Jihadi Du Jour

He’s not considered electable, perhaps that is why he’s not afraid to tell it like it is (powerful 4 minute video!):

We are in a global conflict with a force which wants to destroy us. I’ll just give you one example, because our enemies and many of our would-be friends who just don’t understand, always somehow bring it back to Israel…

If there is a civil war in Algeria and 100,000 Muslims are killed, it must be because of Israel.

If there are young girls walking to school killed by the Taliban for the purpose of terrorizing them from going, it must be because of Israel.

If there are six medical doctors living in Great Britain working for the National Health Service plotting terrorist attacks, they must be deranged because of Israel

If there are six terrorists in New Jersey, it’s probably because they once saw a map of Israel. Whatever happens on the planet, it can’t be for the real reason because the real reason is too terrifying.

The fact is, the irreconcilable wing of Islam is quite clear: They want to kill Salmon Rushdie because he expressed free speech. They killed a television producer in Holland because he expressed free speech. They drove a Somali Dutch parliamentarian out of Holland because she expressed free speech.

If they were in charge tonight, not a single woman would be in this room. So let’s be clear:

We have two choices: We can find a way to be reasonable and surrender, or we can defeat them.

Newt Gingrich, as promised in Contract with America (which he co-wrote with six other Republicans), brought an unprecedented set of legislation up for vote during his first one hundred days. He resigned from Congress shortly after the Republicans lost 5 seats in the 1998 Congressional elections and after his personal affair with a 33 year old staffer, Callista Bisek, came to light (an affair he conducted at the same time as Congress investigated and impeached President Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice in the Paula Jones case). In 2000 he married Ms. Bisek and they currently live in Virginia.

Unlike Nancy “the most powerful woman in the world” Pelosi, Gingrich had more to show for his record of accomplishments of those first 100 days in office than Pelosi and her Democrat majority has accomplished in almost 8 months. The zealousness for reform, the cleanup of corruption, cronyism, and pork barrel legislation Pelosi campaigned on… proved to be just another in a long line of broken campaign promises. Is it any wonder that for the first time in history Congress has a lower popularity rating than the President?

Perhaps now that Gingrich is not in office (and thus beholden to no one!) his words should be noted and carefully pondered upon.

Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich
(Photo from: Newsweek Magazine)

Chaim

Crossposted at: Freedom's Cost