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Gingrich: Let's Scrap the EPA
 Gingrich: Let's Scrap the EPA 
Jan 26, 2011 10:48 AM CST

Gingrich: Let's Scrap the EPA

He's no fan of the 'tool of ideologues'

(Newser) - The EPA is "a tool of ideologues to push an anti-jobs agenda" and it should be replaced, Newt Gingrich writes on his website. The potential 2012 presidential candidate called yesterday for scrapping the Environmental Protection Agency and creating a new agency that would streamline environmental regulations, with the goal...

Way Out for Struggling States: Bankruptcy?

Idea kept under wraps over market fears

(Newser) - As cash-strapped states scrabble to fix budgets and pay public workers’ pensions, some lawmakers are pointing to bankruptcy as a solution, the New York Times reports. States can't go that route currently because they're technically sovereign entities, but backers say it's a better alternative to what the Times terms "...

Gingrich 'Very Serious' About Presidential Run: Daughter

Jackie Gingrich Cushman says dad is 'very concerned' about country

(Newser) - It’s presidential primary speculation season, and Jackie Gingrich Cushman thinks you should pencil in her dad as a probable candidate. "He’s very serious" about running, she tells Human Events . “He’s much more serious than he ever has been. And I can tell that because we...

Tax Deal Is First Debate of 2012 Presidential Race: Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney Face Off Against Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Others
First Debate for
GOP 2012: Tax Deal
Dec 15, 2010 10:57 AM CST

First Debate for GOP 2012: Tax Deal

Tea Partiers hate it, mainstream contenders support it

(Newser) - There’s still a while to go before the official 2012 debates begin—but we have the first unofficial one on our hands, in the form of President Obama’s tax deal. Despite strong support in a vote Monday (only five Republican senators voted against it), 2012 contenders are drawing...

GOP's 10 Favorite Pundits
 GOP's 10 Favorite Pundits 
Dec 3, 2010 5:02 PM CST

GOP's 10 Favorite Pundits

Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck lead survey

(Newser) - The website ConservativeHome polled about 1,500 folks defined as Republican activists to find their favorite pundits. Here's the top 10:
  1. Rush Limbaugh, 41%
  2. Glenn Beck, 33%
  3. Charles Krauthammer, 29%
  4. Bill O'Reilly, 24%
  5. Sean Hannity, 21%

Poll: Palin Would Come in 4th in Alaska GOP Primary

Palin, Huckabee, Romney, and Gingrich frontrunners for 2012

(Newser) - Sarah Palin's Alaska would choose Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, or Mitt Romney over her in a GOP primary for 2012, according to a recent series of Public Policy Polling surveys. The four candidates were the top four choices in 17 of the 18 states surveyed, with Palin coming first in...

Who's on Top in the GOP 2012 Race?

Hint, it's the guy in the picture

(Newser) - It’s been almost an entire week since the 2010 election, which means it’s time to start speculating about 2012! Here’s the buzz on all the GOP’s presidential hopefuls, courtesy of The Week :
  • Mike Huckabee: The governor-turned-Fox host’s “aw shucks” style has made him the
...

Will Newt Be the Next Nixon?
 Will Newt Be 
 the Next Nixon? 
Oct 29, 2010 11:25 AM CDT

Will Newt Be the Next Nixon?

After late-'90s stumble, Gingrich poised for a similar comeback

(Newser) - A decade ago, it looked like Newt Gingrich was a political goner; now, he looks poised to run for president in 2012. The question is “whether or not it is practical, which I increasingly think it is,” he said. Gingrich is certainly playing the part of the candidate—...

Joe Scarborough Slams Gingrich's 'Hate Speech'

Morning Joe thinks Newt's getting rich off throwing red meat at cable news

(Newser) - We're gonna guess that Joe Scarborough is off Newt Gingrich's Christmas card list. The MSNBC host—and former Republican Revolutionary—absolutely savages Gingrich in a column for Politico today, calling him a “cartoonish cable news fixture” who “smears” anyone he disagrees with. “The same politician who once...

Fox Payroll Stocked With GOP 2012 Contenders

And that's making things kind of sticky

(Newser) - If you're a Republican 2012 hopeful, odds are you're getting paid by Fox News. The network has Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Mike Huckabee on its payroll (the only noticeably absent bigwig is Mitt Romney), and that raises two tough questions, Politico muses: How do you cover would-be...

