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Defending President Obama
Topic Started: Nov 3 2010, 07:31 PM (721 Views)
Jimmy-Boy
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Many Republicans, Teabaggers and rich elites have no regard for the poor of this world, they give to charities just to get back with no true feeling of sympathy for the less fortunate. The word of God says your gold and your silver will eat your flesh as a canker. Many of them work poor people day and night paying them minimum wage, while they spend lavishly on themselves and their pets. Now is the time for the poor to rise up against those who have no mercy on others.

I do not support violence of any form but we the poorer class of this world have had enough. Time to let our voice be heard.
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Karsie
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Aren't you all sick and tired of hearing Republicans critisizing everyone who voted the DEMS? We DID vote Republican, and all we got was a brain dead Texas redneck who gave 100 years of wealth and prosperity to his corporate owners. He gave them the keys to the vaults, and they stole every dime this country had. He destroyed this country, and it will take years to get back on solid ground again. So do all of us a favor and keep all that Republican stench to yourself.
For a HAPPY LIFE, keep your MIND FULL and your BOWELS EMPTY. ;-)
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Crispin Sandoval
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When President Obama took office the country was losing approx 800 thousand jobs per month, and the Obama Administration turned the job deficit into a job SURPLUS adding more jobs each month - that is, UNTIL the Republicans began to step up their SABOTAGE JOB EFFORTS with their OBSTRUCTIONISTS tactics. SEE chart-of-the-day-jobs-lost-in-the-bush-and-obama-administration-2010-2 here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-jobs-lost-in-the-bush-and-obama-administration-2010-2
You can get the chart dropped in your inbox every afternoon as The Chart Of The Day. All they need is your email address, country and postal code. Just go to the link above. In the last year of the Bush administration, the monthly job loss numbers built steadily to a peak which then began to reverse itself during Obama's first year. The chart shows there was a job surplus before the Republicans stepped up their obstructionism.

Two Points. 1. President Obama has proposed a reasonable and SHARED SACRIFICE plan that require reforms on the revenue AND spending side, which will impact the poor, middle class, and Rich/millionaires and Corporations. Together with the economic downturn, the Bush Tax Cuts and the UNnecessary Iraq War, which cost LIVES and BILLIONS of dollars, explains the majority of the deficit over the next TEN years. If the Republicans obstruct this plan that includes reducing tax breaks for the Rich/wealthy and Corporations, you should vote ALL of the Republicans out of office and don’t reward them for their obstructionism and the demise of the middle class, jobs, etc. The Republicans (including Tea Party) see the U.S. citizens economic RUIN as their way to be voted back into office and having a Republican as president in 2012. Republicans want our country to FAIL in job creation, economy, etc, and this should make YOU determined that you will NEVER vote them back into office.

Republicans' motto for job creation: Let’s put unemployed Americans back to work, ON THE CONDITION that they work cheap, make great housekeepers, speak English and NEVER speak up for fairness and shared sacrifice.

2. If you want the U.S. to move FORWARD in an effective, successful, and productive way, then DON’T VOTE FOR THESE EXTREMIST OBSTRUCTIONIST Right WingNut REPUBLICANS . . .

The Republicans were in control of Congress during times of big job losses. They had power up to 2007 where nothing would happen unless they wanted it to. And then 2007 the Dems had some power but still had very little control over much.

Up until the 1980s, both manufacturing employment and goverment employment were growing. Probably right along with the growth in population. A lot of government employment is state and local government, meaning government employees like teachers and police officers. * Isn't it reasonable to expect the number of teachers and police officers, etc., to grow in proportion to the population of the U.S.? Don't we need more teachers and cops in a nation of 300 million than we needed when our population was less than half as large? **

Since the 1980s, manufacturing employment hasn't kept up with population growth.

