Newt Gingrich: "The Republicans [Must] Get Their Act Together, And Understand That The Country Actually Expects The Majority To Implement"...

Time March 27, 2006 at 04:11 PM
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Is there a potential for the 2006 elections to produce the same kind of upheaval on behalf of Democrats that the 1994 midterms did for Republicans? TIME talked to the architect of that victory, which put the GOP in control of the House for the first time in four decades. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he sees some serious problems brewing for his party that could indeed bring the Democrats back to power. The GOP's main problem, he says, has been its own performance. Given power, the reformers of 12 years ago are behaving just like the Washington insiders they used to consider the problem, he argues. Here are some excerpts of the interview:

Q. Do you see any parallels to 1994 in the current political environment?

A. I've been doing a lot of work on this recently, and I can tell you what the problems are and how to think about a framework.

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