According to Rush, New just emailed him stating, “I am with Boehner and the House on this.” (Or some such language)
So, why is he QUOTED as saying otherwise?
Is he hoping that two different messages to two different audiences won’t be noticed, or did he already realize his initial “learned” position wouldn’t go over well, and is trying to walk it back like he does so many things?
And if so, what is going to make him “walk back” is non-conservative ideas once he actually WINS the nomination?
He is firmly on both sides of this issue
Mr. Gingrich made it clear he favored a one-year extension of the two-percentage point payroll tax cut, which expires Jan. 1, not the two-month extension that passed the Senate with bipartisan support. He called the Senate bill “an absurd dereliction of duty.”
“Obama is so inept as a president, and the Congress is so dysfunctional as an institution, that we are lurching from failure to failure to failure,” Mr. Gingrich said.
Note he added but extend it from 2 mos to one year. I agree with Newt on this one. It would take us through the election