More BS from Newt

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Political Posturing
By Jason L. Riley, December 16, 2013

Newt Gingrich, the man who held House Speaker John Boehner's job under the previous Democratic president, was asked to critique Mr. Boehner's performance last week, when the House passed a bipartisan budget bill over the objections of some tea party conservatives.

"If I were a very junior member [of Congress] I would have complained mightily," Mr. Gingrich said Sunday on ABC's "This Week." "And if I were the speaker I would have rammed it through."

The former speaker said that even though the GOP didn't get all the spending cuts that it wanted, the deal makes strategic sense for the party. "I think this is mediocre policy and brilliant politics," said Mr. Gingrich. "It doesn't get them [Republicans] what they want on policy terms, but it strips away the danger that people will notice anything other than ObamaCare. And the longer the country watches ObamaCare, the more likely the Democrats are to lose the Senate. From the Republican standpoint, if you can get to January 2015 and have eight or nine new senators and, say, 20 more House members, that gives you enormously more leverage for shaping 2016."

The Senate is expected to take up the bill this week, and the conventional wisdom is that it will pass there as well, though by a smaller margin than in the House, where it passed, 332 to 94, with the support of 169 Republicans. The No. 2 Democrat in the upper chamber, Dick Durbin of Illinois, said Sunday that "we will need about eight Republicans to come our way. I feel we'll have a good strong showing from the Democratic side, but we need bipartisan support to pass it."
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