Newt Gingrich: Nancy Pelosi House Leadership a 'Disaster'

[rev214]

Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006 10:19 a.m. EDT

Newt Gingrich: Nancy Pelosi House Leadership a 'Disaster'

Ex-U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that the thought of California Rep. Nancy Pelosi becoming the next leader of the House and being third in line to the presidency is frightening.

"The prospect of her bringing San Francisco values and a whole attitude on foreign policy that is, I think, an attitude of weakness and appeasement and surrender, I think, would be a disaster for the country," the outspoken Republican said.

Gingrich said keeping power out of the hands of Pelosi, the House minority leader, and other Democrats is one of the reasons he was in South Carolina this week raising money for the GOP.

On Wednesday, Gingrich was at a fundraiser for Ralph Norman, the White House's chosen opponent for U.S. Rep. John Spratt, the 5th District Democrat who is Pelosi's assistant minority leader.

To suggest that "any Democrat is for appeasement is ridiculous" and "shows how desperate the Republicans are," Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said. "We know we have a dangerous world out there," he said, but "fear-mongering is not helpful to the situation."

The former Georgia congressman said he wakes up every day worried about national security and the potential loss of U.S. cities to nuclear attacks.

"If you think, as I do, that we're in the early stages of an emerging third world war, the world is truly dangerous on a scale that I think, in a worst case, could lead to losing several American cities to nuclear weapons in our lifetime," he said.

Gingrich, who says his decision on seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 will wait until late next year, says there are plenty of reasons to worry about nuclear bombs destroying U.S. cities.

"Start with the North Korean drive to get nuclear weapons and ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles), then go to the Iranian drive to get nuclear weapons, then go to the fact that Pakistan has probably between 50 and 100 nuclear weapons with an unstable dictatorship," he said. Then, look at al-Qaida's willingness to "kill as many Americans as they can find" and Iran's recruitment of suicide bombers, he said.

"If you have active, overt enemies who are religiously different and who believe that killing you would be a good thing in their religious terms and they're willing to die in order to kill you," Gingrich said, "how hard is it to imagine a suicide bomber willing to walk in with a nuclear weapon?"

To deal with the threat, he said, "we want to replace the North Korean regime. We want to replace the Iranian regime and the Syrian regime. We would like to replace them without using military force if we can."

Last week, U.S. Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., was in Greenville and touched on nuclear threats in an interview.

Biden, who is seeking his party's nomination in 2008, said the Bush administration is getting diplomacy wrong on dealing with those threats. Iran, he said, is a decade-away threat but North Korea is far more urgent.

"The prospects of Iran having a deliverable nuclear weapon that can endanger U.S. interests in the region or here in the next foreseeable future is very, very, very low," Biden said.

With time, the United States has options from diplomacy to political changes within Iran, Biden said. But the Bush administration isn't talking directly with Iran or North Korea, he said.

"Since when was America was so weak that we have to fear talk?" Biden said.

© 2006 Associated Press.

i have a lot of complaints with several current republicans in congress,
but having Nancy Pelosi as third in line for the presidency is a much more major concern to me...

 

[Phetro]

To suggest that "any Democrat is for appeasement is ridiculous" and "shows how desperate the Republicans are," Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said. "We know we have a dangerous world out there," he said, but "fear-mongering is not helpful to the situation."

Big Media smiled when they printed this. 99% of them ARE for appeasement. Bringing up the other 1% to argue for fair treatment is ridiculous.

And it's not the dangerous world anyone fears. It's the dangerous America the Ds want to create: a Stalin-style police state where the government rules and people obey.

 

[Phetro]

"The prospects of Iran having a deliverable nuclear weapon that can endanger U.S. interests in the region or here in the next foreseeable future is very, very, very low," Biden said.

Actually, that's true.

"Since when was America was so weak that we have to fear talk?" Biden said.

We don't have to fear talk. We just have to get the communists out of our government, yourself included, pal. Our real enemy is within...and the fools among us have placed them in power.

 

[Lone_Gunman]

Well of course Newt thinks Pelosi would be a disaster. He is very conservative, she is very liberal.

Its just more Republican election year fear mongering. They don't want to lose their monopoly on pwer.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Well of course Newt thinks Pelosi would be a disaster. He is very conservative, she is very liberal.

