Gingrich: 'Obama Should Be Ashamed of Himself'

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Fox News:

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich came out swinging at President Obama in his first TV interview after announcing his candidacy for president, telling Fox News’ Sean Hannity that Obama “should be ashamed of himself” for distorting Republican positions.

“This is not about one person in the Oval Office. This is about millions of Americans deciding that together we can win the future with the right policies leading to the right outcomes,” Gingrich said. “And then we have to ... win the argument that President Obama has the wrong policies, and they lead to the wrong outcomes.”

Gingrich had fueled months of speculation about his intentions by holding off on an official announcement, but earlier Wednesday he spread the word by Twitter and Facebook that he was in the race for the Republican nomination, entering what expects to ultimately be a packed field of party hopefuls.

Gingrich argued that Republicans need to aim even higher and try to add 12 seats in the Senate and about 40 in the House.

“If we had a contract in the fall of 2012, and if we had an election on core principles and we won that election, then we would have a mandate starting on the very first day with executive orders,” he told Fox News.


His first executive order would be to eliminate Obama’s so-called policy “czars,” but his greater goal would be to balance the budget over several years by growing the economy.

Obama, on the other hand, has been using “dishonest scare tactics” in describing Rep. Paul Ryan’s Republican budget and other policy disagreements, Gingrich said.