Republican policy...I don't know where Osama is and I really don't care...Let GM and the auto industry go bankrupt

Obama policy...Osama is dead....auto industry is alive and thriving.

Hmmm....I know who's got MY vote.

too bad newt didn't do better but now he can be an attack dog and go after the despicable clown we have as a president.......ANYONE BUT obama IN NOVEMBER!

Romney walks out to a rally, he has an 'Etch a Sketch' in his hands, the crowd goes silent. Calmly he shows the crowd sketches drawn on it of 3 people: Rick, Newt, & Obama. He then turns the toy upside down, shake it up, then with a smile......shows the screen to the crowd and says "PROBLEM SOLVED". The crowd goes wild with applause & laughter.

Congrats.... America now holds a new title....No country has spend more money in less time in history than under Obama!! Way to go Obama!!

Hugo...Regan gave the biggest peace time tax cut in history.

Regan's tax increases were never on idividuals, but on cutting loop holes

Angry old thieving, lying white guy mad because we have a black president time to get over it dude this is the 21st century the planet has moved on. The GOP gave blanket amnesty to over 3 million illegal aliens during Ronald "star wars" Reagan the President who started this country on the road to failure! I wonder if anyone ever told him he wasn't acting in a movie.

So I guess they can't give me examples of why I needed to be collapsed. Or that I was wrong......liberals.....

How or how does voting for the returning to the policies that crated the recession improve the economy? This question is rhetorical. I am talking to the people who would have returned Herbert Hoover to the White House.

I hate to be so negative, but I feel that Newt is just a prejudice puke. If the republicans would work with this administration, everyones lives would be much better along with the economy. But they see that Obama is black, so they purposely go against anything that he tries to do to help our country. They call him hiltler, but in reality, the republicans are the ones hurting this country, they are nothing but a group of HITLERS...

Everyone,just ignore Hugh.Arguing with him is like arguing with a donkeys ass.At first I thought his comments were funny,but now they are just annoying.

I am shocked that any college student would support Obama. Don't they see how much they are getting screwed by the deficit spending and the complete lack of concern for the economy. Obama is spending to buy votes at the expense of college students. When they grow up and have families, they won't have enough money for teachers, because they will be too busy working to pay back our debts.

I was surprised when I was taking my 9 and 12 year old daughters home from basketball practice when the 9 year old said. "I don't like Obama." That surprised me. I asked her why and she said some kids at school told her he was spending out tax money on people who don't want to work. I explained that was only partly true and that there are many that want to work, but can't find it and that the real problem isn't that he is spending the tax money, but he is spending your money. Money that you will need to pay for teachers, roads, policeman and defense is being spent now. You will not be able to afford what you will need in the future because you have to pay off what Obama is spending money on now. After that their eyes got really big and they asked why Obama would do that. I didn't have a good answer. I have no idea why Obama would hurt future generations for some short term gain.

I'm sorry to break it to you, Boss, but you're going to come up a few chicken wings short of your goal.

We have been subject to a form of economic tyranny ever since Ronald Reagan, a tyranny that promises widespread prosperity but delivers but one result: the impoverishment of the middle class and the unjust enrichment of wealthy people. When Reagan told Americans, “Government isn't the solution to people's problems, it is the problem. . . ,” he introduced us to the economic thinking of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics during the 1950s and 1960s. Friedman exalts words like “liberty,” “freedom,” and “responsible individuals” and the ability of free market capitalism to cure its own problems without governmental intervention. He proceeded to prescribe the main pillars of his beliefs: the dismantlement of government, deregulation of capital enterprises, privatization of public institutions and activities, and giving tax breaks to potential investors. Friedman’s ideas have formed the gospel of economics departments at universities for years, its acolytes have served as economic advisers to presidents (Summers, Paulson, and Geithner, all of whom are Goldman Sachs alumni) and have been chairmen of the Fed (Greenspan, Bernanke). Friedman’s theories are the intellectual foundation for the gibberish of Norquist, Limbaugh, Faux News and all fiscal conservatives. Subscription to Friedman's ideas is a requirement for developing countries to get loans from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Despite its lofty rhetoric, however, when fully implemented in other countries, Friedman's philosophy, which has been labeled variously as “laissez faire capitalism,” “austere capitalism,” or “neoliberalism,” has operated to transfer wealth from the middle class to the upper class. That happened under Chilean Dictator Agosto Pinochet, who, in 1973, invited members of the Chicago School of Economics to plan Chile's economy after the CIA-orchestrated coup d’etat that dispatched the democratically elected socialist Salvador Allende and brought Pinochet to power; the deterioration of the middle class after the installation of “austere capitalism” also occurred in Lech Walesa's post-Communist Poland and in post-Glasnost Russia.

