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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[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I don't have the full excerpt, but what is said via ABC News is pretty interesting: "“We are caught up right now in a culture – and you see it every single day – where as long as we are negative, as long as we are vicious, as long as we can tear down our opponent, we don’t have to worry, so we don’t. “This is a very deep problem,” he added. “I’m being totally candid with you.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/08/newt-gingrich-republicans-rip-obamacare-but-have-zero-answer-for-alternatives/

It's certainly a defining characteristic of how the Congressional GOP are behaving right now. It's going to be an interesting mid-term election season next year.

[silveradept]

It will be very interesting, as I'm not sure the Dems can successfully paint the Republicans as the problem.