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Gingrich: Ryan budget plan ‘right-wing social engineering’ (Sunday talk shows)
The Washington Post's 44 ^ | May 15, 2011 | Emi Kolawole and Rachel Weiner

Posted on 05/15/2011 5:30:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Discussion on the Sunday talk shows centered on the budget and the looming debt ceiling, with House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) on CNN’s State of the Union and House Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) on CBS’s Face the Nation. Domestic energy production and the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East also were addressed.

Meet the Press (NBC)

Gingrich: Paul Ryan' s plan is "right-wing social engineering," goes too far

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) explained that he felt compelled to run for president because "to not seek to help the country to fix the problems we have would have been a failure of citizenship on my part." Gingrich laughed off the possibility of being anyone's running-mate: "Can you imagine any presidential nominee who picked me to be the vice presidential candidate?" He denied charges of racism and said he thinks "Obama loves America" but has "a different idea of what America is." Gingrich said he has had some difficulty separating his role as a political analyst from his desire to be a "disciplined" political leader. "I think that's a fair criticism." Gingrich also addressed his past marital infidelity and two divorces, saying "I've clearly done things that are wrong. People have every right to ask the tough questions."

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: congress; fung; gingrich; madatnewt; newt; paulryan; stfunewt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What is wrong with this Jack Ass? I was telling my friends I wasn’t sure that he would ever redeem himself for sitting on that couch. Now this. Bye Newt. Glad I wasn’t counting on you. Take Mittens with you!


21 posted on 05/15/2011 5:53:54 PM PDT by marygam ((Obama is not a messiah, wake up folks!))
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To: SC_Pete
Bingo!
You win tonight's jackpot!
22 posted on 05/15/2011 5:54:04 PM PDT by Reily
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Newt, you would have done us all a favor by retiring to FL and a nice condo. You’re gonna mess up the whole election...


23 posted on 05/15/2011 5:57:01 PM PDT by madison10
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s done...stuck his foot in his mouth again.


24 posted on 05/15/2011 5:59:25 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Wise To The Lies!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gingrich is toast. He’s a wet noodle with no convictions.


25 posted on 05/15/2011 6:02:56 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Just a few days ago Team Newt issued a statement that Newt was actually debating Pelosi and he isn’t sorry.

http://punditpress.blogspot.com/2011/05/gingrich-my-ad-on-global-warming-with.html


26 posted on 05/15/2011 6:03:59 PM PDT by bwc2221
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To: beethovenfan

Gingrich was once a good house leader but he let his pecker lead him around, to much bagage in my view


27 posted on 05/15/2011 6:06:00 PM PDT by wild74
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To: K-oneTexas
Follow on to #11

Newt knows what history says, but I'm not convinced he ofen knows what it means.

28 posted on 05/15/2011 6:08:58 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Put Obie in a dress and call him "The Last Queen of Scotland".)
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To: byteback
Nice find! I'll see your government mandated healthcare and raise you one giant hypocrite:

“It doesn’t matter what I do. People need to hear what I have to say. There’s no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn’t matter what I live.”
-Newt

29 posted on 05/15/2011 6:10:34 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: scorchedearther

I didn’t see Governor Palin on that list. We have NEVER elected someone to the presidency who has no government experience (elected or flag rank) so Mr. Cain is probably a non-starter. We have only elected ONE person to the White House who only had the House of Representatives and that was in a strange four-way race in 1860, so Rep. Bachmann is also probably a non-starter. We elect governors, vice-presidents, generals and senators, pretty much in that order.


30 posted on 05/15/2011 6:10:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (How do you starve an Obama supporter? Hide his food stamps under his work boots.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Newt, this isn't difficult, but just so it sinks in, write this on the blackboard 100 times: "Run to the right as fast as you can before the primary. Run back to the left as fast as you can after the primary."
31 posted on 05/15/2011 6:10:59 PM PDT by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47. In leather.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe when he said he was going to run against Obama, he meant as a Democrat.


32 posted on 05/15/2011 6:11:26 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: bwc2221
Just a few days ago Team Newt issued a statement that Newt was actually debating Pelosi and he isn’t sorry.

Yes, and if you believe that one, there's a link to a nice homeopathic remedy on the sidebar of their web page for you.

33 posted on 05/15/2011 6:12:44 PM PDT by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47. In leather.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
he thinks "Obama loves America"

I'd puke to death for fun before I'd vote for Noot.

34 posted on 05/15/2011 6:15:09 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We elect governors, vice-presidents, generals and senators, pretty much in that order.

Doesn't that fit right into the definition of insanity?

35 posted on 05/15/2011 6:18:43 PM PDT by Prokopton
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Buh-bye, Gingrich.
You loser.


36 posted on 05/15/2011 6:27:43 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: scorchedearther

Why Pawlenty? I still have him on my “Would vote for, but without any enthusiasm whatsoever.” list.


37 posted on 05/15/2011 6:27:56 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Herman Cain did NOT support TARP, and he did NOT say the Federal Reserve should not be audited.)
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To: Prokopton

Governors govern by definition and generals command. Are you saying that Presidents Reagan, Eisenhower, Coolidge and McKinley were a symptom of insanity?


38 posted on 05/15/2011 6:28:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (How do you starve an Obama supporter? Hide his food stamps under his work boots.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We elect governors, vice-presidents, generals and senators, pretty much in that order.

Of course, Ubama was in the Senate barely long enough for a cup of coffee and he did absolutely nothing of substance while there. It would be more accurate to say that America elected a "community organizer" from South Side Chicago.

Congratulations, America, on your "historic" election.


39 posted on 05/15/2011 6:33:56 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He threw Conservatives under the bus like his second wife.

Pray for America


40 posted on 05/15/2011 6:38:51 PM PDT by bray (Sarah is a Pa-lin the commie libs arse.)
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