* See these:
http://www.bls.gov/oes/2008/may/naics2_99.htm
http://www.bls.gov/oes/2008/may/naics4_999100.htm
http://www.bls.gov/oes/2008/may/naics4_999200.htm
http://www.bls.gov/oes/2008/may/naics4_999300.htm

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_United_States_Census
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_Census

Many Teabaggers and GOP fans seem to imply that the government prefers to have more government employment rather than private market employment. Not true as stats above imply.
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BenDover
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Many people who voted for Republicans in 2010 are victims of their OWN votes, and many of them STILL need to WAKE UP and realize Republicans (including the Tea Party) DO NOT CARE about them and their family. Republicans will cherish their vote until they fulfill their goal of making them penniless and powerless, irrelevant and at their mercy, and leaving them only with the REGRET that they were foolish enough to vote for them in the first place.... Here are some reasons NOT to vote for Republicans:

They will try to take away your Medicare, Healthcare, Social Security, Collective Bargaining Rights, Equal Rights, Voting Rights, etc, ALL while giving Tax Breaks, benefits to the Rich (ie. $250k and up income earners) and Corporations, outsourcing jobs, being anti-education, anti-science, trying to control peoples' lives with their religious beliefs, and FEEDING on greed, bigotry, hatred, etc. And YES, they will LIE and say they are doing it for your best interest, being proud of their duplicity, hypocrisy, and obstructionism. Three Points:

1. Most SANE people know Republicans don't care about jobs, the economy, what is best for U.S. citizens, state, country; they are concerned about getting re-elected, protecting the Rich, Corporations, and defeating President Obama. For example, Republicans in Congress don't want the job market to improve because they are FEARFUL Obama would be re-elected. So they try to obstruct Obama at every turn, SABOTAGE JOB EFFORTS, hold the 'FAA' and 'Debt Ceiling' hostage, offering failed Bush policies, racism, and trying to sacrifice U.S. citizens, our country at ANY COST (U.S. over the cliff), hoping to fool Americans into voting for them, so Republicans can AGAIN repeat the Bush years, and screw up our country. Remember, Mitch McConnell reportedly said: Our single most important priority, is to make sure that the president is a one term president.

2. ANY middle class, working class, or fair-minded person VOTING for a Republican is more pathetic than a chicken following Colonel Sanders around. If you are not Rich (ie. not making $250K or more) or a Corporation, your interests will probably be at the BOTTOM of their list. This entire situation reminds me of another time in American history where the aristocracy in the South convinced the poor and middle class whites that if slavery was abolished, they would end up poor, when in reality the main reason for poverty in the South was that the aristocracy owned everything - I repeat EVERYTHING, and they stayed rich by keeping the lower classes poor. No competition = no threat to their wealth. So poor and middle class white folks VOTED with the aristocrats, even though they were economically cutting their own throat, and perpetuating an economic system that was fundamentally WRONG. Anytime anyone convinces you that the wealthy need MORE wealth and tax breaks so you can have a job and not end up poor - you've just been conned.

3. Many Republicans routinely put SELF INTEREST and their PERSONAL quest for POWER AND WEALTH over the best interests of Americans, showing that their end game is about 'winning elections' and NOT effective and fair governance. They say 'NO' for 3 yrs to proposed legislations authored by both Dems AND moderate Repubs that could produce JOBS, reduce deficits, and improve healthcare and the economy. They FEED on greed, bigotry, hatred, ignorance, and denying others equal rights. They deny 911 heroes healthcare, deny aid to tornado/hurricane victims, give tax cuts to top 1%, adding BILLIONS to deficit while DENYING middle class payroll tax cuts, give tax cuts to Corporations, outsourcing jobs, no shared sacrifice, etc. If it's not CLEAR they don't have YOUR and YOUR FAMILY'S BEST INTEREST at the forefront of their minds, and that you should STOP VOTING for Republicans, then I think you will never GET IT..... Keep voting for your Wealthy Masters, as they continue to LAUGH at you on their way to the BANK.
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LocaMocha
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Romney, Cain, Perry, and other Republican presidential candidates are quick to assail Obama's Afghanistan policy, but are silent or incoherent on what to do about the war. As disturbing as Obama's Afghanistan policy has been, at least he discusses the war. As The Washington Post pointed out in September, the "National Security" sections of Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Michele Bachmann's websites don’t mention Afghanistan at all. (The same goes for Herman Cain's.) It's amazing.