And it's been happening here in the United States with no one paying much attention for years until the kids in OWS exposed it. The wealthy have been ripping off the middle and lower classes ever since Reagan, using their unrelenting political warriors, members of the Republican Party for the most part, aided and abetted by another Friedman admirer, Bill Clinton, the greatest DINO in history. “Austere capitalism” has been failing us for many years; its failures have been concealed under years of unremitting propaganda assailing government itself and, more recently, unions for public workers and the workers themselves as enemies of all taxpayers.

In 1999, Texas Republican Phil Gramm got Republicans and and many Democrats to go along with his Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which eliminated that Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, a law that prevented commercial banks from merging with investment banks to protect the depositors of commercial banks. This led directly to the formation of banks that were "too-big-to-fail" and the creation of the exotic investment schemes and investment packages of risky home mortgages that led to the worldwide economic collapse of 2007-08. Deregulation also led to the extension of millions of “predatory loans” to homeowners who couldn't afford to pay the increased mortgage premiums after the 5-year ARM’s “teaser rates” expired. Lenders like Countrywide knew the borrowers would default, yet they earned millions in loan commissions because there were no regulators reigning in their greed.

Many Teapublicans assert that there has been an explosion of regulations under Obama that impedes investment in the United States. This is utter hogwash. An economist who was a senior adviser to both Reagan and Bush 1, Bruce Bartlett, reviewed several surveys of businesses in America that had either fired workers or weren't hiring them back and concluded that neither high taxes nor uncertainty about governmental regulation have strongly affected private investment and the jobs it produced during Obama's presidency, "Republicans . . . embrace the idea that government regulation is the principal factor holding back unemployment. They assert that Barack Obama has unleashed a tidal wave of new regulations, which has created uncertainty among businesses and prevents them from investing and hiring. No hard evidence is offered for this claim; it is simply asserted as self-evident and repeated endlessly throughout the conservative echo chamber. . . . [R]egulatory uncertainty is a canard invented by Republicans that allows them to use current economic problems to pursue an agenda supported by the business community year in and year out. In other words, it is a simple case of political opportunism, not a serious effort to deal with high unemployment." http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/regulation-and-unemployment: Despite all the Teapublican fury about the Federal Reserve being the villain, it was deregulation that caused the real estate market to come crashing down. Former Fed Chair Greenspan sheepishly admitted, "We didn't plan for greed." Perhaps more importantly, neither did Friedman.

As to privatization of governmental institutions or activities, it's been well under way for a long time. Recall that McDonald's was serving food to our troops in Iraq, that Blackwater/EXE was protecting our military brass in the Green Zone of Baghdad, that private military contractors in Iraq exceeded the number of actual soldiers in Iraq, and an increasing number of prisons have been turned over to private entrepreneurs. It’s a great way of rewarding Republican campaign contributors for their loyalty, all in the name of expanding the private sector. Republican largesse towards the "haves and the have mores," as Bush once called his campaign contributors, was unfailing: for example, in 2003, Halliburton, the company Dick Cheney ran before becoming Vice-President, was awarded a no-bid, multi-million dollar government contract to rebuild Iraq's oil industry, which set off a firestorm of protest between Halliburton’s competitors. Bush 2 heralded a new day for “crony capitalism.”

