Newt Gingrich, unhinged

[marmar]

from thinkprogress:




Gingrich Accuses Sebelius Of ‘Soviet Tyranny,’ Says GOP Congress Should Defund Her Office

Earlier this month, after health insurers across the country announced that the early health care benefits were forcing them to increase premiums by up to 9 percentage points, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote a letter to the industry arguing that “any potential premium impact from the new consumer protections and increased quality provisions under the Affordable Care Act will be minimal” and pointed to actuary estimates which found that the early consumer protections would result in marginal increases. “I want AHIP’s members to be put on notice: the Administration, in partnership with states, will not tolerate unjustified rate hikes in the name of consumer protections,” Sebelius said.

This morning, speaking at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, D.C., Newt Gingrich likened Sebelius’ letter to “Soviet tyranny” and said that a Republican-controlled House should ask for her resignation and defund her office in the Department of Health and Human Services:

GINGRICH: When Secretary Sebelius said the other day she would punish insurance companies that told the truth about the cost of Obamacare, she was behaving exactly in the spirit of the Soviet tyranny. And if she’s going to represent left-wing thought police about Obamacare, she should be forced to resign by the new Congress.

This idea that we the people have to tolerate some bureaucrat being paid with our taxes to dictate free speech to us should end in January by the Republican Congress zeroing out her office and explaining that they would be glad to pay for it when someone is there who recognizes the rights of the American people.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/18/gingrich-sebelius-hikes/

But the insurance industry has a long history of artificially inflating its premium requests. The Wonk Room wonders why Gingrich is willing to put full trust in its accounting practices.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/18/gingrich-sebelius-hikes/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. When was Newt ever hinged?

[blondeatlast]

2. Beat me to it. nt

[blondeatlast]

3. This is RICH--does he realize the utter hypocrisy in this?

This idea that we the people have to tolerate some bureaucrat being paid with our taxes to dictate free speech to us should end in January by the Republican Congress zeroing out her office and explaining that they would be glad to pay for it when someone is there who recognizes the rights of the American people.

[spanone]

4. we're seeing the true gingrich. he's been holding back his idiotic racism cause he thought he had to

now with the insane wingnut teabuggers, he can't get crazy enough

[unkachuck]

5. I hate that fascist....n/t

[Javaman]

6. going for broke...

newt knows he would never ever get a chance for another presidential run if all things were even.

so he embraces the insane ultra right for his last gasp at ultra ego.

rather than retiring as a "statesman", he chooses instead to label himself as a champion of "the people" by taking the easier of two routes.

by him taking the path of least resistance, it only high-lights his lack of personal integrity and work ethic.

Anyone could take the right wing media populous route, but a thinking man would hold his ground and choose to rise above.

but alas, we are talking about newt after all. If there was a worse political opportunist out there, I have yet to see them. But then again, there is failin quitter.

[NightWatcher]

7. Newt Gingrich, unemployed, irrelavent, lonely, desperate.....

who cares what the bum says