Gingrich: Trump handling the Senate 'badly'

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Gingrich: Trump handling the Senate 'badly'

By JAKE LAHUT

08/11/2017 09:51 AM EDT


Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich criticized President Trump's lack of cooperation with the Senate amid broadsides the president has levied at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell this week.

"It's not the Senate that's the problem," Gingrich said in an interview Friday on the Fox Business Channel. "But notice as much as much as I admire the president, and as much as I think he's handling North Korea well, I think he's handling the Senate equally badly."

While Gingrich is not the first to point out Trump’s hesitancy to align with Republicans, he pointed to specific tendencies in his vocabulary as his primary fault in his working relationship with the Senate.

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[Cripplecreek]

Gingrich is a traitor to Trump. 

[endicom]

What then is the goodly way? We continue taking the Republican scenic route to Hell?

[EC]

Newt - I like you (probably more than most here). Respect your intelligence. So don't go insulting mine with that BS.

The Senate is the problem. Not the House - they're passing bills. Not - in this case, anyways - the President. He's waiting for bills to land on his desk. In fact, I'll even give Trump credit for being slightly less thuggish in his approach to Senate opposition than he usually has been.

So, shut it with yon foolishness.

[kevindavis007]

Gingrich is a traitor to Trump. 

It's all for show.

[Bigun]

Newt - I like you (probably more than most here). Respect your intelligence. So don't go insulting mine with that BS.

The Senate is the problem. Not the House - they're passing bills. Not - in this case, anyways - the President. He's waiting for bills to land on his desk. In fact, I'll even give Trump credit for being slightly less thuggish in his approach to Senate opposition than he usually has been.

So, shut it with yon foolishness.

Thanks!  Saved me the trouble! 

[EC]

 

It ticked me.

[endicom]

So, shut it with yon foolishness.

No hither? Don't seem right without hither.

@EC

[EC]

 

That's a word we don't use much. Yon, on the other hand, is a common descriptor up North.

[Bigun]

It ticked me.

As it damn well should have!

[Cyber Liberty]

It ticked me.

Me too.  I saw him going on about this on Fox Business this morning, and I said to Mrs Liberty, "Newt's FOS on this one."  Gingrich is Legislature-centric, so he'd side with Ryan or McConnell instinctively.  He did not more past his instincts on this, and I was surprised because he usually thinks deeper than that.

That said, calling Gingrich a "traitor to Trump" is hyperbolic, even if in jest.  It's possible to just be wrong.

[endicom]

That's a word we don't use much. Yon, on the other hand, is a common descriptor up North.

Well, I ain't Walken it back. Needs more hither.

[roamer_1]

That's a word we don't use much. Yon, on the other hand, is a common descriptor up North.

'Yonder' for the rest of us...

[Cripplecreek]

'Yonder' for the rest of us...

I go with yonder as well.

Course I also say winder

[roamer_1]

I go with yonder as well.

Course I also say winder

Me too.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Newt - I like you (probably more than most here). Respect your intelligence. So don't go insulting mine with that BS.

The Senate is the problem. Not the House - they're passing bills. Not - in this case, anyways - the President. He's waiting for bills to land on his desk. In fact, I'll even give Trump credit for being slightly less thuggish in his approach to Senate opposition than he usually has been.

So, shut it with yon foolishness.

Newt never implied the House was the problem.  He certainly implied the President was the problem.  He said Trump is a player too...he is on the field.  He didn't lobby anybody in the Senate and he offered no solutions for the replacement Trumpcare.

[Cyber Liberty]

Newt never implied the House was the problem.  He certainly implied the President was the problem.  He said Trump is a player too...he is on the field.  He didn't lobby anybody in the Senate and he offered no solutions for the replacement Trumpcare.

He's right about that.  Trump could have done more to lobby the Senators, and it's true he didn't know how to do that.  But it's a shared responsibility. 

