Gingrich to House GOP: Stay on Message

[DogPoundPup]

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!

[anonymous171]

1. I'm sure the states will just love having to clean up after oil companies!

[MNBrewer]

11. OK, so we pump all 90 billion barrels of oil out of the Arctic...

That's about 3 years worth of world production. THEN what?

[4dsc]

14. Where is there 90 billion barrels of oil in the artic??

I know there's not 90 billion barrels of oil in ANWAR..

[MNBrewer]

17. It was a headline on lots of media outlets the other day

"90 billion bbls of oil estimated to be in the arctic, 1/5 of the world's undiscovered oil!"

It seemed to be timed to McCain's "let's drill everywhere" propaganda. I don't know how much is there, but even if it IS 90 billion, that's not a whole lot of oil, given our excessive consumption.

[KansDem]

2. Newt and I finally agree on something!

Without change, we could face a catastrophic election this fall.

Couldn't agree more, Newtie! Couldn't agree more!

[hobbit709]

3. Doesn't the repuke message consist of:

"WE SCREW UP EVERYTHING WE TOUCH"

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Keep on destroying America with corruption & hypocrisy. Smirk." - Newtie 'Draft Dodger' Gingrich

"Just the WAY I showed you. Smirk." - Newtie 'Family Values' Gingrouch

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

5. You have to keep it simple for Americans, oh, and lie too.

[PassingFair]

6. They rip us off with inflated gasoline prices....then they "lower" them.

Happy Days Are Here Again!

Stay on message, indeed.

We are a nation of idiots.

[Demeter]

7. So Simple-Minded, It Will Work

So why doesn't Impeach, Impeach, Impeach get through?

[AlbertCat]

8. They've had a very good couple of weeks

And then Obama, as requested by their candidate, went on a trip......


and KA-BOOM!


Losers!

Just go home, Newtie...

[fascisthunter]

9. In Other Words...."Keep Lying No Matter What... You are Losers and You Need to Lie"

[DailyGrind51]

10. That sanctimonious hypocrite was "dipping his wick" in more

Capitol Hill staffers than Billy ever dreamed of, yet Newt was touring the country lecturing on the importance of integrity in high office. The only "drilling" Newt is familiar with is with women other than his wife who was suffering from cancer in the hospital.:mad:

[defendandprotect]

12. Gringrich seems to think he's still in charge . . . is he? Or is here merely lurking . . .?

Newt seems to act as though he thinks he's owed a pay-off for his propagandistic roadshow

which took him to a big fat win.

[radfringe]

13. be sure to mention skyrocketing profits

ConocoPhillips Sees Profits Skyrocket
The Street: 2008-07-23 17:16:17.0
http://www.thestreet.com/s/conocophillips-sees-profits-skyrocket/newsanalysis/energy/10429904.html?puc=googlefi&cm_ven=GOOGLEFI&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA

ConocoPhillips (COP - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr), the world's fourth-largest publicly traded oil company, announced Wednesday that its second-quarter earnings topped expectations and surged from the year-ago period.

Profits rose to $5.44 billion, or $3.50 a share, a 31.4% increase over last quarter and handily ahead of analyst estimates of $3.33.

[tledford]

15. By Memorial Day? Six months after the election?

What's the point?

[fjc]

16. While T. Boone Pickens is out there with a well financed campaign

saying just the opposite. So yes, thank you Newt. Stay on that message, please.