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Newt thinks it's the 90's still - he doesn't hear Levin when he says "The people are ahead of the gov't"
Newty sounded like he was looking for answers from Levin. I think he's p-o'd because he didn't come out with a plan FIRST!!
Came off like sour grapes.
I don't like him. Especially not for PRES.
Newty sounded like he was looking for answers from Levin. I think he's p-o'd because he didn't come out with a plan FIRST!!
Came off like sour grapes.
I don't like him. Especially not for PRES.
Seems to me that the problem with Newt is that he is still trying to play old-school politics, without realizing that the more savvy voters are past all that....we want mission-oriented, git-er-done young bloods that are not afraid to take on the Left, not old-throwbacks trying to beat up on "fellow" conservatives.
Pressed by the first weak-@$$ commie water-carrying MSM commentator and Newt capitulated...so how's he going to stand the rigor of a year-half long campaign? He's not...he'll be out fall.
Newt's gaffe shows the strength and cohesion of the larger conservative movement. Like any good statist, Newt's actions and words have helped to unify that movement.
This time, while frustrating for conservatives, is needed for the party to come out stronger on the other side.
Provided they make it through. What we've been finding is that there are so few conservatives who actually legislate that way. They're all talk and have moderated to win elections. I'm not so sure the GOP and DNC may not be gone in a few years. Unless the parties redevelop to get back to their principles.
Obama wins and Democrats find him doing things he said he'd never do. Bush won and the same thing happened. Bush ran on a platform of no nation-building. 9-11 happens and he immediately discards any silly principles he had and went to nation building.
We need new blood and Ron Paul and the libertarian growth is certainly new and different. More importantly, they've not been corrupted.
The other day I said something negative about Speaker Gingrich and I regret it more than I can say. That same day I remembered what President Ronald Reagan said. I can't quote him but it goes something like this..... Remember the 11th commandment...Never speak ill of a fellow Republican. He may have said Conservative. But it was something to that affect. At this point, I mean right now....the Democrats..Progressives...the Far Left is having a field day about what is being said here on Scoop and other Conservative sites. Please? And I really mean this...Please let's not give the Loons a chance to say we are chewing up and spitting out our own. They would love nothing better. Any Conservative out there already catches Holly Hell from all of the Networks because they obviously are all Far left and we all know that. Please folks let us not give them more to chew on. I never receive this e-mail before 8:00 P.M. in my Central Time Zone and I never get to say my two cents until after 10:00 P.M. Central time and I feel very few people, if any, will see this. But I sure hope they do. Thank you Scoop for letting me say my 2 cents. I never did say thank you before. So anyway "Thanks Everybody."
The irony of this, is that if Newt had adherred to Reagan's 11 commandment, and hadn't condemned Ryan's plan as "right-wing social engineering"...then we wouldn't be talking about this.
Newt has given a gift to the Left with that little soundbite.
I'm sure we will hear that phrase many times in the months and years to come.
We don't have the Senate or the Presidency, Newt! The whole premise of your
argument is ridiculous. Used to appreciate what a smart man Newt seemed to be. Now wonder how he can be so stupid.
What Newt Gingrich did on Meet the Press was, knowingly or unknowingly, a political suicide bombing. His comments were incredibly destructive, gave ammo to his opponents, and most likely destroyed his chances in this campaign with his first big appearance. He cannot recover from this, along with his support with Cap and Trade, ethanol etc. He sounds awful in this interview.
Newt's just proven himself to be no better than our current President. He has nothing more to offer than a bunch of blather about a reasonable process to get us a bill that everybody can agree on. B.S.
Newt didn't just shoot himself in the foot, he blew out the entire bottom of his boat. ...---... ...---...
"I liked him a lot more a couple of wives ago." You really didn't need to go further than than, Rs! Perfectly stated, and it sums up my opinion about Newt. Hope you don't mind if I use it, because I'm going to! Thanks!
Gingrich Backs Obamacare's Individual Mandate Requiring Health Insurance
Sunday, 15 May 2011 07:18 PM
By Tim Collie
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday that he strongly supports a federal mandate requiring citizens to buy health insurance – a position that has been rejected by many Republicans, including several who likely will be running against him for the Republican presidential nomination.
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Gingrich told host David Gregory that he continues to advocate for a plan he first called for in the early 1990s as a Congressman, which requires every uninsured citizen to purchase or acquire health insurance.
Gregory played a clip of Gingrich speaking during an appearance on Meet the Press in October 1993:
“I am for people, individuals -- exactly like automobile insurance -- individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance. And I am prepared to vote for a voucher system which will give individuals, on a sliding scale, a government subsidy so we insure that everyone as individuals have health insurance.”
