Posted on 11/16/2011 6:54:03 PM PST by Fred
Newt Gingrich spent the last decade being paid by big business to convince conservatives to support big-government policies that would profit his clients.
Gingrich's consulting firm racked up $1.6 million in fees from the government-sponsored enterprise Freddie Mac, we learned this week from Bloomberg News. Gingrich's job was to help Freddie Mac win over conservatives to this market-distorting, bubble-fueling, housing-subsidy entity, which is now officially owned by the federal government.
We also know that Growth Energy, an ethanol lobby, paid $312,500 to the Gingrich Group in 2009, according to the group's tax filing. Growth Energy lobbies to preserve many ethanol subsidies and create new ones. Gingrich has consistently supported ethanol subsidies, despite his professed allegiance to the free market.
But there may be much more to Gingrich's advocacy work than has been reported so far. For instance, a former employee of the nation's biggest drug lobby told me Gingrich was being paid by the drug industry during the 2003 debate over the Medicare prescription drug benefit.
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I surprised after that transparently sleazy post by you you did not get zotted.
Posting an unflattering but accurate story about Newt is a "smear".
His fraudulently mixing his own opinion into a posting of an NRO story about Cain, pretending his opinions were part of the NRO story is just "good tough vetting".
I surprised after that transparently sleazy post where TitansAFC tried to pass off his emotion based opinions as part of the NRO story that he did not get zotted.
What was the Newt cheerleader's fraudulently mixing their own opinions into a posting of an NRO story about Cain, pretending their opinions were part of the NRO story?
So spare us the hypocrisy and the whining. You sowed the wind, don't pout now that you are reaping the whirlwind.
Odd never heard any complaints about “eating our won” when the Newtbots were busy smearing Cain around here.
No whirlwind here. I am supporting Newt all the way. Best man for the job...period.
A few more debates and his poll numbers will go even higher.
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