Newt Gingrich, the noted ethanol lobbyist and partner of Pelosi in climate-change propaganda, may have further difficulty convincing conservatives that he’s conservative.
On Sunday, Newt attacked Paul Ryan’s Path to Prosperity as “too big a jump.” He also said, “I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering.”
But in Iowa, at the Conservative Principles Conference in March, Newt was praising the plan. He told PJTV’s Tony Katz that the Ryan plan offered “a very bold budget that includes entitlement reforms, it includes very significant cuts in government spending.”
Watch the interview here:
Here’s Newt’s analysis (again, from March) of Paul Ryan’s Path to Prosperity.
I think you’re going to see in the next couple of weeks, Paul Ryan, the chairman of the Budget Committee, produce a very bold budget that includes entitlement reforms, it includes very significant cuts in government spending. It is a major step towards getting government under control, and I know from talking to Congressman Ryan that he is really putting together something that’s very bold and very decisive. So, I think that’s coming in the very near future. I think you’ll see continued cuts in the continuing resolution process and I think you could see a serious effort to repeal Obamacare on the debt ceiling. So, I think the next three or four months are going to be very action-packed and that people are going to have a chance to see some very significant changes.
We are definitely seeing “some very significant changes.”
Watching this video in May is probably unfair, but I’m going to predict that Paul Ryan’s path to prosperity will get watered down at least as much as the 2011 continuing budget resolution that started at 100billion with the Tea Partyand ended up around 14 billion in current fiscal year savings.
Newt’s comments that the republicans need to focus the attention and put pressure on the Senate Democrats hasn’t happened and frankly I think the American people don’t think the pressure will make a difference.
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Have very little faith in politicians (both stripes) regarding the budget unless a gun is pointed at their heads. That said, Gingrich has established his place in the Democratic party and should remain there.
Not so fast! We don’t want him, either!
Sorry Newt! Your time has past…
Newt need to be put out to pasture along with the rest of the clueless congressional leadership
Dick Morris says Newt’s political suicide clears the way for Mitt Romney. So lemme get this straight:
Republicans are going to nominate for president the man who unabashedly invented the health insurance individual mandate?
Heaven help us.
only pistol whipped submissive career political eunuchs can “reason” like this
You nailed it daxypoo! At one time all actors were considered prostitutes. Now we can extend that title to politicians, pistol whipped, overly compromised politicians who stand for nothing except re-election. The prostitute will tell you what you want to hear for a cost. All fantasies are on the table. Newt shot himself in the foot and now he is trying to explain no bleeding, no pain, no blame.
The Party of Stupid and Worse.
Eventually, what the knowledgable fringe observes and believes filters through to the unknowledgable majority that leans in the same direction.
It’s hard to see how Newt can survive. When somebody is attacked from the left, the right, and the rino middle, how can he possibly gain any traction? He has no constituency and no longer has a hope of building one.
Newt lost me a decade ago when he was out promoting the Medicare Drug Benefit as a good idea – not the unnecessary permanent drain on the Treasury it is.
Gingrich: the poster boy for Disloyalty. Expect him to show up as the Dems new VP, proving that Obama has met kept his promise of no more politics as usual.
Don’t laugh- Imagine, Obama and Newt – Callista and Michelle – black and white hands raised in front to MLK’s picture while Hope and Change have at last come to America when two top leaders from each party – old enemy parties, unite at least. Give us your votes to save unity and don’t let that whiny tea party tell you otherwise. We look foward to Newt handling my lesser jobs like the candidate debates.
Obama will also announce that Newt’s new job will be the chief programmer of the TOTUS.
Newt is as narcissistic as is Obama. It’s all about Newt, and nothing less. We need less of Newt and more of those with vision. We had the minister leave the campaign. It’s now time for the professor to exit stage left!
“We need less of Newt and more of those with vision.
What the heck happened to Newt?
Didnt he have “vision” at one time?
Or was I just younger and more niave back then…back when he used to show up on C-span and knock me out with his solid conservative pragmatism?
Back when he would go point by point, with simple Constitutional clarity, and so easily pick apart the leftest house of cards and the Clinton Centrest Hoax…between cheers I used to say “what isnt this guy president”
What happened?
WHEN did it happen, I seemed to miss the the actual transformation moment(s), I just woke up one day and realized:
“Newt? THATS Newt?”
Rather disconcerting, since I thought at one time he was a staunch ally.
