Lunch-losing video: Gingrich and Pelosi tag-team for Al Gore
I mentioned the massive, $300 million Gore-bastic global warming hype ad campaign a few weeks ago. I thought the Robertson/Sharpton pairing was going to be bad, but it’s nothing compared to these two stiffs on a couch peddling eco-alarmism. There was a time when Newt Gingrich and the Beltway GOP establishment could be counted on to defend free market environmentalism, property rights, and rational cost-benefit analyses. No more:
Whose grin looks more strained and frozen at the end?
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My coworkers are rabidly debating the Hussein Obama v. Clinton primary today and now this? I must not have survived the night’s rest and am now in a very bad place. :/
Newt’s time has come and gone.
That’s the best thing that’s happened to my diet in years – I’ll keep it, and whenever I start to feel hungry, I’ll watch it. Completely takes the appetite away!
Al Gore = Out of Office. Needs work.
Newt Gingrich = Out of Office. Needs work.
Global warming = emotional issue that cretins with no sense will hyperventalate over and do stupid things like give money to Al Gore and Newt Gingrich. Both get work.
whiskey tango foxtrot?!
i used to respect newt …
as a commenter on another blog has said many a time “this climate change hectoring is NOT FUNNY anymore. Our lives are going to be HURT by all this garbage.”
Oh good. Now hopefully people will quit suggesting he run for some office again.
What is it about Georgia politicians who won’t go away?
I’m sorry, but most of my fellow Conservatives like or liked Newt because he SAID he was Conservative.
He is so full of hot air he give Ted Kennedy a run for his money. Only we agree with most of what he SAYS.
Talk is cheap.
They have another one with Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson sitting on the couch. Saw them both on Fox news channel last night almost back to back.
George Soros, David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger types all recognize that by Greening up the citizenry they can green-up their already fat wallets.
It isn’t with a little bit of regret that I have to say that for years I never had much respect for Gingrich. I always kept it to myself. After this sorry display, I’m not going to feel disloyal to conservatives ever again, when ever Gingrich is the topic..
The odd thing is that all these politicians are coming out in favor of Global Warming when the evidence that it has stopped is overwhelming. Do they read?
Why do I feel so betrayed…
Now, I can’t even trust Newt.
I guess it comes down to not trusting
any of ‘em, anymore!
karl and the girls
LESSER OF TWO EVILS….
ACROSS THE Aisle ..Mc Cain / Feingold (sp) / Mc Cain/ Kennedy
Republican pork spending….
This “FROGGY” is jumping out of the slowly boiling water —- NOW!
When someone told me he did this, I thought it was a joke.
In 1975 it was Global Cooling and they were trying to figure out ways to melt the icebergs before they reached Arizona!
What about natural earth cycles don’t these people get? Why are the Republicans selling out on this issue among many others?
I think climate change is indeed happening, HELL is freezing over.
Just another example of MSM pushing the latest fashion of political correctness and becoming so mainstream that it becomes a given, unquestionable fact. And anyone who attempts to argue otherwise is regarded as being out of touch, out of date or out of their minds.
Newt is a crap weasel.
I believe Cheap Trick said it best…..
He’s a whore, he’ll do anything for money.
Megga ditto.
again…”follow the money”
Newt realizes he’s gonna take it on the chin from the right wingers for this add. I don’t see any evidence that he’s doing it for any financial gain.
Maybe Newt really, honestly believes that our environment is in deep trouble if we don’t change the way we do things.
Is it really fair to question his long history of strong conservative credentials just because of this campaign? Do you want leaders to stand up for what they believe in, or do you want androids that listen the Hannity, Rush and Beck, read MM, and tailor all of their opinions to suit the ultra-right base.
I’ve never liked Newt, and rarely agreed with him, but I’ve almost always respected him.(except for the way he did his ex-wife, but that’s another story)
Ok, who put the pod in Newt’s bed last month?
I am ready to start looking for human sized pods in Newt’s basement….
Ha-Dimsdale. We’ve seen the same 1950s movies.
Right = Left. The paradigm has expired and there is only one party left to rule us. We have to fight against these control measures tooth and nail. Please people, global warming is not a Left vs. Right Issue anymore, it’s not even a Science vs. Junk Science issue, it’s now the People vs. the Elites.
