nearly 14% reported receiving fictitious tax assessments until a bribe was paid.

Regards

Shoaib Habib Memon

Thatta-Sindh

Cell.0314 2090252

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