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America this October is like a patient who has barely avoided a massive heart attack. We have no strategy for recovery, no strategy for economic growth, and no strategy for holding accountable those who have created this mess. We're also far from out of danger. If we do not create an economic recovery program, we will be facing another bailout next year. To put it another way: We can mop up water all we want but if we don't fix the leak we will simply have to keep mopping. Similarly, we can pass a bailout, but if we don't fix...

(VIDEO) Newt Gingrich, interviewed by Greta Van Susterin, explains why the $700 billion bailout ($1 trillion?, they don't even know!) is a "rush job" and scam being foisted on the American people. Newt claims that it's the most "un-Republican and anti-Reagan" scheme he's ever seen. And, its a major step toward socialism - with the Feds assuming control of a vast part of the private sector, perhaps for generations. Worst of all, it's a pure panic and thoughtless reaction to a proposal that is so complex and has so many potential unintended consequences that it could ruin us economically. Newt...

You must watch this 10 minute 55 second video Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's Financial Take on the $700B bailout from On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.

Good post on NRO from Newt: "Watching Washington rush to throw taxpayer money at Wall Street has been sobering and a little frightening."

Watching Washington rush to throw taxpayer money at Wall Street has been sobering and a little frightening. We are being told Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has a plan which will shift $700 billion in obligations from private companies to the taxpayer. We are being warned that this $700 billion bailout is the only answer to a crisis. We are being reassured that we can trust Secretary Paulson "because he knows what he is doing". Congress had better ask a lot of questions before it shifts this much burden to the taxpayer and shifts this much power to a Washington bureaucracy....

Thirty years of Republican tax policy have now completely eliminated federal income taxes on the poor and lower middle-income Americans, and almost eliminated them on middle America. The latest data from the Congressional Budget Office and the Internal Revenue Service show that the lowest 40 percent of income earners as a group actually receive net payments from the federal income tax system. (They get 3.8 percent of total federal income tax revenues instead of paying any income taxes.) The middle 20 percent of income earners pay 4.4 percent of federal income taxes. Thus the bottom 60 percent of income earners...

Aaron Tippin has a new song and Newt is pushing for a pile of downloads. Here's the link for a preview of the song, and the lyrics go a little sumpin like this.

My sentiments exactly, as I’ve made clear more than once before. We already knew who his top pick was; his second choice will come as no surprise, given his reasoning. Who he means by “boring, normal, mainstream Republican white guys� is left unsaid, but I think we’re all on the same page.

Newt Gingrich speaks on the House Floor! Republicans are not just standing strong, they are growing in number and strength. Also, the story of HOW this ALL BEGAN and the media outlets who BROKE the news, and LEAD THE CHARGE!

Win Free Gas for a Year� From: Dave Ryan, American Solutions (info@americansolutions.com) Sent: Wed 8/13/08 8:49 PM To: Dear xxxxx,Congress is failing to adopt a long-term American energy plan, and it's standing in the way of developing more American energy now. Politics is once again trumping common sense in Washington.Since Congress is not doing its job, American Solutions would like to offer one lucky American a break - free gasoline for an entire year!Today, we are launching a video contest called "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Nothing." We call it "Pay Nothing" because that is exactly what the winner...

It's ironic that when former aides or colleagues of prominent Democrats opine on the presidential race, for example Donna Brazile, who appears both on ABC and CNN and ran Al Gore's 2000 campaign, they are never asked to do a mea culpa about potential bias or conflicts. They just comment away on Democrats, Republicans, issues or whatever they like. That's fine, because for once I'm not going to try to explain my objectivity when it comes to a man I spent many years working with and have known since 1979. I've praised him and occasionally pushed him around a little...

Wow.... Newt just offered the most eloquent example of what's at stake... He stated that Palin is the most dangerous person to the left since Clarence Thomas... In her defense, he compared the MSM's obsession of Palin's husband's DWI to Obama's cocaine use... He clearly said, if the media wants to, they can discuss the Ayers connection... They also discussed 3 NYTimes front page exposes...

