Posted on 06/09/2009 10:38:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
June 9 (Bloomberg) -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said President Barack Obama’s plan to fix the economy through stimulus spending and government intervention to boost companies like General Motors Corp. has "already failed."
Gingrich was the keynote speaker at a fundraising dinner for the Republican House and Senate campaign committees, filling a role President George W. Bush had served for the past eight years.
"Bureaucrats managing companies does not work, politicians dominating the economy does not work," Gingrich told about 2,000 Republicans who attended the event at the Washington Convention Center last night.
Some Republican leaders hailed Gingrich, the leader of the 1994 "Republican Revolution," as a de facto head of the party at a time when Republicans are looking for ideas to lead them back to the majority.
In introducing Gingrich, Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin called him the “architect of the last reform movement” and “the man of ideas.”
Gingrich was preceded by a series of Republican leaders who also took aim at Democrats and the government bailout of Detroit-based GM, New York-based American International Group Inc. and other companies.
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Newt: “Obama has... (make sure you get my good side), already... (are the cameras rolling?), failed. (That wasn’t too un-pc was it Nancy?)”
This is why we love Newt..... but then he will send an email out describing how he testified in congress for massive spending to help find a cure for Alzheimer's, then encourage his subscribers to email their congressman and support massive spending....
LOL. Newt failed long ago, and compounded that failure by shilling for TARP. He is part of the same poltical mafia as Obama when push comes to shove.
Add the US Congress to that failure. Vote them out.
I do like Newt... and I understand that he isn't perfect... but I'm still on the fence about him.
OTOH... nobody really knew what kind of President Ronald would turn out to be until after we elected him... (shrug)
I watched Newt’s speech on C-SPAN and it was awesome.
There's your problem. Now get off that fence.
I bet it was... but it seems like there are two persons here... Newt as the speaker of the house in 1995 or the big government Newt...
Newt talks a big talk but when push comes to shove he is a wuss.
Did he boast about (or apologize for) his support for TARP in this “awesome” speech?
Put in fewer words by EGPWS:
Newt, you are no Dick Cheney!
Agreed. Last night was a 1995 Newt flashback moment.
Just spiffy, huh? Like an anonymous communist was “hope” for “change.”
One half of this nation is gonna be really pizzed when their little zerø is no longer defendable, and is sold out by his MSM.
The other half is gonna be even more pizzed at the first half.
I beg to differ. They are part of the same big government club. When did Cheney ever use his influence against TARP? As our economy burned, his sole concern in that period was to get a pardon for Scooter.
I watched it too and agree completely. It was an awesome speech and it is a bummer that so many people here are knocking him without having seen it.
The entire event is up at CSPAN. Wish everyone would go and watch it. Jon Voigt was also awesome!
http://cspan.org/Watch/Media/2009/06/08/HP/A/19537/2009+GOP+SenateHouse+Dinner.aspx
Obama can give an “awesome” speech too. So what? I prefer to follow John Erlichman’s dictum: Watch what we say, not what we do.
That should be “watch what we do, not what we say.”
Newt will pretty much say what his audience of the moment wants to hear.
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