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Gingrich cashed in supporting subsidies for big businessRead more:
Daily Caller ^ | November 17, 2011 | Will Rahn

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barrel; corporatewelfare; cronycapitalism; feedingatthetrough; gingrich; influencepeddler; por; pork
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Nope.


121 posted on 11/17/2011 3:41:51 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Don't Tread on Me!)
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To: fightinJAG
Okay, to be clear...ahem...I "disagree with the interpretation". Its slanted, dishonest, untruthful and written by someone who supports another candidate...who, if someone were to write the same kind of hit piece on them (except Obama), I would take downtown for a beating and hair-pull just as aggressively.

Every writer of every political "analysis" should be made to reveal their candidate at the top of every piece. That would cause them to be a tad more evenhanded, truthful and fair in their examination of the facts.

But then I don't care if Newt was paid to promote an issue he has promoted for years and I don't care if he consulted or lobbied or went on vacation or had a charge account at Tiffany.

122 posted on 11/17/2011 3:45:33 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Timber Rattler

Very convincing.


123 posted on 11/17/2011 3:47:11 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Grrrr, I knew that.

Thanks!


124 posted on 11/17/2011 3:48:12 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
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To: Timber Rattler
So that's where I stand. Now where do YOU stand?

Go read my posting history, I have no interest in further conversation with you.

Doubt you'll be here much longer anyway...at least under your present screen name.

125 posted on 11/17/2011 3:50:57 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

I find neither of them acceptable, and the chances of either of them winning the general election is Zip.


126 posted on 11/17/2011 4:07:02 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: Las Vegas Ron; Timber Rattler

>> “So, your agend then is destroy all of the other candidates...” <<

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C’mon Ron, Timber Rattler isn’t “destroying” anyone; he has posted undisputed facts.

The GOP’s big two just happen to be totally unacceptable, and that fact needs to be accepted by the infatuation club here.


127 posted on 11/17/2011 4:14:47 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: editor-surveyor

Perhaps you don’t remember the 94 election and the contract w America.


128 posted on 11/17/2011 4:20:11 PM PST by Leto
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To: editor-surveyor

What’s most unacceptable is a second Obama term. Who’s your choice to prevent that?


129 posted on 11/17/2011 4:21:17 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Leto
Perhaps you don’t remember the 94 election and the contract w America.

That is the fine line between Newt and Romney, and why I would vote for Newt, while I would never vote for Romney. At least Newt has done something good.

130 posted on 11/17/2011 4:21:25 PM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

The strongest choice remains Cain.

Palin would have been significantly better, but if wishes were horses...


131 posted on 11/17/2011 4:23:50 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: Leto

>> “Perhaps you don’t remember the 94 election and the contract w America.” <<

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I remember it all too well.

GOP candidates were polling strong across the board until the leadership cooked up that piece of theatric crap. It almost cost us the election in lots of districts.

No matter in the end though, Newt squandered our majority by blocking the real conservative initiatives, and also ended up restoring Clinton’s strength.


132 posted on 11/17/2011 4:29:30 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: dfwgator

All this 1% stuff is to set the stage to go after Romney once the Dems are through making sure he is selected.


133 posted on 11/17/2011 4:33:26 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: editor-surveyor

Cain’s had a rough week. Hope he can recover.


134 posted on 11/17/2011 4:44:01 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Fred

Of course he cashed in. He’s still part of the DC Hack Class.
And that’s what most of them all do on both sides.

They cash in, we cash out.


135 posted on 11/17/2011 4:50:33 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: jpsb

You got it backwards, it’s the RINO DC Hack class that loves the toad.


136 posted on 11/17/2011 4:52:30 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: carolinacrazy
I love Cain, but someone broke into his hotel and drugged him over the past week. So Newt took money from the “Green” industry. Why not? His support of ethanol is wrong, but ethanol is the least of my concerns. If he truly listens to the people he will just be forced to go against it when President. Not one person can match his intelect and he has proven to be a cost cutter in the past, although all are misunderestimating the amount that must be cut to save this nation this time around.

Well said and accurate. Gingrich drank the ethanol kool-aid. We can easily straighten him out on that issue. There are a gazillion numbers proving ethanol is a huge drain on the economy, destroys machinery, causes food shortages, and is a big 'effin scam.

137 posted on 11/17/2011 6:00:31 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: kcvl; All
Interesting hit piece by Gingrich on Dufus.

Newt Rips Gore's 'Facts' To Pieces (on Energy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7VUg7nG3lw&feature=related

However, we have to get Gingrich has to get off his ethanol kick.

138 posted on 11/17/2011 6:05:50 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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139 posted on 11/17/2011 6:07:29 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Deb

I read the article carefully and didn’t see any conclusions reached by the author.

So you seem to be disagreeing with what you assume the author was implying as the interpretation of the facts otherwise accurately stated.

Whew.

IOW, a simple difference of opinion.

Which is not a “hit piece.”

But let’s not keep having this discussion. My point has been made.


140 posted on 11/17/2011 7:05:48 PM PST by fightinJAG (NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION! Everyone should pay taxes, everyone should pay the same rate.)
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