Newt Gingrich Comprehensive list of Newt Gingrich positions

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Gingrich is FASCISM wrapped in an American flag, carrying a cross.

What cross?

 

[William R]

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Newt Gingrich wants to be "aggressive" with Cuba and topple its government by 2014

After he topples Iran, he's going to set his eyes on Cuba.




Newt Gingrich on drug laws, entitlements and campaigning

Q: Since we are in Florida, can you provide an idea of how your administration would handle relations with Cuba?

GINGRICH: I think we need a very aggressive model. I describe it as a Cuban Spring. If you have a U.S. government that says Assad should go, why aren't they aggressively saying Castro should go?

We are trying to develop a strategy right now to outline the things we would do in the next two years to try to get the Cuban people to freedom by 2014.

Q: Can you provide some specific examples?

GINGRICH: Dramatically expand support for independence in Cuba, dramatically expand communications, begin bringing pressure to bear. Try to go to the younger generation of Cubans in Cuba and work with them covertly.

Q: Would you open up trade relations with Cuba as president?

GINGRICH: It's probably not part of it, but I think you would look at under what circumstance would you change and could you offer the Cuban people. For example, immediately after a free election, all the embargoes would drop as of that day. You could have the carrot of saying, the second there's a free election, we should do everything we can to help the Cuban economy flourish.

Q: President Obama has opened more air travel to the island. Would you shut down those flights?

GINGRICH: No, but I would very aggressively move towards maximizing dissent inside Cuba. Mostly covert, and also just subsidies. Go back and look what we did in Poland for example when we aggressively supported Solidarity.

 

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What cross?

He converted, remember? Now he's Catholic. It changed his life.

 

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Newt lobbies for Big Pharma - wants Medical Marijuana banned

Newt is a Pharmaceutical lobbyist, and was a big pusher of the Medicare Part D entitlement expansion bill.

First of all, we know that Gingrich has been paid by drug companies and by the drug lobby, notably during the Medicare drug debate. A former employee of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, (the main industry lobby) told me Gingrich was being paid by someone in the industry at the time. A spokeswoman for Gingrich's health care consulting firm, Center for Health Transformation, told me that drug companies have been CHT clients. PhRMA confirmed in a statement that they had paid Gingrich. Bloomberg News cited sources from leading drug companies Astra-Zeneca and Pfizer saying that those companies had also hired Gingrich.

He flat out denies it. Or maybe he doesn't understand what lobbying is.

Gingrich stated last week on Fox News, "I do no lobbying of any kind. I never have. A very important point to make. I have never done lobbying of any kind."

And not surprisingly, the Pharma lobbyist thinks that non-Pharmaceutical drugs should all be banned. Including a federal ban on medical marijuana.

He had a sudden change of heart in 1991. After introducing a pro-medical-marijuana bill, he sold out and he's been vehemently against it ever since.

Yes, then-Congressman Gingrich in 1991 introduced pro-medical marijuana legislation, but now he’s thinking of the children, he tells Yahoo! News’ Chris Moody. “What has changed was the number of parents I met with who said they did not want their children to get the signal from the government that it was acceptable behavior,” said Gingrich, before saying that Americans who need medical marijuana will simply have to cope with the inconvenience of debilitating pain and nausea.
“[My supporters] were prepared to say as a matter of value that it was better to send a clear signal on no drug use at the risk of inconveniencing some people, than it was to be compassionate toward a small group at the risk of telling a much larger group that it was okay to use the drug,” Gingrich explained. “Within a year of my original support of that bill I withdrew it.”

 

[seyferjm]

My dad is convinced Newt is a changed man and was arguing that I am too picky. He needs to open his eyes!

 

[SpiritOf1776_J4]

He converted, remember? Now he's Catholic. It changed his life.

He didn't convert from Judaism. You might think that he was though.

 

[rambone]

My dad is convinced Newt is a changed man and was arguing that I am too picky. He needs to open his eyes!

Show him my list. That is what it is for.

 

[Echoes]

Newt scares more then anybody cuz he's a very impressive orator and debater. He's capable of pulling off the same heist that Obama pulled off in 08' with his dazzling speeches. The comatosed masses love this stuff.

 

[speciallyblend]

wish this was a website, so it could be easily passed around.

 

[K466]

Wow this is great research, thanks a million!!! +rep!

 

[rambone]

The perfect quote for Newt Gingrich:
"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them." -- Jesus Christ

 

[rambone]

wish this was a website, so it could be easily passed around.

Somebody is welcome to start a site and use all of this information. The hard work is already done.

 

[Oddone]

Can someone get this Post sent to @FixAaron the washington Post guy who writes The Fix? He want's dirt on Newt - http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-s...blogger-asks-dirt-about-newt-gingrich-twitter

I am at work right now and can't access certain sites otherwise I would.

 

[K466]

Does The Grinch have any record on the federal reserve prior to his 2011 Ron Paul rhetoric? I assume he was a another quiet supporter.

 

[rambone]

Does The Grinch have any record on the federal reserve prior to his 2011 Ron Paul rhetoric? I assume he was a another quiet supporter.

I'd love to know the answer also.

 

[Brick-in-the-Wall]

I want to give massive, massive, massive props for putting all of this together. This is really great.

 

[georgiaboy]

NOBP bump.

 

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Global Warming Flip-Flops

This is why Gingrich resembles more of a chameleon than a newt. He can blend in with conservatives or liberals with ease. He says and does whatever he needs to in order to sound smart and pander to his current audience. Overall you've got to separate yourself from his forked-tongue rhetoric and look at his record.

Gingrich's Great Global Warming Flip-Flop: From Cap-And-Trade To Drill-Baby-Drill

1997: As Speaker of the House, Gingrich co-sponsors H. Con. Res. 151, which notes carbon dioxide is a “major greenhouse gas” that comes from “products whose manufacture consumes fossil fuels” and calls on the United States to “manage its public domain national forests to maximize the reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.” [H. Con. Res. 151, 9/10/1997]

2007: Gingrich calls for a cap-and-trade system with tax incentives for clean energy. “I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there’s a package there that’s very, very good. And frankly, it’s something I would strongly support.” [Frontline, 2/15/07]

 

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Newt relates himself to Nelson Rockefeller, Teddy Roosevelt, Alexander Hamilton

Newt says that the brand of conservatism he follows come from the tradition of Alexander Hamilton, Teddy Roosevelt, and Nelson Rockefeller. All 3 have a legacy of supporting a big, centralized Federal government, against the tradition of the founders.

Freddie Mac interview (2007)

GINGRICH: So while we need to improve the regulation of the GSEs [Government-Sponsored Enterprises], I would be very cautious about fundamentally changing their role or the model itself.

FREDDIE MAC: This is not a point of view one normally associates with conservatives.

GINGRICH: Well, it's not a point of view libertarians would embrace. But I am more in the Alexander Hamilton-Teddy Roosevelt tradition of conservatism. I recognize that there are times when you need government to help spur private enterprise and economic development.

Newt Gingrich, Rockefeller Republican (1989)

GINGRICH: In Teddy White’s “The Making of The President” from 1960, you will find a description of Theodore Roosevelt and an active conservatism. That is the model I’ve had in my mind for 28 years. For example, we now have a great concept in tenant management and ownership of low-income housing. That empowers citizens, and says “You’re not just a client, you’re a citizen. You have real responsibility and real authority.” If you’re truly going to be a citizen, you have to have both opportunity and responsibility.
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There is almost a new synthesis evolving with the classic moderate wing of the party, where, as a former Rockefeller state chairman, I’ve spent most of my life, and the conservative/activist right wing.