Newt's Doing a McCarthy Impression
Newt's Doing
a McCarthy Impression
Eugene Robinson
Sep 21, 2010 1:12 PM CDT

Newt's Doing a McCarthy Impression

Rants against sharia, 'stealth jihadis' are Red Scare-esque

(Newser) - Don’t you wish American judges would quit imposing harsh Islamic sharia law? Eugene Robinson, for one, thinks all these stonings and beheadings are really getting out of hand. Where did he get the crazy idea? “Why, Newt Gingrich told me,” he writes in the Washington Post . This...

Colin Powell: We Need Illegal Immigrants...

...Because they're always around to fix my house

(Newser) - Colin Powell thinks the GOP needs to change its attitude on illegal immigrants—because they do great housework. "We have millions of illegal immigrants … who are doing things we need done in this country," he told MSNBC . "They’re all over my house, doing things making...

Newt Gingrich Accuses Health Chief of 'Soviet Tyranny'

Blasts Sebelius over Obamacare

(Newser) - At least he didn't invoke Hitler: Newt Gingrich today accused health secretary Kathleen Sebelius of "Soviet tyranny" and said she embodies the "left-wing thought police" because of Obamacare, reports Politico . His money quote at the Values Voter summit in DC: “When Secretary Sebelius said the other day...

White House Bashes Forbes for 'Kenyan' Article

'Did they not fact-check this at all?'

(Newser) - The White House lashed out at Forbes yesterday over a recent cover story accusing Obama of inheriting the "cause of anti-colonialism" from his Kenyan father. Most critics have attacked writer Dinesh D'Souza or Newt Gingrich, who parroted the ideas in a recent interview. But Robert Gibbs took aim at...

They Agree: Newt's Pushing a Crackpot Theory

Gingrich and this 'anti-colonial' idea are 'gaga'

(Newser) - Add Maureen Dowd and Kathleen Parker to the list of those who think Newt Gingrich has gone "truly gaga" (Dowd's phrase) by espousing the theory that President Obama inherited a Kenyan anti-colonial bias from his father. (For the record, here's the theory as originally written by Dinesh D'Souza in...

Newt's Gone Nuts

 Newt's Gone Nuts 
Eugene Robinson
Sep 14, 2010 12:20 PM CDT

Newt's Gone Nuts

'Kenyan' quip proves ex-Speaker has lost it

(Newser) - Has Newt Gingrich really gone crazy, or is he just pretending? Eugene Robinson is starting to think it might be the former. “It’s one thing to be a rhetorical bomb-thrower,” he writes in the Washington Post , “and another to lob damp squibs of pure nonsense into...

Dems Blast Newt Over His Obama 'Kenyan' Jab

Gingrich thinks president has played a 'wonderful con' on the public

(Newser) - Democrats are outraged over an interview Newt Gingrich gave the National Review this weekend, in which he offered what he called a “stunning insight” into President Obama’s mind. “What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin...

Gingrich: GOP Could Win 60; Dems: We'll Hold House

Hoyer acknowledges seats will be lost, but not the majority

(Newser) - The future of the House of Representatives was again the focus of the Sunday talk shows today, with Newt Gingrich predicting that the GOP could beat his '94 uprising, which claimed 54 seats from Democrats. “The high is probably around 60,” he told Fox News Sunday. “I...

Sarah, Newt Don't Get the First Amendment
Sarah, Newt Don't Get
the First Amendment
OPINION
Aug 19, 2010 1:54 PM CDT

Sarah, Newt Don't Get the First Amendment

Here's a little Constitution lesson for them both

(Newser) - What is up with politicians misrepresenting the First Amendment this week? First Newt Gingrich, arguing against the Ground Zero Mosque, claimed Nazis " don't have the right " to put a sign next to the Holocaust museum. Then Sarah Palin tweeted that N-word-spewing Dr. Laura’s “ 1st Amend.rights...

These 'Professional Bigots' Thrive on 'Muslim-Baiting'

Writer is glad his immigrant father didn't live to see this day

(Newser) - One of Newt Gingrich's complaints about the proposed mosque near Ground Zero is that no churches or synagogues are allowed in Saudi Arabia. Well yeah, writes Haris Tanin. "But that is precisely the reason so many Muslim immigrants like my father chose not to make a home there or...

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