Today on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) about his views on the Pelosi-led delegation to Syria. Gingrich criticized Pelosi, saying, “I think it’s very important not to have two foreign policies, and I think it’s very dangerous for America to do what Speaker Pelosi did.”

Wallace confronted Gingrich with public comments he made as Speaker that clashed with Clinton administration policy before and during his travels abroad to China and Israel in the 1990’s. (Glenn Greenwald first documented those statements HERE.) Gingrich said at the time:

We will defend Taiwan, period. [3/31/97]

I think it’s wrong for the American Secretary of State to become the agent for the Palestinians [3/12/98]

Gingrich responded to the Taiwan comment stating, “What I said in China was U.S. policy.” But Wallace quickly refuted him: “Not according to the Clinton administration.” Gingrich then attempted to defend his statements criticizing Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and said, “I think at the time she was taking steps that were very, very pro-Palestinian.”

There are many examples of this sort of thing. It’s utter hypocrisy to be screaming at Pelosi for talking to a foreign government–something that is clearly expected in the Constitution if one understands the foreign policy powers ascribed to the dominant legislative branch and not the fantasyland unitary executive theory Dick Cheney and friends have made up. Nevermind that in the initial example, Gingrich set up the Hastert group to specifically undermine the Clinton administrations dealing with terrorists.

===what a majority of 15 seats in the House

That would be 31 seats–a larger majority than the Republicans had at anytime between 1995 and 2007.

Fantasyland may be fun, but it’s silly.

That said, you seem the be trying to cover for your leader…the highest ranking Democrat in the nation, by comparing her to Dennis Hastert, then (1997) a respected, though not in power ‘back bencher’ for the GOP. Hastert was not to become speaker for another 2 years.

Are you then saying the Queen Nancy is no more important than Hastert was before he was Speaker? Okay…

There are 435 members of the US House and at any given time one (or more) of them is saying/doing something stupid.

Queen Nancy is the nominal leader of your party. This harkens back to the 2004 ‘meetings’ John Kerry claimed to have with all those foreign leaders leading up to the election.

And while we are here, let’s face facts: if Queen Nancy had done what she did, and SUCCEEDED, well then you and I wouldn’t be having this little talk…SUCCESS, and your Queen would have gotten a parade when she got back…but face it she got sucked in and played, by at least one side and maybe by both.

You guys claim that we, the GOP are a bunch of idiots… that’s good for you…because if not you wouldn’t have no more than a dozen House members in your party. Again look at the results…with “everyone” “hating” Bush, the war, and with the GOP nothing more than ‘fools’ all you got in 2006, what a majority of 15 seats in the House and one, and a sick in the hospital one in the Senate.

What happens when the Democrats have to compromise on the war spending bill? What happens if the war turns, even a little, and the GOP actually has someone running that isn’t Bush, the economy stays well, and Queen Nancy can’t keep her majority together to pass spit?

Good luck there guys…

you may want to get out a little. Hubris and a healthy dose of stupidity has put a real crimp into your party’s power and has the president celebrating a “bump” to 38% in the polls. 38%. Huzzah!

What’s more, let’s talk about “lying.” The current leader in the GOP presidential polls is one former mayor of NYC. He of the ever-evolving social positions. The money leader is Romney. He of the ever-evolving social positions and his “lifetime of hunting.”

If you fail to see that politicians of all stripes embellish this, exaggerate that and alter their positions about the other thing, then you are clearly part of the lesser class of morons.

In the end, we probably have to figure out who does a crappy job, such as denying science, embarrassing themselves by injecting the congress into a private family member to pander, lying about a war that has left more than 3,000 Americans dead, giving away the store to PHRMA and energy industries, selling legislation to lobbyists, and of course, back to topic, conveniently forgetting their own sins while brazenly lying in a continuing desperate attempt to ooze back into power.

You have no leg to stand on here.

Why?

It’s not like you beat them at the polls regularly.

I mean come on, if we were any better, no Democrats would be able to get elected in this country outside the inner-city…you know like Chicago. As it is they must ‘lie’ (the Blue dogs) to have half a chance. Or like ‘independant voting’ claire…95% with Reid and ol’ Teddy.