On the one hand, as Woodward suggests, Obama's decision to send 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan was influenced by his fear that if he cut bait, the Republicans would attack him as defeatist and weak. And the Republican candidates are indeed attacking him as defeatist and weak. They're accusing him of apologizing for America, of thinking America is in decline, of "leading from behind," of not believing in American exceptionalism and of transgressing various other chest-thumping platitudes about America's role in the world.

But when it comes to mundane little practicalities like whether the United States should be at war in the Hindu Kush, the leading Republicans are either silent or wildly incoherent. At a Republican debate in June, Romney declared, "It's time for us to bring our troops home as soon as we possibly can—as soon as our generals think it's OK. One lesson we’ve learned in Afghanistan is that Americans cannot fight another nation's war of independence."

But whatever the United States is doing in Afghanistan, we aren't fighting Afghanistan’s war of independence. Afghanistan has been independent since the 18th century, and if any foreign power is threatening that independence today, the most obvious candidate would be, well, us. Pressed further by reporters, Romney aides couldn't say whether he'd withdraw troops more quickly than Obama or more slowly. Then, in October, in a much-hyped foreign-policy speech at the Citadel in South Carolina, Romney told cadets, "American foreign policy must be prosecuted with clarity and resolve. Our friends and allies must have no doubts about where we stand."

So where does Romney stand on Afghanistan? "I will speak with our generals in the field, and receive the best recommendation of our military commanders. The force level necessary to secure our gains and complete our mission successfully is a decision I will make free from politics." How’s that for clarity?

The above is an excerpt taken from:
The GOP's War Hypocrisy
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/31/gop-2012-candidates-silent-or-incoherent-on-what-to-do-about-afghanistan.html
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Refuclican
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Nearly one in three jobless Americans has been out of work over a year
From: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/nearly-one-three-jobless-americans-over-200805443.html

"Being out of work for a long period has several negative effects, analysts say. As President Obama and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have noted, workers' skills tend to atrophy as they lose touch with developments in their field. Older workers become increasingly likely to give up searching for work. With rates of long-term unemployment as high as they are now, the jobless threaten to become a semi-permanent class, exacerbating growing inequality. And that's leaving aside the psychological and emotional toll of going for so long without work -- something Yahoo! readers told us about firsthand this summer." (Excerpt)


Wages increase for the classes in the U.S.:
Rich 274%
Middle Class 40%
Lower income 10%

During the recession Congress members increased their wealth 25%. How are the Repubs/Tea Baggers working out for you?

