“Change” is one of the favorite buzzwords of both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates this campaign. It helps that neither an incumbent president nor a sitting vice president is seeking the White House for the first time in decades.
But former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said the current occupant of the White House, President Bush, needs to take the initiative by inspiring Congress to join him in making policy changes “right now.” Gingrich said Bush has the perfect venue — the State of the Union speech he will be delivering within days.
It’s a timely, and not at all coincidental, sales pitch for Gingrich’s new book, “Real Change: From the World That Fails to the World That Works,” which went on sale today.
Categories: Politics, 110th Congress, State Of The Union, Newt Gingrich
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What should you do if you’re a potential presidential candidate and offend an ever-increasing segment of the American electorate? How about clarifying your views in an online video — and in two languages?
That’s what former House Speaker Newt Gingrich did this week after seemingly characterizing Spanish as “the language of living in the ghetto.”
“In the United States, it is important to speak the English language well in order to advance and have success,” Gingrich said. “And to further this goal, we should replace bilingual eduation programs with intensive English instruction so we can all know the common language of our country. This is an expression of support for Latinos, not an attack on their language.”
Here is Gingrich’s full statement in English …
… and in Spanish:
Categories: Presidency 2008, Newt Gingrich
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a potential Republican presidential candidate, has a message for Iranian leaders in response to their decision to take some British sailors hostage for allegedly infiltrating Iranian waters: Release them, or we’ll take out your gas supply.
Gingrich noted that while Iran produces plenty of oil for the world market, it doesn’t have much capacity to turn all of that oil into gasoline. He said the nation has only one refinery, making it vulnerable to economic pressure to release the hostages.
“There should be a covert operation to sabotage the one refinery,” Gingrich said. “And the United States Navy … should simply stop any tanker that has gasoline, and we should say to the Iranian dictatorship, ‘Within 30 to 45 days, you will be walking.’ … We have to calmly and pleasantly eliminate their capacity to get gasoline, do it in a nonviolent manner, and tell them that the morning they want to be reasonable, they get to drive a car again.”
Categories: Energy, Foreign Affairs, Newt Gingrich
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Get the latest word on the Democratic presidential primary battle, specifically the highs of New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and the lows of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.
Plus an early look at the New Hampshire Senate race in 2008, and a report on how conservative bloggers reacted to Focus on the Family’s James Dobson favoring former House Speaker Newt Gingrich over former Sen. Fred Thompson as a potential presidential standard-bearer for Republicans in 2008.
Oh, and please don’t let your children do the “Rove Rap” at home. Watch and you’ll know why:
Categories: New York, Illinois, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama, Presidency 2008, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, HotlineTV, Newt Gingrich
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