Newt just broke out a brand new, king-sized, can of industrial-strenght whup-ass on completely speechless MSNBC reporter. The reporter challenged Newt on Palin's experience. Newt blew, asked him when the MSM was going to give up spouting that baloney and then went through the most concise, most compelling litany of why she is eminently more qualified than Barack Obama. At the end he challenged the reporter to name ANYTHING that Obama has done that compares with her actual experience and the reporter demonstrated the ultimate deer in the headlights look. It would be so nice to have a clip of...

Former congressman Newt Gingrich attends the second session of the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 2, 2008. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)

MSNBC reporter Ron Allen asks Newt Gingrich: “But to be fair, her (Sarah Palin) resume is not something we’re familiar seeing with presidential candidates.” Gingrich blows him away with a hot rebuttal.

COMMENTARY: Sen. Jeff Bingaman, Rep. Nick Rahall, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress who oppose producing more American oil are in a bind. They know voters are hurting from high gas prices and overwhelmingly want the government to allow more American oil production. But they can't side with the American people and risk upsetting their left-wing base. So they needed a way to make us think they support more drilling - while effectively preventing us from ever drilling a single new well. They think they've found a solution: a proposed "use it or lose it" law on...

When House Speaker Pelosi abruptly and literally turned off the lights in Congress on August 1st and sent the members on a five-week vacation, she thought she was doing something clever. C-SPAN can only broadcast Congress while Congress is in session. If there was no session, there would be no cameras to cover the debate over providing relief to American families from historically high gas prices. If there were no C-SPAN, Americans would never get to see the Speaker and the anti-energy left's stubborn refusal to lift the ban on offshore drilling, refusal to lift the ban on drilling in...

Newt Gingrich criticizes Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat Congress on their refusal to allow an up or down vote on drilling for oil in the US. Gingrich praises House Republicans for keeping the drilling issue front and center.

We have the left rattled and on the run. For proof, consider three developments from late last week. But first, I want to make a special announcement. Many of you are probably following the story of how House Republicans are staging a protest in the House Chamber, demanding that Nancy Pelosi call the House back into session in order to vote on The American Energy Act, an "all of the above" energy strategy that includes more drilling, funding for scientific breakthroughs, as well as common-sense conservation efforts. (More info on that story below.) Tomorrow at 10am, I will meet with...

I have two grandchildren, ages 5 and 7. If you're a parent or grandparent yourself, I challenge you not to think about a child you love when you read what I'm about to tell you. I challenge you not to share my disgust with the barbarians who use the blood of innocents to further their political agendas. And I challenge you not to share my contempt for the bureaucrats who think they can appease them. For the governments that think their actions don't have consequences. For the politicians who think that something - anything - good can come from allowing...

Newt Gingrich gave an excellent speech at the First Baptist Church in Atlanta, entitled "Rediscovering God in America". It can be viewed here: http://www.intouch.org/site/c.dhKHIXPKIuE/b.2287421/k.944D/This_Week_on_TV.htm

This week I want to do something a little different. Although my Winning the Future message has always been directed at all Americans, whether they consider themselves Republicans, Democrats, or independents, today I am directing my message specifically to Democrats. And my message is this:The American people have spoken. Are your leaders listening?Over 1.1 Million Americans Call on Congress to "Drill Here, Drill Now" We really had no idea, just 35 days ago when we first posted the "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less" petition here, that we would provide the spark that has ignited a fire among frustrated, struggling...

New startups hoping to make their mark on the space industry still face high entry barriers just to cover their initial costs, investors said Wednesday. (snip) "I am passionately committed to prizes," Gingrich said. "The great power of prizes is simple; they allow anybody anywhere who's competent to try and solve a problem."

