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Gingrich Calls GOP Medicare Plan 'Right-Wing Social Engineering' (supports individual mandate)
The Wall Street Journal via Foxnews.com ^ | May 16, 2011

Posted on 05/16/2011 7:14:15 AM PDT by AAABEST

White House hopeful Newt Gingrich called the House Republican plan for Medicare "right-wing social engineering," injecting a discordant GOP voice into the party's efforts to reshape both entitlements and the broader budget debate.

In the same interview Sunday, on NBC's "Meet the Press," Mr. Gingrich backed a requirement that all Americans buy health insurance, complicating a Republican line of attack on President Barack Obama's health law.

The former House speaker's decision to stick with his previous support for an individual mandate comes days after former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney defended the health revamp he championed as governor, which includes a mandate.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dnc4gingrich; fung; gingrich; gingrich4obamacare; gingrich4romney; gingrich4romneycare; gingrichcare; individual; mandate; posergingrich; rinogingrich
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Gee Newt, this is almost as brilliant as when you sat with Nancy on that couch pumping the Global warming scam for Algore's NGO:


GET LOST

1 posted on 05/16/2011 7:14:23 AM PDT by AAABEST
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To: AAABEST

Fork...stick....done...Newt.


2 posted on 05/16/2011 7:16:02 AM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: AAABEST

Put a fork in him! He’s DONE! Bye Bye Newt!


3 posted on 05/16/2011 7:16:02 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: AAABEST
Calling Sean Hannity!

Pls keep your mutt on a shorter leash!

4 posted on 05/16/2011 7:16:32 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: PaleoBob

He is a confused man.


5 posted on 05/16/2011 7:17:33 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: AAABEST

What a politically stupid move. Hard to believe he would make this statement right out of the gate.


6 posted on 05/16/2011 7:18:05 AM PDT by ChocChipCookie (Jonah is my patron saint.)
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To: AAABEST
Newt is state-run media's wet-dream of the GOP candidate.
7 posted on 05/16/2011 7:18:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islamophobia: The fear of offending Muslims because they are prone to violence.)
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To: AAABEST

Thanx, Newtie -
and buh-bye...


8 posted on 05/16/2011 7:18:56 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: AAABEST

Newt and Mitt: statists supporting government control over our lives. RINOs. I won’t vote for either of them.


9 posted on 05/16/2011 7:19:30 AM PDT by American Quilter (DEFUND OBAMACARE.)
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To: AAABEST

The Washington Examiner posts following the column has a lot of negative posts on Newt. I cannot figure out why he is even running, it is a waste of time!


10 posted on 05/16/2011 7:20:42 AM PDT by ohiogrammy (12)
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RE:”In the same interview Sunday, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Mr. Gingrich backed a requirement that all Americans buy health insurance, complicating a Republican line of attack on President Barack Obama’s health law.

or post a bond that would be used to pay for the emergency room health care that congress mandated the hospitals provide for free. I saw the interview. I dont see House Republicans addressing the free health care mandated on hospitals. That is too popular I guess.

Will any candidates for president take up support for the Ryan plan?

Does Newt have any support from any group? I dont know of any.

11 posted on 05/16/2011 7:22:32 AM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: AAABEST

Newt! Don’t you have another girl friend to find?


12 posted on 05/16/2011 7:23:10 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: AAABEST

Perhaps he and Hillary! can run against Obama in the Democrat primaries?

Really. What kind of idiot watches Mitt Romney eliminate himself from the running by doubling down on supporting RomneyCare, then decides to jump off the cliff after him?

Newt... We knew you were an arrogant old blowhard, but this is stupid in a way that defies comprehension. Please, do yourself a favor. Fold up your tent, and go home now.


13 posted on 05/16/2011 7:23:32 AM PDT by Steel Wolf ("There are moderate Muslims, but Islam itself is not moderate." - Ibn Warraq)
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To: AAABEST

Newt should have remained retired. He is completely out of touch and delusional. He is also a philandering fat tub of crap. Newt will be humiliated as he deserves.


15 posted on 05/16/2011 7:25:16 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: AAABEST

At root, Gingrich is a condescending, elitist professor.

‘Nuff said.


16 posted on 05/16/2011 7:26:56 AM PDT by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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This is the political equivalent of a sprinter tripping on his shoelace right out of the gate.

Actually, I think Newt is purposeful and calculated in his statement. He is probably trying to differentiate himself.

I also think he is misguided. I predict the fastest campaign implosion that we have seen in a quite a while.

17 posted on 05/16/2011 7:28:57 AM PDT by Pete (29thday.org Exponential problems require exponential solutions)
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Hey Newt! It will be a "cold day in hell"...

I didn't vote for McCain in 2010. I would not vote for you in 2012.

18 posted on 05/16/2011 7:29:09 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("...that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,..")
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To: AAABEST

Hey, Newt... Why not shave your ass and walk backwards... It would be a change for the better, you brain-dead old fool. I would not vote you for dog catcher... But oh, wait... From that picture of you sitting with Nancy, then I see you already have caught a dog.


19 posted on 05/16/2011 7:30:22 AM PDT by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !When a majority of the American)
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... and that is one of the real problems with newts. They get their ass handed to them and they just grow another...


20 posted on 05/16/2011 7:32:55 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Put Obie in a dress and call him "The Last Queen of Scotland".)
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