Newt!  I Almost Forgot You!

Now I’m not saying that Newt pulled these numbers out of his ear or his wife’s safe deposit box hairdo, but Newt has been out counting gang members.  He was giving a speech and threw in this tidbit.

“Gangs have increased by 40 percent since this president was elected. There is no federal program to stop it. No one wants to have an honest conversation about it.

That makes my head hurt.  Forty percent, huh?  Not 38%, not 43%, but exactly 40%.  And I guess it all depends on what you call a gang.  As far as I am concerned those creepy people on Doomsday Preppers are the scariest gangs on the planet.

“There is no federal program to stop it?”  Are you peeing in my boots and tellin’ me it’s raining?  Newt Gingrich, who voted against every social program ever brought to congress, now wants a federal program?

But here’s the aspirin part.  You slash every educational program, every rehabilitation program, double college tuition and student loan interest rates, cut job training, stop school lunches, stop medical care to children and then you stinkin’ holler that “this President” has caused gangs to increase?

Newt Gingrich, you’re gonna burn in hell and it’s gonna sizzle for a million years.