Newt Gingrich to Brody File: GOP Leadership Should 'cooperate but not compromise' with President Obama

Newt Gingrich, the man who led the last Republican Revolution in 1994 and who may very well run for President in 2012, says the current GOP leadership should "cooperate but not compromise" with President Obama during these next two years.

Watch the clip of my interview with the former Speaker of the House below. Transcription also provided.

Newt Gingrich will be part of next week's Brody file show. Also on the show: Live in studio with George Allen and Tim Phillips, the President of Americans for Prosperity.

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David Brody: How much does the House leadership at this point need to really compromise with this Obama administration?

Newt Gingrich: They should cooperate but not compromise. I think there's a very big difference between compromising which is where I have a principle. For example, they shouldn't accept a tax increase under any circumstance. We do not need to raise taxes in this economy. Government is too big.

The problem is spending. The problem's not taxing, so they should just say that's non-negotiable. But there may be 20 different ways to approach the deficit that don't involve taxes. And if they can find that methods 11 and 17 work and Obama will sign it, whereas methods one and five will work but he won't sign them, then they ought to take the ones that the president would be willing to sign.

David Brody: Are the chances high that gridlock could indeed set in in this political climate in this time?

Newt Gingrich: Well, it's possible that they could set in, but I think it depends more on the attitude of the President. I think that the Republicans in the House are going to pass a lot of legislation, and they're going to send the President a bill I think that says, 'no tax increase on anybody.'

Now at that point he either needs to decide that, in the interest of creating jobs and increasing take home pay, that he wants to go ahead and sign it even though he doesn't philosophically agree. Or he's got to decide that he would rather have class warfare at the expense of the economy and unemployment. Now it seems to me coming off this last election it'll be pretty irrational to try and convince the country that class warfare is better than earning a paycheck and having a job.