Newt's interview on Fox and Friends from Saturday

He discusses the Super Committee, Lean Six Sigma, and the upcoming debate.

Video of Newt on Fox and Friends

Link.

Thank you to Gardner, a great Newt fan in California, for putting the video online.

Thank you to all the readers of this blog

I meant to post this Thursday after the milestone was first reached, but this blog has now reached 17,000 hits. Why I note that and not a more traditional number like 15,000 -- I don't know. But I felt like this was a good time to say thank you to everyone who reads this blog.

In the last 30 days alone, this site has gotten 5,574 hits. (The weekends are always a little slower; the number would have been higher had I wrote this on Friday.)

My favorite discovery about how people came across this blog? I have wrote about this before, but I noticed that the search term "Pawlenty flat tax" led someone to this site. When different terms like that pop up, I oftentimes will punch them in Google just for curiosity's sake. What I found out: that my blog post criticizing Pawlenty's proposal as too bland is the top result. And still is.

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Thank you for your support. We are about six months from Iowa -- maybe a little less than that, maybe a little more -- and the campaign is heading in the right direction.

If you read this on time, be sure to catch Newt on Fox & Friends Sunday morning at 8 AM ET.

Newt calls for no tax hikes in debt ceiling deal. Will be on Fox and Friends Sunday Morning.

Newt wrote an op-ed for National Review about how Republicans need to resist any deal that raises taxes:

Republicans should reject the establishment’s demand for a tax increase. There is plenty of money to be saved from a bloated government without giving Washington one penny of higher taxes.

The pressures from the Washington establishment to raise taxes are unending. This has been true for at least 30 years.

When Pres. Ronald Reagan adopted the Kemp-Roth three-year tax cut, the establishment hated it. Both Democrats and Republicans in the establishment hated the idea of allowing the American people to keep their own money.

I was there and I fought the 1982 tax increase that the establishment had foisted on President Reagan. He presently figured out their game and rejected all other efforts to get him to raise taxes.

When Pres. George H. W. Bush pledged, “Read my lips, no new taxes,” the establishment was determined to force him into breaking his word. I led a majority of House Republicans in voting no when the tax increase came up in 1990.

When I was Speaker, we balanced the federal budget by cutting taxes to increase economic growth, reducing spending, and reforming government. These policies led to four straight years of balanced budgets and the repayment of over $400 billion in federal debt. Unemployment dropped from 5.6 percent to under 4 percent.

With more jobs, people left welfare, left unemployment compensation, left food stamps, left Medicaid, and went back to work taking care of their families and paying taxes.

This two-step process of reducing government spending and increasing government revenues was a major factor in our ability to balance the federal budget.

In light of Friday's anemic jobs report, Newt said "[e]very conservative should say, firmly and loudly: NO.

America is over-spent, not under-taxed."

Newt on what should be done:

What Congress should be doing is passing a Balanced Budget Amendment as Senators DeMint and Snowe suggested, cutting unnecessary spending through dramatically reducing fraud (maybe $120 plus billion a year), bringing private-sector management techniques to government that would eliminate vast layers of bureaucracy (between $125 billion and$500 billion a year), and creating an American energy policy to create American jobs and keep $400 billion plus a year here at home that is currently going overseas for energy. (See my paper on the debt ceiling at Newt.org for more details.)

Newt will be on Fox and Friends at 9:00 AM ET Sunday Morning.

He will be on Sean Hannity's TV show Tuesday night from the site of his townhall meeting with the Charleston Tea Party.

Newt discusses Scott Walker and Wisconsin (video)

In the interview on Fox and Friends, Gingrich notes that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker campaigned for two years on the policy that has led to the protests over the last week.

Newt also mentions that him and Callista were at "one of the first big events" of Walker's campaign a-year-and-a-half-ago.

Here is the entire interview, in which he discusses the federal budget showdown and Libya: