Newt Gingrich

Last night lefty blogs lit up with the news that Colorado’s Sen. Mark Udall, after weeks of silence on the issue, threw in with Colorado Democratic colleague Sen. Michael Bennet in his drive to convince Majority Leader Harry Reid to reintroduce a pubic health insurance option into the Senate’s version of the health reform legislation [...]

As soon as the Senate passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Dec.24, Republicans and conservative activists started making a promise to voters. Give them a victory in the 2010 midterm elections, and they’ll repeal the bill.

Dave Weigel, reporting at the Washington Independent on the Defending the American Dream Summit sponsored by Americans for Prosperity this weekend, delivers a few gems.
Libertarian tycoon David Koch, he writes, finally outed himself as a main funder of the tea party movement. Also: Newt Gingrich plays at libertarian-style fiscal conservative. Plus: Oh how Republicans [...]

With an assist from Politico, which has completely bought into Glenn Beck’s campaign against “czars” — on Monday, the publication sketched out a “GOP czar revolt” that consisted of work by Michelle Malkin, a joke by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), and a comment from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — conservatives are arguing that the [...]

The results of a Pew survey on the “favorability of leading Republicans” published Wednesday suggest that across the general population impressions of Mitt Romney have improved while Sarah Palin remains a “divisive figure.” Among the GOP base, though, there’s only love for Palin. She is the star. Which means that if the nation was holding a Republican primary today, Palin would be the winkin’ and blinkin’ GOP candidate for president! Palin-Penry 2010, everybody!

Gov. Sarah Palin is toying with the reeling leaderless Republican Party. The months-long “feud” between Palin and two GOP campaign committees that asked her and then didn’t ask her to appear at a fund raising dinner tonight is reaching new heights of absurdity.

Teabagging just isn’t what it used to be.

And with new revelations that the much anticipated April 15 anti-tax protests are being co-opted by establishment Republican groups and Washington, D.C.-based corporate lobbyists, the term “teabaggery” may well join “douchebaggery” in the pantheon of political recriminations.

UPDATE: Today, Sat. 29 – the day Newt Gingrich has deemed “Solution’s Day” – he announced he will not be running for president in 2008 after learning that he would have to give up his lucrative gig heading his nonprofit organization, American Solutions for Winning the Future.

Today, Thursday, Sept. 27 is the genesis of the [...]

UPDATE: Today Newt Gingrich said he might run for president if supporters cough up $30 million.

Three down, seven to go. Unless you count Newt.

Focus on the Family spokesman Gary Schneeberger noted last week that it appears James Dobson is taking a process-of-elimination approach to selecting which Republican presidential candidate will get his official personal, not-sanctioned-by-his-nonprofit-organization [...]

Newt Gingrich recently came to Colorado and, in superior tones, informed a group of people that he honestly does not know if he’ll be running for president in 2008.

If Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney or Fred Thompson adopts Gingrich’s ideas about what needs to happen in America, then he, Newt Gingrich, won’t have to launch a [...]