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from: Matt Munson
date: 2011-12-05 21:31:18
subject: Newt Is a Bad Idea

Hello everybody.

04/02/1987 - He cosponsored the 1987 Fairness Doctrine

10/22/1991 - He voted for an amendment that would create a National Police Corps.

03//1993 - He Voted for sending $1.6 Billion in foreign aid to Russia.

11/19/1993 - He voted for the NAFTA Implementation Act.

11/27/1994 - He supported the GATT Treaty giving sovereignty to the U.N.

08/27/1995 - He suggests that drug smuggling should carry a death sentence.

04/25/1996 - Voted for the single largest increase on Federal education
spending ($3.5 Billion)

04/10/1995 - He supported Federal taxdollars being spent on abortions.

06/01/1996 - He helped a Democrat switch parties in an attempt to defeat
Ron Paul in the 1996 election.

09/25/1996 - Introduced H.R. 4170, demanded life-sentence or execution for
someone bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across the border.

01/22/1997 - Congress gave him a record-setting $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing.

11/29/2006 - He said that free speech should be curtailed in order to fight
terrorism. Wants to stop terrorists from using the internet. Called for a
"serious debate about the 1st Amendment."

11/29/2006 - He called for a "Geneva Convention for terrorists"
so it would be clear who the Constitution need not apply to.

02/15/2007 - He supported Bush's proposal for mandatory carbon caps.

09/28/2008 - Says if he were in office, he would have reluctantly voted for
the $700B TARP bailout.

10/01/2008 - Says in an article that TARP was a "workout, not a bailout."

12/08/2008 - He was paid $300,000 by Freddie Mac to halt Congress from
bringing necessary reform.

03/31/2009 - Says we should have Singapore-style drug tests for Americans.

07/30/2010 - Says that Iraq was just step one in defeating the "Axis
of Evil".

08/03/2010 - Advocates attacks on Iran & North Korea.

08/16/2010 - Opposes property rights of the mosque owner in NYC.

11/15/2010 - He defended Romneycare

12/05/2010 - He said that a website owner should be considered an enemy
combatant, hunted down and executed, for publishing leaked government
memos.

01/30/2011 - He lobbied for ethanol subsidies.

01/30/2011 - He suggested that flex-fuel vehicles be mandated for Americans.

02/13/2011 - He criticized Obama for sending less U.S. taxdollars to Egypt.

02/15/2011 - His book said that he believes man-made climate-change and
advocated creating "a new endowment for conservation and the
environment."

03/09/2011 - He blames his infidelity to multiple wives on his passion for
the country.

03/15/2011 - Says that NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico.

03/19/2011 - He has no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage.
(Now $7.2T unfunded liability)

03/23/2011 - He completely flip-flopped on Libyan intervention in 16 days.

03/25/2011 - He plans to sign as many as 200 executive orders on his first
day as president.

04/25/2011 - He's a paid lobbyist for Federal ethanol subsidies.

05/12/2011 - He was more supportive of individual health-care mandates than
Mitt Romney.

06/09/2011 - His own campaign staff resigned en masse.

07/15/2011 - His poorly managed campaign is over $1 Million in debt.

08/01/2011 - He hired a company to create fake Twitter to appear as if he
had a following.

10/07/2011 - He said he'd ignore the Supreme Court if need be.

- Gingrich voted for an increase in the debt ceiling in 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1984

- Gingrich voted to permit the Federal Reserve to purchase Treasury Debt

- Bailed out savings and loan institutions in 1991. $40B Bank bailout

- Gingrich voted to strengthen the federal home loan agencies

- Gingrich voted for increased powers to the FDIC to bail out struggling
savings and loans through reorganization, purchase of bad assets, or
recapitalizatio n.

- Gingrich voted in favor of the Chrysler Bailout in 1979

- Gingrich voted for an oil windfall profits tax in 1979, which was signed
by Jimmy Carter.

- Urged Clinton to expand military presence in Bosnia.

- Gingrich voted against a provision requiring congressional approval prior
to deployment of U.S. troops into Central America in 1983.

- Gingrich voted to increase CIA secrecy and against any requirement that
the President report covert activity to congress before it is initiated.

- Gingrich voted for Jimmy Carters Energy Mobilization Board.

- Gingrich voted for an increase in taxes on coal producers in 1981

- Gingrich voted for a 5-cent increase in the gas tax to fund highway and
other mass-transit projects.

- Gingrich was one of the few who voted against the 1984 bill requiring the
President and Congress to submit a balanced budget

- Gingrich voted for a congressional pay raise

- Gingrich voted against a bipartisan 1% cut to the Department of Defense
budget for 1983

Matt

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