Its just more Republican election year fear mongering. They don't want to lose their monopoly on pwer.

You may remember that Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union "the Evil Empire." Michael Dukakis attacked him for those words, and an editorial writer -- who wasn't particularly a fan of Reagan -- wrote an open letter to Dukakis, in which he asked, "Do you say the Soviet Union isn't the Evil Empire?"

You don't have to be a card-carrying Republican to know Nancy Pelosi is a disaster and would be worse as Speaker of the House.

 

[Atticus]

Newt and company are starting to sound like Horohito..."We need to destroy the enemy before he can hurt us." Even though they haven't done anything yet,and probably won't, unless we heed Newt's advice. Iran is using our policies to advance it's stature in the world. No one in Iran wants war...and particularly not with us. And they know full well that nuking Israel means war with us.

 

[Lone_Gunman]

You don't have to be a card-carrying Republican to know Nancy Pelosi is a disaster and would be worse as Speaker of the House.

No doubt she would be bad.
I haven't been so impressed with Republicans' performance since 2000 to care much about who wins the next election. Might be good for the Dems to come out on top, and at least grid-lock the political system.

 

[Marshall]

Having Pelosi third in line gives me a sick to my stomach feeling.

Iran? Nukes are different when dealing with people that don't care if they live or die and want you dead regardless. Needless to say, crazy people. They could raise total havoc with just suitcase nukes. Second place sucks in this game. The risk is too high to let Iran develop them. They just can't have nuclear weapons, Israel or no Israel.

We don't have to fear talk. We just have to get the communists out of our government, yourself included, pal. Our real enemy is within...and the fools among us have placed them in power.

Newt a communist? Am I reading that right?

And what's with the "America is the bad guy" in this deal? It seams to me Iranian terrorists have been attacking Americans and American interests for decades. I guess we don't have to fear their talk and treat it with credibility huh? After all, it's only nukes. By the way, Dem's or Rep's, we're not the bad guy.

And it's not the dangerous world anyone fears. It's the dangerous America the Ds want to create: a Stalin-style police state where the government rules and people obey.

It's both.

 

[Shweboner]

If ever anything was OT and pointless.... this would be it.

Yet, it hasn't been closed?

 

[Master Blaster]

If the Dems win, we will see a new assault weapon ban within one year from Pelosi's swearing in. It will outlaw all semiautomatics in civilian hands. Hunting rifles and shotguns will be registered, including the evil armor piercing .30-.30. Which is

"sold in Hardware stores across america and can shoot through an armor plated limosine"

In Fact any round

"that can pierce a level II policemans vest is a threat and needs to be banned"

I put quotes on that because its what Turddy Kennedy said on the Senate floor, and what he and Nancy put in their model AWB legislation back in 2003, if you all can remember back that far.


This Thread is Very gun related, when you consider that the Queen of Gun bans may become the speaker of the house.

 

[Master Blaster]

Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2003 (Introduced in House)

HR 2038 IH

108th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 2038

To reauthorize the assault weapons ban, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 8, 2003

Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York (for herself, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. NADLER, Ms. LOFGREN, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Ms. WATERS, Mr. MEEHAN, Mr. DELAHUNT, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. WEINER, Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California, Mr. EMANUEL, Mr. CASE, Mrs. MALONEY, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island, Mr. RANGEL, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. ACKERMAN, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. HONDA, Mr. STARK, Ms. SOLIS, Ms. LEE, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. TOWNS, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. CARSON of Indiana, Ms. NORTON, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. RUSH, Ms. WATSON, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. OWENS, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. CUMMINGS, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. FARR, Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. HOLT, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Mrs. TAUSCHER, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. HOEFFEL, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. MENENDEZ, Ms. VELAZQUEZ, Mr. TIERNEY, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, Mr. ROTHMAN, Mr. FATTAH, Ms. HARMAN, Mr. BISHOP of New York, and Mr. LANGEVIN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To reauthorize the assault weapons ban, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2003'.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

(a) IN GENERAL- Section 921(a)(30) of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

`(30) The term `semiautomatic assault weapon' means any of the following:

`(A) The following rifles or copies or duplicates thereof:

