Just a thought….
Newt’s certainly got the skeleton in the closet issue to face..but in reality, who doesn’t?? My point is this: Even though Mitt seems squeaky clean, moral etc. etc., what does he have on the other political players in Washington that he, if elected, will undoubtedly have to do battle with for getting his agenda/s to come to fruition….his image implies he has no ammo. Conversely, Mr. Gingrich, having been a player in Washington for what seems like forever not only has skeleton’s in his personal and political closet, and here’s the point….he UNDOUBTEDLY has dirt of the same nature on the Washington players he, if elected, will be fighting to get his agenda/s pushed through.. I may be jaded but, with our country’s current condition we NEED someone that can call in favors, make passive threats to opponents(this is where the skeleton’s come into play): and stand firm on issues that will put America on a sustainable and realistic course, of not only recovery, but one of dominance in all aspects of the global arena. Let’s not forget…any of our Presidents are America’s representative, but in many aspects he is not the end all be all decision maker as painted by the media. Just a thought….
Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism, and the effort to destroy them would be futile unless accomplished in ways that would work the utmost mischief to the entire body politic. We can do nothing of good in the way of regulating and supervising these corporations until we fix clearly in our minds that we are not attacking the corporations, but endeavoring to do away with any evil in them. We are not hostile to them; we are merely determined that they shall be so handled as to subserve the public good. We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.
Ya gotta love the Republicans
I mean, seriously: an alleged adulterer and alleged serial sexual harasser may be about to quit the race for president, and WHO will likely benefit? A KNOWN serial adulterer. All for the right to lead the “family values” party.
Ah.
LOL…where will it end?
Congress Got 25% Richer During Height of Recession
Members of Congress had a collective net worth of more than $2 billion in 2010, a nearly 25 percent increase over the 2008 total, according to a Roll Call analysis of Members’ financial disclosure forms.
Nearly 90 percent of that increase is concentrated in the 50 richest Members of Congress. Two years ago, Roll Call found that the minimum net worth of House Members was slightly more than $1 billion; Senators had a combined minimum worth of $651 million for a Congressional total of $1.65 billion. Roll Call calculates minimum net worth by adding the minimum values of all reported assets and subtracting the minimum values of all reported liabilities.
According to financial disclosure forms filed by Members of Congress this year, the minimum net worth in the House has jumped to $1.26 billion, and Senate net worth has climbed to at least $784 million, for a Congressional total of $2.04 billion.