Cling to your Guns!
Uh – I have too – but I saw it when it first came out!
Last month? Try years ago when that cr*pweasel started cheating around and surrendering all the gains the Republicans made in 94…
It was a “WTF?” moment when I saw this ad on tv last night.
Newt disappoints me.
I knew I shouldn’t have made Cowboy Stew for lunch today. I might have to counteract my dyspepsia it with borscht or something.
Newt has some great ideas on the subject. Please hear him out and then decide. You know regulations and changes are coming. It’s just how we want them to come about. An example: Should we give incentives to companies that come up with alternative fuels or tax the hell out of them until they move to another county or shut down all together?
Tax the hell out of them. NEXT.
Newt thinks we need to be part of the debate so he validates this chicken little syndrome fueled by the same junk science thats already admitted that no matter what we do the result won’t change?
Doesn’t say much Newt.
Yeah, they’re coming because people like Newt sell out to this fraud instead of standing against it.
Recently there has been an ad on the left sidebar at Townhall of Al Gore and his climate change crap. I wondered why they were running that.
And I just noticed another climate change ad is running on the right sidebar. Are Conservatives starting to buy this crap? The temps have been cooling for the past few years again. Climate change has nada to do with what humans do… It’s a cycle the earth goes through. Why… WHY are conservatives buying into this???
That is the policy of big gooberment is it not, find something to tax? So, now we will be taxed on the air we breathe (okay, carbon usage). It took a long time to come up with an idea to do just the – tax the air. Remember when the “air waves” belonged to the public? This is where Newt lost us. Not that we are “ultra-right base”.
Mark my words, we will be taxed for sun usage some day (as soon as the politico’s figure out what to call it).
What taxes are you talking about???? Companies have to earn a profit in order to be taxed. The “alternative fuels” companies haven’t even come close yet. And by the time they do, they’ll have enough tax-loss-carryforwards to last them for years.
The effect on our economy if the global warming chicken-littles get their way will be disastrous. Watching Republicans give in on this rather than fighting, at a time when the evidence is mounting that this is nothing but hysteria, is very depressing.
The Alar scare all over again
Just think Green, the color of bile. These two are nauseating. Perfect book ends.
Maybe Algore let Newt ride in the front of his jumbo jet. I understand it has been a lifelong dream of his.
Newt is just the tip of the iceberg, Republicans in general are adopting the global warming agenda. Our current president, and all our presidential candidates have bought into the Global Warming hoax, and are executing it’s agenda predictably.
You’ll also notice that most “conservative” commentators have started banging the Global Warming drum. The memo must have gone out. Global Warming is a perfect bogeyman for the ruling class, and the Republicans have adopted it accordingly. Now all we have to do to protect ourselves from terrorists and climate change is give up all our rights and guns, and pay the government for the privilege of breathing and driving.
Soap,
This is not new, its taken right out of the euro tax “the hell out of ‘em” book.
From my experience, Germany has been taxing the air for years. Long before this global warming hoax started.
Anyplace that is determined to be a resort is subject to this special tax.
Of course you have church tax taken out of your check in relation to your denomination.
The libs love europe, and europe loves the libs, ever wonder why? Birds of a feather.
I saw the ad last night to. Had the same reaction.
The Democratic party left Reagan. He became a Republican. The Democratic party left me. I became a Republican.
The Republican party left me. Where to now? This is the worst presidential election cycle I have witnessed in my life. I have admired Newt for a long time. Now this.???
Michelle, where did you get this idea? Check out Newt’s site. All he talks about are free market solutions and property rights. Or check out this interview he did at Slate .
Here’s a quote from the interview: “I want to start by saying that I believe we need an entrepreneurial, science and technology oriented approach to the environment…a majority of Democrats, independents, and Republicans all agree that entrepreneurs can do more than bureaucrats to solve environmental challenges”
Pelosi and Gingrich: Washington birds of a feather and all that jazz.
I saw it on television a few days ago on Fox News Channel, if I remember correctly. Then, a couple of days later, I saw the one with Sharpton and Robertson.
Hopefully, as alluded above, this will nip the talk of Gingrich running on the Republican ticket in the bud.
