Arizona: Gingrich

by David Safier
Here's a quote every Democrat playing duck-and-delay games with health care legislation should carry keep in mind.

Republican Senator Jim DeMint said if they can delay health care legislation until September, they can kill it.

"If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him," he said.

This is probably an overstatement, but the Obama presidency will be seriously damaged if one of his signature issues goes down in flames.

During the Clinton administration, Gingrich feared a Democratic health care bill. He saw that as a way for Democrats to cement their majority, so he knew he had to pull out all the stops to defeat it.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The Hill has a great piece about GOP concern that "Cheney, Gingrich and Rove have all sucked up time on cable news networks and sparked new controversies."

Love it:

Strategists privately stress the GOP needs to move past old faces, and one veteran Republican said the attacks could be effective.

“The conservatism of the 21st century should be divorced from personality politics and simply be about ideas,” said Craig Shirley, a biographer of former President Ronald Reagan. “But since the GOP appears to be bankrupt of ideas, this line of attack will be effective from the standpoint of putting them on the defensive again.

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David Neiwert, one of the leading experts on right-wing extremist organizations, reports at crooksandliars.com on the latest from the Ohio Militia The militias are on the march again: 'Million Man Militia' event planned in July

David Weigel at the Windy happened to catch the latest idea from the militiamen who are starting to see their paranoid ranks rising:

A peaceful demonstration of at least a million — hey, if we can 10 million, even better — but at least one million armed militia men marching on Washington. A peaceful demonstration. No shooting, no one gets hurt. Just a demonstration. The only difference from any typical demonstration is we will all be armed.

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Last week the wingnuttia trivial talking point was the "Obama bow." The Latest Faux Obama "Scandal" on Faux News: The Bow

This week the wingnuttia trivial talking point is "the handshake":

Wingnuttia, led by Dr. Newt "The Professor" Gingrich said Obama's handshake with Venezuela strong man Hugo Chavez poses a grave threat to our national security. During an interview on The Today Show Monday morning, Gingrich responded to a question this way:

Q: But we certainly have mended relationships with countries that have hated us in the past. Russia comes to mind, China comes to mind.

GINGRICH: But we didn't rush over, smile, and greet Russian dictators.