Gingrich in Florida: “My plans for our space program … will make NASA officials nervous”
The Steve Bussey Radio Experience and Stevebussey.com covered the Newt Gingrich town hall event today in Brevard County, Florida reporting for AM 1300 WMEL (1300wmel.com).
The Republican primary frontrunner currently locked in what some have characterized as a “bloody fist fight” with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for the presidential nomination said today in Cocoa, FL that his plans for the American space program are “very bold and very different and will make NASA officials very nervous.”
Gingrich then harkened back, as only a History professor can, to Abraham Lincoln stating the need for a transcontinental railroad even before the technology to cross the Rocky Mountains existed and having never seen a train himself, but had only read about them. Gingrich also pointed out that President Kennedy challenged America to send a man to the Moon and return him back to earth safely again before the end of the decade when manned space flight was still in its infancy and the technology did not yet exist.
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Supreme Court got another one wrong
Full disclosure: I’m a former cop and retired special agent so I do have some bias in this case and I understand any disagreements.
The Supreme Court unanimously decided that installing a GPS tracking device on a suspect’s car constitutes a search and therefore requires a search warrant, and I disagree and believe the Court used twisted and tortured logic to arrive at their conclusion.
As a rule I like it when courts reign in government in general and law enforcement in particular but I don’t like it when the courts use tortured logic, redefine words, make things up or rephrase our Constitution.
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GOP Debate: The Gingrich Sandbag & Santorum Blew It
For months now former Speaker Newt Gingrich has fielded allegations that he was paid $1.6 million by Freddie Mac for lobbying efforts, trying to tie him to the housing collapse and subsequent 2008 “Great Recession.” In last night’s debate, however, his answer was somewhat different than usual.
When faced with the $1.6 million – Freddie Mac – allegation from Mitt Romney last night Newt Gingrich said, paraphrasing, that he was not paid that money. He had a company with three offices that was paid $1.6 million and his income from that was only about $35,000 per year, the implication being that some of the money went to office/company overhead and the rest went to staff. He then looked at Mitt Romney and asked the gross income of Bain Capital and if that was considered his, Mitt Romney’s, income. The answer was clear.
If all of Gingrich’s answer last night was true, it was the perfect political sandbag over the past 6 months.
Rick Santorum was asked if increased drilling off Florida’s coast was worth the potential loss of tourism dollars in the event of a “BP-style oil spill” and he went off on some energy filibuster without actually answering the question.
The correct answer was, “there are over 4,000 oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, how many spills have you ever heard about? What if an asteroid hits earth tomorrow?”
Please Support Local “Alternative” Conservative Media
Folks, as my regular readers know I have a new talk radio show on AM 1300 WMEL based in Cocoa, FL but broadcasting internationally on 1300wmel.com every Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m. (EST). Although we are a local show and cover some local topics I always try to make the correlation to national and international issues and philosophies and use the issues to talk about the Constitution, the American founding philosophies and the American ideal.
If you believe, as I do and polls routinely prove, that government in America has lost the consent of the governed and the so-called mainstream media is in the tank for big government liberalism then it is imperative that we all support local alternative conservative media and their advertisers. It is important to patronize local advertisers and let them know what show or station you heard about them on.
If you are one of those people who constantly and consistently finds yourself throwing pillows at your television and yelling at your radio then please – please tune into live-local radio. And, if you’re frustrated that you can never get in touch with one of the major syndicated radio programs remember that you can almost always call your local conservative talk show host and voice your opinion and vent your frustrations locally! Rush Limbaugh takes very few calls in his three hours and it is extremely difficult to get through to Hannity and Beck. Don’t forget your local guys!
Like me, I bet you are frustrated with the state of our nation, state and federal government, and the half truths and outright lies from the mainstream media so jump in the water and participate with your local guys. But remember, in order to stay on the air they have to sell advertising so visit their sponsors and let those sponsors know where you heard about them and why you are patronizing them.
The battle to save our great nation is going to be fought and won at the local level.
Thank you and everyone please have a blessed day,
Steve
Why I can support Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich does what I have wanted national level Republicans to do for the past thirty years – fight back! I am sick and tired of the GOP’s inability to communicate and fight back – failing to defend the Party and the rank and file.
Remember, I was a Rick Perry supporter from the day he announced his campaign in South Carolina last August, and I have not yet decided between Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich although I like and dislike both. But, unlike Glenn Beck who drones on and on about the former Speaker being a dangerous Progressive, I have no problem supporting Newt Gingrich.
I, of course, know about Newt’s adultery and ethics violations. I know about the television commercial with Nancy Pelosi on the couch. I know about Freddie Mac and the $1.6 million.
But I also know that it was Newt Gingrich that pulled our nation back from the abyss during the Clinton Administration and at least bought America some time. You think Barack Obama is bad? Clinton was going to be every bit as bad as Obama.
Remember, Bill Clinton had a two-phase economic plan and he implemented phase one before the Republican Revolution in 1994. Phase one included raising taxes on the poor with gas taxes, the elderly by increasing the amount of taxes on Social Security recipients who made outside income, the middle class and the inheritance tax and he made his tax increases retroactive.
Newt Gingrich was instrumental in pulling Clinton kicking and screaming by the necktie into fiscal sanity and he was fearless in doing it. Did Newt have whacky ideas of his own that had to be kept in-check by other Republicans? No doubt, but that’s the beauty of our system. A key is that Gingrich had the ability to listen and compromise, unlike Obama.
I remember the ethics violations filed against Newt Gingrich and from what I remember, they had to do with his book deal and were political payback for Gingrich participating in bringing down former Democrat Speaker of the House Jim Wright (D-TX) for his book deal, but there was a major difference.
Jim Wright’s book didn’t sell so a union bought larger numbers of copies as political payoff and stored them in a warehouse. Gingrich’s book, on the other hand, sold and the accusation was that he was trading on his position as Speaker by landing the book deal. I have no problem with that at all.
According to the Huffington Post:
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