The very public service announcement that I talked about on the Celebrate: Earth Day thread. I feel like there are no conservatives left in the halls of government except for a very small and shrinking minority.
Amen, my brother from another mother!
I’ll be sending Newt’s book back to the conservative bookclub. No way I’m paying for it now. Everyone has just gone completely mad.
Unfortunately Newt is showing his RINO side. This is very unfortunate, especially with all the news against global warming finally showing its face.
Thanks for all the comments. I don’t believe in this hype, I just see that we can fight fire with fire. Cut taxes all in the name of gorebal warming. How would the lefties not pass something for gorebal warminng?
I gotta love it. This site and Hot Air, how many times have we seen “Newt for President” and such. The guy is what he’s always been; all for Newt, no different or better then the rest.
He’s a gadfly, running from station to station for his fees, and hey, buy my new book!
The sooner you all realize that nearly all of these people are self serving parasites and do something about it at your local levels and at the polls, then you’re gonna keep being shocked by the obvious.
It didn’t stop McCain.
I haven’t seen any of these commercials, I must be doing something right. Woohoo!!
No shock or mystery here.
Newt= Old corrupt Republican party.
Pelosi= New corrupt Demolican party.
We haven’t had a hurricane worthy of the designation in the two years since Katrina and Vancouver just had their latest snowfall ever. The hysteria about global warming is being disproved by Mother Nature herself and where are those who are willing to speak Truth to the eco-terrorists like Al Gore? We used to be able to depend on CONSERVATIVES like McCain and Gingrich, but they have decided to slurp from the Treason Media’s Kool-Aid nozzles in the futile hope that they will then be loved. Stupid fools. We are lost.
I remember The Reverend Bobby Knight speaking on this subject.
“”"I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it. …”"
I’m not enjoying it. I’m white, I’m bitter, I’m Christian and I’m clinging to my guns.
I know! I saw it during a commercial break on FNC the other night and nearly lost dinner. Eck!
Now I am green today too – from nausea. Farewell, Newt. It was fun.
Can anyone tell me what the color of common sense is?
One thing is for certain, this is not an example of Left and Right coming together over Global Warming. Pelosi has not budged an inch, Newt has completely capitulated to the Left on this issue. Its bad enough that the Left wants to surrender in the war on terrorism, but some on the Right want to surrender to the cowards on the Left. What spineless RINO’s! The only problem Global Warming has created is insanity!
Everybody wants their piece of the global warming pie. I hope they choke on it. I cannot afford this crap. I’m trying to fix up the affordable house my husband and I bought instead of the house on the lake. Which if we had bought and couldn’t afford it, my liberal superheroes could swoop in and fly all of my problems away. Damn me for being responsible…
I saw this commercial on The History Channel last night and really wanted to vomit.
How many “conservatives” are going to turn turncoat? I may never vote Republican again!
Saw it last night. Ugh! What is with these Republicans acting like/becoming nutroots?
I thought my husband was joking until I saw and heard this sickening video clip. We’ve been sold out by another phony
conservative RepublicanFox News contributor.You know what a dog/cat does and sounds like right before it is about to barf? That’s what I feel like now.
He couldn’t pass up the money or the publicity.
And I guess he felt that he didn’t say anything terribly bad:
“Our country must take action to address climate change.”
The debate these days is about whether or not there’s climate change actually happening, and what’s causing it. So, speaking as a true politician, he didn’t actually say that there was climate change due to the usual suspects – rather, we should address climate change.
rrb # 26
You pracically took the words right out of my updated response.
Thanks
…practically…
Someday I’ll be able to proof w/o enlarged print
Wrong.
Government has invented many more ingenious ways to vacuum money out of the pockets of the citizenry than merely “income” taxes. Do you think if the oil companies and/or cigarette manufacturers were losing money, the government would rescind or even temporarily suspend their hefty share of the price of a gallon/pack? Hardly.
The taxes on “green” companies would simply be another component of the “price” to the public, regardless of the profitability of the product/service. Since using the products/services would then be mandated by law, like having a required percent of ethanol in gasoline by year 20XX, the public would not even have the option of making their own spending choices. Suspension of the practice of capitalism has long been an underlying goal of the ecofreaks anyway.
The tax component of the price of these two products (and there are many others, like alcohol) is already so large that the “profit” per unit to government is many multiples higher than that earned by the manufacturers themselves.
And the government does absolutely nothing to “earn” their take, except to shovel the money into the bottomless pit in Washington. In fact, in the case of the oil companies in particular, it does everything it possibly can to make it more difficult for them to invest in future profit-making opportunities, like Anwar and off-shore drilling, or exploring the vast reserves under the western United States, or even building more refineries.
I think this is a sign of the Apocolypse. The End is truly near.
Repeat something often enough (even if it’s pure BS) & pretty soon people will begin to believe it.
Oh, thats what’s going on here. Newt is just trying to impress liberal chicks by pretending to be green. After his hormones subside in June, he’ll come back to his senses and try to restore his damaged reputation. Sorry Newt, I don’t care if you were blinded by raging hormons. You made your bed with Polosi, now you can lie in it.
These dolts can bloat and fester all they want.
When it comes down to it, technology and fuels are about to morph out of the reach of Pelosi Galore’s and Bewt’s cognizance.
The morphing of technology and fuels is based on something oil corporations have bet their survival on- real science done by real scientists who can’t make sh*t up and then quote moral platitudes to justify their chicanery.
Gore’s “Climate Change” horse hockey has been discredited by real science. The dry bones of Gore’s Nobel theories are rattling in embarassing timbre as we speak.
The tax effort will collapse as oil corporations and automakers begin to show cards they haven’t just yet, and new ways of looking at an old problem come to the fore.
And that impossible Peanut Head from Georgia finally kicks off….remember his solution to the “energy crisis” of the 70s? Wear a sweater! LMAO And he was a nuclear engineer?
OY!
Just one more confirmation I have held for years. There is NO Difference between Republicans and Democrats. It is just one big scam.
I think it is time for conservatives to seriously consider leaving the republican party.
When you have Bob Barr snd Mike Gravel of Alaska joining the Libertarians- individuals with serious political experience-and the Republicans all but caving in the Left on Illegal Immigration and global warming, it is time to take stock and see if it is worth it for us conservatives to continue supporting a party that loves our vote and then tries to screw us with it once they are in office.
In other words I already see a re-establishment of political equilibrium, but this time away from the Republicans,and to lesser extent the Democrats, but to what?
Can I fully swallow ALL that the Libertarians go for? Hmmm….The thought is increasingly tempting.
[Emphasis is mine.] I guess the blizzard was magically connected with global worming as well.
My 2 cents on this matter.
I’m hardly a scientist, but I’m certainly not as certain as the consensus seems to be around here that human conduct can’t bring about change in the environment. Around these parts, the downtown area is usually 10 or so degrees warmer than the areas surrounding the city. Why? It seems to me that it has something to with the densities of the building in the downtown area. Isn’t it possible that “global warming” or “climate change” just a larger-scale version of this heat-island effect, i.e., human conduct effecting “natural” temperatures?
Also, it seems to me that the desire to develop alternative fuels and tax incentives for such development is an idea which should cut across party lines and politics.
For the rest of my life, I will look back to this example to demonstrate for younger people the difference between:
“Conservative” & “Conservative POLITICIAN..”
~ Dan Lee
I was joking (re:tax the hell out of them), as I’m sure you understood. Using absurdity to illustrate a point, as Rush would say. There were only two options given. There is another way–drill for the oil that we know is there.
Here is a recent response from Newt himself:
You can also get more information by looking at Contract with the Earth
Makes me wonder what companies are in Newt’s financial portfolio?
How is this “coming together” when Pelosi doesn’t move an inch? The only people moving are the “conservatives”, who are moving drastically to the left!. We will never see Liberals move to the right to solve a BS problem. That is it for me with Newt Gingrich. He has good ideas, but this is the last straw. It is like Rush says…why do we except these Liberal premises? Especially when the jury is still out on man-made Global Warming. What a crock. I lost all respect for Newt here.
A stark reminder that, first and foremost, Newt is a politician. And like all politicians, they have an irresistable, almost Pavlovian, response to the almighty dollar or to opportunities that reverse their growing irrelevancy. I believe I even saw his mouth watering while sitting next to Pelosi.