For Americans, the 4th of July is about more than the birth of our country. It's about the will of the people triumphing over the will of the elite. It's a day that celebrates a document, the Declaration of Independence, with a revolutionary premise: Governments are created to secure the God-given rights of citizens, not to grant them their rights. On the 4th of July, we all remember what Ronald Reagan told us, that we are a nation with a government, not the other way around. This 4th of July, as the price of gas tops $4 a gallon, the...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is “far and away the best candidate” for John McCain’s running mate on the Republican ticket. Appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Gingrich said former congressman Jindal has been a “spectacular” governor and predicted he would be a presidential candidate in the future. Asked if Jindal, 37, would be ready to take over the presidency if he had to replace McCain, Gingrich said Jindal’s “experience in the executive branch and in the legislative branch is greater than” that of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Gingrich opined: “It strikes...

WOODSIDE, Calif. -- Here, he's from another planet. Here in Silicon Valley, David Kralik is, let's face it, some strange import. That's why he's attracting such buzz one recent afternoon inside Buck's, the legendary eatery, while lunching on a pulled-pork sandwich. -snip- Yep, that's Kralik. A lifelong Republican in the land of liberal Democrats. Who relocated from uptight, Brooks Brothers Washington. And works for Newt Gingrich. Then after giving an abbreviated history of Buck's (Hotmail, Netscape, PayPal, et al., scribbled their first business plans here; Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and Al Gore stop by sometimes), MacNiven goes for the kill:...

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s petition to Congress demanding the removal of government obstacles to increasing our energy supplies is gathering momentum by the minute, while the Democrats’ do-nothing Congress wants to raise fuel prices. Actually, labeling Congress a bunch of “do-nothings” is almost right, but not quite. They’re doing their best to create more obstacles to growing our energy supply. And while the price of energy is already unreasonably high, they’re working hard on a liberal agenda that will raise the prices consumers pay for gasoline, diesel fuel, natural gas and home heating oil. With the summer upon us (and...

. . . Democrats will control Congress. If they also control the White House, we will have a series of legislative packages that will make the Great Society look like a libertarian government. . . . The country is in trouble. We have forgotten our founding principles, and we move inexorably toward a European style socialist state, with the only winners being an enormous bureaucracy. This will accelerate the economic decline. The argument is to give the Democrats their head, and pick up the pieces after the inevitable crash. I think that overlooks the resilience of tax and tax, spend...

While Newt Gingrich is correct in warning that Republicans in Congress face formidable odds in November, his proposed nine-point "action plan" does not measure up as a solution to the crisis. Some of Newt's assumptions are undeniably sound, such as the folly of hitching congressional campaigns to McCain’s non-existent coattails. And it is true that the Republican Party's crisis is the result of "catastrophic collapse of trust in Republicans." What are missing from Newt's plan are policy measures that match his apocalyptic rhetoric. Of Newt's nine proposals, only a few attack major problems. Yes, declaring English our official language would...

Wonder why the Republicans seem dead and dispirited? Why not look at Kemp and Gingrich? Fox puffs these two as authorative Republican voices. Jack Kemp had 17 years in the House but he quit 20 years ago. He seemed to run for VP and finally Dole decided (1996)he should have this chance. Both were easily defeated by a younger and more personable man. What Kemp has to offer is allegedly some supply side economics. Actually, if you listen to him he has a series of platitudes that would place him left of center in the Republican Pary. Besides being dull,...

The starting point of any discussion of America's energy future has to be this: Shortsighted politicians have created the current energy crisis. For decades left-leaning politicians have advocated higher prices and less energy. They were going to save the environment by punishing Americans into driving less and driving smaller cars. Now their policies have succeeded with a vengeance. The very left wing politicians who favored a policy of no oil and gas exploration, no use of coal, no development of nuclear power, and no aggressive development of new technologies are now panic-stricken that their policies of higher prices have led...

