Video of Newt on the O'Reilly Factor

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Newt on debt deal: "not a solution" to our "jobs and debt crisis"

From The Daily Caller:

“This agreement only sets the stage for an enormous amount of work going forward -- well beyond the next two years -- on how to create jobs, reduce government spending, return to balanced budgets and pay off our debt,” Gingrich said in a statement.

“If the ultimate result of this deal is a tax increase and/or debilitative cuts in our investment in national security, it will be a destructive failure,” he continued. “With so much work remaining to be done, this deal is yet another reminder of the urgent need to replace President Obama and his radical commitment to big government and higher taxes.”

Gingrich said that, if elected president, he would solve America’s debt crisis by focusing on job creation, keeping politics out of national security spending and reducing federal spending by restructuring government.

Audio of Newt on Martha Zoller's radio show today

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Video of Newt's speech to South Carolina electric cooperative leaders last week

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Also, for those who have missed it (I meant to post it when it came up online), here is Newt's radio interview with Laura Ingraham about the strategy the GOP should take in the debt ceiling talks.

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Newt's e-mail: "No Fear"

This was sent out Wednesday:

Franklin Roosevelt, the founder of the modern Democratic party, famously said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Today, the only thing President Obama and the Democrats have to OFFER is fear itself.

Yesterday, President Obama threatened that his administration may not send out social security checks unless he gets his trillion dollar tax increase as part of a deal to increase the debt ceiling.

The answer to President Obama’s fear-mongering is simple: No Fear.

When a bully tries to scare you into giving him your lunch money, you have to stand up to him.

That's why I'm running for president. I've stood up to a Democratic president before and didn't blink. The result was balanced budgets, tax cuts and a booming economy.

I've also stood up to the Republican establishment before when they were too willing to compromise on conservative values for short term political gain.

It will take the same sort of experienced and principled leadership today to defeat President Obama in 2012 and stand up to the Washington establishment of both parties and the special interests. That's the only way we can return America back to the path of job creation and permanently end the era of big government.

If you believe we need a president who won't back down in fighting for your values, please consider donating $10, $25, or $50 dollars today.

I am campaigning hard every day to make the case for a return to constitutional, limited government as the best way to create jobs in America. But running a campaign requires resources. We can't succeed without your help.

Please consider donating what you can today.

Thank you for all you do.

Your friend,

Newt

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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.