Lower taxes for capital investors or "job creators," which was labeled during Reagan's time under the rubric of "trickle-down economics" or "supply side economics," was purportedly justified because it yields greater prosperity for everyone. The expression used to describe this phenomenon was “a rising tide lifts all ships.” However, the reality has been that, through tax and regulatory policy, the rising tide lifted yachts but left rowboats in the mud, and “trickle down” proved to be “trickle up.” “Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and the corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration and there is no reason to believe that more of them will have any today." http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/regulation-and-unemployment/. In fact, despite receiving taxpayer money in and despite the fact that they have been making trillions during the three years of Obama's presidency, business owners decided not to invest in America but rather to set up factories and service centers abroad, where cheaper labor brings higher profits. “With no control over where the wealthy and corporations deploy their capital, the money we borrowed to support tax cuts largely favoring the wealthy has supported job creation and business growth abroad while our job creation has lagged at home.” http://currydemocrats.org/in_perspective/american_pie.html

The consequences in terms of income inequality in America are apparent for all those willing to see. “Today the top 1 percent of Americans control 43 percent of the financial wealth . . . while the bottom 80 percent control only 7 percent of the wealth. Incredibly, the wealthiest 400 Americans have the same combined wealth as the poorest half of Americans -- over 150 million people. http://currydemocrats.org/in_perspective/american_pie.html. “Income for the top 20 percent has increased since the 1970s while income for the bottom 80 percent declined. In the 1970s the top 1 percent received 8 percent of total income while today they receive 18 percent. During the same period income for the bottom 20 percent had decreased 30 percent.” Ibid. Worker wages, when inflation is taken into account, are about what they were in 1978, a staggering reflection of how stagnant wages have been since Reagan's time. This clearly reflects how, over the last 30 years, businesses have succeeded in defeating labor unions as effective advocates for workers. By comparison, “t]he top 1% of income earners saw their after-tax income shoot up a whopping 275% between 1979 and 2007, and in the process more than doubled their share of all income, jumping from 8% to 17%, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office.” http://www.newser.com/story/131888/income-of-top-1-shot-up-275-since-1979-cbo.html. The top 20% of annual income earners in the United States now take home 85% of all annual income generated. http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html. The remaining 80% of us fight over the remaining 15% of the income--the left-over scraps. “Another 2.6 million people slipped into poverty in the United States last year (2010), the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, and the number of Americans living below the official poverty line, 46.2 million people, was the highest number in the 52 years the bureau has been publishing figures on it. And in new signs of distress among the middle class, median household incomes fell last year to levels last seen in 1996.” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/us/14census.html?pagewanted=all. While Teapublicans deride attempts to articulate these facts as sorties of “class warfare,” Warren Buffett, the second richest man in America, famously said, “There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.” http://currydemocrats.org/in_perspective/american_pie.html.

America, it's time to wake up from your dogmatic slumbers. To middle class Teapublicans who have been drawn to Republicans by their call to fight “the culture wars” being waged against their moral values, you're being used by the wealthy to wage class warfare against yourselves. To anyone who actually works for a living, aren't you tired of having your paycheck not go up and thereby fail to keep up with inflation? Aren’t you tired of voting against your own financial self-interests? Aren't you tired of being hoodwinked by those who press you for your support in order to continue the greatest transfer of wealth in world history? With “trickle up,” there's certainly redistribution of income going on, but that redistribution isn't benefiting you one bit. Are the issues you believe in so much more important than your own family’s future economic health? Do you all want to wind up in a country without a middle class, as exists in every Third World country? Are you ready to live in a country with electrical shutdowns more than once a day, an inadequate number of cops to catch criminals, an inadequate number of prosecutors to put criminals in jail, an inadequate number of probation officers, jailers, etc. to deal with those incarcerated or supervised after conviction, an inadequate number of firemen to put out fires before your home burns to the ground, an inadequate number of public employees to handle public business, thereby guaranteeing waiting in lines in public buildings for hours or waiting on phones for up to an hour, closing public parks because there is no one to maintain or watch over them, increasing air and water pollution, the inability to address national calamities like Katrina, longstanding droughts, endless devaluations of the dollar, etc. That's what it’s like in a Third World country, and that’s where the Republican Party is taking us if we don't start taking steps to stop them now.

