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Gingrich Slams Obama for Dereliction of Duty

By Ashton Ellis
Monday, February 28 2011

If tea leaves are to be believed, former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) will announce his bid for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination very soon. In the meantime, the GOP’s premier idea man is floating an updated version of his nuclear option for misbehaving presidents: impeachment. As Speaker, Gingrich waged an ultimately failed attempt to impeach former President Bill Clinton for lying under oath about an extra-marital affair with Monica Lewinsky. For a variety of reasons, a supermajority of U.S. Senators was not willing to remove Clinton…

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