He continues to lack judgement and is willing to sell out to Freddie to prevent reform of the agency right before the economic collapse. But now Newt is a friend of the Tea Party? Newt is a fraud. He's always pandering to everyone from lib's to Republican Establishment to the Tea Party.
AMEN....Never forget the photo of Newt and Nasty Nan.
He’s one of THEM.
That’s the problem with Newt. He may have a lot of knowledge and ideas; but he is a con man which negates anything good.
Newty talks the talk..but continues to walk the walk of the corrupt in DC.
He should be reluctant to come out in front of his fellow Americans!!
We the People have been to considerate.
Read the whole article before throwing too many bricks around.
Typical of these media turds, they name exactly ONE, count ‘em ONE guy with a “D” behind his name, then everybody else in the article (including a bunch only by inference) is either a Pubby or “Bush Administration Official”.
This is just another lib hit piece, and you seem to have ate up the whole deal right up to the bobber.
Newt is a runaway train.
Um...I’m assuming this is a historical article but because you have it posted as Dec 8, 2011 it is hard to tell....
:-D
True Cost of Fannie, Freddie Bailouts: $317 Billion, CBO Says
.."Freddie Mac enlisted prominent conservatives, including Gingrich $300,000...” these tag words are all over the Left wing media verbatum in Google, which prompted me look a little further changing their "slogan". The "slogan" also goes on the include "Freddie Mac paid the following amounts to the firms of former Republican lawmakers or ex-GOP staffers in 2006:- cnbc
*oops*
Wow never thought I would see an article claiming that Bush and Greenspan tried to put the brakes on the Runaway Fannie and Freddie Mac Train!
Newt also took 100s of thousands of dollars from the ethanol lobby to try and increase the % of ethanol in gas.
For all his good ideas, he is a crony capitalist.
Did you notice Barney Frank's name was nowhere in the article?
This is just a smear job and a hit piece. Conservatives and Republicans should have been more aggressive in opposing Fannie and Freddie. But the people who actively caused the problem were ALL Democrats.
Did you notice Barney Frank's name was nowhere in the article?
This is just a smear job and a hit piece. Conservatives and Republicans should have been more aggressive in opposing Fannie and Freddie. But the people who actively caused the problem were ALL Democrats.
The man who pushed GATT/WTO membership through the House during a very rare post-election lame duck session because the incoming Republican majority wouldn't pass it is not a conservative.
The biggest pom pom waving supporter of NAFTA in the House is not a conservative.
The man who wants to expand NAFTA to all of South and Central America is not a conservative.
The man who in 2005 recommended we increase funding of the UN Human Rights Commission and UN peacekeeping operations is not a conservative.
The man who said "The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution" is not a conservative.
Newt Gingrich is not a conservative.
Without Sarah Palin I don’t see both ethics & ability in one candidate. That is what made her so unique.
At least Newt’s got the ability and realistic plan for undoing zerO.