From ThinkProgress:
After much controversy, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich finally spoke yesterday at the big annual GOP congressional fundraising dinner. Although fellow Republicans often call him “the man of ideas,” his speech last night focused more on attacks of President Obama rather than new policies and visions.
Even though Obama is just five months into his presidency, Gingrich said that the President’s plan to fix the economy has “already failed.” He also peddled Frank Luntz’s misleading talking points on health care, saying, “No government bureaucrat has the right to take from you the rights that God gave you, and rationing under health care is inevitably limiting your life at the whim of a bureaucrat and at the manipulation of a politician.”
Additionally, Gingrich used his speech to again mock Obama’s recent speech in Egypt, saying — to loud applause — that he resented the President’s diplomatic outreach to the rest of the world:
"Let me be clear. I am not a citizen of the world! I think the entire concept is intellectual nonsense and stunningly dangerous. There is no world sovereignty. There is no world system of law. There is, in fact, no circumstance under which I would like to be a citizen of North Korea, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Cuba or Russia. I am a citizen of the United States of America, and the rest of this speech is about the United States of America!"
Jesus, the rest of the world really gets under a conservative's skin, doesn't it?
I'm not even sure you are of this world, Newt. And don't tell me about America; I can see it from my house.
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