Rep. Gingrey gets an earful

Published: September 6, 2007, 9:29 pm

Tags: the house, republican hypocrisy, iraq

Republican Rep. Phil Gingrey (GA-11) is obviously not used to other Republicans not toeing the party line around him. He appeared on C-Span’s Washington Journal this morning and got a big dose of reality from a self-described life-long Republican. Download (2564) Play (3054) Download (1044) Play (1608) (h/t Heather for vids) We have a complete catastrophe as a Republican [sic] today. I will give you the vision of the future next year: about 8 to 11 senators will be voted as Democrats that are now Republicans. There will be about 30 Republican congressmen that are now Republicans that will also become Democrats. And the next president will be a Democrat. My entire Republican party is being destroyed because of this catastrophe that’s happened in Iraq and all these wonderful young soldiers - 27,000 wounded and disabled soldiers, 12 - 15 million [thousand?] with severe mental problems, almost 4,000 dead. That’s 50,000 young

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