`(i) AK, AKM, AKS, AK-47, AK-74, ARM, MAK90, Misr, NHM 90, NHM 91, SA 85, SA 93, VEPR;

`(ii) AR-10;

`(iii) AR-15, Bushmaster XM15, Armalite M15, or Olympic Arms PCR;

`(iv) AR70;

`(v) Calico Liberty;

`(vi) Dragunov SVD Sniper Rifle or Dragunov SVU;

`(vii) Fabrique National FN/FAL, FN/LAR, or FNC;

`(viii) Hi-Point Carbine;

`(ix) HK-91, HK-93, HK-94, or HK-PSG-1;

`(x) Kel-Tec Sub Rifle;

`(xi) M1 Carbine;

`(xii) Saiga;

`(xiii) SAR-8, SAR-4800;

`(xiv) SKS with detachable magazine;

`(xv) SLG 95;

`(xvi) SLR 95 or 96;

`(xvii) Steyr AUG;

`(xviii) Sturm, Ruger Mini-14;

`(xix) Tavor;

`(xx) Thompson 1927, Thompson M1, or Thompson 1927 Commando; or

`(xxi) Uzi, Galil and Uzi Sporter, Galil Sporter, or Galil Sniper Rifle (Galatz).

`(B) The following pistols or copies or duplicates thereof:

`(i) Calico M-110;

`(ii) MAC-10, MAC-11, or MPA3;

`(iii) Olympic Arms OA;

`(iv) TEC-9, TEC-DC9, TEC-22 Scorpion, or AB-10; or

`(v) Uzi.

`(C) The following shotguns or copies or duplicates thereof:

`(i) Armscor 30 BG;

`(ii) SPAS 12 or LAW 12;

`(iii) Striker 12; or

`(iv) Streetsweeper.

`(D) A semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine, and that has--

`(i) a folding or telescoping stock;

`(ii) a threaded barrel;

`(iii) a pistol grip;

`(iv) a forward grip; or

`(v) a barrel shroud.

`(E)(i) Except as provided in clause (ii), a semiautomatic rifle that has a fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds.

`(ii) Clause (i) shall not apply to an attached tubular device designed to accept, and capable of operating only with, .22 caliber rimfire ammunition.

`(F) A semiautomatic pistol that has the ability to accept a detachable magazine, and has--

`(i) a second pistol grip;

`(ii) a threaded barrel;

`(iii) a barrel shroud; or

`(iv) the capacity to accept a detachable magazine at a location outside of the pistol grip.

`(G) A semiautomatic pistol with a fixed magazine that has the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds.

`(H) A semiautomatic shotgun that has--

`(i) a folding or telescoping stock;

`(ii) a pistol grip;

`(iii) the ability to accept a detachable magazine; or

`(iv) a fixed magazine capacity of more than 5 rounds.

`(I) A shotgun with a revolving cylinder.

`(J) A frame or receiver that is identical to, or based substantially on the frame or receiver of, a firearm described in any of subparagraphs (A) through (I) or (L).

`(K) A conversion kit.

`(L) A semiautomatic rifle or shotgun originally designed for military or law enforcement use, or a firearm based on the design of such a firearm, that is not particularly suitable for sporting purposes, as determined by the Attorney General. In making the determination, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that a firearm procured for use by the United States military or any Federal law enforcement agency is not particularly suitable for sporting purposes, and a firearm shall not be determined to be particularly suitable for sporting purposes solely because the firearm is suitable for use in a sporting event.'.

(b) RELATED DEFINITIONS- Section 921(a) of such title is amended by adding at the end the following:

`(36) BARREL SHROUD- The term `barrel shroud' means a shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel of a firearm so that the shroud protects the user of the firearm from heat generated by the barrel, but does not include a slide that encloses the barrel, and does not include an extension of the stock along the bottom of the barrel which does not encircle or substantially encircle the barrel.

`(37) CONVERSION KIT- The term `conversion kit' means any part or combination of parts designed and intended for use in converting a firearm into a semiautomatic assault weapon , and any combination of parts from which a semiautomatic assault weapon can be assembled if the parts are in the possession or under the control of a person.

`(38) DETACHABLE MAGAZINE- The term `detachable magazine' means an ammunition feeding device that can readily be inserted into a firearm.

