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Posted on 11/17/2011 1:34:10 PM PST by Fred
Since leaving office in 1999, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has spent much of his time convincing conservatives to support government subsidies for large corporations, reports the Washington Examiner.
In addition to his work as a “strategic consultant” for government-sponsored mortgage lender Freddie Mac, the Examiner reports that tax filings show Gingrich received money from the ethanol lobby.
Green Energy, a lobbying group that works to secure and create government subsidies for the much-criticized ethanol industry, paid the Gingrich Group more than $300,000 as recently as 2009. Unlike most conservative experts on the industry, Gingrich is a staunch advocate of ethanol, an expensive corn-based alternative fuel opposed by many conservatives due to its price tag and incompatibility — at high concentrations — with some modern automobile engines.
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NO! Don’t you understand! NO one is allowed to criticize St Newt. We must all just bow down an worship his “genius”./s
It looks more and more like we are stuck with Romney.
NO! Don’t you understand! NO one is allowed to criticize St Newt. We must all just bow down an worship his “genius”./s
And no one is allowed to spam the boards with crap but you...
I’m not stuck with him.
Hey, libs LOOOVVVVE subsidies, so this is good, right?
Tiffanys is expensive.
Here comes the Bush/RINO wing of the GOP to smear Newt.
Name any former member of congress (I know there may be a few)who hasn’t done far worse. I am not a Newt supporter.
Looks like any plan to reduce the deficit should involve locking up Newt or at least banning him from DC.
Each of his “consulting” jobs seem to cost the taxpayers billions.
attack, attack attack....Newts on top
U STILL AT IT BARNEY?
Newt’s really got u boys tored up huh?
GIVE’EM HELL NEWT.....THEY SMELL THE BUTT WHOPPIN COMING HA HA
These recent revelations of how Newt Gingrich made big bucks by using his 'government experience' to help lobbying firms push congress for ethanol subsidies, among other interests, simply crystallizes the fact that Newt, for all his intelligence, is really just an establishment Republican who talks a good conservative game but likely wouldn't be the change agent we need to defeat Obama and start the road back from his deliberate trashing of Americas economy and it's place in the world. I remain a Herman Cain supporter. He doesn't pretend to have a glib answer to every question and he doesn't have that vaunted government 'experience'. You know, the kind that helped get us where we are now, some 15 trillion in debt.
Why is this in breaking news?
Nancy Gingrich.
I don’t know if Cain can recover or not, and I wasn’t really certain about him in the first place.
But I WILL NOT support Newt. He talks like a conservative but he acts like a RINO. Always has, and still does.
And if a bunch of false stories about sexual harrassment can sink Cain, what will all those true stories about affairs and divorces do to Newt? They wouldn’t even have to make stuff up.
Newt Pelosi
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