Newt Gingrich

Former Republican Speaker of the House

We’re not too thrilled with Newt Gingrich, the darling of “neocons” everywhere. Sean Hannity loves him (we’re not crazy about Mr. Hannity either) and you’ll find Mr. Gingrich all over National Review and other outlets.

However, Mr. Gingrich teams up with left-wing nuts and we’re sorry, politics aside should not equate to promoting health care with the likes of Hillary Clinton or John Kerry.

Providing credibility to Leftists while calling yourself Conservative is a bit over the top and Mr. Gingrich doesn’t choose his “buddies” carefully.

In 2005, Mr. Gingrich, appeared at a news conference with H. Clinton, appeared with her at a press conference to promote – of all things – health care legislation. Mr. Gingrich was Gingrich had also been talking up Clinton’s presidential prospects in 2008.

At the time the International Herald Tribune wrote:

For Clinton, standing side-by-side with her husband’s onetime nemesis gives her the chance to burnish her credentials among the moderates she has been courting during her time in the Senate.

Hillary Clinton stated:

“I know it’s a bit of an odd-fellow, or odd-woman, mix.”

“But the speaker and I have been talking about health care and national security now for several years, and I find that he and I have a lot in common in the way we see the problem.”

Gingrich called Ms. Clinton, “very practical” and “very smart and very hard-working,” adding, “I have been very struck working with her.”

Gingrich must have been struck in the head and is now demonstrating he hasn’t recovered.

Fast forward 2007 – The New Odd Couple

Newt Gingrich and John Kerry have teamed up and have written in the Wall Street Journal [Subscription] on the merits of “E-Prescriptions.”

The new “Lib-Con” team (hardly short for Liberally Conservative) write:

The federal government can lead by requiring that doctors who do business with Medicare convert to e-prescribing. This can be done by using market forces and the federal government’s purchasing power to align financial incentives.

New Gingrich, claiming to be Conservative, co-author’s with John Kerry that the federal government should use it’s “purchasing power” in the private sector. Astounding yet true, Gingrich is advocating the government harness the prescription drug market.

If a majority of doctors don’t e-prescribe a few years down the road, the government should require all doctors to adopt e-prescribing or face financial penalties.

The new health care tag team of Gingrich-Kerry is discussing Medicare prescriptions primarily but we know involving government will only lead to the “step-by-step” Liberal approach of medical socialization.

E-prescribing for Medicare is just the beginning of the modernization and digitization our ailing health-care system urgently needs. A high-tech, healthier future is within our grasp. We just need creative leadership bold enough to reach for it.

Creative leadership from the federal government, that’s rich, indeed! As an old school Conservative I’m still seeking the actual definition of a “Neo-Con” and New Gingrich worries me it could be “Lib-Con in GOP Clothing.”

What’s next for Mr. Gingrich, a formal appearance with Jimmy Carter?

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