Here’s a president who 18 months before the election is going to use his office to extort contributions on a scale we’ve never seen before. He’s in effect trying to create a Chicago-style machine for the whole country with a billion dollars.
— Newt Gingrich, quoted by CNN, in reaction to President Obama’s re-election campaign announcement.
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Every time Gingrich says something ridiculous, we should each donate $0.01 to the Obama campaign. We’ll end up topping the trillion dollar mark by the time the election rolls around.