Gregory asked Gingrich if he would criticize GOP presidential rival Mitt Romney, whose "Romneycare" health program enacted during his time as Governor in Massachusetts mandated that all uninsured purchase health insurance.
Gingrich replied he would not make it an issue in the campaign and said he agreed with key aspects of Romneycare.
"I agree that all of us have a responsibility to pay--help pay for health care," Gingrich said, adding, "I've said consistently we ought to have some requirement that you either have health insurance or you post a bond ..."
Gingrich also admitted that his proposal is a "variation" of the individual mandate, a key component of the Obamacare legislation President Obama signed into law in 2010.
The position staked out by Gingrich appears to be at odds with leading conservative critics of Obamacare, who argue that the law requiring citizens to purchase a private insurance policy is not constitutional.
The Obama administration is currently facing three lawsuits arguing that the federal mandate is unconstitutional, including one filed by a coalition of 26 states.
The issue is on track for a Supreme Court decision in the summer of 2012, which would make it a likely hot-button topic heading into the elections.
Conservative GOP critics like Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli say the mandate is unconstitutional because although Congress can regulate commerce, it can’t require people to engage in a particular “economic activity” just because they live in the U.S.
Conservative judicial experts have also taken exception to the claim made by Gingrich and supporters of the Obamacare law that mandating health insurance is the same as the government requirement to purchase car insurance, noting that driving a car is a privilege provided by states and not a constitutional right.
Cucinelli says that "buying auto insurance is voluntary, since you are only required to purchase it if you choose to drive on public roads. But buying health insurance under the new federal law is not voluntary, as you are required to buy it just by virtue of the fact that you are breathing. The federal government has never before in history exercised its regulatory power to require someone to buy a product or service as a condition of residence in the United States."
Gingrich, though, seemed to disagree with that notion on Sunday, though he was quick to point out the differences between his plan and the federal health law.
“In, in the first place, Obama basically is trying to replace the entire insurance system, creating state exchanges, building a Washington-based model, creating a federal system,” Gingrich told NBC’s David Gregory. “I believe all of us--and this is going to be a big debate--I believe all of us have a responsibility to help pay for healthcare …"
Romney has not come under fire for not disowning his health care plan, which has caused private health care insurance rates to skyrocket as patient services have declined in Massachusetts.
Gingrich's position quickly came under fire from several conservative blogs on Sunday.
“He tried to distinguish his mandate from the Obama mandate, but with little success,” the American Federalist Journal wrote on Sunday.
“Sandbagging your fellow Republicans in Congress and offering tacit support for a key (unconstitutional) component of Obamacare is a very strange way to begin a run in a Republican primary. Not a strong start.”
The Wall Street Journal called Gingrich’s description of an ideal healthcare plan with mandates a “pretty good description of what the Democratic Congress passed into law last year."
The Journal continued: "Beginning in 2014, most Americans who don't have insurance will be required to pay a fee, with many, depending on income, getting subsidies to help buy coverage through state-based exchanges.”
The conservative website Red State said Gingrich “won’t exactly endear him to the Tea Party crowd or the reform minded movement sweeping the GOP.”
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I am sick of these Liberal Republican Party Elitit RINO's, specifically Newt Gingrinch and Mitt Romney, who are just Obama look alikes, in Republican clothes, stabbing the American People in the back.. and why, because in they're arrogance and elitist mentality, they neither belive in, nor want to, allow the American People, aka, The Tea Party Movement, to dictate the Political Platform and the direction and course of the Nation, and the our Policies..
When last I looked, this Nation is a nation and govt. "Of the People, By the People, and For the People".. NOT the other way around.!!
It's ok, because the Ballot Box, with our Votes, are the weapons that we will be using, Mr. Gingrinch and Romney..
At least you know where your political enemies, Obama and the Obamacrats, are coming from.. but Internal Political Politician's betrayal, will NOT be tolerated, as it, and they, are worse than the Obama.!!
Bwahahahaha! Newt the Poot has shot himself in the foot right off the bat. I love it. I have contended since he went off and campaigned Scozzafava that he was a snake. Then he went and did that tour with Pelosi and Hitlary and It was confirmed. Now he has made it perfectly clear that he is nothing but a triangulating politician looking for votes from any and all corners.
Newt is either crazy or he's playing politics trying to pull in some Libertarians. Who is trying to do social engineering??? Either way he's not helping the conservative cause.
Instead of retiring gracefully as the Elder Statesman, he's going to go out in disgrace.
There's no unscrewing the pooch, Newt.
I figured it would take longer for him to put his foot in his mouth.
*shakes head*
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