TALK SHOW ROUNDUP
Group of frontrunners will emerge, Former House Speaker predicts
The Hill Nov 16, 08 1:48 PM CST
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Newt Gingrich predicts that Sarah Palin will not be the Republicans’ 2012 presidential nominee, the Hill reports. “I think that she is going to be a significant player,” the former speaker of the House told Face the Nation . “But she’s going to be one of 20 or 30 significant players.” In other talk shows: Arnold Schwarzenegger will do all he can to help President Barack Obama, but not as a Cabinet member, the Hill reports. “I am the first one to go and do everything that I can, as governor, and as a state, to support his administration,” he told This Week . Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty told Fox News Sunday that the GOP needs to adapt as voters move away from the right. “We have to be a conservative party. But we have to apply those principles in the context of a changing country,” he said.
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Huckabee, Jindal among possible GOP candidates hitting trail
in Iowa, elsewhere
Politico Nov 10, 08 11:31 CST
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Likely candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination are playing it cool, but their feet tell a different story, Jonathan Martin writes for Politico. Mike Huckabee, for example, says 2012 is “way too far away” to think about, but his book tour has lots of stops in Iowa and South Carolina, aboard a campaign-style bus with his face on it.
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Chicago Sun-Times Nov 8, 08 10:49 CST
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Shell-shocked Republicans are casting about for a savior for 2012, and believe it or not, the name most often floated for this Moses-like role is none other than Newt Gingrich, writes Bob Novak of the Chicago Sun-Times. It’s a “very risky choice,” admits one strong Newt-booster, but after failing miserably in their attempts to win independents and moderates, Republicans are anxious for some “old-time religion.”
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OPINION
We need better statistics to make sound judgments
New York Times Oct 24, 08 2:05 PM CDT
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If the US health care industry were a baseball team, it’d be “a hidebound, tradition-based ball club that chases after aging sluggers,” write Billy Beane, John Kerry, and Newt Gingrich in the New York Times. The US spends egregiously on health care but gets little in return, like the high-payroll Yankees, Tigers, and Mets. Health care needs its own version of sabermetrics—stat-based analysis that can cut costs and improve performance.
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TALK SHOW ROUNDUP
Defends use of same tactic used against him in 2000
Politico Oct 19, 08 1:30 PM CDT
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John McCain defended his use of robocalls on Fox News Sunday, arguing his attacks on Barack Obama are different from the slanderous calls that targeted him during the 2000 primaries, Politico reports. “These are legitimate and truthful and they are far different than the phone calls that were made about my family,” he said. On other talk shows: Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told This Week with George Stephanopoulos that Colin Powell’s endorsement of Obama “eliminated the experience argument."
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ANALYSIS
Meltdown, bailout provoke populist fury against Wall St., DC
Fortune Sep 29, 08 10:19 CDT
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The financial meltdown may have brought simmering economic resentments to a boil and prompted a populist backlash, writes Nina Easton in Fortune . Public opinion indicators—polls, calls to Congress—show widespread fury at the bailout. Long-building anger over growing economic inequality may have combined with disgust at the current crisis and the behind-closed-doors style of addressing it, forming a general anti-elite sentiment.
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OPINION
History repeats itself for Gingrich
Newsweek Sep 26, 08 3:21 PM CDT
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Newt Gingrich is back, and once again, he’s giving grief to a president named Bush. Gingrich rose to prominence, you’ll recall, by raking the elder Bush over the coals over an oil tax proposal. Now, after a few years in the wilderness, he’s loudly calling for a conservative insurrection against Bush II’s bailout plan, and, in his own words, “having a ball” doing it.
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OPINION
Even right wing doesn't like administration's rescue plan
National Review Sep 22, 08 1:28 PM CDT
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The Bush administration’s $700 billion financial bailout plan seems destined to make it through Congress, but even conservative pundits are bashing the desperate move: If a Democratic administration were proposing this plan, a Republican Congress would shoot it down, writes Newt Gingrich in the National Review. "Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess."
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Exceptions incluide Clintons, Obama, McCain
Politico Aug 12, 08 3:52 PM CDT
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Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are big deals in Congress, but their power apparently doesn’t extend to bookstores, Politico reports. Despite much-hyped releases, new books by the Speaker of the House and the majority leader have sold a mere 6,500 copies—combined. These days, even B-list lawmakers have book deals, but most of the tomes sell just as poorly as Reid’s and Pelosi’s.
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OPINION
Former Chamber of Commerce honcho has had enough foreign policy disaster
New York Daily News Jul 17, 08 7:45 PM CDT
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Being a Reagan, Gingrich and Dole soldier won’t stop former Chamber of Commerce honcho Larry Hunter from voting for Barack Obama this fall, he writes in the New York Daily News . It doesn’t matter that he wholly disagrees with the Dem on every point of domestic policy; the chance to close the book on “unjustified war and unconstitutional abridgment of individual rights” is worth the price of “unreconstructed, dyed-in-the-wool, big-government” liberalism.
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ANALYSIS
Gingrich's 'Drill Now' online drive has seen huge conservative response
Politico Jul 1, 08 2:08 PM CDT
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Insiders warned it was risky for John McCain to reverse himself on offshore drilling, but the issue might yet prove the nucleus for a “right roots” movement to counter MoveOn, Politico reports. In the few weeks since the proposal entered the national conversation, 1.2 million people have signed a Newt Gingrich-sponsored petition favoring drilling, and conservative activists have been closing ranks.
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Resemblances between 1998 and 2008 striking, New Republic's Crowley finds
New Republic May 14, 08 10:11 CDT
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For Bill and Hillary Clinton, 2008 is smacking of 1998, as the struggle to stay in the presidential race looks remarkably like the battle to survive impeachment, argues Michael Crowley in the New Republic . The former first couple is under siege again, and again is willing to “ride out any crisis”—wrapping themselves in the mantle of populism and indicting the press.
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