`(39) FIXED MAGAZINE- The term `fixed magazine' means an ammunition feeding device contained in, or permanently attached to, a firearm.

`(40) FOLDING OR TELESCOPING STOCK- The term `folding or telescoping stock' means a stock that folds, telescopes, or otherwise operates to reduce the length, size, or any other dimension, or otherwise enhances the concealability, of a firearm.

`(41) FORWARD GRIP- The term `forward grip' means a grip located forward of the trigger that functions as a pistol grip.

`(42) PISTOL GRIP- The term `pistol grip' means a grip, a thumbhole stock, or any other characteristic that can function as a grip.

`(43) THREADED BARREL- The term `threaded barrel' means a feature or characteristic that is designed in such a manner to allow for the attachment of a firearm as defined in section 5845(a) of the National Firearms Act (26 U.S.C. 5845(a)).'.

SEC. 3. ELIMINATION OF SUNSET.

Section 110105 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 is amended--

(1) by striking `--' and all that follows through `(1)'; and

(2) by striking `; and' and all that follows through `that date'.

SEC. 4. GRANDFATHER PROVISIONS.

Section 922(v)(2) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--

(1) by inserting `(A)' after `(2)';

(2) by striking `on the date of the enactment of this subsection' and inserting `as of September 13, 1994'; and

(3) by adding after and below the end the following:

`(B) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any firearm the possession or transfer of which would (but for this subparagraph) be unlawful by reason of this subsection, and which is otherwise lawfully possessed on the date of the enactment of this subparagraph.'.

SEC. 5. REPEAL OF CERTAIN EXEMPTIONS.

Section 922(v)(3) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking `(3)' and all that follows through the 1st sentence and inserting the following:

`(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any firearm that--

`(A) is manually operated by bolt, pump, level, or slide action;

`(B) has been rendered permanently inoperable; or

`(C) is an antique firearm.'.

SEC. 6. REQUIRING BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR THE TRANSFER OF LAWFULLY POSSESSED SEMIAUTOMATIC ASSAULT WEAPONS.

Section 922(v) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

`(5) It shall be unlawful for any person to transfer a semiautomatic assault weapon to which paragraph (1) does not apply, except through--

`(A) a licensed dealer, and for purposes of subsection (t) in the case of such a transfer, the weapon shall be considered to be transferred from the business inventory of the licensed dealer and the dealer shall be considered to be the transferor; or

`(B) a State or local law enforcement agency if the transfer is made in accordance with the procedures provided for in subsection (t) of this section and section 923(g).

`(6) The Attorney General shall establish and maintain, in a timely manner, a record of the make, model, and date of manufacture of any semiautomatic assault weapon which the Attorney General is made aware has been used in relation to a crime under Federal or State law, and the nature and circumstances of the crime involved, including the outcome of relevant criminal investigations and proceedings. The Attorney General shall annually submit the record to the Congress and make the record available to the general public.'.

SEC. 7. STRENGTHENING THE BAN ON THE POSSESSION OR TRANSFER OF A LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING DEVICE.

(a) BAN ON TRANSFER OF SEMIAUTOMATIC ASSAULT WEAPON WITH LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING DEVICE-

(1) IN GENERAL- Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after subsection (y) the following:

`(z) It shall be unlawful for any person to transfer any assault weapon with a large capacity ammunition feeding device.'.

(2) PENALTIES- Section 924(a) of such title is amended by adding at the end the following:

`(8) Whoever knowingly violates section 922(z) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.'.

(b) CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT-

(1) IN GENERAL- Section 922(w) of such title is amended--

(A) in paragraph (2), by striking `on or before the date of enactment of this subsection'

and inserting `in the United States on or before September 13, 1994';

(B) in paragraph (3)--

(i) by adding `or' at the end of subparagraph (B); and

(ii) by striking subparagraph (C) and redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (C); and

(C) by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the following:

`(4) It shall be unlawful for a licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer who transfers a large capacity ammunition feeding device that was manufactured on or before September 13, 1994, to fail to certify to the Attorney General before the end of the 60-day period that begins with the date of the transfer, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Attorney General, that the device was manufactured on or before September 13, 1994.'.

