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RUSH: Now, the self-destruction, maybe, continues. From The Politico. Snerdley, are you sitting down? From The Politico: “Gingrich Sides with Obama on Payroll Tax.” That\u2019s their headline. Now, let\u2019s read a little further. “President Obama has an unexpected ally in Newt Gingrich, who called on House Republicans to give up and make the payroll tax cut extension happen somehow.” And here\u2019s their quote from Newt. <\/p>\n
The Wall Street Journal is reporting it, too. “Gingrich to House Republicans: Give in on Payroll Tax.” So you see, folks, we\u2019re like on the TV show Lost. It\u2019s just us on the island and the smoke monster is the Republican establishment. Gingrich says resistance to this is doomed in the Wall Street Journal. Resistance is doomed. “It\u00c2\u2019s very hard for the legislative branch to outperform the president in communications. He has all the advantages of being president. He has all the advantages of the White House as a backdrop, and my experience is presidents routinely win.” In other words, bend over and grab the ankles, you cannot win this, so just get out of it as soon as you can, it\u2019s too complicated. Newt ought to know about losing to presidents, I guess. <\/p>\n
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RUSH: I just received an e-mail from Mr. Newt. Mr. Newt just sent me an e-mail. It says: “Urgent from Newt. I am with Boehner on the payroll tax fight. I am against Obama.” Signed, Newt. And it is from his e-mail address. Now, The Politico and the Wall Street Journal both are reporting that Newt is suggesting that Boehner and the House Republicans give it up, that because Obama is the president he can\u2019t be beat on this. Now, when I read both of those stories, especially The Politico piece, I said, “I\u2019m not sure that this says what The Politico headline says it says.” I don\u2019t know why they would lie, but it\u2019s not unprecedented. The Politico and the Wall Street Journal are as unequivocal as you can get and yet Newt sent me: “I\u2019m with Boehner on the payroll tax fight. I\u2019m against Obama.” Those two outlets are saying Newt is suggesting that they let Obama have this. So that\u2019s the latest on that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Now, the self-destruction, maybe, continues. From The Politico. Snerdley, are you sitting down? From The Politico: “Gingrich Sides with Obama on Payroll Tax.” That\u2019s their headline. Now, let\u2019s read a little further. “President Obama has an unexpected ally in Newt Gingrich, who called on House Republicans to give up and make the payroll tax […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n