Did you all really think the Roves and Hewitts and Bushes of the world wouldn’t fight back?
The House GOP budget plan, proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), would effectively turn Medicare into a voucher system in which seniors were given money by the federal government to purchase private insurance, creating a radically different system than the current guaranteed benefit plan for seniors.
Gingrich said he would prefer a system that preserved the current Medicare program and also created a private alternative.
“I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering,” he said. “I think we need a national conversation to get to a better Medicare solution for seniors.”
Ryan, meanwhile, defended his budget plan on Sunday, saying on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he is not backing down from his plan to restructure Medicare.
“We sincerely believe that our budget repairs the safety social net and repairs our economy,” he said. “It is the right vision and we believe it is what Americans want.”
You best know your place, Mr Ryan. Or — just as DeMint was passed over for a finance committee job by McConnell — you’ll find yourself labeled an “extremist” and placed on the back burner by the old boys network running the GOP House.
No matter how much you write in defense of your shit.
Newt makes it easy to walk away and ignore him.
The bigger point is Ryan is being serious. Reform is absolutely necessary. Newt just wants to pander.
Fuck him. The right does not trust him. The left will never vote for him, despite his pandering. He is weak and a fool. The indies will not go for him. He is unelectable.
“Damn the torpedoes, Full speed ahead!”
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870).
herman cain 2012
Newt, you’re not helping.
between the gingrich das stupid, the romney das stupid, and the huckabee no thanks, i think palin/bachmann/ryan/demint are running the party with a herman cain as their nominee.
here’s why:
David Gregory: Hey, Isn’t It Racist To Say A Black President Presides Over a Poor Economy?
the communist’s nakba
Whom?
Though I really have to wonder what he thinks he’s gaining by running for President on this kind of BS. Unless the whole point is to bid up his asking price for a lobbying post on K Street.
Which, he wouldn’t be the first.
Excuse me, but the endorsements for Newt are flooding in…
George Will steps out of his coffin and declares the next prezzidint’s either Daniels or Pawlenty, or Obama. But I hold on to a sliver of hope.
Instalanche.
Uggh. Disembodied Edwardses always make me lose sleep.
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Hewitt should not be grouped into this post. He’s been a strong and steady supporter of Ryan’s budget. He may be wrong about viable candidates and have a blind spot regarding Romney, but that’s no reason to misrepresent his position on this.
That’s very interesting dicentra, it would be great to see Jeff get a little more linkage.
Eleventy bazillion miles, two zillion segments this year and I’m still fortieth on the upgrade list?
I have a pretty funny Gingrich story, makes me look like a shitty parent, but it’s funny anyway and now I’m too pissed off to share it. Fuck you Delta.
And Newt, you too.
Oh, c’mon LMC – you can’t leave us hanging like that?!
And, #8 is spot on. He can’t think he is going to make it, but he sure upped his visibility and asking price once he is out – maybe the TV newsies will be clamoring to have him on for his sage “insight” after he drops out of the R primary run?
I think it is a mix of #8 and just feeding the ego.
Would love to see Cain play the race card every day.
It’s all about the pay day for Newt.
He came to my high school when I was 18. I remember that fat, short, grubby, poorly clothed (And I knew from poorly clothed back then) cock sucker.
Good on him for that whole revolution thing in the 90’s, but damn, once they handed him the keys it was apparent immediately that he was no leader.
I didn’t represent his position on this in any way. I named his as one of a type who isn’t going to give up jockeying for the position of kingmaker.
I have been disgusted with snaggletoothed Hugh Hewitt ever since, back in 1994, and all the way until 2006 when he began to wise up, he called all of us in California who saw the growing illegal alien problem, “racists” and said we were among “those banging pots and pans…”
Denial of truth for the sake of Hispandering is a sore point with me.
Hewitt is for Pawlenty or Romney (more Romney). But he still wants to play kingmaker.
Hewitt’s dentition is of absolutely no interest to me or relevance to…well, anything at all other than appearances.
Who gives a flying fuck? Other than you, I mean?
I mean, his teeth look just fine on his radio show.
Gingrich is a wacky guy.
I’ve seen politicians take different and contradictory positions before but I’ve never seen one do so poorly.
An interesting catch by DrewM over at AoS, that Gringrich was praising Ryan’s plan on Bill Bennett’s radio show barely a month ago. Which, if you want to defend the guy, at least he’s merely a self-serving charlatan, rather than a moron who actually believes his own crap.
O/T but here is Day by Day commenting on Mitch Daniels (and civil liberties): http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2011/05/16/#006103
GIG. Gingrich is gay.
Chipper has a torn meniscus.
Pike and Blessed Trinity in the third round of the third round of the Georgia state high school baseball playoffs tomorrow. I got the plate for game #2.
Your Georgia news.
More Georgia news: Channel 2 (the local abc affiliate) will be broadcasting HS football live on Thursday nights. Watch for Donald in zebra stripes. ;)
Turns out that Gingrich defines “social engineering” as “too rapid change.”
Not only did he poorly signal his intent, he revealed himself to be a moron. Some intellectual: doesn’t even know how to use political terms properly.
““social engineering” ”
that’s what gov’t is. just how much of their rube goldberg “engineering” we need is the ?. probably not much.
@33
also: at what level of gov’t?
Britt Hume puts a Major League smackdown on our pretencious little Newter:
“…who is what he has always been; a provocative thinker but a permiscuous talker.”
Newt’s gonna need help getting up from that one!
oh newter : hannity, hughhewitt, and levin tonight back tracking like an suv in quicksand. and hughhewitt can go do sumthing impossible.
If only he really meant it and acted on it too.