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President Obama is a “bully” who is “clearly failing” on economic policy, according to Newt Gingrich, and House Republicans should stop negotiating with the White House and move forward with passing their own solutions to the debt-ceiling and budget deficit.
“Obama has put the ‘bully’ back in the bully pulpit,” Gingrich told reporters Friday afternoon. The former Speaker of the House and current GOP presidential hopeful accused Obama of “intellectual dishonesty,” and said congressional Republicans should “take Social Security off the table” in the current debate over the federal debt ceiling.
John Boehner and House Republicans should “quit talking to Obama and start passing legislation,” Gingrich said in a conference call with a number of writers for conservative publications and blogs. Gingrich urged Republicans to be confident that the American people share their opinion of the administration’s economic failures.
“This is the Obama recession and we in the Republican Party should be very confident that we can tell the truth better than the Democrats can lie,” he said. The former Speaker said that Republicans maintained control of Congress after their 1995-96 budget showdown with President Clinton because “people thought we were serious” and “prepared to take real risks” to restore sound fiscal policy in Washington.
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Ralph| 7.15.11 @ 3:18PM
Just when I'm ready to write Newt off, he redeems himself with some good, practical, simple common sense.
cali| 7.15.11 @ 10:53PM
Couldn't agree more! They need to continue jabbing at Barry-it works a lot better than sitting down with this pony show!
David W| 7.15.11 @ 3:29PM
Newt stated, "accused Obama of 'intellectual dishonesty....' " Could you perhaps explain how anything Obama has done or said could be considered "intellectual?"
Al Adab| 7.15.11 @ 4:12PM
...or honesty?
Michael L. Hauschild| 7.15.11 @ 6:55PM
.....or how Gingrich could tell the difference?
Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 4:37PM
"Tigers are Playing...TONIGHT! And I never miss a Game." (RoboCop, Clarence)
Gentlemen: that triple play was worthy of Trammell .
Al Adab| 7.15.11 @ 3:42PM
Whether a Bully or not, Obama is beginning to demonstrate symptoms of mental instability if not downright derangement. Since the "moat and gators" speech and the "corporate jets" diatribe his grasp of reality is seriously in question.
This is not meant to be partisan sniping, but rather to raise a serious concern.
Wayne | 7.15.11 @ 6:06PM
I have noticed this also. He is becoming visibly erratic. I have been taking it as a result of a childhood with an absentee father and as an only child raised primarily by grandparents. In other words he never had to share his toys or eat his peas.
But then I remember his 20 years in Chicago and I see a person who sees himself as the most important person in the world who is beyond reproach. I am sure Al Capone felt much the same way.
Newt will soon be finding a horse head at the foot of his bed. Its now time for either bribes or threats. I am sure they are trying to cherry pick republicans right now.
Ed| 7.16.11 @ 12:23PM
I agree. He's acting like Captain Queeg and the strawberries.
Oldefarte| 7.16.11 @ 1:23PM
'Partisaned sniping' is definately allowed, since it's the truth, the whole truth etc; and his 'grasp of reality' is partisanely fine tuned and purposeful [since he's been doing it since being a we-lad in Chicago's mean streets]!!!!!!!
Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 4:39PM
I honestly don't see a change, Al. He has always been a scumbag with limited responsiblities and maximum exposure of narcissism. Under pressure and the 24/7, his flaws are more evident. But you and I knew he stunk from Day 1.
Oldefarte| 7.15.11 @ 4:23PM
Once again, 'ol Newt hits the bullseye, and as stated, Republican should simply pass their legislation of equal defecit reduction and debt ceiling rise, kick it over the Democrat Senate and force them to act!!!!!!!!!
wodiej| 7.15.11 @ 6:57PM
Gingrich calls Obama a bully and Palin calls Obama a liar-both on the same day. Life is good.
beebop| 7.16.11 @ 2:42PM
And that even before a serious discussion of how he lied (although the lie was apparently still "saliant" according to Jay Carney) with regard to his dying mother and her benefits. What a ghastly story put out merely to demonstrate how he understood "our pain." Most of us don't need to manufacture a story with regard to an issue we are dedicated to ....
florin| 7.17.11 @ 11:20AM
Shame on the media who do not report anything negative about Obama...they let his lies pile up and continue to praise him. There was a report about an important CEO at Comcast fundraising for the Obama campaign. I'd hoped Comcast would have been different - fairer somehow. Shame!
frank| 7.15.11 @ 11:08PM
Well, one of the perks of being president is having access to the bully pulpit. But it has to be backed by at least some degree of facts, wisdom and integrity, which the current occupant of the WH does not have. He is simply in election mode, which is what he knows best.