Yep, when I saw this ad with Pelosi and Gingrich, I was pretty nauseous. I guess Newt really misses the limelight and if Pelosi puts on one more coating of makeup she’ll look positively inert (okay that’s her most of the time).
Newt also misunderstands even underestimates the intelligence of everyday conservatives. For him to cozy up to Pelosi because he thinks that no other conservative will is just a joke. The thing that Newt is missing is that he’s accommodating this insane movement through engagement. It’s like Carter talking with Hamas- what’s the ultimate outcome of such a pairing?
Newt really missed the mark on this one. For him to think that Conservatives aren’t aware of the environment and ways to conserve really implies why his tenure as House Speaker didn’t last all that long.
Where, where, WHERE are the statesmen our country so desperately needs today? Sigh. I guess I’ll have to content myself with watching old C-Span footage of the Gipper and savor the glory days.
This is a little off topic, I know, but…
with Heath Ledger’s tragic death has anyone tapped Pelosi to play The Joker in any subsequent Batman movies? She looks like she could pull it off with minimal makeup.
et tu Newt? The GOP is not even a shell of it’s former, somewhat conservative, self.
I am …. …. …. speechless.
Newt??? Wake up and smell the Kool Aid!
Newt said, “I have a different view. I think it’s important to be on the stage, to engage in the debate, and to communicate our position clearly.”
That wouldn’t be so bad as long as our position was there is no such thing as man made global warming. It seems to me we are simply crossing the aisle one more time while the democrats stand their ground.
I’ll wait and see before I make anymore judgements about Newt. I don’t expect much, other than moving closer to the dems on this or any other issue.
Newt? You’re dead to me, dude.
Adios. It’s been nice, but now it’s time to crawl back under your rock.
He is just getting paid like the “Provides services for money” he is.
He could not beat them so he joins them.
“We don’t always see eye-to-eye, but we do agree that the government can ride roughshod over you roobs because you’ll believe any of the tripe we sell you, and you will buy it with a smile on your face.”
How much is this guy getting to sell us up the river?
I have to say when I saw this last night I was like wth is newt doing on the same couch with “that women”.
Now I have to write newt off as well!
Newt is being exposed for the Rockefeller Republican he always has been and his CFR agenda is on full display.He is promoting the same elitist agenda on the man made Global Warming Hoax.
He has just repacked the name, “Green Conservatism” using the spin that we must be in the debate.
From his own website there is this:.
“As a key part of green prosperity and green development, there has to be a green energy strategy which is designed to enable the human race to make the transition from historic fossil fuels which dramatically improved the quality of life over the pre-industrial period to a new clean generation of energy which will: enable us in national security terms to be liberated from dependence on dangerous dictatorships; enable us in economic terms to be effective in worldwide competition; and enable us in environmental terms to provide for a much cleaner and healthier future.”
There is absolutely no evidence that “Fossil Fuels” are in any way raising the temperature of the earth yet he is claiming that we must make the transition to some magical alternative fuel that will benefit man kind. There is no alternative fuel on the horizon and probably will not be in the next 50 years.
When he was in Congress, he could have worked to stop Congress from capping oil wells letting the Government take over the oil industry in America. We have more oil in the USA than we could possibly use but our own Congress has placed it all off limits due to “environmental” concerns, which I think is just a cover for the Government taking over the oil industry. (They already make more money than the oil companies in taxing them)
The Energy Crisis has been created by our own Government and IMHO it is criminal that it is allowed to continue. Our economy is being destroyed as we speak.
The ethanol mandates that GWB recently signed into law are resulting in Global Food shortages and famine in some third world countries. Because of the Ethanol fuel mandates alone, Food prices have increased by 37% last year because the price of corn that is used to make ethanol has tripled in price.
If we allowed the North Slope of Alaska to be opened to Domestic production and not just ANWAR, we would see crude oil prices of $10-15 dollars a barrel. It is all supply and demand.
What kind of insanity allows this hoax to continue under the name of Global Warming or Environmentalism?
Good point. As you can see in Newt’s response that I posted, he states he doesn’t think it’s man made. I admit, I’m a huge Newt fan and I was worried when I first started seeing this issue growing on his site, but after reading much of what he’s thinking, it’s not as bad as people are trying to make it.
I’m glad to see that you are willing to keep an open mind.