re: #703 albusteve

I did and it’s very worrisom…I trust the Newt

I liked him particularly in his interview.

NEWT GINGRICH, (R) FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER: Well, I think what he’s going to do is be one of the two or three most left wing, big government, big spending, big bureaucracy people at the summit.

The tone was set last week when the Swedish government, which used to be called socialist, announced that they would not rescue Saab, because, as they put it, they weren’t in the business of running the auto industry.

It was also said last week when the French government announced that they weren’t going to have a big stimulus spending package because they thought it was very fiscally irresponsible.

So, ironically, President Obama will be one of the most liberal, one the most big spending, and one of the most high-tax people at the summit, which is the reverse of, I think, every American involvement in the summit probably in the history of these meetings.

VAN SUSTEREN: You know, a lot of people are surprised at this. For the first time they’re sort of sitting down and looking at the policies, whether they’re for it or against it.

But is there anything he’s doing now that’s in any way inconsistent to what he promised the American people?

GINGRICH: Almost everything he’s done right now is inconsistent.

He never promised us a 34 percent increase in spending in one year, which is what this budget is. He never promised to take the national debt up to 82 percent of our gross domestic product, double the size of the American debt in comparison to our economy. He never promised us a $645 billion energy tax increase.

If he had campaigned on a promise to raise the cost of electricity, gasoline, and fuel oil, he would have lost the election.