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Video: Newt gives a reluctant “yes” to bailout
Hot Air » Top Picks — Video: Newt gives a reluctant “yes” to bailout posted at 3:32 pm on September 28, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Newt Gingrich appeared this morning on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopolous, and gave a very reluctant endorsement of the bailout package as described in reports this morning: STEPHANOPOULOS: “Speaker Gingrich, there’s also, I think, a recognition, at least in some of the polls I’ve seen, that something has to be done.” SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH: “Sure, look, something has to be done. … I suspect were I still in Congress, in the end George [Will] is right, and I probably would end up voting reluctantly yes, ...

Newt Gingrich Gives Hesitant Endorsement To Bailout
Say Anything — Mike Pence says no.  Newt Gingrich says, that if he were still in Congress, he’d probably say yes. Gingrich also says that with this bailout we’re buying 20 years of bureaucracy for a short-term fix.  I’m convinced that with this bailout we’re only postponing an inevitable collapse, and that it’s better to pay the price now rather than later when it will come with the additional cost of the bureaucracy (not to mention unprecedented new government power over our capital markets) between now and then. Which makes me wonder ...

The GOP needs libertarians more than libertarians need the GOP right now
The Next Right — ... last time I checked, a lot of all-American, non-crazy real-people libertarians were heavily involved in the Tea Party movement.  Libertarian Eric Odom told RNC Chairman Michael Steele that he wasn't invited to speak at the Chicago Tax Day Tea Party, while state Campaign for Liberty coordinator Marcelo Muñoz told Alabama Secretary of State Beth Chapman that she wasn't invited to speak in Birmingham, either. In New York City, although he supported the bailout, Newt Gingrich was treated respectfully when he spoke.  ...