{"id":50252,"date":"2022-01-24T14:55:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T14:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50252"},"modified":"2022-01-24T14:55:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T14:55:17","slug":"pipe-down-newtie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50252","title":{"rendered":"Pipe down, Newtie!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/newt-gingrich_pop_4825-570x414.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40191\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/newt-gingrich_pop_4825-570x414-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/newt-gingrich_pop_4825-570x414-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/newt-gingrich_pop_4825-570x414.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Newt Gingrich, the one-time Republican congressional bomb-thrower and former speaker of the House, needs to settle down and take a quick look back at a little Capitol Hill history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s clear that these are people who are literally just running over the law, pursuing innocent people, causing them to spend thousands and thousands of dollars in legal fees for no justification and it\u2019s basically a lynch mob and unfortunately the attorney general of the United States has joined the lynch mob and is totally misusing the FBI,\u201d Gingrich said over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>He is projecting that if the GOP takes control of Congress after the midterm election that Democrats on the 1\/6 select committee could face criminal prosecution over the way they have conducted the committee\u2019s probe into the insurrection that occurred on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p><em>What balderdash!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If we flash back to around 2016, when the GOP last controlled Congress, we can find evidence of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee badgering, tormenting and hectoring witnesses as it sought to find something for which it could blame for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Benghazi, Libya crisis. Remember that one? Terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and four Americans \u2014 including our ambassador to Libya \u2014 died in the melee. What did the House panel do? It launched a years-long probe into, subjecting Clinton, for example, to 11 hours of testimony before the committee.<\/p>\n<p>That panel ran far more amok than the 1\/6 committee that is trying to get the truth behind Donald Trump\u2019s effort to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election result.<\/p>\n<p>So, with that I\u2019ll just demand that the ex-speaker shut his trap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newt Gingrich, the one-time Republican congressional bomb-thrower and former speaker of the House, needs to settle down and take a quick look back at a little Capitol Hill history. \u201cI think it\u2019s clear that these are people who are literally just running over the law, pursuing innocent people, causing them to spend thousands and thousands &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pipe down, Newtie!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9596],"tags":[589,9593,1941,2139,2280,3299],"class_list":["post-50252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-riot","tag-benghazi","tag-dc-riot","tag-gop","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-insurrection","tag-newt-gingrich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50253,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50252\/revisions\/50253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}