Page 18 - Policy Guy News Today

Make. thats how its going for newt gingrich. whose candidatesy for president is already coming unravelled. the justification for his candidacy, his brand in the republican party is he is supposedly the ideas guy. a policy guy. but what they are complaining about on conservative talk radio as you just saw and what people are ga fawing about all over the spectrum is mr. gingrich does not seem to have policy positions. even though hes supposedly the policy guy. last month mr. gingrich told "time" m...

Thats how its going for newt gingrich. whose candidacy for president is already coming unravelled. the justification for his candidacy, his brand in the republican party is he is supposedly an ideas guy, a policy guy. but what they are complaining about on conservative talk radio as you just saw and what people are talking about all over the full spectrum is mr. gingrich does not seem to have policy positions. even though hes supposedly the policy guy. last month mr. gingrich told "time" magazin...

Will know why it happened. but in this ridiculously overstretched, totally knee ander that will, sexist met fore, mitch daniels is responsible for thousands of cars. he is responsible for setting the policy by which these cars are maintained. his big idea on to run for president is no oil changes. no rotating the tires. maintenance -- all right. we now have to lose the man cave. i cant believe we did this. all right. in republican politics, especially. newt gingrich wants to be seen as the polic...

Republican presidential candidates. we have mike huckabee and the real estate guy whose name im tired of saying officially bowing out of the race. this medicare issue continues to be kept alive depending on which republican you ask. it seems to be something they do not have a unified party message. whats your take on the strength of the field. >> there is hardly any strength in the field. this is a really weak field. 4 cannot be the final field because its hard to pick up a viable candidate out ...

Car. when your car breaks down, you will know why it happened. but in this ridiculously overstretched, totally knee ander that will, sexist met fore, mitch daniels is responsible for thousands of cars. he is responsible for setting the policy by which these cars are maintained. his big idea on to run for president is no oil changes. no rotating the tires. maintenance -- all right. we now have to lose the man cave. i cant believe we did this. all right. in republican politics, especially. newt gi...

And some straight up porn, including bestiality porn including his own appreciative comments about what he liked about it. this was the republican partys candidate for governor in new york state. in 2010. not like back in your great grandpas day something this crazy happen. but last year the republican party ran this guy as their nominee for governor of a large state. and he lost very badly. you would think the republican party would want to make the memory go away. but no. today in the special ...

Look, he has the problem that hes very well-known in the business sense. in the media sense. and its going to be hard to get people off of that perception of him. and then on top of that, as a candidate, as a policy guy, he has real weaknesses. because he hasnt held office before, hasnt campaigned before, that could be a strength in some peoples eyes. but at the same time, once you get vetted by the public, personal media over the last couple of years. and to their benefit.

>> frankly people have spent a whole lifetime planning to operate under a certain system and they ought to have that opportunity. >> so is there somebody today thats 55 years old thats looking forward to medicare? i bet theres a lot of people -- >> at 55 theyll be fine. >> 54 1/2. theyre looking forward to medicare. theyre going to get a check that says go out and try to find an insurance company when youre 75 years old. >> whats not going to work is what wed have now. >> fair enough. t id like ...

Derivatives, and that is for these massive, literally hundreds of trillions of dollars of dark pools of derivatives, theyve got to be brought out into the open. theyve got to be put under sensible regulatory oversight that prevents them from threatening to blow up the entire financial system the way they did with aig. so, you know, we can work through the details to achieve whatever balance senator dodd is describing, but were not going to compromise. if the republicans are trying to get loophol...

Era and hes famous for that. is this a real turn for him in terms of the way that his economic mind works? >> thats a very good question. im not quite sure how to answer it. except to say, that he is the senior financial adviser to the president, he perceives the need to narrow that decifit gap, the budget decifit. martha: right. >> therefore, you want to bring in revenue. hes the expert at how you do that. hes a nuts and bolts guy. not a policy guy, not a political guy. hes saying you want to b...