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Newt Gingrich Slams House Republicans For Negotiating With President Obama: ‘Get A Grip!’

Listen to the man, he makes plenty of sense.

HuffPo.com:

Former GOP Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich urged Republicans on Wednesday to simply "back out" of all negotiations with President Barack Obama to avert the fiscal cliff, saying that they were ceding their leverage by even talking with the White House.

“My number one bit of advice to the congressional Republicans is simple: Back out of all of this negotiating with Obama," Gingrich said at a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif., according to the Daily Caller. "The president is overwhelmingly dominant in the news media.

You start setting up the definition of success [as] finding an agreement with Obama, you just gave Obama the ability to say to you, ‘Not good enough.’”

Gingrich portrayed the fiscal cliff as a "fantasy" Democrats are using to push higher marginal tax rates on the wealthy while squeezing out the GOP's goals of large-scale entitlement reform and spending cuts, and said congressional Republicans were actually in the driver's seat.

“One of the things I would say to House Republicans is to get a grip,” Gingrich said, according to the Ventura County Star. “They are the majority. They’re not the minority. They don't need to cave in to Obama. They don't need to form a surrender caucus.”

Gingrich made a similar argument in the wake of the elections, telling Human Events that GOP leaders should approach the decision to enter negotiations on the fiscal cliff with caution.

“Republicans have to insist that there were two mandates on Election Day. There’s a mandate for Obama and there is a mandate for House Republicans. So, it’s important to put in context that they are meeting as equals to talk about the country," Gingrich advised in an interview with the outlet. "They are not working for Obama, but they are willing to work with Obama.”

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Amateur hour continues in the Obama Era.

Source

Americans Want Obama Pal Tim Geithner Gone

More trials and tribulations from the utter FAIL that is the Obama administration:

Adding to lawmaker criticism of U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's performance is a new survey released on Friday showing 42 percent of Americans say he has done a "poor job" handling the credit crisis and federal bailout programs.

The survey by Rasmussen Reports, a polling and electronic publishing firm, found that 20 percent rated Geithner's performance in these areas as "good" or "excellent", while 16 percent were not sure how he was performing. Twenty-two percent rated his performance as "fair".

Rasmussen said these findings were largely unchanged from a survey done in March just after the passage of the Obama administration's $787 billion stimulus plan and disclosure that American International Group would pay out $165 million in bonuses despite a massive government bailout.

Investors polled has stronger opinions: 47 percent said Geithner was doing a poor job , while 24 percent said his handling of crisis was good or excellent.