NEWT ALSO GOES OFF MEME

Newt Gingrich always promotes the Free Market Fairy and the need for a smaller Federal government but when Think Progress asked him about BP's Deepwater Horizon blowout, he seemed to forget his principles.

TP: So given the scale of the oil spill in the gulf, do you still think that it represents an acceptable risk to continue offshore drilling?

GINGRICH: Yes. … One oil spill since 1969 with 4,000 wells. If the Coast Guard had a reasonable research program, we’d be much further down the road to solving this kind of thing.