I don’t think Newt’s accusers ever apologized or returned the fine he paid just to shut them up so Congress could get some work done for the people who elected them.
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SOURCE:
What really happened in the Gingrich ethics case? by Byron York – January 24, 2012
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/what-really-happened-gingrich-ethics-case/336051
H/t: Pistol Pete’s Grudge Report
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If a man is accused of murder but is acquitted when all the facts come out, do we continue to call him a murderer? Of course not. I know politics can be a dirty business, and I expect Democrats to perpetuate this lie, but Mr. Romney is inflicting damage to a member of his own party using an approach that he knows is deceitful. Mr. Gingrich’s fellow Republicans may not have liked him in 1997, but he did not resign in disgrace, because he was exonerated of all ethics violations.
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It’ also my understanding that he didn’t resign until almost two years later. It wasn’t a result of the ethics charges, which proved to be bogus, but due to the Republicans not gaining enough seats in the election.
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To be honest, I was never really very clear on why Newt resigned. It’s true that the Republicans didn’t pick up as many House seats as they’d expected to, but didn’t the GOP still have the majority? Why did the failure to gain more seats constitute grounds for kicking out the speaker? Have past speakers done this when their party failed to gain enough seats in an election? I’m just curious, so if someone who knows the history of the House of Representatives better than I do can set me straight, I’ll be grateful.
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It was just a coup of sorts. Some of the Republicans blamed him for not getting enough seats, so they planned to run against him and gathered all their buddies together to vote him out. When he realized that he would be defeated, he resigned in, well…defeat. It’s also my understanding that they say he is difficult to work with, which could just be a conflict of personality/style, since he was obviously easy enough to work with to get voted into the position to begin!
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Liberals have never let something as inconvenient as facts get in the way when they’re destroying somebody.It really helps when you have no morals and no conscience.
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Ronald Reagan describing the ideological rigidity of the Left:
“If the facts don’t happen to fit the ideology, the facts are chopped off and discarded.”
Quoted in Conservative Victory by Sean Hannity (p 214)
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