I hate it when people like Newt say something that I agree with

[thewayne]

"I will bet you, for most of you, you go home in the next two weeks when your members of Congress are home, and you look them in the eye and you say, 'What is your positive replacement for Obamacare?' They will have zero answer."
—Newt Gingrich to Republican National Committee meeting

We were going to attend a town hall meeting in Las Cruces next week that surely would have devolved to this topic, but my list of things changed and now it's not possible. Newt is not an idiot, he's a very savvy operator, it was kinda sad to see him reduce himself to the lowest common Teabagger denominator for the last election cycle.

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[moiraj.livejournal.com]

I'm confused. Is he saying he approves of Obamacare?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I think he's phrasing it like Churchill: Obamacare is the worst form of health insurance, except for all the others.

[moiraj.livejournal.com]

I feel that while Obama is kinda sorta going in the right direction, he's going the wrong way about it.

Things I remember about Gingrich: Proposing the States build a colony on the moon by 2020. Telling Canada not to sell oil to China because he would sign a pipeline deal the day he became president. Promising to go to the UN to force all of the other countries to give their citizens the right to bear arms. So to hear something sensible from him is a shock.