“You can’t handle the truth.” LOLOLOLOL!!!
T H E T R U T H
Newt Gringrich allied himself with Ronald Reagan to build the Reagan Coalition, the Religious Right, and the Republican majority (together the Reagan Revolution) which directly led the downfall of the Soviet Union, the Contract with America, government reforms, less government, tax cuts, a balanced budget, and the great, long-standing Reagan economy.
Under a Republican president, they [the Republican Congress] added over $3 trillion to the federal deficit, shunned conservative policy in favor of Beltway influence-peddling, and so damaged the GOP brand that we...lost the majority Gingrich had worked years to forge,..How much should I really care that Newt’s fabulous colleagues think his reemergence would be a disaster for Republicans? Lest these characters forget,...2010 was not a merit promotion; they [the Republicans] were the only alternative in town.
Just watch and listen to this video and tell me Gingrich is a conservative. His history on health care is one of Big Government solutions. He supported the government mandate and he helped establish the “sustainable growth rate” — or SGR — formula in 1997 that now needs a "doc fix" every year to postpone it. Its flaws became apparent by the end of 2001. Through a series of complicated calculations, the SGR formula in effect means that if spending due to increased use of services by Medicare patients rises faster than the nation’s gross domestic product, Medicare must compensate by cutting reimbursement rates for physicians enough to bring spending back in line with GDP growth. The cummulative amount is now 27.4%
To credit Newt with taking down the Soviet Union when he only joined Congress in 1979 is ridiculous. He was a back bencher under Reagan. Gingrich became House Majority Whip in 1989, the same year the wall came down. He replaced Dick Cheney in that job. FYI: There never was a balanced budget and surplus under Clinton.