Newt Gingrich wants to end the Obama administration’s Era of Big Government.

Unfortunately, Gingrich wants to replace it with the Era of Big-Mouth Government.

Exhibit A: His new 30-minute TV ad scheduled to run in key Super Tuesday markets over the next few weeks. (Clearly, the standard 30-second spot can no longer contain Newt’s grandiosity.)

The video, via Politico’s Morning Score:

Excerpt:

[I]t comes down to a simple idea: What if we had a program that enabled the American people to develop so much new energy that we were, in fact, no longer reliant on Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran. We didn’t care what the Iranians did in the Strait of Hormuz because we were safe, in national security terms.

What if that new energy program created well over a million new jobs, high‑paying jobs, jobs that put Americans back to work and kept the money here at home that we had been sending overseas, giving us a dramatic improvement in our balance of payments, strengthening the dollar and giving us a chance to live much freer and more independently?

(Full transcript here.)

Wake us when he’s stopped talking.