There was some obvious irony in Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich gleefully informing Greta Van Susteren that the final vote tally in New York’s 23rd Congressional District might award the House Seat to Conservative Doug Hoffman, in spite of all Newt’s efforts. Speaking during his “On the Record,” interview, Gingrich stated:
“They (the Conservative Party on election night) were given bad information. They’d done far better in Doug’s key county. As the absentee ballots come in, it keeps getting narrower and narrower.”
Greta situated the significance of Hoffman’s supposed loss perfectly when she linked it to the dramatic Health Care Reform vote in the dead of night on November 7th.
“What bothers me the most in this is that he (Bill Owens) was not certified as the winner. The Speaker of the House and every Democrat member of Congress wanted to rush him in and have him sworn in on Friday solely for the reason that he could vote on the next day (on the Health Care Bill.) In a huge rush to quick, quick, quick jam this down our throat.”
Bill Owens’ presence at the House vote in place of Doug Hoffman’s contributed to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s narrow success. She needed 218 votes, she got 220. Hoffman’s vote might have meant that only two, instead of three men had voted to turn America into Cuba. Who can say what the effect of a Hoffman win would have had on the “Blue Dog Democrats?” Would Benedict Arnold Cao have “Aye’d” so enthusiastically, had Hoffman won?
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