Where did all the jobs go again? The majority of manufacturing business owners who took their businesses and jobs out of the country are conservatives. "It’s the Republican Bad Economy, Stupid." Paraphrasing former President Clinton, today’s bad economy is the Republican Bad Economy. Republicans got us in this economic hole spending eight trillion dollars and conducting two wars on credit, while giving the rich a colossal tax break. Republicans dug the hole deeper by creating derivatives, selling them as hedges, and profiting on fees from unsecured mortgages while the housing bubble was crashing around them. Republicans took the rules off banking, bailed out banks for corruption, and later took donations from the same banks to blame Obama for Bush’s failures. Republicans want the economy to fail. Republicans need the economy to fail. Deep down Republicans believe failure is the only way to political power. Republicans have voted no to everything that might fix the economy. Republicans have voted to default on our national debt. Republicans have broken their Constitutional oaths signing pledges vowing national failure before political compromise. Republicans caused the bad economy. Republicans are keeping the economy bad. And Republicans will continue to allow the economy to fail. Republicans do not care about economic failure. Republicans do not care about jobs. Economic failure hurts only the middle and lower classes. Republicans would prefer workers hurt until they learn to keep their place.
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ferbi
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The Republicans have been partying too long, thanks to their corporate sponsors. Bush's man Paulson called for the TARP bailout nearly six months before Obama was even sworn in. We are in this mess because the Republicans cut taxes TWICE in time of war... that is unheard of in American history. Between NAFTA, negotiated by Daddy Bush, two wars started by Bush Junior, and Cheney giving the keys to the Treasury to Halliburton and Blackwater we were $12.2 trillion in the hole before Obama drew up his first budget! As you all know that alone has a domino and far-reaching effect to the rest of the economy.
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breb
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The Republican Party is so far right-eous that it absolutely makes me ill. Who and what do they stand for and why? Is it okay to make statements such as: eliminate education, government aid to the needy, commerce and EPA, insist the weathly garner more wealth via subsidized taxation, electrify the border fence, waterboarding is cool, what the national religion should be? From a "mainstream" point of view, these comments are shocking and unacceptable. We are NOT a fringe nation and can no longer be an isolationist nation, at that. President Obama inherited a huge mess from the prior president (Mr. Cheney) and for the Congress and Senate to sit there, unwilling to work with him, even though he has extended his hand across the aisle more times than needed, is down right "UnAmerican." Does anyone feel the same way as I do? I am tired of it all. It is time to retire the right-eous. They have NO platform, NO plans to embrace the diversity of the US population and lead us as one nation and NOT classes, NO plans to understand the complex nature of domestic and international welfare, NO plans to meet anyone's needs except their own, NO plans to benchmark competent governance and integrate the best and most logical ideas into their own agenda, and really, NO plans to be president! They DO plan to sell more books and add to their own slush funds then take a job with FOX Propaganda "news". Barack Obama for 2012 most definitely!
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Kola Kid
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The two billionaire Koch brothers, funders of the Tea Party Express, Americans for Prosperity, American Legislative Exchange Council, and other fascist organizations aimed at undermining our government fund Uncle Cain, and he's spoken at many of their events. That being so, Uncle Cain must know that the billionaire Koch brothers work via Americans for Prosperity. As to why the Koch brothers fund Cain, I think they'll use any pawn to fulfill their fascist goals.
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Larry Navarette
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Congress is SUPPOSED to represent their constituents, but, instead, they represent the rich. The president is just the whipping boy of Congress, because, the same congressmen keep getting re-elected, and all the attention is on the president, who does not make the laws. Congress does, so, quit bashing the president, its Congress that needs to be replaced, all of them!!!
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Pauline Recafort
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In their latest GOP debate, Romney guaranteed that he will start WW III by bombing Iran. Very smart move, especially by making it so public. I'm sure that helps Israel as well, and our Middle East partners. Go ahead and vote for him if you want to continue the GOP pattern of continual wars. They always want to have the US in a war somewhere, just look back at history.
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LaxaMana
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Gallup Poll 11/13 : Against a generic, unnamed Republican challenger, Obama tied 43% to 43%. But when voters were pushed to pick between Obama and the GOP front-runner, Mitt Romney, the president took a 6-percentage-point lead. Obama beat Herman Cain by 9 percentage points in the survey.

Obama might not be doing the best job in office right now, but I guarantee he is doing a better job than ANY Republican candidate would do with their f*cked up policies, and all their ties with lobbyists.

First of all, Republicans have much more ties with lobbyists than Obama does. Wikileaks Libya released information about how an ex-C I A, a GOP Lobbyist, and an ex-RNC/AIPAC fundraiser offered to help Ghadafi by improving his image here in the United States if they paid them $10 million. I also read about how GOP lobbyists secretly planned to smear the Occupy Wall Street protests, and those who supported it:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/memo-exposes-strategy-harm-democrats-undermining-occupy-wall-211532654.html

Also, how can ANY president do anything when everything he presents is shot down. And don't bring up that in the beginning of his presidency he had total power because what he did was try to play nice so that he wouldn't be viewed as somebody that doesn't work with others, even if they disagree with them, to get things done. Now, he has to pay for it because unfortunately, Republicans are like that. Many have come out and stated that they only want to get Obama out. And this was at the beginning of his presidency whe they said that.

Another thing that I should mention is that although the TSA might be invading your privacy, they do NOT use "harmful radiation". Some uneducated Republican claim that...LOL! The levels of radiation they use are less than the radiation they use on your teeth, and if that still bothers you, then you can be screened privately. So many of you are so worried about your homeland security, and terrorist attacks, but you all are against giving up some privacy for more security. When Bush wanted the Patriot Act, most of you Republicans agreed, and that act invaded much more privacy than friggin TSA does with a scan of a person they don't even know, and will most likely not see again, not to mention that private area's are blurred out a bit.

