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What most of the temporary Gingrich support misses, though, is the former House Speaker’s recent past of betrayal of the movement. His betrayal of the GOP and the basic principles of the majority of the GOP primary voting electorate. There are many instances we can point to, but none are as outright damning as the Gingrich betrayal on global warming hysteria.
For those who might have forgotten about the New Gingrich/Nancy Pelosi couch scene… a little refresher video.
Now some of you may be thinking “get over it.” If you look beyond the surface, however, you’ll find the mistake Gingrich made wasn’t quite that simple. In fact, the entity he was promoting with Nancy Pelosi is far from a friend when it comes to true free-market solutions in America.
Let’s take a look.
In the ad, Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi promote WeCanSolveIt.org. There are many parts of this website we’re going to point out, but let’s start with one of the most obvious right out of the gate.WeCanSolveIt.org is not an actual website, but rather a re-direct to ClimateRealityProject.org. (That wasn’t always the case, but it was the same organization)
What might be surprising to many Gingrich fans is that Climate Reality Project, the organization he stood with Nancy Pelosi to promote, is the organization run by none other than… Al Gore.
Founded and chaired by Al Gore, Nobel Laureate and former Vice President of the United States, The Climate Reality Project has more than 5 million members and supporters worldwide. It is guided by one simple truth: The climate crisis is real and we know how to solve it.
In fact, the homepage feature is a video of Al Gore speaking at a global warming event.
It get’s worse…
WeCanSolveIt.org bloggers are openly supporting the leftist agenda behind “Occupy Wall Street.” They’re even promoting a video of 350.org founder Bill McKibben speaking to Occupy Wall Street about the Keystone pipeline. In the video, McKibben blasts the pipeline and calls for its end.
Climate change has made its way into the Occupy protests as well. And there’s good reason for that: For the 99%, the future of our global climate is just as vital as the future of the economy. 350.org founder Bill McKibben used the gathering as an opportunity to engage listeners around the pending decision to build the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport Canadian tar sands oil through the U.S. Check out his speech here:
The video:
Ironically, back in September a Newt Gingrich spokesperson told Salon that Gingrich supported the Keystone XL pipeline. Inquiring minds want to know… if Newt Gingrich supports the pipeline, why did he tape a TV ad with Nancy Pelosi for Al Gore, when the ad promotes a website opposing it?
Heck, why did Newt Gingrich decide to tape an ad for Al Gore period?
This isn’t a matter of a simple misjudgment. This is an issue of complete betrayal of stated principles. It’s not something conservatives can just “get over” and move past.
How can the movement go after Barack Obama for his global warming/green cronyism with a candidate who backed some of its biggest players? How can we oppose Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore and their green ilk with a candidate who was advocating on their behalf?
It’s a big problem. Newt Gingrich slept with the enemy on global warming, and that shouldn’t be lost on us as we head into the primary season.
-Eric Odom
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A lot of people were suckered in to believing in what was said about global warming. Nobody’s perfect !!
So in other words… you’re OK having a President of the most powerful nation in the world who can so easily be suckered?
You and I see this much differently.
Newt Gingrich is smart, and the most qualified candidate to be President of the United States. Regardless of the dirt that the media and other’s dig up….I have no doubt that he will prove himself in the days ahead.
See my post below. Then go back and look at his actual voting record while he held a public office. You will find a different man. Please note that I didn’t bring up his personal baggage because I am looking at his record as a legislator.
at newt’s age a major mistake is either senility, stupidity or malice.
Gingrich’s actions betraying his words go way back. The Pelosi bruhaha is hust one of the latest.
If you are liking Newt Gingrich for the 2012 election, you better think again. If you look at his voting record rather than his rhetoric, you will find a different man than is portrayed in the media.
He voted for NAFTA which weakened our borders with Canada and Mexico.
He voted for GATT which makes the US subject to the authority of the World Trade Organization.
He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations which is a group of influential people dedicated to globalization at the expense of America’s sovereignty. Use the following web site to explore their membership: http://www.muckety.com
Go to the site, type in the organizations’ name, and click the Search button. Read the column on the right to learn how to use the tool. In general, you can double click a displayed box to expand it or right click a box to get a menu of options. It is an interesting tool for mapping relationships between people and organizations.
If you start a new map and enter Newt Gingrich you’ll see about what you would expect. But double click on John Vincent Weber and check him out. He is affiliated with the Aspen Institute and any time you see the Aspen Institute, you know you are dealing with Progressives. If you double click that, you’ll be shocked at some of the names shown. I don’t know if he is still a member but when I looked at it about a year ago, Andrew L Stern of SEIU was a director of the Aspen Institute. In effect, John Vincent Weber is Newt Gingrich’s link to Andy Stern, SEIU, and the Progressives.
Domestic policy votes include supporting the creation of the Department of Education in 1979 under President Carter. Approval of that bill was close. If 3 votes had switched for yes to no it would have killed it. Gingrich was one of 30 Republicans who supported it when the Republicans held 159 seats in the House of Representatives. Even one of the Democrats pointed out that there is no authorization in the Constitution for federal involvement in education. That Department of Education is how the Progressives took over the indoctrination of children into their philosophy.
In 1979 he also voted for the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act which gave the federal government control over almost 80 MILLION acres in Alaska. Jimmy Carter signed the bill into law in 1980. That act turned 80M acres into tourist sites controlled by the federal government rather than Alaskan state controlled mineral and timber resources.
Here is a link to search for historical votes in the US Congress: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes.xpd?year=1979 That link is for 1979 but there is an area on the right side of the web page where you can select the year and other selection criteria.
Time Magazine, one of the Progressives’ propaganda outlets, named Newt Gingrich “Man of the Year” in 1995. If you watch closely who is currently giving him, if not praise, then at least less vitriolic coverage, during the current election articles you’ll see that they are mostly leftist news outlets – Time Magazine, The New York Times, Huffington Post, etc. Compare that to their coverage of Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann.
Gingrich’s “Contract with America” was simply a marketing ploy. Under his leadership and with a majority in both houses, spending _growth_ not only continued but actually increased as did the size of the federal government. In 1996 Congress passed the single largest spending increase on education in US history under his leadership. It was 14 billion with a B and that was 1996 dollars. Keep in mind that the House of Representatives totally controls spending. The president and the Senate can negotiate what they will approve, but it is up to the House to specify the spending – and Newt Gingrich was the Speaker of the House, the most powerful position in that body.
In short, Gingrich talks the conservative talk and once elected furthers the agenda of the Progressives. He is, in fact, one of the reasons our deficit is as large as it is because of the spending and growth of government that occurred when he was Speaker of the House in the late 90′s.
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