AP Interview: Gingrich calls for replacing EPA (Key word: "Replace")

AP ^ | 01/26/2011 | AP

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

DES MOINES, Iowa – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called Tuesday for the elimination of the Environmental Protection Agency, which he wants to replace with a new organization that would work more closely with businesses and be more aggressive in using science and technology.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Gingrich said the EPA was rarely innovative and focused only on issuing regulations and litigation.

"What you have is a very expensive bureaucracy that across the board makes it harder to solve problems, slows down the development of new innovations," Gingrich said.

Gingrich, who has acknowledged that he's mulling a run for the Republican presidential nomination, was in Iowa to talk to the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association. He also met privately with Republican legislators, often a sign in Iowa that people are laying the groundwork for a campaign. The state has the nation's first presidential caucuses.

[SuperLuminal]

Yep! The fearless fatty is at again...

When, when he had the ability to try, did he ever "replace" or, preferably, "remove" anything associated with marxist ideology?

[okie01]

I used to have a tremendous amount of respect for Gingrich and defended him since he first wrote Contract With America;

Actually, to give credit where credit is due, John Boehner wrote the Contract with America. Newt approved it.

[Cobra64]

I did not know that and always gave Gingrich credit for it. Thank you for the education.

[okie01]

Gingrich may have inspired the Contract with America and he did, indeed, approve of it.

But 'twas Boehner who wrote it -- something that was noted at the time, as I recall.