The Club for Growth Political Action Committee has long been attacked for intervening in Republican primaries and targeting the party's most economically liberal incumbents. In 2000, Pennsylvania Rep. Jim Greenwood called the Club "cannibals." When the Club ran ads against Ohio Sen. George Voinovich and Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe for resisting President Bush's 2003 tax cut, Karl Rove deemed the ads "counterproductive." And Newt Gingrich, the man who ushered in a conservative Republican majority in 1994, once denounced the Club. "Their strategy is explicitly wrong," he said. "The key is to elect more Republicans and have a bigger majority and...

This is an excerpt from an e-mail we received from former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on why he participated in an ad for WE. Many of you have written to me to ask why I recently taped an advertisement with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for The Alliance for Climate Protection, a group founded by former Vice President Al Gore. I completely understand why many of you would have questions about this, so I want to take this opportunity to explain my reasons. First of all, I want to be clear: I don't think that we have conclusive proof...

I just saw a TV ad starring Newt Gingrich and his pal Nancy Pelosi pitching their bipartisan solution to the nonexistent "climate crisis". You can join Newt and Nancy at http://wecansolveit.org/, if you wish to join their delusional bipartisan crusade. "The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance." Michael Crichton

The political odd couple of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich has teamed up to film a new TV ad urging U.S. leaders -- yes, that's aimed at you, President Bush -- to take immediate action on climate change. It's the second of the "Unlikely Alliances" spots filmed as part of former Vice President Al Gore's $300 million "We" advertising and online activism campaign designed to get the American public to pressure their elected officials to address global warming. The first ad featured left-leaning Rev. Al Sharpton and conservative Rev. Pat Robertson sitting on...

There was a time in America’s history when the Republican party stood for limited government. No more. The conservative Republican posterboy and architect of the “Contract with America” gave a speech at the American Enterprise Institute, where he “called on the secretary of defense to give a speech every year on the state of our schools.” Why would he call for such a thing? Because Newt Gingrich says that America’s schools are “a matter of national security.”

Announcement:Watch me respond to Sen. Obama at 12:30pm ET today By Newt Gingrich As promised last week, I'm responding to Senator Obama's recent speech from Philadelphia with a speech at the American Enterprise Institute today. You can read more about the speech here. We just found out that C-SPAN 2 will be covering the speech, LIVE. You can watch it on your TV or at the c-span website, www.c-span.org.

Thank you all for that remarkable welcome.  I’m deeply, deeply grateful, and Callista and I are delighted to be back here once again at the most important single meeting of the conservative movement in a historic time.  <Applause>  Many of you know that my background includes being a teacher, and I am going to try in the next few minutes to offer a little bit of a lesson.  My Dad was a career soldier, served 27 years in the infantry, and when I was very young, he convinced me that leadership and courage and a willingness to think deeply...

In a rousing speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Sunday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called for a conservative “declaration of independence” from the Republican Party. He also warned that Republicans face a “catastrophic” election this year unless the GOP changes course. Gingrich pointed out that on Super Tuesday, 14.6 million voters took part in the Democratic races, compared to 8.3 million Republicans. “There were 14.6 million Democrats who thought the presidential nomination was worth voting for, and there were 8.3 million Republicans on Super Tuesday,” Gingrich said. “That is a warning of a catastrophic election. I was...

This will be streamed live at: http://www.americansolutions.com/webcast/ The video will also be available on demand at the above web site after the event.

As I write this, it is about 15 degrees outside my Virginia farm. Nonetheless, my llamas and sheep, deep in snow, seem perfectly cozy in their winter woolens; the peacocks are in their feathered wintered invulnerability to cold; the horses are in their winter hair and indomitable spirit; my cats, all curled up and sleepy; the dogs, slumbering by the fading embers of the fireplace. The Lord provides for his children. But we Republicans shiver in the cold and brace ourselves for the hard winds yet to come. In the aftermath of Sen. McCain's South Carolina victory, it can only...

