Gingrich to House GOP: Stay on Message

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Gingrich to House GOP: Stay on Message

Source: CQPolitics

Drill, drill, drill is the message Americans want to hear on energy and GOP candidates should stay on that message, former Speaker Newt Gingrich told House Republicans Wednesday.

The former Speaker was "complimentary," of the House Republican leadership, according to Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., who attended the closed-door meeting at the Capitol Hill Club.

"They've had a very good couple of weeks, the question is: can they keep building on that to the next three months -- but they've had consistent focus on energy -- energy feeds into the economy, those are key issues," Gingrich said following the meeting. He was speaking about recent efforts by House Republicans to highlight Democratic opposition to opening areas off the U.S. coast and in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. Republicans have focused on increased domestic oil production as a means of reducing high gas prices.

His tone was a marked change from early May when he called on Republican rank and file to make drastic changes, including a "complete overhaul" of the National Republican Campaign Committee. A trail of special-election defeats this year has fed discontent with the NRCC, the bluntest of which came from Gingrich (1979-99), the former Speaker who helped win a Republican majority in 1994 for the first time in 40 years.

"It's time to face a stark choice," Gingrich wrote in the magazine Human Events, saying GOP lawmakers needed a new message by Memorial Day. "Without change, we could face a catastrophic election this fall."

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Oil companie$ and the republiCON$ working hand to hand to win some elections off the stupidity of the 70+ Americans that think this offshore/public lands oil drilling scheme is actually going to do anything to lower energy prices or create a reliable, dependable energy policy. As bad as the world is for so many and the environment suffering such as it is, yet these evil bastids still have no shame, morals or ethics, is abominable!

- I'm sure the states will just love having to clean up after oil companies!	anonymous171	Jul-23-08 08:08 PM	#1
- OK, so we pump all 90 billion barrels of oil out of the Arctic...	MNBrewer	Jul-23-08 09:45 PM	#11
- Where is there 90 billion barrels of oil in the artic??	4dsc	Jul-24-08 06:11 AM	#14
- It was a headline on lots of media outlets the other day	MNBrewer	Jul-25-08 06:43 PM	#17
- Newt and I finally agree on something!	KansDem	Jul-23-08 08:10 PM	#2
- Doesn't the repuke message consist of:	hobbit709	Jul-23-08 08:11 PM	#3
- "Keep on destroying America with corruption & hypocrisy. Smirk." - Newtie 'Draft Dodger' Gingrich	SpiralHawk	Jul-23-08 08:12 PM	#4
- You have to keep it simple for Americans, oh, and lie too.	WHEN CRABS ROAR	Jul-23-08 08:21 PM	#5
- They rip us off with inflated gasoline prices....then they "lower" them.	PassingFair	Jul-23-08 08:48 PM	#6
- So Simple-Minded, It Will Work	Demeter	Jul-23-08 08:58 PM	#7
- They've had a very good couple of weeks	AlbertCat	Jul-23-08 09:01 PM	#8
- In Other Words...."Keep Lying No Matter What... You are Losers and You Need to Lie"	fascisthunter	Jul-23-08 09:08 PM	#9
- That sanctimonious hypocrite was "dipping his wick" in more	DailyGrind51	Jul-23-08 09:35 PM	#10
- Gringrich seems to think he's still in charge . . . is he? Or is here merely lurking . . .?	defendandprotect	Jul-23-08 09:45 PM	#12
- be sure to mention skyrocketing profits	radfringe	Jul-24-08 05:33 AM	#13
- By Memorial Day? Six months after the election?	tledford	Jul-24-08 06:31 AM	#15
- While T. Boone Pickens is out there with a well financed campaign	fjc	Jul-24-08 09:29 AM	#16