Newt is smart and would make a good stategy advisor to Republican pres, in 2013, if he or she will have him. I do not think he has a hope of getting himself elected.
tonypal| 7.16.11 @ 12:33AM
Gingrich shows why he should stick to behind the scenes strategy. He's a brilliant guy who can't seem to control his mouth at times.
Sean| 7.16.11 @ 2:28AM
Except when Gingrich had a chance to stay firm in his battle with Clinton he folded like a cheap suit.
Oldefarte| 7.16.11 @ 10:22AM
No I disagree. If he did fold, it was simply because the American public did not back the Republicans in their fight and sided with the Democrats and Clinton.....the same GD idiot public voters that allowed [and voted for] this current socialist-in-chief to obtain presidential power in November of 2008. So if anyone is to blame, the American public should look into their respective mirrors, not toward Newt and the Republicans in congress at that time!!!!!!
Sean| 7.16.11 @ 11:44AM
So you are saying Republicans should go along with the idiot public? Republicans got us in this mess by doing that. If public opinion turns against deficit reduction the Republicans should still hold firm and cut spending. Damn the opinion polls.
Oldefarte| 7.17.11 @ 1:01PM
Please re-read and contemplate my point. The R's DID NOT get us into this mess, the D's did with their historical governmental welfare spending that is now blowing up the defecit/debt. When the government previously was shut down when Newt and R's were similarily fighting the D's and Clinton, the public did not back the R's but sided with the D's [therefore the R's were not successful]. A similar thing may possibly occur now since the D's are successful at brainwashing the ignorant public into supporting their typical gocvernmental spending increases. I'm saying that the public typically support the D's in these fights, when they should be behind the R's who are fighting for public's welfare!!!!!
Political Clown Parade | 7.16.11 @ 8:12AM
You only lie when you're afraid:
http://politicalclownparade.bl.....fraid.html
Oldefarte| 7.16.11 @ 10:23AM
Hey, they're not clowns.....THEY'RE DEMOCRATS!!!!!!!
Occam's Tool| 7.16.11 @ 4:40PM
Dhimmicrats.
Oldefarte| 7.17.11 @ 1:03PM
IMO, they're....DIMWITS!!!!!!!!!
martin j smith| 7.16.11 @ 8:34AM
Newwt I heard on Fox recently and he ' sounded very good" but there is more than meets they eye that is not so good. specifically his fuzzy political comments and behaviors with Socialists.
We need a candidate whyo9 can stand up to Obama three feet away not on a TV screen. I doubt Gingrich is the right one. This is critical that we chose the right candidate because as an example this debt ceiling war some one must come out and accuse Obama of creating this crisis and purposely sabotaging any deal that is workable. The candidate should say he wants the nation to default. Obama wants this to happen--that is what must be said to his face.
Oldefarte| 7.16.11 @ 10:30AM
Newt's time has passed, and the Republicans should chose a conservative who will tell these Democrats to their faces that their socialistic, redistribution of wealth policial agenda, and governmental spending like a drunken sailor with a stolen credit card ways are detrimental to this country's welfare and will be eliminated/reversed starting with the Republican nominee elected as president in November of next year along with the defeat of more of these socialistic Democrats in congress, and that the American people/taxpayers are taking back their country that has been stolen from them by these domestic terrorists now in charge!!!!!!!!
Ed| 7.16.11 @ 12:12PM
Newt is a right of center "ideas guy", and he has a lot of them. He has also co-authored some historical novels that are quite good. However, he has too much of an Attention Deficit Disorder to be a good administrator. He is an academic who left for greener pastures in the government and private sectors.
Kingofthenet| 7.16.11 @ 12:40PM
'Grover' should have stayed on Sesame Street, instead of trying to destroy the US Economy.
Oldefarte| 7.16.11 @ 1:17PM
Yeah, someboody should have stayed on the streets of Chicago, but that's another story altogether!!!!!!!!