NEWT SLAMS FREDO

On Face the Nation (5/6/07), Newt lays into Fredo almost as much as any Democrat has:


SCHIEFFER: Well, is President Bush just an albatross that's too heavy for
Republicans to carry now?

Mr. GINGRICH: Well, President Bush is not the future. He's not a solution.
He doesn't solve--he doesn't solve Social Security, he doesn't solve Medicare,
he doesn't solve the economy, he doesn't solve the environment, he doesn't
solve education. He's a current fact. It would be like saying that if the
Democrats decided to run on the grounds of that they can be as effective as
Senator Reid is in the Senate. Well, you'd never elect somebody--the Senate's
an impossible place to be effective in. It's designed not to be effective.
The Democrats have got--have an easier job, because all they have to do is
say, `Not this.' That's exactly what the 2006 campaign was, `Not this.' The
Republicans have a harder job. The Republicans have to say this is not what
we want to debate, it's not in Baghdad, it's not in Katrina, it's not at
Walter Reed, it's not with the US attorneys. But I have a better plan for a
better solution that fits your values more than a Senator Clinton or a Senator
Edwards or a Senator Obama.

SCHIEFFER: Or what you seem to be saying, or President Bush.

Mr. GINGRICH: Well, I think that's clear. I mean, again, you don't have to
be hostile to President Bush to say that the country clearly wants more
aggressive solutions that are more powerful, whether it's controlling the
border or it is fixing Social Security for the next generation or it's having
a health system we can afford that covers 300 million Americans or it's having
what I've described as a green conservatism that offers an aggressive solution
on issues like global warming but does so using markets and incentives.