Newt Gingrich Truth Grenade: “Every Major City Which Is a Poverty Center Is Run By Democrats” » The Right Scoop -

Newt Gingrich Truth Grenade: “Every Major City Which Is a Poverty Center Is Run By Democrats” » The Right Scoop -

Newt Gingrich Truth Grenade: “Every Major City Which Is a Poverty Center Is Run By Democrats”

Posted by  Caleb Howe on December 15th, 2013 i

“Here’s the baloney. Every major city which is a center of poverty is run by Democrats. Every major city. Their policies have failed, they’re not willing to admit and the fact is it’s the poor who suffer from bad government.”

On ABC’s This Week, Newt Gingrich faced off against former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich on the issue of poverty. Reich suggests that Repulicans are to blame for the fact that poverty has increased under President Obama, saying:

Well the problem is worse; I think it has something to do, perhaps, with the intransigence of the Speaker’s Party, because every time there was a jobs bill, every time there was an effort to expand a low income housing, every time there was an effort to provide better opportunities for young people.

The Former Speaker was having none of it, delivering the above-quoted smack-down.
Reich is a walking talking point, and the perfect example of the factless, thoughless way in which liberal talking heads ingest and regurgitate the same tired, trite finger-pointing regardless of circumstance and in the face of all of reason and information to the contrary. If Reich doesn’t have “Democrats Rule, Republicans Drool” tattooed somewhere unspeakable I’ll be more than surprised.
Gingrich shows how to deal with lame, lazy, bigotry like that displayed routinely by the mouthpieces of the Democrat party. Nice job, Mr. Speaker.
Here is the full transcript of the segment, courtesy of Newsbusters.

JONATHAN KARL, SUBSTITUTE HOST: And let me ask you, Mr. Gingrich, Speaker, when you look at that issue of inequality – and this is something he’s put front and center, the Pope has. It’s something of course that President Obama talks a lot about. We saw the story about homelessness in New York–
NEWT GINGRICH, FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Sure.
KARL: Stark reality of the gap in the nation’s biggest city. Is this an issue that Republicans should be talking about?
GINGRICH: Absolutely. I mean, how can you justify the level of wealth in those big towers in New York City and the level of poverty in those alleys? And without talking about government, say, surely a society that cared, that believed every person was endowed by their creator with the right to pursue happiness, would come up with a better solution than 22,000 children that are homeless.
And I think that the Republican Party has an obligation to rethink some of its indifference to the very poor. And I think the Democrats have an obligation to ask themselves after 50 years of the war on poverty, isn’t it clear that government is not a very good [unintelligible].
(CROSSTALK)
ROBERT REICH: The war on poverty – which next year we are going to celebrate the 50th anniversary in addition to the Civil Rights Act – the war on poverty was successful for a time. What has happened however over the last 30 years is that much of the, much of the ardor, much of the concern, much of the, what propelled that war on poverty has dissipated.
KARL: Why after five years of President Barack Obama we see the problem worse?
REICH: Well the problem is worse; I think it has something to do, perhaps, with the intransigence of the Speaker’s Party, because every time there was a jobs bill, every time there was an effort to expand a low income housing, every time there was an effort to provide better opportunities for young people. We’re talking about equal opportunity.
GINGRICH: Every major, every, this is baloney.
REICH: At the basis of this, what is baloney?
GINGRICH: Here’s the baloney. Every major city which is a center of poverty is run by Democrats. Every major city. Their policies have failed, they’re not willing to admit and the fact is it’s the poor who suffer from bad government.