Newt Gingrich was on ABC’s This Week yesterday, and he nailed exactly why the Obama Trillion Dollar Debt Plan is destined to fail:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ66wcoJgnw&eurl=http://www.foundry.org/&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Our unofficial rush transcript: What you actually have is not change you can believe in. What you have is the fourth act of the Bush-Obama spend more plan. [Vice President Joe] Biden voted for all three of the first spending plans. The stimulus which failed in the spring. The housing bailout which failed in the summer. The Wall Street bailout which failed in the fall. Now we’re …
NAME: Rich Galen OCCUPATION: Writer, Political Pundit, Public Relations Advisor, Philosopher HOMETOWN: Alexandria, VA Rich Galen is the author of MULLINGS, a three-day-a-week column, which reaches some 400,000 people per month and is considered required reading by senior reporters and operatives on both sides of the aisle. He began writing MULLINGS in 1998 when he served as Executive Director of GOPAC. Prior to that stint, he served as press secretary to Dan Quayle, when he was a Congressman and a U.S. Senator; and to Newt Gingrich when Gingrich was House …
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), champion of a federal tax holiday, faced skeptical questions today about his idea to give the economy a boost. Gohmert wants to stop collecting taxes for two months — using the unspent $350 billion from the Wall Street bailout to pay for the plan. Although his idea has gained momentum on Capitol Hill with Republican lawmakers and former Speaker Newt Gingrich, conservative and libertarian bloggers who met with Gohmert at Heritage asked tough questions of the Texas congressman. (Listen to the briefing on BlogTalkRadio.) Most wanted …
National Journal’s health care experts’ blog today asked its contributors how the health care reform debate will change after Americans cast their votes tomorrow. Heritage’s Stuart Butler, vice president for domestic and economic policy studies, weighs in with this answer: It would indeed be wise for all those committed to major health reform to be cautious as they contemplate how to advance their agenda after the election. One lesson congressional Democrats should bear in mind is that ignoring the need for bipartisanship after a triumphant election is likely to doom …
Speaking at the Voters Values Summit, Newt Gingrich lit into Charlie Gibson and ABC News for their “stunningly distorted interview” of Gov. Sarah Palin last night. Gingrich focused his criticism on Gibson’s butchering of a Palin quote about U.S. policy in Iraq. Here is how Gibson butchered Palin’s quote last night: GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war? Here is what Palin actually said: Pray for our military. He’s …
