He got paid over $400K a year ($35K/month sounds so benign) to be a consultant, in other words a lobbyist. I don’t begrudge the man making a living, I do begrudge the man for railing against an institution (Freddie Mac) while profitting from it. It’s the hypocracy that bothers me.
That’s a really high bar for hypocrisy. That means that any member of Congress can’t rail against anything the government does because they’re making money off the government. And I guess government employees and union members can’t be conservatives. And environmentalists can’t complain about air pollution because they’re breathing the air, aren’t they?
The term hypocrisy can be distorted to apply to almost anything. It’s starting to really be overused IMO. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being part of an institution that you criticize. Or have you loved every company you’ve ever worked for? Newt should get more praise for criticizing someone that he was working for. Some would call that whistleblowing.