Beltway fixture tells AWOL president he needs more time off
Washington swamp creature Newt Gingrich gets the dumb D.C. advice of the day award. In an interview with CBN’s David Brody, he says that permanent vacationer Barack Obama needs to spend more time away from the Beltway to “reflect.”
Really:
President Obama has had an amazing career. He’s gone from State Senator to U.S. Senator to Democratic Nominee to President with amazing speed. Now in this Election, he’s had his first really big decisive defeat. I think it’ll be really healthy for him if he could take off from Thanksgiving through most of December and really think. I mean walk on the beach or walk in the woods or whatever he likes doing but get away from the daily business and try to reflect on what happened. Why did it happen? What is it that the American people want?
The last two years have taught us an unmistakable fact about Obama:
He doesn’t give a rat’s patootie what the American people want.
This is a man who will insist until his dying day that the November midterms were failures of the electorate’s comprehension skills rather than his own arrogance and overreach.
Obama could spend the rest of eternity reflecting in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles and still not get it.
As for Obama’s need to ” get away,” perhaps Gingrich needs a copy of the “Recovery Summer” scrapbook (courtesy of our wonderful scrapbook czar, Doug Powers!):
No worries, though.
Wherever Obama muses and muddles, the American people will be working very hard to ensure that he’ll have all the time he needs to “reflect” in 2012 — after his one-term presidency ends.
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Commenter walterc on Obama and Gingrich: “I’m thinking I would like both of them to take the next two years off.”
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Is Newt saying POTUS needs a diaper change and a nap while the adults try to fix what he’s damaged?
Reflect. Like, looking at his own reflection?
Newt, Newt, Newt….
cicero, if Obama stands in front of a mirror there is no reflection.
P.S. Thanks for the hanging curve ball.
Newt needs to go back to the bench and sit with San Fran Nan and reflect on why we all think he is a RINO.
I think Newt was trying to say that Maobama needs a reality check. I dont think he meant anything about Maobama needing more time off. I even detect some condescension towards the Pres by Newt, so I really dont have any problem with his comment. Whether or not Maobama “reflects” on what happened 11-2, I think telling the Pres to think about what the American people want, is good advice for any dimocrat.
A two year vacation to reflect would be a good idea. The less we see and hear from him the better off we are. As for Newt, he should spend all his time writing historical books and shut his mouth too. Like Obama the less we see and hear from him the better off things are.
Presidents, CongressCritters, Agencies heads and other such feeders at the public troff need more time off indeed. If they don’t need it at least we need them to do less.
To borrow a line from PopEye the Sailor Man:
Don’t Do Something-Just Stand There! Toot Toot.
Olive Oil sends her love.
Yes cicerokid- Barrack Narcissus Obama can spend all eternity gazing at his own reflection in the River Styx-he is much less dangerous that way.
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Let your sidearm be like American Express:
Don’t Leave home without it.
I said it! Everyone is thinking it.
Obama can no more change his views than a leopard can change his spots. He is a rigid ideologue who thinks he is the world’s redeemer. He believes that he has been chosen to lead the world into a glorious future in which the federal government led by Ivy Leaguers such as himself, Michelle Obama and Frank Rich guide the stupid people to salvation. He truly believes (as does fellow Ivy Leaguer Frank Rich at NYT) that the stupid people need an Ivy League progressive to rule over them benevolently. So all the vacations in the world won’t change a thing. BTW, both Obamas told the “little people” that to take a vacation in the Gulf Coast. The Obamas spent all of half of a day in the gulf coast before they got their hides out of their and safely off to Martha’s Vineyard. Too many LSU grads in the Gulf, not enough Harvard folks like themselves and Frank Rich.
Good advice.
Yes we are!! +1
I don’t think bho could go awol for long. He has to get his voice and face on the tube daily for some reason or the other. He seems to think the more we see and hear him we will all come around and love what he has done and ‘thank’ him. I just pray that the new congress can put a stop to this man and his team.
L
Newt, just go away – Please!
Spot on, Michelle. Unfortunately, I think Barry’s eternity will be filled with the faces of babies left to die in a linen closet somewhere.
As for Newt, he should just shut his piehole.
Newt is a reptile like his name. I wish he’d go back under his rock.
