The Rise of Newt

YOU FOOLS!  BEHOLD THE CONTRACT ON AMERICA!

Politico Question: Is Newt Going To Be A Viable Opponent for Romney and Company?

 
The Newt Boomlet: it even sounds like a market bubble, and that is exactly what it is. This bump shows not the viability of Newt Gingrich as the Republican nominee but the extreme weakness of the rest of the field. His strategy of biting the hands that feed him will not take him the distance. He took over Congress and tried to mold it into a private business, and then labels it corrupt after he is forced from power. He takes money from Freddie Mac and advises them to expand the bubble, and then vilifies the institution that paid him. He makes a living hawking his wares on Fox News, then claims that the media twists everything that he says.

Want to get Newt to show his true colors and get out of the race? Put him back in the same studio with Bob Schieffer from CBS News. When Newt was asked about Tiffany's you could see the steam rise from his collar. Schieffer was channeling Tim Russert: it is the closest thing to televised water boarding I have ever seen. It was not only brilliant but necessary. If someone wants to be president, they should have to answer the interview questions. That is what a presidential campaign is: one long job interview with the American people. Newt has some holes in his resume and references, and blaming the interviewer is not going to get him to the next round. The only jobs he ever created was for divorce counsel and the only place Newt Gingrich can be president is in one of his novels that no one buys.

  
To my Republican friends: Mitt Romney is your nominee. I am sorry if you are not happy with him. What he lacks in desirability as a candidate he makes up for with his earnestness to be your president. You can take him not only to the ballot box, but home to Mom! If you took Newt home to mom, she would end up with money missing from her purse.

I Turn 40 In The Year 2016, and Barack Obama Will Be President Then

"Hi, this is Prez O.  I'm calling for Mr. Bin Laden...Oh, that's right!  I had him killed...no message then."

 Politico Arena Question: Will President Obama lose his job?


President Obama definitely has an uphill battle to renew his lease at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and against a 'generic' republican, a second term would be in serious jeopardy.
But lucky for him he is going to face off against one of the misfit toys from this current field, and his foil will most likely be Mitt Romney. The arraigned marriage that is the Republican primary is not a love affair for the political ages. In a traditional sense, the primary electorate is not a blushing bride, but a red-face angry one because they do not have the choices they want to be their standard bearer, and they will begrudgingly at best walk down the aisles of Iowa and New Hampshire and say "I do" to their Byrle-creamed groom.

The president has a year to focus on job creation and strengthen the middle and working classes. These blocks are key to any Democratic win, and showed their off-year viability with big wins last week with conservative policy rollbacks, as with union-attacking Issue 2 in Ohio. But we must remember that now that the threat to public employees has been momentarily stopped, the focus must move to the jobless and their quest to find employment.

This effort must be sustained for the next year, and jobless Americans must have hope that their will be change in the job numbers. And as much as hard-line conservatives want to dismiss the Occupy movement, these efforts are nation-wide, sustainable, and paying attention. Citizens, especially those who are politically active, have noticed that we have changed from a system where Washington makes the rules and Wall Street makes money: now that relationship is so incestuous it is nearly impossible to separate it. Remember when as kids we had chocolate in our peanut butter? Now there are investments in my legislation! (When 60 Minutes shows up to the Rayburn Building, it's a bad day for my fellow hacks).

This is the heart of college football season, and Team Obama is in charge of its own destiny. If he makes the right choices politically and points out the ineptness of the Do Nothing Congress, the president is going back to the Rose Bowl (er, Rose Garden). Lucky for the president, the Republican field has the requirements to be president (over 35 and American-born), but not the ability. Conservatives should take this time to firm up staffs for Jeb Bush and Chris Christie 2016, cause it ain't happening this time.

The Repubs are shovel-ready, as in it is time to bury them: Barack Obama will be president in 2013.