McCain said, after he stuck the knife in Trump, it was because the Governor of AZ expressed concern that it wasn't enough.  If Trump would have known that, he could have lobbied the Governor, but McCain didn't tell him in time that he should.  So McCain was able to waltz off claiming he was doing what his constituents wanted.  If I was Gov. Ducey I'd be pissed at McCain.

[Freedom928]

McCain is a disgrace. It's not Christian to wish someone dead so I'll just wish the cancer does enough to remove him from his position so we can get an actual conservative in there instead of his traitorous and crazy self.

From what I understand he really screwed over a lot of people while in the service. He had no business flying a plane and he dropped a bomb right on the flight deck of ship he was getting ready to take off from. The damage was immense and rather than help fight the fire where good real servicemen were killed; he ran away. This was a case where the turd rose to the top instead of the cream.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

He's right about that.  Trump could have done more to lobby the Senators, and it's true he didn't know how to do that.  But it's a shared responsibility. 

McCain said, after he stuck the knife in Trump, it was because the Governor of AZ expressed concern that it wasn't enough.  If Trump would have known that, he could have lobbied the Governor, but McCain didn't tell him in time that he should.  So McCain was able to waltz off claiming he was doing what his constituents wanted.  If I was Gov. Ducey I'd be pissed at McCain.

I KNOW RIGHT?!?  Why didn't anybody see this coming?  I read on the internet that Senate Majority Leader McConnell has always run his reelection campaigns honorably, and he has never failed to fix the problems in America since he was elected Senate Majority leader 7 years ago, but then suddenly, after President Trump was elected, Mitch started to go all Establishmenty.  I just wish advisors like Steve Bannon and Roger Stone could have somehow predicted Senators McConnell, and McCain might not be reliable.

Sad.

[Cyber Liberty]

I KNOW RIGHT?!?  Why didn't anybody see this coming?  I read on the internet that Senate Majority Leader McConnell has always run his reelection campaigns honorably, and he has never failed to fix the problems in America since he was elected Senate Majority leader 7 years ago, but then suddenly, after President Trump was elected, Mitch started to go all Establishmenty.  I just wish advisors like Steve Bannon and Roger Stone could have somehow predicted Senators McConnell, and McCain might not be reliable.

Sad.

Read that on the internet, huh.   

(I knew McConnell's an a-hole, along with McCain and the others, and I didn't need the internet to know that...)

[Suppressed]

Trump could have done more to lobby the Senators, and it's true he didn't know how to do that. 

The guy who put "experienced at dealmaking" on his résumé, and after hiring him you figure out he was cashier at McDonald's.

[Oceander]

The guy who put "experienced at dealmaking" on his résumé, and after hiring him you figure out he was cashier at McDonald's.

Bingo!

[Suppressed]

From what I understand he really screwed over a lot of people while in the service. He had no business flying a plane and he dropped a bomb right on the flight deck of ship he was getting ready to take off from. The damage was immense and rather than help fight the fire where good real servicemen were killed; he ran away. This was a case where the turd rose to the top instead of the cream.

@Freedom928

How about some citations on those claims? If you're talking about the Forrestal incident, what you described is nothing like what happened. Again, it sounds like you're getting fooled by a lot of the made-up garbage going around sites like FR, where facts don't matter.

[Cyber Liberty]

@Freedom928

How about some citations on those claims? If you're talking about the Forrestal incident, what you described is nothing like what happened. Again, it sounds like you're getting fooled by a lot of the made-up garbage going around sites like FR, where facts don't matter.

I detest McCain, and I'm pretty sure he was thoroughly exonerated by the investigation of the Forrestal.  But, I also believe somebody who crashed as many trainers as he did would never have been allowed to get into a plane on the Forrestal.  But I wasn't there back then, so I don't know what he did in school.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

@Freedom928

How about some citations on those claims? If you're talking about the Forrestal incident, what you described is nothing like what happened. Again, it sounds like you're getting fooled by a lot of the made-up garbage going around sites like FR, where facts don't matter.

It's common knowledge on Trumpbart.com .  You sound like the kind of person who has empathy and compassion for American POWs.  Like our President, I like people who weren’t captured.