Gingrich isn't concerned about reversing the damage that's been done to 300 million Americans via ObamaCare and countless other matters. ObamaCare isn't even about health primarily. It's a way to destroy the middle class, its financial health, and its medical system. The upper class is not affected. ObamaCare adds taxes that normally would be in an income tax bill and that will only be felt by the middle class.
5/15/11, "Newt Gingrich Blasts GOP Budget As 'Right-Wing Social Engineering'," TPM, Benjy Sarlin
"Newt Gingrich slammed the House GOP budget on Meet The Press this morning, telling interviewer David Gregory that replacing Medicare with a voucher system was too "radical" an approach. His words were by far the harshest of any major presidential candidate towards Paul Ryan's proposal on entitlements.
"I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering," Gingrich said, calling the plan "too big a jump" for the country. "I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate."
Gingrich has distanced himself from the Ryan plan in recent weeks, calling instead for a system that would preserve the current Medicare program alongside a voluntary, privatized version. But nothing he has said came close to the full frontal assault he unleashed on his own party's top priority in Congress.Gingrich was asked about his own record on health care -- Gregory played a clip of the then-Congressman on the show in 1993 calling for an individual mandate, the same policy that has put Mitt Romney's candidacy in jeopardy. Like Romney, Gingrich did not disavow his support for a requirement that people maintain insurance, defending it as an effective approach.
"I've said consistently we ought to have some requirement you either have health insurance or you post a bond or in some way you indicate you're going to be held accountable," he said."...
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The GOP didn't want the majority in the House they got in Nov. 2010 and went about stifling it:
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11/20/10, "Revolutionary Do-Over," Wall St. Journal, John Fund
Beltway mores.
Former GOP Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, now a big-time Washington lobbyist, has already told the Washington Post that
- it's imperative for his tribe to "co-opt" the tea partiers arriving in D.C."...
11/4/10, "This is ruling class versus country class, is all this is. This is all about the ruling class elder statesmen GOP establishment laying down markers here....Left to Lindsey Graham and Trent Lott,
- Tuesday would have not happened,
- no way, shape, manner, or form."
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Feb. 9, 2009, "Ruin your health with the Obama stimulus plan," Bloomberg Commentary, Betsey McCaughey
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5/12/11, "Newt Gingrich Was More Supportive Of Individual Mandates Than Mitt Romney," Huffington Post, Sam Stein
"For that signature, Romney now faces a major trust deficit among conservatives. In advance of his Thursday speech, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial calling him Obama's "running mate," a candidate who was at once
- "compromised and not credible."
The speech is, if nothing else, a testament to how far the conversation over health care has moved in such a short period of time. When Romney signed his bill into law, the Associated Press published a story titled " Mass. Health Care Plan Riles Some Liberals." In it, John Sweeney, the then-president of the AFL-CIO -- the labor federation which has become a defender of the individual mandate --
- decried the idea that "workers were being forced to purchase health care coverage
- or face higher taxes."
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2/23/11, "ObamaCare is already damaging health care," Wall St. Journal Opinion, Lloyd M. Krieger
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5/12/11, "Medical group pans key element of Obama health care plan," AP, R. Alonso-Zaldivar, via Boston.com
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12/16/09, "Bachmann: Obamacare 'Largest Tax Increase in History'," Michelle Bachmann (Rep. Bachmann is also a tax attorney and has litigated federal cases). She says ObamaCare is “the largest middle-class tax increase in American history”"...
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