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"Newt Was Right On The 'Super Committee" +
  1:21 web video from Nov. 21, 2011.

[Music] Obama:  ...congressional leadership on the super committee go ahead and bite the bullet and do what needs to be done.

Female News Announcer:  There are still no signs of major progress on the deficit reduction super committee.

TEXT: August 11, 2011

[Clips from debate]
Bret Baier: Mr. Speaker, why are you shaking your head?  Is that not an important question?
Gingrich: I think this Super Committee is about as dumb an idea as Washington has come up with in my lifetime. 

TEXT: The Right Experience

I used to run the House of Representatives; I have some general notion of these things.  The idea that 523 senators and congressman are going to sit around for 4 months while 12 brilliant people -- mostly picked for political reasons -- are going to sit in some room and brilliantly come up with $1 trillion, or force us to choose between gutting our military and accepting a tax increase is irrational.
 
They're going to walk in just before Thanksgiving and say "Alright, we can shoot you in the head or cut off your right leg, which do you prefer?"

TEXT: The Right Ideas
 
What they ought to do is scrap the committee right now, recognize it's a dumb idea, go back to regular legislative business, assign every subcommittee the task of finding savings, do it out in the open through regular legislative order, and get rid of this secret phony business.

TEXT: At Just the Right Time
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Notes: Debates are one of Gingrich's strengths and this video shows one of his strongest moments.