Republicans still plot a comeback and still look for fresh ideas

NEWT: A GOP Dark Horse By Michael Reagan, January 24, 2008 Fred Thompson's gone. Duncan Hunter's gone. All these people are gone. Huckabee could become Huckabeen -- gone by next Tuesday. So could Rudy after next's Tuesday's Florida primary. All of a sudden you've got this Republican primary coming down to McCain, Romney and Ron Paul. With all this uncertainty, just where can a conservative go? All of a sudden radio talk show hosts, who reflect the opinions of grass-roots conservative voters, are all over the lot hammering on Rudy, hammering on Romney, hammering on McCain and hammering on...

  The last of two excerpts of the book Real Change: From the World That Fails to the World That Works. Click here to view the first excerpt.Our current immigration troubles are almost entirely problems of success. Our challenge is to seize that success and turn it into a boon for America, rather than allow bureaucrats to turn it into yet another failure.America has the best economy in the world. America has the greatest opportunity for hardworking people to be upwardly mobile and to dream that their children can have even better lives. America creates jobs on a scale that...

Newt Gingrich’s on-again, off-again adulation of Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to be back on. The leader of the 1994 Republican revolution — who as House speaker in the mid 1990s clashed fiercely with then-first lady Clinton and her husband, Bill Clinton — attributed her surprise victory in New Hampshire to the Democratic presidential candidate’s courage, integrity and openness. After Clinton’s third-place finish in the Jan. 3 Iowa Democratic caucuses, “it would have been very easy for her to have broken, accepted defeat,� Gingrich said in a weekly podcast e-mailed to supporters. “Instead, starting on Saturday night, she fought back with...

And we must not fear conservative curriculum courses like world religion, ethics, Intelligent Design, and the most overlooked yet embedded text in Western culture and civilization – the Bible – which even our Founders expected us to teach. Provide Further Support For Educational Options If states continue to oppose conservative curricula and impose overarching liberal educational revisions and law like California recently enacted in SB777, which will in the end reverse discrimination against religious students and students with traditional family values, public schools should continue to expect an increased exodus. (A petition drive has until Dec. 20 to repeal SB777.)...

The long legal fight between two members of Congress over an illegally taped telephone call ended Monday when the Supreme Court refused to review the case. The court, without comment, left in place a federal appeals court ruling that Representative Jim McDermott, Democrat of Washington, acted improperly in giving reporters access to a recording of a 1996 telephone call of Republican leaders discussing the House ethics case against Representative Newt Gingrich, who was then House speaker. Mr. McDermott had asked the justices to hear his appeal of that ruling, which he said infringed on his free-speech rights.

Say what you like about Newt Gingrich, but few people in either party would fail to recognize that Gingrich is one the Nation’s foremost political thinkers, and a man of considerable intellect.Gingrich’s passion for history and for America, when coupled with his practical style make him a natural choice in a time when pragmatic, small-government solutions for the Republic’s problems are required. There is little question that the Clinton political machine - the most capable, ambition-driven, and some say politically-ruthless campaign apparatus of modern times - is moving into second gear. Should Senator Clinton win in Iowa and New Hampshire,...

The Republican presidential race has reached a boiling point. The top two contenders, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, have tussled over who has the better record on taxes. Giuliani and Romney removed their gloves during the debate in Michigan and started landing blows in the aftermath. But the winner coming out of this conflict could be the guy who hasn't been hit at all -- Fred Thompson. The Romney camp's apparent strategy is to turn this into a two-person race. On Tuesday, I touched on the Giuliani/Romney debate battle. Romney is attacking Giuliani on two fronts: taxes and the line-item...

Newt Gingrich will appear at 5 PM ET today on Fox News' "The Big Story" to announce he will NOT run for President: "Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich won't run for president in 2008, FOX News learned Saturday. Gingrich is expected to make an official announcement later on Saturday, two sources told FOX News. Watch an exclusive FOX News interview with Gingrich at 5 p.m. ET on "The Big Story." "Newt is not running," spokesman Rick Tyler said. . . ."