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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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From: Kenneth E. Phillipps12/21/2011 3:59:14 PM
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Gingrich: Obama has the advantage on payroll tax
By BYRON TAU |
12/21/11 12:39 PM EST


President Obama may have an unexpected ally in Newt Gingrich, who put pressure on House Republicans make the payroll tax cut extension happen somehow:


Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who famously lost budget battles to President Bill Clinton amid two government shutdowns, had some advice to House Republicans at loggerheads with another Democratic president: Give in.

“Incumbent presidents have enormous advantages. And I think what Republicans ought to do is what’s right for America. They ought to do it calmly and pleasantly and happily,” Mr. Gingrich said when asked about the clash between President Barack Obama and House Republicans over extension of the payroll tax cut.

Mr. Gingrich made it clear he favored a one-year extension of the two-percentage point payroll tax cut, which expires Jan. 1, not the two-month extension that passed the Senate with bipartisan support. He called the Senate bill “an absurd dereliction of duty.”

“Obama is so inept as a president, and the Congress is so dysfunctional as an institution, that we are lurching from failure to failure to failure,” Mr. Gingrich said.
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