In December of 1996, as the ethics investigation was nearing a conclusion, a married couple (who just coincidentally happened to be Democrat activists) were driving in their car, just coincidentally within a mile of John Boehner driving his car in Florida. The couple, the Martins, just happened coincidentally to have a police scanner in their car, attached to a recorder. They just coincidentally had their scanner turned on and tuned into the same frequency as John Boehner's car phone. John Boehner just coincidentally pulled off the road to be on a conference call with Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, Tom Delay and Bill Paxon talking about Newt's coming response to the ethics charges which were to be disclosed later that day.
After the Martins recorded the phone call, they wasted no time getting the recording to Baghdad Jim McDermott, who got it almost immediately to the New York Times, who all hoped there might be something about the conversation that could lead to charges against Newt for discussing his strategy re: the ethics charges. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/january97/cellular_1-14.html
I heard that Tom DeLay came out today to pile on Gingrich, along with Bob Dole. Speaker Boehner hasn't said anything yet, but you can bet he wants to. When Newt busted him for his part in the GOP attempted coup of 1997, Boehner tried to convince Newt that he was only acting as a mole, a double agent if you will, to try to find out what nefarious plot the others were up to. You can bet Gingrich didn't buy it for a minute.
Surely Newt also put together the fact that Boehner's "intercepted" car phone call of a few months earlier was no accident, and wouldn't have been possible had Boehner not been an eager participants, perhaps even hatching the plan himself. Interestingly enough, Boehner was the only guy who didn't say anything during that conference call. Once again proving how weasely he was, just like when he tried to convince Gingrich that he was only spying during the attempted GOP coup.
There are very powerful forces allied against the possibility of Newt Gingrich becoming the nominee. These are people who haven't been sleeping well at night since the Gingrich surge. Newt knows where all the bodies are buried...and why. They are fighting for their very lives.
Yep! bttt
Speaking of Paxon, here’s more to add to your commentary copied and pasted from another thread yesterday:
To: Jim Robinson
Thanks for the heads up! Can’t wait to see this! I just got a call from someone listening to Hannity radio show and Hannity said Molinari got paid to stop Newt Gingrich from regulating Fannie and Freddie! If so, that is HUGE!!!!
31posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:31:20 PMby sheikdetailfeather
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2837782/posts?page=31#31
To: sheikdetailfeather
“While the Romney campaign today has worked aggressively to justify its candidate’s Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac investments as a benign oversight, a new report has surfaced indicating that top Romney campaign aides worked as lobbyists themselves for both Fannie Mac and Freddie Mac. Matt Lewis at The Daily Caller reports: “According to the AP, former Rep. Susan Molinari a top Romney surrogate and adviser . . . was one of the former GOP lawmakers paid quite handsomely to help stop “any meaningful regulation in the years before the housing mortgage giant crashed.”
59posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:57:19 PMby ConfidentConservative
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2837782/posts?page=59#59
To: ConfidentConservative
Molinari’s name also appears as one of the GOP who facilitated kicking Gingrich to the curb in the late 1990’s. She, Talent, and I forget the other name that keeps cropping up - Lindsay Graham maybe?
Part of the Rockefeller wing of the GOP, no doubt; which holds that “centrist” is better, and the farther left they can go, the better.
66posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 5:08:02 PMby Cboldt
To: ConfidentConservative
Susan Molinari who led the coup against Gingrich in ‘94 because of her defense of queer marriages and abortion on demand
67posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 5:08:15 PMby advertising guy
To: Cboldt
Molinari is Paxon’s wife. She helppec form the Republican Unity Coalition which is basically social liberals who support a big tent (meaning accepting gay marriage) vision for the Republican party. These are the people opposing Newt and throwing a hissy fit over the base’s rejection of their dream candidate, Romney.
If Santorum stays in to spoil the race for Newt in favor of Romney, he is the biggest fraud on the planet!
86posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 5:25:45 PMby KansasGirl