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So? He got paid a fee for consulting? I suppose we’d feel better if he worked for free?

I say everyone who took money from Fannie and Freddie has to step down from their office today.

>>Before Gingrich was hired, Freddie Mac paid $2 million to a Republican consulting firm to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed both companies.

The $2 million was money well spent. The legislation died without ever coming to a vote on the Senate floor. But the danger of regulation wasn’t dead, so Freddie Mac hired more consultants, Gingrich among them.<<

THE NEWT GINGRICH TRUTH FILE (for those FReepers with short memories!)

Newt Gingrich endorses Dede Scozzafava in NY-23 House race

Gingrich Explains Scozzafava Endorsement, Slams Right-Wing Critics

Memo to Gingrich: Get Lost. Now

Gingrich Backs Obamacare's Individual Mandate Requiring Health Insurance

Gingrich donors dropping like flies

Bill Bennett to Gingrich: You’re Shooting at [Paul Ryan] From Behind! (Testy Radio Interview)

Mark Levin grills Newt Gingrich on his comments about Paul Ryan’s plan

Gingrich Calls GOP Medicare Plan 'Right-Wing Social Engineering' (supports individual mandate)

Gingrich Backs Obamacare's Individual Mandate Requiring Health Insurance (Newt praises Romneycare)

Gingrich Backs Obamacare's Individual Mandate

Gingrich Apologizes to Paul Ryan for 'Right-Wing Social Engineering' Criticism

Gingrich: ‘Strategic Blunder’ for Palin to Mock Obama as ‘Community Organizer’

Newt Gingrich Acknowledges ‘Contradictions’ On His Libya Views, ‘I Was Trying To Follow Obama’

Gingrich: My Ad on Global Warming with Pelosi was a "Debate," I will "Not Apologize"

Kerry and Gingrich Hugging Trees -- and (Almost) Each Other

Newt Gingrich, Al Sharpton Education Tour

Newt Gingrich Al Sharpton Education Tour (VIDEO)

Ex-Freddie Mac official said Newt Gingrich paid $1.5 million for consulting

Better headline should have had received instead of paid. It reads like Gingrich paid Freddie Mac to be a consultant.

(yeah, I know, everybody's a grammarian)

That’s good, right? Democrats LOOOOVE Fannie and Freddie...

Gee, leftist hack, Pete Yost, pukes up yet another hit piece on a Republican, using un-named sources, for the leftist CSM and here it lands in the middle of Free Republic. Wasn’t there anything in Pravda?

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I have a hard time imagining the Tea Party contingent will easily overlook this. Regardless of how Gingrich might explain it away, just the sheer linkage to that whole corrupt, inside-the-beltway FannieMae/FreddieMac mess seems like a pretty toxic albatross to me. Anyway, I guess we’ll see how it plays out. The poor line-up of candidates makes a lot of this hard to predict.

Consultants get paid. Where are some of you people living, certainly not reality. He told Freddie Mac that the course they were taking on these mortgages would cause the bubble and fail. What more do you want? Maybe if Freddie Mac took the advice the housing marked would not have failed.

Freddie-Mac was a Christmas Turkey that got stuffed by Dodd-Frank and was principaly protected by the Democrats. The Media don’t speak about this a whole lot. So NOW the Media get INTERESTED? Must mean that Newt is the “flavor of the month” in the Republican primaries.