Gingrich Seeks to Clarify Comments on Individual Mandate
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
NYT
Newt Gingrich has acknowledged that his tendency to spout off like a political analyst might get him into trouble on the campaign trail.
On Monday, Mr. Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, sought to explain away just that kind of Sunday-morning pontification, in which he blasted the budget by his Republican colleagues in Congress and endorsed an individual mandate for health insurance.
“I am completely opposed to the Obamacare mandate on individuals,” Mr. Gingrich said in a new video released Monday. “I fought it for two and half years at the Center for Health Transformation. You can see all the things we did to stop it at HealthTransformation.net. I am for the repeal of Obamacare and I am against any effort to impose a federal mandate on anyone because it is fundamentally wrong and I believe unconstitutional.”
The video was a quick attempt to walk back from his comments on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
(More here.)
NYT
Newt Gingrich has acknowledged that his tendency to spout off like a political analyst might get him into trouble on the campaign trail.
On Monday, Mr. Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, sought to explain away just that kind of Sunday-morning pontification, in which he blasted the budget by his Republican colleagues in Congress and endorsed an individual mandate for health insurance.
“I am completely opposed to the Obamacare mandate on individuals,” Mr. Gingrich said in a new video released Monday. “I fought it for two and half years at the Center for Health Transformation. You can see all the things we did to stop it at HealthTransformation.net. I am for the repeal of Obamacare and I am against any effort to impose a federal mandate on anyone because it is fundamentally wrong and I believe unconstitutional.”
The video was a quick attempt to walk back from his comments on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
(More here.)
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