BTW, REPUBLICANS are the ones who want to make huge cuts to Social Security. JUST GOOGLE IT. Also, Google anything you doubt about what I mentioned here. Don't be ignorant.
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Why Obama is no longer the underdog
By David Pennock | The Signal
From: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/signal/why-obama-underdog-october-favorite-once-more-190454967.html

Pretty much since the day he was elected president of the United States in November 2008, Barack Obama has been the favorite on prediction markets like Intrade and Betfair to win re-election for a second term, as most incumbents do. That changed in September and October, when the budget stalemate and grim economic news turned Obama, for the first time, into an underdog.

But after bottoming out on October 8, when the prediction markets gave him a 48 percent chance of winning re-election, Obama has slowly and steadily climbed back to his August levels. His current odds, computed as an average of Intrade and Betfair, give him a 51.4 percent chance to win.

Obama's poll results and approval ratings are ticking up now, too. While it's tempting to credit scandals (exhibit C and G) or infighting among Obama's potential Republican rivals, or Republican stubbornness in the ongoing deficit reduction debate, the simplest explanation harkens back to the signature phrase of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, "It's the economy, stupid."

Brighter economic news and the prospect of a decent holiday season have handicappers wagering that economic conditions, or at least momentum, will be sufficient next fall that many voters will consider themselves better off in 2012 than 2008, and pull the lever for Obama.

The stock market is itself a massive prediction market forecasting the future profits of American businesses. As such, the Standard and Poor's 500 index offers about as good a guide as any to the economic outlook ahead. In the last 90 days, the S&P 500 has tracked a remarkably similar course as Obama: declining in September, bottoming out on October 3, rising steadily through October until November before beginning a slight decline again on November 14.

Obama's chances of reelection and the S&P 500 index price
In the figure, I've graphed Obama's likelihood to win on the prediction markets and the S&P 500 index price on the same chart. Although there can be a danger of reading too much into suggestive graphs (I don't advocate chartism), it's hard to imagine the correspondence is purely coincidental.
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Memo exposes strategy to harm Democrats by undermining Occupy Wall Street
By Rachel Rose Hartman | The Ticket
From: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/memo-exposes-strategy-harm-democrats-undermining-occupy-wall-211532654.html

Many efforts are afoot to use the "Occupy Wall Street" movement against their Democratic defenders in Washington, but a new memo revealed by MSNBC provides specific details of one attempt at this strategy for all the public to see.

The memo, reported Saturday on MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes," was created by lobbying firm Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford-- home to former aides for Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio):
http://tinyurl.com/6w37ahl
It outlines an anti-OWS strategy to the firm's clients at o the American Bankers Association. Among other things, the memo suggests the Association pay the firm $850,000 for opposition research on OWS to create negative narratives, while also helping build a case for political figures who want to defend Wall Street.

The memo also plainly stated several arguments that contradict messages coming from the Republican party as a whole-- arguing contrary to GOP leaders, for example, that the OWS movement is a legitimate political threat and shares some similarities with the tea party.

View a pdf of the memo here via MSNBC:
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/CLGF-msnbc.pdf
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10 Things Newt Gingrich Doesn’t Want You To Know About Him
Zaid Jilani
Think Progress (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/03/03/147466/newt-gingrich-10-things/ )
November 30, 2011

Today, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced that he is taking steps to consider becoming the GOP nominee for president in 2012.
As Gingrich begins the long process of possibly running for President, he is likely to take every effort to mold his image to make himself palatable to American voters. Yet the public deserves to know every important detail about the history of the man who may seek to be their leader. ThinkProgress has assembled a list of ten things Gingrich probably doesn’t want you to know about him:

1. DESPITE BATTLING THE "SECULAR SOCIALIST" AGENDA, GINGRICH CHEATED ON HIS WIVES SEVERAL TIMES: One of Gingrich’s main themes in his columns and speeches over the past few years has been the need to stop the "secular socialist" takeover of America, which he blames for the demise of the family. Yet he had several of these affairs while attacking President Bill Clinton for his own. He justified his hypocrisy to his second wife once, telling her, "It doesn't matter what I do."

