April 2, 2009
Mr. Gingrich, I agree.
Well, I agree, Mr. Gingrich:
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is warning of a third party mutiny in 2012 if Republicans don’t figure out a way to shape up.
“If the Republicans can’t break out of being the right wing party of big government, then I think you would see a third party movement in 2012,” Gingrich said Tuesday. The speech, to a group of students at the College of the Ozarks in Missouri, was recorded by Springfield TV station KY3.
But Gingrich, bemoaning President Barack Obama’s “monstrosity of a budget,” acknowledged that Republicans are partially to blame for the escalation in federal spending.
“Remember, everything Obama’s doing, Bush started last year,” he said. “If you’re going to talk about big spending, the mistakes of the Bush administration last year are fully as bad as the mistakes of Obama’s first two, three months.”
Gingrich told the students that the current governmental system “is so sick, so out of touch and so arrogant that you’re going to have a nationwide rebellion at the polls of people in both parties who are just fed up.”
(H/T: Memeorandum)
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Apparently, Mr. Gingrich has not only received the memo from Rush Limbaugh to get back to him when he starts showing some loyalty, but Mr. Steele has been giving him cold shoulders, too. And Newt, frankly, deserves it.
Monique, you really should stop squatting down on the Moral High Ground right now. We in the GOP can do whatever we want, whenever we want. And much like Dems critcizing Bush for his handling of a war in which they voted for, the Reps can most certain criticize Obama’s handling of the economy and budget. Especially when no Republican in either house of Congress voted for his budget.
Comment by Brad S — April 6, 2009 @ 1:29 pm