Gingrich at Republican Fundraiser Says Obama’s ‘Already Failed’

I would replace Gingrich with Cheney. But either way, this is terrible news for the right, and great news for the rest of America.

 

don't know how i left darth cheney out. did you see where he pretty much blamed richard clarke and george tenet for 9-11.

 

I heard about Clarke, but Tenet?! The same Tenet that GWB gave a 'Medal of Freedom' to (or whatever the heck it was) following the invasion of Iraq? Mr. 'Slam Dunk' himself? Wow.

 

Cheney Blames 9/11 On Richard Clarke: "He Obviously Missed It"
"The prime source of information on the relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda was George Tenet, who was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency and who testified, if you go back check the record, in the fall of '02 before the Senate Intelligence Committee in open session that there was a relationship, a collaborative relationship, an operational relationship," said Cheney, "that there was a relationship between al-Qaeda and Iraq that stretched back ten years. That is not something I made up, that is not something I thought of. That is what the director of central intelligence was telling us." -Darth Cheney

 

Yeah, I read that. He's blaming 9/11 on Clarke and Iraq on Tenet. I thought you were saying he blamed 9/11 on Tenet. Either way, I love watching Cheney flail. Maybe he's forgetting, but he and his buddy were in charge at the time. A true leader accepts the blame for mistakes that were made on their watch. But he's not fooling anybody. What's amazing to me is that Dick ostensibly seems to be striving for damage control, but clearly fails to realize how much worse he's making himself look in the process.

At any rate, I'm still really disappointed that no one brought up Tenet's Medal of Freedom at Cheney's conference. That would have been gold.

 

i should have been more specific instead of lumping them together, thats my bad.

 

Personally, I'd just like to see the republican party just sit back, relax, and shut up for about the next 12 months or so. They don't have the power to do anything anyway, except complain and moan about everything. Its not doing the party any good to have its "leaders" shoot off at the mouth everytime someone sticks a microphone in their face. If the republicans want to regain congress in 2010, they will do so because the voters will vote against the democrats for what they did or didn't do during these two years, not because of anything the republicans did. It is better to be quiet and let others think you are a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

 

I strongly agree with this assessment. They need to handle their identity crisis internally, rather than in public view. There's so much finger-pointing and in-fighting right now that the party will certainly collapse in on itself if this continues.

Another thing that they need to get away from is shoving every brown-faced republican politician in front of a microphone in the hopes of branding 'a new face' on the repub party. Jindal clearly wasn't up to it, and Steele is an embarrassment. I mean, really? 'Hip-hop' republicans? Dude, just stop already. They'll never be able to match the multicultural appeal of the democrats, so it's not wise to waste energy trying to.

 

Sure. My employer and a lot of folks who voted for Obama actually share American capitalist values. They feel the same way that Newtie does. So do I.