Posted on 06/09/2009 10:38:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
June 9 (Bloomberg) -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said President Barack Obama’s plan to fix the economy through stimulus spending and government intervention to boost companies like General Motors Corp. has "already failed."
Gingrich was the keynote speaker at a fundraising dinner for the Republican House and Senate campaign committees, filling a role President George W. Bush had served for the past eight years.
"Bureaucrats managing companies does not work, politicians dominating the economy does not work," Gingrich told about 2,000 Republicans who attended the event at the Washington Convention Center last night.
Some Republican leaders hailed Gingrich, the leader of the 1994 "Republican Revolution," as a de facto head of the party at a time when Republicans are looking for ideas to lead them back to the majority.
In introducing Gingrich, Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin called him the “architect of the last reform movement” and “the man of ideas.”
Gingrich was preceded by a series of Republican leaders who also took aim at Democrats and the government bailout of Detroit-based GM, New York-based American International Group Inc. and other companies.
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“I do not like Newt”
Me neither
Gingrich is completely unreliable, has severe character flaws and is a walks around with kick me pinned to his back.
There, fixed it.
Jack Kemp lost me during a VP debate when ALGore said," Jack is one of the few GOOD republcians." Jack just smiled. He should have said -there are millions of GOOD republicans, people who help their negihbors and don't want government help. But all he did was take credit for being good and let us working stiffs roll under the bus.
Newt, Jack and a dozen Republican senators have no idea why the working man and woman like Sarah. She worked her way through college and raised a family to be proud of and did a little public service too. Million of us are doing this and not one damn leader ever seems to mention that volunteers actually get things done to help our country. We don't need or want the governments help.
No s**t, Newt - tell us something we don’t know.
So we should support Newt even though he shilled for TARP? There is no logic in that. There were many GOP congressman who bravely opposed TARP. We should consider one of them first.
What influence? By the time of TARP Cheney couldn't even get President Bush to pardon Scooter Libby!
If you can't stab your friends in the back, you will never succeed in politics.
Newt actually doesn’t have a good side, aesthetically speaking.
“Jack Kemp lost me during a VP debate when ALGore said,” Jack is one of the few GOOD republcians.” Jack just smiled.”
It was even worse than how you remember it- Gore had just tarred Republicans as being a bunch of racists, except for Jack Kemp. And by accepting Gore’s praise Kemp was implicitly agreeing to Gore’s smear.
Kemp lost me and a lot of other Californians when he and Bill Bennett flew out here during the Prop 187 battle in 1994 and gave support to the pro-illegal alien side. A couple of self-righteous jerks who never had to live with the destruction of their own neighborhoods, but more than willing to inflict it on others.
If that’s a plus Newt should have a shot at being President.
Is that an attempt to defend Cheney's inaction on this issue? My point is that Cheney never even made fighting TARP a priority. Instead, he thought that defending Scooter was more important than even trying to speak out against the greatest leap to socialism in decades.
Precisely what do you know of private discussions between the President and VP of the US? If you are implying the Cheney should have publicly opposed the administration in the middle of what some thought was an existential crisis you know nothing about how our constitutional government is supposed to function.
Precisely!
So now Newt and Obama have something in common.
Newt bump.
Government needs to get out of businesses and corporations.
The dimocrats just don’t understand! (Will they ever?)
Regardless of what may have happened in "private," the telling point is that Cheney cared enough about helping Scooter to "go public" against the president but did not care enough to do so against TARP, a far more important issue for future generations.
You claim to "know something" about our system of "constitutional government." If so, I can only ask why are defending a man who has no problem with shredding the eighth amendment by loudly supporting torture ("Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted)" and giving the president the power to suspend the most ancient right of habeas corpus.
If your retort is that these rights only apply to citizens, please note that the constitution more often uses the word persons not citizens when laying out our rights.
I never could understand why allegedly "small government conservatives" would want to defend a man who wants to give our new president more arbitary power on these issues. What gives with that?! I thought conservatives were supposed to be suspcious of centralized power!
All the evidence is that Cheney cares far more about finding ways to increase the excecutive power of the president (now Obama) than he does about defending the personal liberty and property rights of ordinary citizens.
Talk is cheap. He talked a good game back in 94 when we took over the house and then threw it all away trying to kiss up to Clinton. Anyone can talk. I look at actions and one of Newt's most despicable actions was sitting on that couch with Pelosi. No amount of speeches will change that. He also disses Rush trying to get the media on his side. He is just another RINO IMO. Yep, I liked his speech but I don't like him and will never vote for him.
I am sorry, I do not believe in empowering our enemies during a war, we just differ in this area.
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