NEWT:
They were tired of sitting.
NEWT:
Only time in your lifetime that we’ve had four balanced budget. And as I left, Alan Greenspan, the head of the Federal Reserve, actually gave a speech saying he thought we would pay off the debt by 2009. Now that that’s the track we were on. So, you know, it takes the leadership and it takes an approach. Look. In 1856 it took two months and 103 ballots to get somewhere. McCarthy had 180 votes when they first won through a round. Scalise, who’s a great guy, was at 113. Well, it’s a big mountain. The key number here for all of you, is 217. There is currently a couple of vacancies. 217 is a majority. I keep telling people you got 217 or you got nothing. And so all these guys got to look carefully and talk this through. In the interim, I think, given what’s happening around the world, that having the speaker pro Tem McHenry empowered, which they could do bipartisan agreement had him empowered to bring the House in, passed significant legislation particularly about Israel keep moving forward which frankly gives him a leg up on potentially becoming speaker. But I think you’ve got you can’t just sit around for week after week in the modern world. It’s a very different environment. And at some point, the hardest nosed, most difficult members have to get a grip on themselves and understand this. You had when they had the vote on firing the speaker, the fact is that he had Kevin McCarthy had 96% of the House conference vote for him. There were 24 votes for him for every vote against him. But the eight people who I think of as Benedict Arnold sided with the Democrats to defeat their own conference. And they’ve got to come to grips with all this. I mean, it’s a you know.
NEWT:
And that’s what that’s what makes it hard. And in the modern world, much more than when I was speaker, If you’re noisy enough and nasty enough and you go on TV enough and then you use social media to raise money, some of these guys are raising millions just by being negative and nasty. And so for them, it’s a profit business. And I think that’s something we’ve got to again, we have to come to grips with all this. The long term solution is to elect 30 or 40 more Republicans next year, and then you can afford to have five people who are idiots. And it doesn’t matter. But if your total margin is five or six.
NEWT:
It could but on the other hand, you know, the alternative is Joe Biden. Inflation, the border.
NEWT:
Well, I would I’ve been talking to people all day about this. First of all, we ought to state in a positive way the goal of liberating the people of Gaza from Hamas. If Hamas was no longer there, the people of Gaza could live in peace. They could actually have prosperity. They could be neighbors. That will never happen while Hamas is there. So destroying Hamas is not only important for Israel. Destroying Hamas is important for the Palestinian people. Second, and I hope the Congress will adopt a very strong resolution in both House and Senate that says the destruction of Hamas is a strategic goal of the United States and we will totally stand with Israel as long as it takes to destroy Hamas. For us to go through this horrible thing and have Hamas still survive a year from now is an enormous strategic defeat.
NEWT:
It all has to end up looking like Hamburg or Dresden or Tokyo at the end of World War II. I mean what they have to do is allow everybody who’s a civilian to leave and build basically build places in the desert as refugee centers long enough to clean out Gaza, track down every single Hamas member, and then allow people back in. But if it’s if people refuse to leave they’re in effect, siding with Hamas and they then they’re going to suffer the consequence of siding with Hamas.
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