(2) PENALTIES- Section 924(a) of such title is further amended by adding at the end the following:

`(9) Whoever knowingly violates section 922(w)(4) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.'.

SEC. 8. UNLAWFUL WEAPONS TRANSFERS TO JUVENILES.

Section 922(x) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--

(1) in paragraph (1)--

(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period and inserting a semicolon; and

(B) by adding at the end the following:

`(C) a semiautomatic assault weapon ; or

`(D) a large capacity ammunition feeding device.'; and

(2) in paragraph (2)--

(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period and inserting a semicolon; and

(B) by adding at the end the following:

`(C) a semiautomatic assault weapon ; or

`(D) a large capacity ammunition feeding device.'.

SEC. 9. BAN ON IMPORTATION OF LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING DEVICE.

(a) IN GENERAL- Section 922(w) of title 18, United States Code, as amended by section 7(b)(1) of this Act, is further amended--

(1) in paragraph (1), by striking `(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2)' and inserting `(1)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B)';

(2) in paragraph (2), by striking `(2) Paragraph (1)' and inserting `(B) Subparagraph (A)'; and

(3) by inserting before paragraph (3) the following:

`(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to import or bring into the United States a large capacity ammunition feeding device.'.

(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT- Section 921(a)(31)(A) of such title is amended by striking `manufactured after the date of enactment of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994'.

 

[Waitone]

You just know a party is in deep yogurt when it points out how bad the other party will be if they get in power. Republicans did it during Clinton's reign and failed. Looks like they are trying it again.

 

[Malone LaVeigh]

Well, at least it would take her some time to lead as many hogs to the trough as Tom Delay managed to during his tenure.

 

[longeyes]

If you'd like all of America to resemble Baltimore, hope that Pelosi becomes President.

 

[AirForceShooter]

Yep:
Newt's going to run for President to save us from ourselves.



AFS

 

[Vern Humphrey]

No one in Iran wants war

They told you this personally, did they?

If they don't want war, why are they supporting terrorists in Iraq?

If they don't want war, why did they train and equip the equivallent of a regular Iranian division in Lebanon?

If they don't want war, why did they provide Heb'zbollah with over 12,000 rockets?

If they don't want war, why are they so deeply embarked on a nuclear weapons program?

 

[longeyes]

Iran doesn't want war. They just want all Jews and Americans dead. I guess they'd settle for a Heaven-sent plague.

 

[seeker_two]

I agree with Newt....Pelosi as Speaker would be an absolute disaster to the GOP, the US Constitution and Americans at large....

...so the Republicans better start showing us that they are different than the socialists currently in the Democrat Party and dump this globalist, pro-illegal-alien, big-business, Neo-Con crud and get back to the Reagan conservatism that most American citizens actually support in the first place....

...or get used to seeing her scrawny tail in your old chair, Newt.

 

[rev214]

from Project Vote Smart:

2005 Representative Pelosi supported the interests of the Gun Owners of America 25 percent in 2005.

2004 Based on lifetime voting records on gun issues and the results of a questionnaire sent to all Congressional candidates in 2004, the National Rifle Association assigned Representative Pelosi a grade of F (with grades ranging from a high of A+ to a low of F).

2003-2004 Representative Pelosi supported the interests of the Gun Owners of America 0 percent in 2003-2004.

2003 Representative Pelosi supported the interests of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence 100 percent in 2003.

2003 Representative Pelosi supported the interests of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence 100 percent from 1988-2003 (Senate) or 1991-2003 (House).

2003 Representative Pelosi supported the interests of the Gun Owners of America 0 percent in 2003.

2002 On the votes that the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence considered to be the most important as of 2002, Representative Pelosi voted their preferred position 100 percent of the time. These scores are cumulative for each representative's time in their current office. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence considered votes from 1988-2002 in the House and 1991-2002 in the Senate when determining these scores.

2002 Based on lifetime voting records on gun issues and the results of a questionnaire sent to all Congressional candidates in 2002, the National Rifle Association assigned Representative Pelosi a grade of F (with grades ranging from a high of A+ to a low of F).

2001-2002 Based on the results of a questionnaire the Gun Owners of America assigned Representative Pelosi a grade of F- (with grades ranging from a high of A+ to a low of F-).

