Newt 2, the movie...

Huffington Post February 27, 2011
    Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said Friday that President Obama had overstepped his constitutional authority with his recent decision to order his administration to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act. While the move didn't immediately open Obama up to impeachment, Gingrich claimed, it did raise his worry about a future constitutional crisis.
In an interview with Newsmax, Gingrich characterized the president's latest announcement regarding DOMA, a law that allows states to not honor gay marriages, as "a dereliction of duty and a violation of his constitutional oath" that "cannot be allowed to stand."
     On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder said Obama had determined that his administration would no longer defend a law defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, but that it would continue to be enforced pending an actual legislative overturn.
Gingrich on Friday said that this plan of action was unacceptable.
    "He swore an oath on the Bible to become president that he would uphold the Constitution and enforce the laws of the United States," Gingrich said. "He is not a one-person Supreme Court. The idea that we now have the rule of Obama instead of the rule of law should frighten everybody."

I would like to draw the readers attention to the ridiculous position that the Newt has taken. Obama did indeed take an oath to uphold the Constitution and enforce laws. The second paragraph states that this law banning same-sex marriage would continue to be enforced. What the Obama administration will not do is pay lip service to the notion that this sort of law is defensable, and seems to be counting on either the legislature or the courts to issue further instructions on either the mechanism of enforcement or the constitutionality of such a law. Since the executive branch is not the legislative branch, the current administration is continuing to enforce the law. Since the executive branch is not the judicial, the current administration is continuing to enforce the law.

That Mr. Gingrich cannot understand this renders him unfit for office in this country, and proves that what he is engaged in is simply rabble-rousing nonsense designed to appeal to those who have forgotten that Newt Gingrich was convicted by Congress for criminal malfeasance regarding money and lying about it to the ethics committee, composed of his peers in Congress.