This ad which ran in early 2008 is part of the “We Can Solve It” global warming ad campaign sponsored by former Vice President Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection. Gingrich has spent a lot of time trying to explain why he participated in this ad campaign.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

He’s sharing the Love Seat with frenemy Nancy Polosi:

… In an interview with Talking Points Memo …, Pelosi teased that she knows “a lot” from her days as senior Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, which investigated Gingrich for tax cheating and campaign finance violations.

“One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi said. “I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.” …

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Newt and his most one-eyed followers simply dismiss the many critics. He’s only been married once, they claim. And never cheated on that wife the way Bill Clinton did.

USA Today has a summary of the charges against the Newt – Fact Check: Many attacks on Gingrich are true

Santa read that article and delivered only a single lump of coal to candidate Newt. … Very funny, Claus. You know Gingrich won’t burn the coal — he’s too worried about Global Warming.

The Hobbit is an upcoming two-part epic fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson. It is a film adaptation of the 1937 novel of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien and a prequel to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

The films are The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) and The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2013).

Click PLAY or watch it on Apple.

Ian McKellen is back as Gandalf the Grey.

Ah, it’s the economy. Stupid.

Has his Presidency been “marked by cool calculation and risk-aversion” … Or has he been gutless?

You could argue it both ways.

I was the first person I knew to suggest that the relatively unknown, inexperienced Barack Obama could be President. (The internet loved him.)

AND the first of his boosters I knew to declare he couldn’t possibly win reelection.

But who’s going to beat him?

Economist – A rival for the president

Obama’s advisers would be gleeful to campaign against Sarah Palin.

Huckabee is Sarah Palin without the charisma. And is a lying lowlife, to boot, I’ve just learned.

… Perhaps the strategy for the Democrats is to do nothing until the election, then try to start fixing the American debt and deficit in the second term.

… sixth-worst storm since the agency began keeping records in 1869. …

The storm that clobbered the city Sunday left 20 inches of snow in Central Park.

WSJ

Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.

Meanwhile, at Santa’s Social Media Command Center… [COMIC]

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