Weekend at St. Ronnie's in Tampa

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Published on Monday, August 27, 2012 by The Progressive
In Tampa, Newt Gingrich, Scott Walker Plug Supply-Side Economics

by Ruth Conniff


On Day One of the Republican Convention, Newt Gingrich hosted a special Newt University session in a Hyatt hotel near the convention center.

As the wind picked up outside, and delegates milled around waiting for the weather delay to end, inside the hotel ballroom, Newt and his guests preached a return to supply-side economics as the answer to the current recession.

Congressman Aaron Schock, the young Republican from Illinois, compared the Obama Administration's failure to cut Medicare to a government knowing about the attacks on 9/11 beforehand, and doing nothing to protect citizens.

"From a deficit standpoint, that's where we are as a country," he said. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/27-11