The man has been dragging around so much personal baggage that he has changed from a principled leader to a guy who can’t even speak up about John Edwards, for crying out loud. Still, we like that his messy affairs make good fodder for the lefty media. We don’t want them to know who our guy is until Boobily has foolishly chased around about a dozen or so of these guys. Dems always need bogey men to run against.
Someone turned him into a Newt!
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I know I am repeating myself but it is uncanny how three meshuggeneh pots end up making fools of themselves in the news all at the same time: Arnold the Impregnator, Dominic the Seducer, and Foot-in-Mouth Newt. Two of them of the pseudo-conservative persuasion, the other a pseudo-socialist financial bigwig. None of them a friend of the truth.
Any similarity with a soap opera is a complete coincidence. Gentlemen lets start by keeping it IN your pants. It helps to show some restraint and self control. You are making Obama look like a family man. La vache!
And this leaves Mitt, except that the base doesn’t want the guy who created Obama-care before there was Obama-care. Yes he can raise huge sums of money, but that money is coming from the party’s big biz connections. For them political donations are no different than any other investment. Smart investors don’t put money on long shots.
That’s just what Mitt is. He’s safe, calm, vanilla, … and that’s why the base wont go for him. He’s a squish. While I have no doubt that Romney is a decent and honorable person, a good businessman and father, he has no fire in the belly. Anyone who can approve Romney-care has no core conservative/libertarian beliefs. He thinks he can fix things when he gets there like he did when he was in business. Government is different. You can’t fire the trouble makers, you have to conquer them.
The field is weak. I’d vote for H. Cain but he doesn’t have the name recognition. That leaves only one person that can fire up the base. If you listen closely you can hear the theme from Jaws as Pailin circles, waiting for the right moment to announce.
Not even sure if I agree with her on most stuff, but I do know that she is the only one to inspire the base. Mitt shows up somewhere and there is some cameras, party hacks and some deep pocket donors. Pailin shows up and thousands of people show up hours and hours before hand.
Like I said, don’t know how much I agree with her on things, but if she won there’s lots of people on the left who’s heads would explode from rage and confusion… and thats good enough for me.
newt publically trashing the Ryan plan is bad enough, but having an old video commercial where he is side by side with Pelosi talking about how we need legislation to stop global warming is even worse. We have already deservedly trashed Romney for Romneycare, but Newt is even worse.
I like Newt for his ability to sometimes come up with great ideas and slogans, and his debating ability, but his big mouth and inconsistency is too much to bear. Dump him as a candidate, but keep him as an idea man, pundit, and policy advisor, where he is actually pretty good.
Newt is kaput.
Right-wing social engineering? Ryan’s plan grows the debt to ease the transformation from a (socialist) give-away to a block-grant (socialist) give away (medicaid), while phasing in market forces with a subsidy in medicare like congress enjoys.
Our Founders would trip over their muskets trying to find the ‘conservative’ engineering in this plan. Newt would be lucky to polish their powder horns. Please.
Paul Ryan’s plan to move the dollars spent on care for seniors into health insurance company premiums would result in seniors getting less care. Only people with wearing ideological blinders and GOP politicians spout the nonsense of “market forces.” There is no free market in health care. Where does one obtain this magic pixie dust of capitalist cures?
Ryan’s plan is DOA. He should spend his time redeeming his party by going after the wall street thieves that are still operating the same as they were before the collapse. Then throw the Bush clowns in office for war crimes.
We must not raise the debt ceiling!
We pay the interest on the debt; pay the debt down some; cut the Federal Government down to whatever size we must to balance the budget. We never, ever again borrow at the federal level. We learn to live within our income, and to extend handouts within that income. Much of our spending is without constitutional warrant. That must all end, and now.
As for president, we do not need a socialist mormon dingbat for anything, let alone POTUS.
Well done White Tiger. Thanks for showing your stripes. Your kind of bigotry is showing up all over. On cable T.V. and Pajamasmedia along with the main stream, so take comfort in the fact that you’re not alone.
But let’s face it, decent and honorable men such as Mitt Romney are hard to come by these days.
Compare his zit to the warts on all the other midgits that are being touted for 2012 and he looks like a giant.
As for Sarah Palin, we should be so lucky as to have a chance to pull the lever for her, but it’s looking pretty remote at this stage. Maybe she’s too smart to enter a dung throwing contest among tigers.