2. WHILE DEMONIZING GOVERNMENT LARGESS, GINGRICH POURED MORE FEDERAL MONEY INTO HIS DISTRICT THAN ALMOST ANY OTHER: The politics of the mid-1990's was marked by the right’s attempt to decimate the social safety net. As Gingrich waged his campaign to destroy unemployment insurance and aid for needy families, he made his own district the recipient of huge amounts of federal aid. Under Gingrich, his district in Cobb County, GA received more "federal subsidies than any suburban county in the country, with two exceptions: Arlington Virginia, effectively part of the Federal Government, and Brevard County Florida, the home of the Kennedy Space Center."

3. IN 2007, GINGRICH BACKED CAP-AND-TRADE, THEN FLIP-FLOPPED TWO YEARS LATER: Talking to PBS just four years ago, Gingrich said, "I think if you have mandatory caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, then there’s a package that’s very, very good. And frankly, it’s something I would strongly support." He even cut an ad with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) warning of the dangers of climate change. Just two years later, Gingrich ended all of his green advocacy in favor pandering to far-right views on the environment. "Imposing stunningly high taxes on an economy in the middle of a recession is fundamentally wrong. … [A]rtificially capping their economy is the wrong approach," he said in testimony before Congress.

4. GINGRICH BLAMED THE MASSACRES AT COLUMBINE AND VIRGINIA TECH ON "LIBERALISM": Showing that his cynicism knows no bounds, Gingrich blamed “the liberal academic elite, the liberal political elite" for the Columbine shootings in Littleton, CO. He followed the same script after the massacre at Virginia Tech, saying liberalism is responsible for the “dehumanization" that led to the killings.

5. GINGRICH WANTED THE RICH TO DECIDE WHEN THEIR OWN TAX CUTS WOULD END: During last winter’s debate over extending the Bush tax cuts, Gingrich said that we should "have the business leadership of the country describe the number" of months that the cuts for the wealthiest should last.

6. DESPITE RAILING AGAINST THE "PARTY OF FOOD STAMPS," GINGRICH PROPOSED EXPANDING THEM: One of the memes Gingrich has pushed over the past year is that Democrats are the "party of food stamps" because they believe in federal food assistance for the indigent. Yet in 2002, when President George W. Bush proposed expanding some food stamp programs, Gingrich backed him, saying that the "welfare reform" law he helped author in the 1990s went too far in cutting food assistance.

7. FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS, GINGRICH HAS FRONTED FOR THE HEALTH INDUSTRY: Gingrich helped found a number of major businesses, including a for-profit health care firm called the "Center for Health Transformation" (CHT) and a communications firm called the "Gingrich Group." CHT serves approximately 94 health industry corporations and lobby groups. Despite many meetings with Republican lawmakers to shape health care legislation, Gingrich refuses to register as a lobbyist.

8. GINGRICH REFERRED TO JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR AS A "LATINA WOMAN RACIST": During the debate over the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor, Gingrich took to his Twitter account to say that Sotomayor, who is a "latina woman racist" should withdraw from the nomination.

9. GINGRICH FLIP-FLOPPED ON THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE: In 2008, Gingrich suggested "insurance mandates for people who earn more than $75,000 a year." Yet by 2010, he was blasting the mandate as unconstitutional.

10. GINGRICH SAID WE SHOULD ALLOW SOME TERRORIST ATTACKS TO REMIND US OF THE DANGER: During a book tour, Gingrich told an audience in a speech that was televised on C-SPAN that the Bush administration had been very successful at intercepting terrorists, but had not gotten credit for it, explaining that maybe we should’ve "allowed an attack to get through to remind" Americans about the danger of terrorism.

Throughout his career, Gingrich has devoted himself to constantly changing his views on a whim and trying to position himself relative to the political climate of the moment . While he claims to have changed, the facts haven’t, and ThinkProgress will keep you informed about his latest flip flops and turnarounds in the coming months.

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