Start with amending our Constitution to overturn Citizens United, in the absence of which political corruption will only increase. Wage a war in the marketplace against so-called American companies and manufacturers that make their products in foreign countries at a cheaper cost--buy American, bring jobs back home. Reinstate Glass Steagall and pass new regulations that provide real oversight over the activities of Wall Street. Demand that your representatives act in the best interests of the majority of the people, not in the best interests of corporate lobbyists acting at the behest of the 1%. End the corporate oligarchy that currently dictates our nation’s politics and reinstate a genuine representative democracy. Take back America from the greedy bastards who've been fleecing it for over 30 years.

Republicans are the agents of Satan. The biggest reason for wanting to defeat Obama is that the bribes and kickbacks just aren't coming in like they used to.

The only people who'll be voting Republican this fall will be the religious nut-jobs and bigots. They'll have to decide who they hate more: Mormons or Blacks.

Gingrich is living in a dream world of his own making. He says the GOP has an obligation to do better. When did they get this obligation and why have they been totally ignoring it for the last 16 years? I guess the moonbase commander just has to say something and it is so.

Newtie, if that's the goal, why don't you and Sanitarynapkin drop out of the race?

That is a real thoughtful program to run on and sure to get the country going. Beyond a soundbite what are these people for? Smaller government - okay tell me specifically what you are going to cut. Out of curiosity is overturning Roe v Wade going to increase jobs - yes or no. Will putting the clamps on porn going to increase jobs - yes or no. At some point you have to articulate a plan and a platform - not just beating Obama.

out of curiosity what the hell are Dems willing to cut? because i see the same rhetoric from Dems about the need to cut spending to manageable levels, yet Dems have SKYROCKETED spending over the record Bush years levels. dont say you plan to get it done by raising taxes on the rich and/or corporations because you know thats a joke and no amount of that will keep pace with Progressive spending binges.

the fact that this tub of lard hates him is the best recommendation of obama i've heard yet.

Newt,...that has been the GOP's goal since day one of the Obama administration,...

.....but it is not the goal for the rest of the nation, because we are not all 1%ers and in the pocket of big business.

TO THE 99% :

We must unite and fight the domination of our national interests by big money and big business.

To all minorities and non-minorities with a conscience and morals not driven purely by dollar signs:

It is one of the GOP's main goals to make a failure of the FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT and underline the unworthiness of anything other than the firmly entrenched wealthy white power structure that has existed since our country began.

IF WE DON'T MAKE SURE THAT BARACK OBAMA, OUR FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT GETS A SECOND TERM,....WE ARE SAYING TO FUTURE GENERATIONS

"BLACK PRESIDENT = FAILURE"

HOW WILL WE DEFINE THE LEGACY OF OUR FIRST MINORITY PRESIDENT ?

HOW WILL WE DEFINE THE LEGACY OF OUR FIRST MINORITY PRESIDENT ?

THE GOP HAS FOUGHT EVERY MOVE HE HAS MADE ON OUR BEHALF TO PROTECT THEIR OWN BOTTOM LINE EXCLUSIVELY. (GUESS WHAT : If you take the middle and lower class out of the equation and gouge them at every turn,...you "save money",..."we can't have this democrat keep us from undermining them")

STAND TOGETHER FOR THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE.

UNITE AGAINST CORPORATE DOMINANCE AND SHOW SUPPORT FOR U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA THIS NOVEMBER.

BARACK OBAMA 2012

Rick can stay in the deep south and Newt can have his moon colonies.

The rest of the intelligent and rational USA can work together and make progress that includes compromise to make our children's lives better.

Gingrich: The goal is to defeat Obama

Translated: Let's F$#@ the country to get Obama out.

Dems had 4 years in charge off both chambers of congress and 2 of those with a Dem President to cut military spending. it's comical libs blame their own political cowardice and lack off ability to get the thhings dont they say need to be done, on the other side.