2000 Based on lifetime voting records on gun issues and the results of a questionnaire sent to all Congressional candidates in 2000, the National Rifle Association assigned Representative Pelosi a grade of F (with grades ranging from a high of A+ to a low of F).

1999-2000 Representative Pelosi supported the interests of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence 100 percent in 1999-2000.

1999-2000 Based on the results of a questionnaire the Gun Owners of America assigned Representative Pelosi a grade of F- (with grades ranging from a high of A+ to a low of F-).

 

[rev214]

...so the Republicans better start showing us that they are different than the socialists currently in the Democrat Party and dump this globalist, pro-illegal-alien, big-business, Neo-Con crud and get back to the Reagan conservatism that most American citizens actually support in the first place....

some people just git it...natural born philosophers...

 

[Marshall]

Neo-Con crud and get back to the Reagan conservatism that most American citizens actually support in the first place....

I thought the definition of Neoconservatism might be useful.


Neoconservatism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Neoconservatism is a political current and ideology, mainly in the United States, which is generally held to have emerged in the 1960s, coalesced in the 1970s, and has had a significant presence in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. It is today most closely identified with a set of foreign policy positions and goals: a hawkish stance during the Cold War and, more recently, in various conflicts in the Middle East. At times there have been distinct neoconservative positions in domestic policies; in particular, the first generation of neoconservatives were generally less opposed to "big government" and to social spending than other U.S. conservatives of the time, though they also called for significant restructuring of the goals and methods of many social programs.

The prefix neo- refers to two ways in which neoconservatism was new: many of the movement's founders, originally liberals, Democrats or from socialist backgrounds, were new to conservatism; neoconservatism was also a comparatively recent strain of conservative thought, which derived from a variety of intellectual roots in the decades following World War II. While some (such as Irving Kristol) have described themselves as "neoconservatives", the term is used today more by opponents and critics of this political current than by its adherents, some of whom reject even the claim that neoconservatism is an identifiable current of American political thought.

Within American conservatism, the foreign policy of neoconservatism is particularly contrasted to isolationism, especially as found in paleoconservatism. While some neoconservatives share of the Christian right critique of a purely secular society, this is not as central to their politics, nor are their policy prescriptions the same.

Neoconservatism is associated with periodicals such as Commentary and The Weekly Standard and some of the foreign policy initiatives of think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). Neoconservative journalists, pundits, policy analysts, and politicians, often dubbed "neocons" by supporters and critics alike, have been credited with (or blamed for) their influence on U.S. foreign policy, especially under the administrations of Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) and George W. Bush (2001-present).

Wikipedia.org

 

[AF_INT1N0]

Quote:
To suggest that "any Democrat is for appeasement is ridiculous" and "shows how desperate the Republicans are," Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said. "We know we have a dangerous world out there," he said, but "fear-mongering is not helpful to the situation."

Big Media smiled when they printed this. 99% of them ARE for appeasement. Bringing up the other 1% to argue for fair treatment is ridiculous.

And it's not the dangerous world anyone fears. It's the dangerous America the Ds want to create: a Stalin-style police state where the government rules and people obey.

As one of my best friends always tells me.. The exception proves the rule..

 

[ColoradoKid]

Newt

Forget the election year posturing....can anyone list ANYTHING other than the usual unbridaled Democratic "obstructionism"...that the adorable Ms. Pelosi has accomplished as the Democratic Minority Leader..??? Huh..???

 

[rbernie]

No one in Iran wants war

Of course they don't WANT war - they'd much rather become the Arab superpower without having to fire a shot. I just don't trust 'em to NOT start a war in their rush to be the regional top dog. It's not like they haven't done tried that before.....

Well of course Newt thinks Pelosi would be a disaster. He is very conservative, she is very liberal.

Its just more Republican election year fear mongering. They don't want to lose their monopoly on pwer.

Bottom line to me (keeping this thread somewhat on track for THR) is that there is no doubt that Nancy Pelosi is one of the biggest enemies to the RKBA that our generation is likely to see. I don't care if you're a one-issue voter or not; Nancy Pelosi gladly, happily, and resolutely wants to see each and every one of us disarmed.

Remember that.