American Solutions for Winning the Future

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American Solutions for Winning the Future is a non-partisan 527 group (a group intended primarily to influence the nomination, election, appointment, or defeat of candidates for public office) created by former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich and which claims as its purpose the mutual engagement of citizens and elected officials in a dialogue intended to synthesize and propose solutions to problems affecting American society. Republican Tom Delay said of the organization,"[it is] not in sync with the base of the party... take his whole American Solutions idea. I'm very skeptical about finding solutions for government. Government is the problem, not the solution."^[1] Minimal government appears to be among its ends, however, as Gingrich hosted a teleconference through the group "on how to transform government from bloated bureaucracy to lean machine."^[1] Currently their main program is the Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less. petition which aims at making congress aware that Americans of all parties want them to open oil drilling in Alaska, in the Rocky Mountains and off of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to make the country independent from foreign oil. As of June 13, 2008 over 715,000 citizens have signed.^[2]