Natalie Gonnella
During his appearance this week on Fox News Sunday (video not yet available online) former House Speaker Newt Gingrich weighed in a handful of issues. Here is what he had to say on some of the most notable topics of the week:
Wikileaks:
Information terrorism, which leads to people getting killed, is terrorism, and Julian Assange is engaged in terrorism. He should be treated as an enemy combatant. WikiLeaks should be closed down permanently and decisively. But even more, how can we have gone through the last year and not figured out how did all these documents get released? Who's responsible for security?... How do you have a system so stupid…I mean, this is a system so stupid that it ought to be a scandal of the first order. This administration is so shallow and so amateurish about national security that it is painful and dangerous.
The deficit commission’s report:
It's the wrong commission on the wrong topic. The number one topic is jobs, because if you're at 4 percent unemployment, you just cut the deficit in half...second, I am against any tax increase on capital gains or on dividends because it makes us less competitive with China, Germany and India.
Unemployment extensions:
I would agree to a short-term extension of unemployment. But I have proposed, since we spent $134 billion last year in unemployment, that we change the entire program into a worker training program and not give anybody money for doing nothing.
Sarah Palin
Palin is a phenomenon in her own right.
...and finally, his potential run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination:
Calista and I will make a decision probably at the end of February, beginning of March...I think we're much more inclined to run than not run. And I think we -- everything we've done over the last year, talking to friends, thinking things through, has made us more inclined to believe that it's doable.
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