I anticipate European distaste of Dear Leader coming soon to a theater near you.
I’m thinking I would like both of them to take the next two years off.
Newt the Rino, Obama the Won, two sides of the same coin . . .out to get what they can from America before the people say “enough”.
Amen to that…along with all the RINOs
I agree with Newt. The less time any of these clowns spend in DC, the better off we all are.
Go reflect, Barry.
Gingrich is showing himself to be the quintessential political chameleon/gadfly. He morphs himself to fit his surroundings. I suspect Romney is identical and I trust neither of them to be good conservative leaders.
Nope. Slimy amphibian.
Hard to believe Newt thinks he has a shot at the big chair after shafting both sides of the aisle.
Newty missed his chance to exit with grace and dignity years ago, now he’s simply an embarrasment to the GOP, real Conservatives, the Thinking Public, White Males, and those that wear skin in general. Newty’s handlers & pals (Hannity)need to get Ole Newty back on the couch with Nancy where he’s comfortable.
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Sounds like a good idea to me. The longer Comrade Obama is gone–the better for us peons.
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President Sarah’Cuda will probably have a better work ethic than The Messiah does. And she will work for us U.S. Citizens–not for the rest of the world.
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She looked pretty rested up on her Alaska tour–provided a bear doesn’t “invite” her in for dinner!
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John Bibb
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Obowmao does not care what we wsnt, he’s convinced he knows best. We’re just too stupid to be properly grateful for his transformation of our country.
It will never occur to him that some of us liked our country before.
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Michelle Malkin “took point” on the ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION problems and on the enablers in our own government long ago. Her carefully researched and documented INVASION book says it all. It’s the reference work on what needs to be fixed.
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Silly Marc! there are no college grads in the south–only swamp loggers, hillbillies and Klansmen (or all of the above).
So Bummer is leaving the country again. Maybe these trips abroad are just dress rehearsals for the escape he will have to make in 2012. Actually, I’m fine with him leaving the country. It is his coming back that causes me anxiety. What an unbelievable nightmare this guy has proved to be.
The first thing of NO CONSEQUENCE??? Who gives the proverbial RATS PATOOTIE what NEWT thinks… He is so far off the radar to me, I have trouble remembering why I forget to remember him… And for B. HUSSEIN put him in a room, no sharp objects, no visitors, for about two years, and SHAZAM it will be 2012, and no more damage has been done!!!
Wouldn’t be surprised if the GOP powers that be, who still refuse to understand and don’t relate to the TEA Party movement, try to foist him on us as “THE CHOSEN ONE” come 2012. That’d be a sure fire guarantee of TEH WON’s second term.
Catastrophic disaster is more like it. At least one can wake up from a nightmare.
newt and nancy sitting on a couch-remember?-
the GOP – RNC – NRSC-keep bringing these elitist RINOS back-
haven’t we learned!
as to bho- in my mind he has always been a pawn – I realized that before the election…
he did create the avalanche of Patriot awakening though-
C-CS
I don’t blame him from getting as far from the First Lady as possible.
This is one time I agree with Newt, but not for the same reasons. As others have said the longer Obama is away the less damage he can do here at home. Perhaps we may even get lucky and he will network with enough people in other countries to land himself a cushy job for after her looses in 2012.
I move that Fox News and its affiliates pledge to limit interviews of Newt Gingrich to one per month. This daily mutual admiration society with Sean Hannity is really obnoxious.
Newt has been part of the problem for decades. Even when he was Speaker, he slobbered after the Dems like a puppy looking for “something”, anything, from the Dems. IMO, he is beyond RINO. Just another power hungry pol looking to get back to the swamp. Obeyme leaves the country on another one of his criticize America tours and our stature goes down another ten notches. Can’t stand these guys!
Ahem Ahem: Leopard skins make beautiful coats. Obama’s skin is way too thin to be of much use even to him as it certainly can not contain his arrogance.
Which brings me to the conclusion that we need more leopards and less liberals. The cattle farmers in Africa may disagree.
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Let your sidearm be like American Express:
Don’t Leave home without it.
I do not like his blame America tours, but I really do not care how the rest of the world looks at us. With any luck this drop in stature can be used against those who seem to care about such things….the liberals that were always worried about what the world was thinking about America when Bush was President.
