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GINGRICH FACES MORE SCRUTINY OVER CORPORATE CLIENTS
New York Times ^ | November 17, 2011 | Jim Rutenberg

Posted on 11/17/2011 7:56:15 PM PST by not2worry

His campaign has said that he did no lobbying; but his consultancy practice was centered around his ability to help big corporate interests speak the language of Republicans and navigate the corridors of Capitol Hill on issues vital to their businesses.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corporatewelfare; cronycapitalist; feedingatthetrough; gingrich; influencepeddler; newt; newtgingrich; porkbarrel
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41 posted on 11/17/2011 8:39:08 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC BY DONATING NOW! Sarah's New Ping List - tell me if you want on it.)
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To: marty60

Hey, marty60...death panel doesn’t equate to advance directives. ADs are executed by the individual, not a government body. Git you some learnin’, son.


42 posted on 11/17/2011 8:40:10 PM PST by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: TitansAFC
You seem to confuse making money and cronyism. Millions of people make money in business and all they want is for the government to leave them alone. Newt specializes in the few businesses that want your tax dollars. Now what is the word for that, trying to recall, it is something conservatives do not support, now what is it. Thinking, , thinking oh I know it was a word used by the Russian fellow now what was it.
43 posted on 11/17/2011 8:41:14 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: TitansAFC

This is the problem. Newt is a BIG FAT part of it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2809166/posts


44 posted on 11/17/2011 8:41:33 PM PST by Fred (no job no house no gas no food no problem Obama 2012)
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To: marty60
An Advanced Directive is not a "death panel."

My husband has one. He chooses not to be hooked to machines if catastrophic injuries result in irreparable brain damage and that is the only way to maintain his life. He does not want to live tethered to machines.

His choice, by his hand, so that I won't have to agonize if, Heaven forbid, the time came.

45 posted on 11/17/2011 8:45:21 PM PST by TheWriterTX (Rock you like a Herman Cain 2012)
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To: not2worry

46 posted on 11/17/2011 8:49:38 PM PST by federal__reserve (What matters in 2012 is jobs, jobs, jobs! Jobs kill unemployment, foreclosures & deficits)
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To: marty60
Yes, it means that the hospital won't waste resources on people who have chosen NOT to accept them and want to go to God when their time comes without being artificially sustained.

Shocking...I know, to allow a patient to decline treatment.

47 posted on 11/17/2011 8:51:05 PM PST by TheWriterTX (Rock you like a Herman Cain 2012)
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To: org.whodat

And you don’t seem to know what “cronyism” is; but it sounds bad so just throw it around wildly, why don’t you?

Everything was above-the-table. His firm consulted. Big Whoop. Since when is consulting “cronyism?”

Was Cain a crony for trying to get taxpayer favors for the restaurant industry? Was he bleeding the taxpayers by trying to get subsidies for said clients?

Give it a rest. Nothing illegal or improper was done. This is good old-fashioned Capitalism, period. No business in America REFUSES to accept business from companies who get government money. How ridiculous and incoherent your stretching has become!

Cain was an actual LOBBYIST trying to get favors from the Federal Government/taxpayer. Why aren’t you accusing him of “cronyism?”


48 posted on 11/17/2011 8:52:56 PM PST by TitansAFC (Stop the caINSANITY, The Pizza guy is less qualified than Obama!!! No New taxes!!)
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To: marty60

You can only bypass family if the patient wants to bypass family. The savings come from not keeping people who are brain dead in the ICU for days until family is contacted or 2 doctors agree that recovery chances are nil. That happens frequently when people are “found down” in the streets with significant head trauma. Many people readily ask for them. My family members insisted on advanced directives because of the concern about prolonged suffering. They have been part of hospital admission processes for decades.

Death panels are when a group of people decide that because statistics indicate treatment for a condition results in a small chance of recovery, say 25%, that the treatment will not be offered to the patient.


50 posted on 11/17/2011 9:00:57 PM PST by Round 9
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To: TitansAFC
“Give it a rest. Nothing illegal or improper was done. This is good old-fashioned Capitalism, period.”

No one is saying that anything illegal was done. The simple fact is that many of the businesses and causes Newt worked for demonstrate how unprincipled he is ... not that comes as any great shock.

51 posted on 11/17/2011 9:02:29 PM PST by bwc2221
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To: BoingBoing

Newt was though, able to balance a budget and force a kicking and screaming Clinton to sign Welfare reform.

But, keep letting the Wash Post form your opinion for you like they hope.

Bachmann...no good
Perry...no good
Cain...no good
Gingrich...no good

Who’s next to take the lead, get smeared and move out of Obama’s path to re-election?


52 posted on 11/17/2011 9:05:42 PM PST by Round 9
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To: TitansAFC

Some of our own side’s response to Newt engaging in actual commerce is the reason I am cynical of all sides in today’s world. Maybe the pundits who say that the Tea Party and OWS are sympatico are right. I’m starting to believe that both are against capitalism and free markets. I’m all for small government and free markets, even for myself. But this is a minority opinion. The majority is all for Big Government. They are just arguing over what they want Big Government to do for themselves and what to do against the other guys.


53 posted on 11/17/2011 9:05:54 PM PST by gusty
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To: BoingBoing

His marriages are NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS. The only oath I care about is the one to defend the Constitution. Although as far as known 0bama keeps his marriage vows, he breaks his constitutional vow hourly. That’s what matters.


54 posted on 11/17/2011 9:06:33 PM PST by Lou Budvis (Esperanza y Cambio!)
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http://www1.salon.com/news/1998/08/28news.html

lots there

For one thing, Gingrich pioneered a denial of adultery that some observers would later christen
“the Newt Defense”: Oral sex doesn’t count. In a revealing psychological portrait of the “inner”
Gingrich that appeared in Vanity Fair (September 1995), Gail Sheehy uncovered a woman, Anne Manning,
who had an affair in Washington in 1977 with a married Gingrich.

“We had oral sex,” Manning revealed. “He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say,
‘I never slept with her.’” She added that Gingrich threatened her: “If you ever tell anybody about this,
I’ll say you’re lying.”


55 posted on 11/17/2011 9:07:27 PM PST by truthfreedom
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To: not2worry
I’d like to believe that we have far better morals than the Left.

What an ironic thing to say. You're using a hit piece from a leftist rag to smear Gingrich. Tell me something, is their any doubt in your mind that the NYT will endorse Obama in 2012?

56 posted on 11/17/2011 9:10:40 PM PST by death2tyrants
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To: not2worry
I am trying to get the current occupant out of the WH, but I don’t want him replaced by a RINO.

I agree. You'd make a great candidate.

57 posted on 11/17/2011 9:14:10 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: hinckley buzzard
I see a lot of class envy on FR these days against private business owners and those with income levels greater than $150k which is not a lot of money, especially considering that Congressmen are paid in that ballpark and most do nothing except cash a paycheck every two weeks.

Free Republic appears to be becoming a sanctuary site for liberals and fodder provider for WaPo, LA Times, and the alphabet news media.

Great job people.

Finally, I bet if Palin were running, she'd get FReeper ripped too.

58 posted on 11/17/2011 9:29:21 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: not2worry

All GOP candidates would be better than the idiot in the wh


59 posted on 11/17/2011 9:30:31 PM PST by italianquaker ( Mr Obama inherited an AAA rating and made it AA, thnx Resident Zero)
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To: marty60

What on earth does having advance directives have to do with death panels.

Everyone SHOULD have an advance directive. If you don’t you should.


60 posted on 11/17/2011 9:52:48 PM PST by Hildy ("When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." - SocratesH)
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