Newt Gingrich

...for his globe-trotting. Indeed, one aspiring GOP presidential contender for 2012, Newt Gingrich, condemned Obama this week for not flying to Berlin to mark the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's toppling. Normally, Obama's wanderlust...

In this article: Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, White House, GOP, Asia, Berlin, Pew Research Center, Pacific, Republican National Committee, and Moscow

...in too. Cathy Vasilakos, an accountant in Brooklyn, sent a $50 check to Hoffman to protest the fact that Newt Gingrich and the national GOP had endorsed the Republican nominee, Dede Scozzafava, a longtime state assemblywoman. Vasilakos...

In this article: Republican Party, New York, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, and Dede Scozzafava

...and put Palin on the side of the grass-roots populist conservative movement and at odds with the GOP establishment (which included Gingrich). That battle ended badly for the GOP. With Republicans badly split over Hoffman and...

In this article: Sarah Palin, GOP, Dede Scozzafava, John McCain, Barack Obama, Big government, and Political philosophy

...and obstruction we see today. On May 31, 1989, House Speaker Jim Wright relinquished his office rather than bankrupt himself fighting off thin ethics charges brought by Republican backbencher Newt Gingrich. Gingrich liked to quote Mao that...

In this article: Republican Party, Jim Wright, Don Manzullo, Mao Zedong, Islam, Communism, and Steven Pearlstein

...Newt Gingrich warns of 'destructive' GOP primaries (Politico, Nov. 14) Reihan Salam: I think Gingrich is overstating the importance of the Scozzafava race. I don't think there's any real danger of dozens of Hoffman-like candidates...

In this article: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Reihan Salam, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, and Mark Levin

...the Republicans on the anger of George Wallace voters, and, following the campaign of Ross Perot in 1992, Newt Gingrich captured anti-system reformism to build a Republican congressional majority for most of the period between 1994 and 2006.

In this article: Populism, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Wall Street, Liberalism, Democratic Party, Progressivism, and Timothy Geithner

...the right wing of the party. Mr. Hoffman was endorsed by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and commentators Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, while Newt Gingrich and other GOP luminaries endorsed Ms. Scozzafava. The money poured in, but local...

In this article: Republican Party, Florida, Charlie Crist, Barack Obama, New York, Virginia, and Ideology

...Solutions organization says there will be more in 2010. Gingrich says he wants to get ideas from small business owners and entrepreneurs on creating jobs and improving the economy. The former GOP congressman from Georgia has been mentioned...

In this article: Ohio, Cincinnati, Recession, Small business, GOP, Barack Obama, Washington, and Jackson

...Party deserves credit because you pushed through Welfare reform, a tough bill, back -- because Newt Gingrich pushed it and the president had to sign it under duress, I think, in 1996, or he would have lost -- he might have lost about 4...

In this article: Haley Barbour, Republican Party, Mississippi, Medicaid, Congressional Budget Office, Bob Dole, and Harry Reid