New Campaign: Impeach Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich: Why the big "cat that ate the canary" smile?
Impeach Newt: In our last post we announced that we were dropping our impeachment campaign against Herman Cain because he seems to have impeached himself. We also noted that though we often disagree with Newt Gingrich (currently a GOP favorite) we had no evidence of impeachable offensives.
Well, all of that has changed. And we are starting early since impeachment proceedings can take forever. Why impeachment?
Newt wants to bring back child labor. That’s right. He wants to fire those high-paid, pension-snagging janitors in schools and replace them with kids. As John McEnroe would say to the referee, “YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS!!!!!“ We are. Here is what he told an audience Harvard University’s School of Government last Friday: “Most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the school. The kids would actually do work, they would have cash, they would have pride in the schools, they’d begin the process of rising.”
According to former (shut-down-the-federal government-Gingrich) his recommendation if put into practice would raise the level of poor students and poor neighborhoods. We wonder whether the idea, i.e. having junior clean toilets, would catch on in more affluent suburbs? After all, when would the school kids have time to study — to get into, say, Harvard — or play in not-quite-semi-professional soccer teams?
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Impeachment Campaign: Newt is a policy wonk who has more ideas per day than just about anyone. But this one, we regard as impeachable for the following reasons:
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Newt says: Fire janitors! Photo Source: St. Louis Jobs with Justice.
- The plan would role back child labor laws and is a dangerous precedent.
- Newt’s plan is little more than union busting in disguise.
- And, wow, this really sounds like a great program, “home-sourcing” parents’ jobs to their kids (at 1/4 the cost and no benefits).
- Apparently hasn’t heard about how hard it is to find a job these days (25 million Americans unemployed, under employed, or have stopped trying).
- Hasn’t thought through what impact firing janitors will have on hundreds of thousands janitor family kids. Will these families lose their homes?
- Apparently hasn’t heard that Gov. John Kasich’s union-busting law in Ohio was just repealed by an overwhelming majority of voters.
- And hasn’t he heard that another union-buster, Gov. Scott Walker’s little recall problem in Wisconsin? (We’re campaigning to impeach Walker as well).
- Has he bothered to learn about the physical requirements and risks that janitors face on the job? (He might even attempt to dismantle OSHA).
- Apparently he is not aware that janitors vote. Hey, Newt, according to the the Bureau of Labor Statistics there are more than 4 million “building cleaner workers” in the U.S. and most are classified as janitors. Now maybe your proposal is just for school janitors, but the word does get around.
Now I like Newt Gingrich consider myself an ideas person. If you just browse through the various posts, you’ll see this is true. But there are several differences between myself and the other wonk: (a) I’m not running for President of the United States (b) I consult with my wife Claudia — who at least once a day says, “ideas are a dime a dozen — but carrying them out is something else.” But at least once a week she says, “that’s ridiculous.“
We will let you know when we’ve drawn up an official “Bill of Impeachment” for Gingrich.
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Movie Star, Scott Walker, not looking as happy as Newt, above: Source: http://www.isthmus.com/daily/article.php?article=34731
Sorry, Barack Obama was ELECTED in 2008 to do a job which he has not done. Now he must be UNELECTED.
Have a great day!
Who says!
Barack Obama was hired in 2008 to do a job which he has not done. Now he must be fired!
Hi, pen pal, Barack Obama wasn’t hired; he was elected. The electorate will decide. This is still a Democracy, not a corporation with a board of directors. As always, thanks for your comment.
Hank Cole
While I can agree with you that the Congress has absolutely failed, my question to you is what happened when Congress was Democratically controlled for 2 years and still nothing got done. This failed President is not a leader and more than anything else what we need is a strong leader. He is a fraud upon the American people. To continue to fund all of the entitlement programs you mentioned is ludicrous and unsustainable, as we all know. Lets not pretend that the Democrats are the poor working class and the Republicans are all wealthy. Lets not pretend that the Dems are for the working people because we know that’s not true anymore. It might have been at one time but that was in the past. All politicians, once they get into office if they aren’t already, become wealthy. Regarding what Obama inherited from the former President, he promised during his campaign to make things better and he FAILED!! In fact, he has made things worse. He is sitting on the sidelines with only one goal in mind and that’s to get reelected, trying to make the Republicans look bad. This is not good for our Country!! Our country is slipping and sliding towards third worldism while Obama fiddles.
Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving.
Joanne
I agree with some of your statements on some weakness on the part President Obama. If you go
back and look at numerous posts we’ve been quite critical. He has a tendency to sit on the sidelines. Indeed.
However, the Republicans have done far worse than sitting on the sidelines. They have attempted at every turn to see that Obama fails — with obstructionist politics, outright blackmail, lies and half-truths. Here is one
for you. “The death panels imposed by Obamacare. The real death panels are those who would cut Medicare and Social Security benefits while allowing the wealthy to keep their precious tax cuts — in some cases more than a million dollars. Imagine someone getting so large a tax break, while someone is dying because they can’t afford to get an operation or buy the medicine they need. It’s wrong, it’s unethical, it’s immoral and it happens to be very bad economics. And I would say this to Republicans and Democrats inclined to kick those who are down while supporting the greedy.
The austerity that Republicans want to impose at a time when 25 million Americans are unemployed, underemployed or have just stopped looking gives truth to the description of economics as “the dismal science.”
Though I am a Jew and not a Christian I am inspired by the teachings of Jesus. Here is one teaching that I will rededicate myself to.
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ He will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least among you, you did not do for me.’”
-Matthew 25:41-45
Amen. All the best and thanks for your thoughtful comment.
Our job now is to ”’throw the bums out.” Replacing the obstructionist Republicans (along with a few Dems of the same ilk) should be our aim in 2012. We can continue to criticize the President, but let’s not exchange him for total disaster. Jeanette91
It’s apparent that Newt is getting the message and trying to avoid impending impeachment. During the GOP Presidential Debate Tuesday night, he played to the center and left by advocating humane treatment of long time illegal immigrants — whose deportation would break up families.
If Newt throws out his plan to bring back child labor, we might reconsider the Campaign to Impeach Newt. However, he would also have to sign the Jeanette Malinow Pledge to preserve Medicare and Social Security. The Campaign continues.
My only question is how can you as an “American” continue to support and defend this failed President?? Even Mr. Leg Tingle, Chris Matthews is starting to get it!!!
I long for the day that our totally liberal biased media all start to get it!! White I have to agree that the repubs haven’t really come up with anyone that wows, sad to say that anyone other than what we have will be better,
So disheartening……
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your Family.
Joanne
Whether the President has failed is open to debate. We’ve certainly been critical of some of his decisions and what we believe is at times a weak negotiating strategy. But he didn’t exactly inherit the nice economy and surplus that George W got upon entering the White House. And he had lots of opposition to investments that would have done more to boost the economy. Obama came at the height of the worst recession since the Depression of the 30′s. He should have fought harder. But his policies make sense.
It’s the clearly the Congress that has failed. And I would put the blame on Tea-Party backed Republicans who would rather slash social security, medicare, education, medical research in order to preserve tax breaks for the wealthy and subsidies for the oil companies. And to get their way they are willing to hold the government hostage. In poll after poll, public views of President Obama are 4 times higher then they are for Congress.
Thanks for your comment and Happy Thanksgiving.
Hank
You are pure genius.