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**** NEWT'S AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENTS *****
**HE MUST BE THE GOP NOMINEE**
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Newt Gingrich as GA Congressman and Speaker of the House
■33 years as Congressman including 4 as Speaker of the house
■Lifetime American Conservative Union rating of 90%
(most recent year was for 1998 at 100%. The BEST conservative)
■He had a Democrat controlled Congress up until 1994, a Democrat President and Senate from 1992 until 1998
■Helped Reagan pass biggest tax cut in 50 years as Minority Whip, called out George Bush on breaking his promise and led (as a legislator) a Democrat President to do the same.
(Not part of the "establishment" and puts conservatism before party)
■Art Laffer confirms Gingrich helped on a team that designed “Supply Side Economics.”
(Laffer was reagan's economic guru and they hardly come more respected than laffer)
■Supported/Championed policies that created 11 Million jobs.
■National Taxpayers Union’s Annual Scorecard on reduced spending and taxes gave Gingrich an “A”, for his last four years in office, ranking him #1, #4, #2 and #11 and as one of the most conservative members in Congress.
■Led a Balanced Budget initiative with a Democrat President. AS A SPEAKER not an Executive Branch Leader and not in control of the Senate or Executive Branch. He balanced the budget 4 times creating the first SURPLUS in decades.
(Historic accomplishment by ay standard. Most politicians would have settled for that alone)
■$400 billion in debt was paid off during time as Speaker, although Gingrich agreed with Reagan on deal that ended up running deficits until 1988.
■Fought and defeated HillaryCare both in strategy, as well as political and legislative maneuvering.
■On third try got a Democratic President and Senate to initiate Welfare Reform that put 60% of recipients to work.
■Gingrich’s pro-life voting record is 98.6%, 70 out of 71 votes.
■Brought two partial birth abortion bills to Clinton that served as the model for what was passed under George W. Bush.
■He helped Reagan’s initiative to eliminate 12 of 94 programs and cut budgets of many others like the SBA more than 50%.
(Nancy Reagan said that Ronald Reagan passed the conservative torch to Newt, praised newt's conservative work and she has never said otherwise)
■He identified, recruited, campaigned for and helped organize over the biggest minority opposition swing getting 367 Congressional candidates to sign the Contract With America. This resulted in a NET GOP pickup of 52 seats in the House, 8 in the Senate and 11 Governorships.
■Multiple conservatives congressmen got their political start including:Jon Kyl
Mike DeWine
Jim Inhofe
Fred Thompson
Bill Frist
Rick Santorum (who publicaly said he followed Newt's model for leadership and has since stabbed newt in the back)
■Contract With America – (1995 Description): “…represented the culmination of 30 years of creative conservative thinking dealing with the basic social and economic problems of modern America. The ideas provided the background for the widest range of legislative initiatives, certainly since the 1930s, and possibly at any time in American political history.”
■Contract With America, summarized: The ten items in the Contract were all acted upon in the first 100 days of the new Congress, which is what the signatories had pledged. Nine of the ten items in the Contract passed the House: Only the constitutional amendment on term limits (which required a two-thirds vote) was defeated. Out of a total of 302 roll call votes on issues related to the Contract With America, the conservatives prevailed on 299 of them. A balanced budget amendment passed in the House by a 300-123 margin but was subsequently defeated as it fell one vote short of the two-thirds needed for passage in the U.S. Senate. The overall margin by which the items in the Contract were passed averaged about 70 percent despite the fact that the Republicans only held a 12-seat margin over the Democrats (52-48 percent, the smallest House majority margin in 40 years). Given the notorious lack of party discipline in the American Congress, the passage by a large majority of nearly all of the items in the Contract was a remarkable achievement. I can’t adequately cover all 10 initiatives and their profundity but they include:
* Congressional Reform including Congress being subject to the law they pass
* Balanced Budget with Line Item Veto (failed Senate, passed Veto but declared unconstitutional)
* Anti-crime package (truth in sentencing, more law enforcement help)
* Personal Responsibility (ultimately became Welfare Reform)
* Tax Package Including Child Tax Credit, Elimination of Marriage Penalty, Savings Account, Middle Class Tax Relief
* Disallow US Troops from serving under foreign authorities like the UN
* Frivolous Litigation vetoed by Clinton but tort reform override veto.
* Job Creation act included capital-gains cuts and indexation, neutral cost recovery, risk assessment/cost-benefit analysis, strengthening the Regulatory Flexibility Act and unfunded mandate reform to create jobs and raise worker wages.Other sections of the Contract include a proposed Family Reinforcement Act (tax incentives for adoption, strengthening the powers of parents in their children’s education, stronger child pornography laws, and elderly dependent care tax credit) and the Senior Citizens Fairness Act (raise the Social Security earnings limit, repeal the 1993 tax hikes on Social Security benefits and provide tax incentives for private long-term care insurance).
■He is the longest-serving teacher of the Joint War Fighting course for Major Generals at Air University and taught officers from all five services as an honorary Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Professor at the National Defense University. THIS MEANS NEWT TEACHES OUR GENERALS HOW TO FIGHT WARS. HOW'S THAT FOR A FUTURE COMMANDER IN CHIEF? No other president aside from a general has had anywhere near that experience and Santorum, Romney and Paul certainly don't come close.
Newt is unique among all current individuals running for and/or holding political office.
We're out of our minds if we do not nominate him.
NEWT 2012!
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Americans need to do their research and know the issues. Many people have no idea what or whom to vote for. Understanding than a person can make a good decision.
We talk about Conservatives---Who knows what the term means and what issues represent that view.