This pathetic self-centered POTUS can’t get through an entire first term. It only took 2 years to crash and burn and he just won’t face that reality. He is entitled to his delusions. They are going to be his down fall. The far left will eat him alive for not delivering the dictatorship they want.
What’s with NEWT always on Fox? I always have to change the channel to avoid looking at his phony, self promoting puss!
Go Away Newt -far,far away!
Apparently Newt lost an appendage that didn’t grow back, unlike some reptiles and amphibians, and it appears to have contained his brain.
He’ll reflect about the same amount as Urkel! “Did I do that?”
There comes a point in life, almost always by the end of his 40s, when a man gets set in his ways and just is what he is — rare is the man at that stage who will change even for his wife, not to mention some abstract like “The American People.”
President “Stone Free” is such a hardened-like-concrete man. He’s not going to have some Saul-on-the-road-to-Damascus conversion from his leftist bent now. The people who needed a “time out” were the voters — they needed time and opportunity to reflect on the consequences of the mistake they made in 2008.
The American People seem to have learned from such introspection, given what just happened on November 2nd. I think we can be let out of the corner of the room now.
I think Broder needs to get outside of the “swamp”.
These insiders simply don’t see the “Emperor” for who and what he is.
His career isn’t “AMAZING”. The fact that anyone would vote for him is “amazing”.
Newt’s a hoot–NOT. He needs to take a long walk on a short pier and maybe he’ll wake up. Odumbo needs to leave Washington for good. That would give us all a sense of relief. The Republican establishment is digging in–keep the pressure on.
Yup. He can buy a condo in Aruba and stay there. Congress will let him know if he needs to sign anything. He gets the signature pages only. No need for him to read anything.
Newt delivers great lectures on historical topics. He’s a fantastic historian, and a real pleasure to watch discussing topics of a historical nature with similarly talented historians.
Everyone should do what they’re good at. Newt should stick to teaching history and leave governance to those who are good at governance. When Jim DeMint, Chris Christie, and even Joe Lieberman publish opinions on the president’s need for vacation time, I’ll pay attention.
Wonderful analysis on our narcisstic president in the Weekly Standard.
Narcissistic, good grief.
I had a bet with a coworker as to how long it would take Obama to brag that he is commander in chief at the Medal of Honor ceremony today. I said 2 minutes 30 seconds so I lost the bet. My coworker said one minute, tops. Sure enough, within one minute, Obama bragged about how much he loves being “YOUR commander in chief”. The man is a pathetic narcissist.The soldier being honored was only a mere prop for Obama to let people know that he is “Your commander in chief”. We are all his vassals, he wants us to know. The ceremony was not to honor a brave soldier. In Obama’s mind, it is only about himself and Michelle (Obama, that is). Within 2 minutes, he referred to “my Secretary of Defense”, “My National Security Advisor” and he seemed to forget about the soldiers. Obama knows, as well do, what the real fighting men in Afghanistan think of him. That is why he had to fire our lead general in Afghnistan. The only thing Obama loathes more than an American general is an Israeli general.
I’m hoping that Newt was being sarcastic or funny, as in “if Dear Leader is gone for two months not force-feeding Americans with his socialist turkey baster, the country won’t go to Hades in a handbasket as fast before the lame duck session is over.” Don’t know if he was or wasn’t… want to believe he was.
But then, Newt DID appear in a PSA with Queen Pelosi many months back on the “dangers” of global warming, and he’s said many a disparaging thing against Sarah Palin, so I’m likely childishly wishing for him to be the man I once thought him to be.
D’oh! I should have scanned the comments first, before submitting my comment above!
And Newt is still on some people’s scorecard as a contender in 2012? Really?
I’m not so certain. I’m no fan of AGW kowtowing Gingrich but is he giving Obama advice from the heart – or a sarcastic jibe? Every vacation Obama takes can only help us to show him the door in 2012.
What could be better than Obama wandering around lost in the woods for the next two years?
What’s wrong with him taking time out? Better for him to be on vacation from his official capacity. Just put him in a straight-jacket so he could not spend any more of our money, nor sign anything into law. Except maybe the repeal of all he previously signed!