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WASHINGTON (CNN)– Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who
came under fire from some conservatives for endorsing Dede
Scozzafava in next week's special Congressional election in New York, is now backing Conservative Party candidate Doug ...
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Gingrich endorses Hoffman
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TEHRAN -- Iran's supreme leader, spurning what he
described as several personal overtures from President Obama, warned
Tuesday that negotiating with the United States would be "naive and perverted" and that Iranian politicians should not be "deceived" ...
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Iran's Khamenei rejects U.S. outreach
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Don't listen to Texas
Ezra Klein —
... Texas's Rick Perry and Mars's Newt Gingrich have an op-ed in The Washington Post this morning presenting the Lone Star State as an example of all the whiz-bang health-care innovation being generated at the state level. "Texas," they write, "has adopted approaches to controlling health-care costs while improving choice, advancing quality of care and expanding coverage." Sounds awesome! The evidence is a tort reform bill that the state passed in 2003. And how's that working out? ...
Don't follow Texas' lead
Political Animal —
DON'T FOLLOW TEXAS' LEAD.... The Washington Post ran an op-ed today on health care policy co-written by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas). That, in and of itself, is a little odd -- when I think of conservatives with credibility on health care, Gingrich (a disgraced former Speaker who shut down the government 14 years ago, in part over cutting Medicare) and Perry (a Glenn-Beck-loving right-winger who recently raised the prospect of secession) aren't the first names that come to mind. Nevertheless, they have ...
Gingrich and Perry Tout Texas Health Care Mess
Crooks and Liars —
... in the Commonwealth Fund's 2009 scorecard of state health care performance. All of which makes Friday's op-ed by Newt Gingrich and Governor Rick Perry touting the mess in Texas all the more puzzling. ...
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