{"id":2897,"date":"2013-01-04T11:04:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T16:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2013-01-04T11:04:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T16:04:41","slug":"newt-gingrich-warns-gop-on-debt-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/newt-gingrich-warns-gop-on-debt-ceiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt Gingrich warns GOP on debt ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/newt-gingrich-warns-gop-on-debt-ceiling\/newt_gingrich\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2898\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2898\" alt=\"Newt_Gingrich\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Newt_Gingrich.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Newt_Gingrich.jpg 220w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Newt_Gingrich-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday that the upcoming showdown over the debt ceiling isn\u2019t a political winner for House Republicans, but dubbed it a \u201cdead loser.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got to find, in the House, a totally new strategy,\u201d Gingrich said on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe.\u201d \u201cEverybody\u2019s now talking about, \u2018Oh, here comes the debt ceiling.\u2019 I think that\u2019s, frankly, a dead loser. Because in the end, you know, it\u2019s gonna happen. The whole national financial system is going to come in to Washington and on television and say: \u2018Oh my God, this will be a gigantic heart attack, the entire economy of the world will collapse. You guys will be held responsible.\u2019 And they\u2019ll cave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/01\/newt-gingrich-warns-gop-on-debt-ceiling-85762.html\" target=\"_blank\">Newt Gingrich warns GOP on debt ceiling &#8211; Kevin Robillard &#8211; POLITICO.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday that the upcoming showdown over the debt ceiling isn\u2019t a political winner for House Republicans, but dubbed it a \u201cdead loser.\u201d \u201cThey\u2019ve got to find, in the House, a totally new strategy,\u201d Gingrich said on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe.\u201d \u201cEverybody\u2019s now talking about, \u2018Oh, here comes the debt ceiling.\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22],"tags":[69,1192,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2900,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}