Know who Newt Gingrich is:
......Here at home, we (Reagan Administration) faced vicious criticism from leading Democrats â Ted Kennedy, Christopher Dodd, Jim Wright, Tip OâNeill, and many more â who used every trick in the book to stop Reagan by denying authorities and funds to these efforts.
On whom did we rely up on Capitol Hill? There were many stalwarts: Henry Hyde, elected in 1974; Dick Cheney, elected in 1978, the same year as Gingrich; Dan Burton and Connie Mack, elected in 1982; and Tom DeLay, elected in 1984, were among the leaders.
But not Newt Gingrich. He voted with the caucus, but his words should be remembered, for at the height of the bitter struggle with the Democratic leadership Gingrich chose to attack . . . Reagan.
The best examples come from a famous floor statement Gingrich made on March 21, 1986. This was right in the middle of the fight over funding for the Nicaraguan contras; the money had been cut off by Congress in 1985, though Reagan got $100 million for this cause in 1986.
Here is Gingrich: âMeasured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empireâs challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail. . . . President Reagan is clearly failing.â Why? This was due partly to âhis administrationâs weak policies, which are inadequate and will ultimately failâ; partly to CIA, State, and Defense, which âhave no strategies to defeat the empire.â But of course âthe burden of this failure frankly must be placed first on President Reagan.â Our efforts against the Communists in the Third World were âpathetically incompetent,â so those anti-Communist members of Congress who questioned the $100 million Reagan sought for the Nicaraguan âcontraâ rebels âare fundamentally right.â
Such was Gingrichâs faith in President Reagan that in 1985, he called Reaganâs meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev âthe most dangerous summit for the West since Adolf Hitler met with Neville Chamberlain in 1938 in Munich.â
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/289159/gingrich-and-reagan-elliott-abrams
......Here at home, we (Reagan Administration) faced vicious criticism from leading Democrats â Ted Kennedy, Christopher Dodd, Jim Wright, Tip OâNeill, and many more â who used every trick in the book to stop Reagan by denying authorities and funds to these efforts.
On whom did we rely up on Capitol Hill? There were many stalwarts: Henry Hyde, elected in 1974; Dick Cheney, elected in 1978, the same year as Gingrich; Dan Burton and Connie Mack, elected in 1982; and Tom DeLay, elected in 1984, were among the leaders.
But not Newt Gingrich. He voted with the caucus, but his words should be remembered, for at the height of the bitter struggle with the Democratic leadership Gingrich chose to attack . . . Reagan.
The best examples come from a famous floor statement Gingrich made on March 21, 1986. This was right in the middle of the fight over funding for the Nicaraguan contras; the money had been cut off by Congress in 1985, though Reagan got $100 million for this cause in 1986.
Here is Gingrich: âMeasured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empireâs challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail. . . . President Reagan is clearly failing.â Why? This was due partly to âhis administrationâs weak policies, which are inadequate and will ultimately failâ; partly to CIA, State, and Defense, which âhave no strategies to defeat the empire.â But of course âthe burden of this failure frankly must be placed first on President Reagan.â Our efforts against the Communists in the Third World were âpathetically incompetent,â so those anti-Communist members of Congress who questioned the $100 million Reagan sought for the Nicaraguan âcontraâ rebels âare fundamentally right.â
Such was Gingrichâs faith in President Reagan that in 1985, he called Reaganâs meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev âthe most dangerous summit for the West since Adolf Hitler met with Neville Chamberlain in 1938 in Munich.â
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/289159/gingrich-and-reagan-elliott-abrams
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