On Fox & Friends, Gingrich voices complaint about health reform: "This bill is bigger than two Harry Potter novels"

Damn, a comprehensive law that has a whole bunch of woids in it! Surely Newt never saw such a thing during his tenure in the House.

Newt, as compared to the republican plan that's 2 pages ?

Reading is hard...waahh.

If it were only 30 pages they'd complain it's too short.

This is comprehensive overhaul and reform for a huge portion of the nation's business, economy, and actual collective health. It had better be beefy.

Common thread here and that is too big to read, need more time.Stall till it is forgotten. It alltranslates to " need to start over from scratch in a bipartisan participation but we won't participate " Go to he11, Mr Gingrich. There, I said it.

Sorry Newt, we could use flash-cards, but healthcare legislation is slightly more complicated than that.

Is it the fault of the authors that Republicans can't read that many pages, or is it just a lack of intellectually capabality from the GOP that is to blame?

This is proof that Republicans are not serious about governing when their complaint about a bill is that it is too many pages ...

This should be enough evidence that the Republicans are incompetent enough not get another chance in office.

I really think Jon Stewart knocked it on the head even so it uses ~1017 pages it is double line spaced and very easy to read in a large font.

"two Harry Potter novels"

Newt's entire library.

Well, a lot of us liberals could reform health care with an exceedingly brief plan containing the words "single payer system."

I think I could do that in one paragraph.

Why do these people make such a big deal over the length of the bills? It's not like any congress person fully reads them anyway. They give the bill to their staff and have them create a summary of major points in the bill. The congress person then reads the summary and refers back to the actual bill if they want more detail on a specific area. All their argument says is how they aren't going to read it because it's too long for them. To be honest, that only makes them look bad for not reading it.

Republicans for years were used to the lobbyists taking care of all that time consuming, messy writing and reading of legislation. I can see why this is a shock.

Newt, do you not understand who your political base is?!

If you want their attention, you need to compare the bill's length to C.S. Lewis or Danielle Steele novels, duh (the latest book featuring Glenn Beck in some fascist and/or socialist memorabilia paired with the token American flag in a pathetic attempt at irony would work as well.)

If Newt has such a problem with reading over a thousand pages of a law, then he should've never gone into politics. Furthermore, Congresspeople are paid quite a lot of money to read these bills. If they don't want to, then maybe they should step aside and let their staffers take over their jobs because I'm sure the staffers have a much worse job with less pay.

There are things that are much longer than this law and much worse to read. Believe me, you don't want to read the federal tax code, let alone a legal textbook on the subject because it is just as bad as the code and far worse than this law.

Look who he was talking to - Brian, Steve, and Gretchen. You gotta be able to communicate with you are talking too. Brian knew all about Harry Potter.