Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich explained on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday that the Republicans wouldn’t not suffer any long-term harm from their fight over Obamacare and the government shutdown.
NEWT GINGRICH: This is childish, it’s silly. You are about to have [Gov.] Chris Christie (R-N.J.) win an election in New Jersey by 20%. It is 390 days until the next election and to suggest — you go back and look at Thacher in 1983, look at Reagan in ’82 and ’83 — this is in the middle of a bloody fight. This is a serious fight. Nobody wants to grant the House Republicans any dignity. The fact that they’re fighting over very profound principles and when it’s over and when the dust settles, the country’s going to assess and then they’re going to say that Obamacare is a disaster.
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GINGRICH: But notice what’s going on. [Speaker] Boehner goes down and says I’ll give you six weeks of a clean debt ceiling. The President says, no. [Sen.] Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is now trying to redouble the bet and saying not only will I not accept it from debt ceiling, I want you to actually roll back the sequester. Now at some point you have to understand this is a profound fight over the size of federal government, the size of the federal deficit and whether or not Washington is going to run the whole country incompetently as it has with the health.gov. In a country that has Amazon and Google, they can’t figure out how to put up a site can you go to? This is a sign of how fundamentally incompetent the bureaucracy is.
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