Gingrich wants new Contract with America; slams Obama ‘scare tactics’

{mosads}Gingrich said he would have “an executive order program online during the campaign” and if elected, he wouldn’t waste any time, dedicating the hour directly following his inaugural address to “signing preexisting executive orders.”

Topping the list would be an executive order eliminating all “White House czars.” 

Gingrich also laced into the White House response to Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) proposed budget and Obama’s Tuesday speech on immigration reform, calling Obama’s rhetoric “deliberately divisive.”   

“President Obama should be ashamed of himself,” said Gingrich. “For the president of the United States, a year and a half before an election, to deliberately use dishonest scare tactics demeans the United States of America. He said things about Paul Ryan’s budget that were falsehoods. And he said things that were deliberately divisive.”

On the president’s Tuesday speech on immigration, Gingrich said Obama essentially told the GOP, “I’d really like to work with you, but let me go out and lie about you for a little while. That might have been a nice campaign speech for a U.S. senator from Illinois. It’s a terrible speech for the president of the United States.”

In early polling on the GOP primary, Gingrich is stuck in the middle of the pack and he carries no shortage of political baggage into a 2012 campaign. Still, the former Speaker’s name recognition is sky-high with Republican voters in a race with no real frontrunner.    

Gingrich will head back to Georgia on Friday for his first major speech as a presidential hopeful.