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Bloomberg News drops this campaign-ending bomb on Newt Gingrich tonight


Newt Gingrich made between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in consulting fees from two contracts with mortgage company Freddie Mac.


The total amount is significantly larger than the $300,000 payment from Freddie Mac that Gingrich was asked about during a Republican presidential debate on Nov. 9 sponsored by CNBC, and more than was disclosed in the middle of congressional investigations into the housing industry collapse.


Gingrich’s business relationship with Freddie Mac spanned a period of eight years. When asked at the debate what he did to earn a $300,000 payment in 2006, the former speaker said he “offered them advice on precisely what they didn’t do,” and warned the company that its lending practices were “insane.” Former Freddie Mac executives who worked with Gingrich dispute that account.

http://www.bloomberg...reddie-mac.html

[Farley]

Oh No, Say it ain't so! saw the newt trying to explain the nuances to a reichwing Iowa audience and it was laughable, the reichwing doesn't do nuance.....................just like they love to blame the Community reinvestment act for our economic disaster....when the Act actually banned redlining and did not require banks to make questionable loans....that was a scam developed by the banks themselves....poor banks!

[dockman]

newt is wasting his time he's un- electable .. i want to know why the sesame street gang ain't out protesting freddie and fanny ? they got bailed out and are back wanting more and the wheels that run these money pits makes SEVEN FIGURES ( clearly 1 percenters ) ...but where are the hypocrite protesters ?

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Newt has way too much baggage regarding his ouster as speaker, multiple marriages (and one divorce under a deplorable scenario), changing religions (why bother) and his latest, maintaining he only siphoned off $300 g's from Fannie and/or Freddie yet the number was so much higher he couldn't have been mistaken.

Newt is one strange guy. Sometimes he say's things that are just so obvious but I suppose he does so with self interest thinking he is diminishing his competition but he just confirms what most realize about the Repub contenders. Newt himself appears slimy and a liar, in no particular order. Just go away newt.


Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says that the politicians in his party are guilty of relying on talking points instead of "actually knowing things."
As Herman Cain's poll numbers continue to collapse, CBN took another look at Gingrich on Tuesday and released never-before-seen clips of an interview he did with David Brody last month.

Watch my story that aired nationwide this morning on "The 700 Club."


http://videocafe.cro...y-enough-actual

[egghead]

The sad truth is Newt would be a significant upgrade in leadership from where we are today-- wow

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I have a fundamental problem with Gingrich accepting any money from "Fannie" and such. But, in his defense (and this is a real shaky one, I'll admit), I don't believe he ever "maintain[ed] he only siphoned off $300 g's from Fannie and/or Freddie", rather he was questioned as to what he did to earn that amount during a specific time period. I guess an argument could also be made that he was acting as a private citizen, and wasn't doing anything different that virtually every other elected Federal official of late attempted to do....Republican and Democrat. Did he "forget" what he earned? To that degree, highly doubtful.

Small measure of defense, I'd agree, and not a worthy excuse for dealing with essentially governmental-created entities that probably - more than anything else - led to the mortgage debacle...and an entity which I believe he opposed being created in the manner in which they were from the beginning.

Not trying to diminish the thrust of your comment; only to correct what might be considered some inaccurate claims.

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[Farley]

It is going to be Romney by process of the other crazies eliminating themselves one by one. The Old Bomba folks do not need to lift a finger......as much as I dislike Old Bomba, the goBP offer no viable alternative, especially since every one of them is anti-Union.......loosen the leash on any goBPer and you get a John Kasich or Scott Walker..........candidates that should not get a single vote from any Union member.

[dockman]

Farley, on November 17 2011 - 11:36 AM, said:

It is going to be Romney by process of the other crazies eliminating themselves one by one. The Old Bomba folks do not need to lift a finger......as much as I dislike Old Bomba, the goBP offer no viable alternative, especially since every one of them is anti-Union.......loosen the leash on any goBPer and you get a John Kasich or Scott Walker..........candidates that should not get a single vote from any Union member.

and you think obama is pro-union wtf ! are you blind ?
this is what the GOP does and the media wants ...is another broke **** moderate like john McCain...... romney

[Farley]

dockman????? can you only see in black and white? read what I wrote again and then read your idiotic response.....it is like you live in another dimension where everything is simplified to two choices........docky do you think because you do not like Brussel Sprouts that your only other choice is Okra?........come on docky....at least try

[dockman]

i do read what you write .. do you? read what you said " the goBP offer no viable alternative, especially since every one of them is anti-Union"


obama is anti-union too ..poor thang.... can't admit it can ya

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Maybe Newt Gingrich is smarter than we thought. Get all the affairs (that we know off) out of the way years before running for office. Americans have short memories and they love repented sinners.



Newt Gingrich made a rather startling comment yesterday at a Town Hall: "One of the real changes that comes when you start running for President - as opposed to being an analyst on Fox - is I have to actually know what I'm talking about." As the audience laughed, he added, "It's a severe limitation."


http://www.newshounds.us/2011/11/30/new ... _about.php

[HAZ]

The chief, guru of the neo-cons is back! I heard him speak, 11-17..trust me ,Obama, a better choices, given our limited, choice of options, (as usual)!

[Farley]

I am sure the Old Bomba folks are ecstatic about the prospects of a Newt nomination....do you think that Newt's extra marital blowsie in the front seat of his car while the babysitter while walked his children by the car will hurt Newt with the "christians"?......funny how the reichwing views sex scandals....as long as Cain was a harasser and groper the media blow holes came to his defense, as soon as it was revealed that he had a consentual affair, they kicked Cain to the curb.....they applauded Vitter for his use of prostitutes to diaper and spank him, but wanted Clinton impeached for blowsie from a consenting adult, and Spitzer had to resign for using a hooker.....could there be a little hypocracy and double standard here?

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-"Top 30" -

I'm sure everyone here appreciates the irony of an individual as ethically "pure" as yourself pointing out the "hypocracy" [sic] of someone else.

Tell me, is your being an habitual liar a "consentual" [in appreciation of your spelling abilities] act when you inflict your dishonesty on others? Beyond that, are you gonna' try to put "Newt" in your "top 30"? Or perhaps claim that he "attacked" Haz's church? And is there any possibility that you'll claim that "Newt" himself personally tried to detract from "the facts" [as you saw them!] on just this thread? From your perspective, the landscape of fabrication is quite an open one, I'm sure.

Face it, "Top 30". There's some awfully scummy people in this world...and you've probably named a few of 'em in your posts. But, in the list of this world's "scum", a person with such an utter lack of integrity as yourself has to be close to "the top" of the list. Must make you very proud!

You are what you are, "Farley". Deal with it.

-scb-

[Farley]

Oh YES scabby...no matter how many times you post your reichwing lie, the truth remains about 30 top corporations paying ZERO income tax, and in fact getting tax subsidies....however you use this red herring to change the subject away from the fact that the goBP has ZERO to offer America....you know scabby Zero, NIL, Nothing...just like 30 top corporations pay in income tax....eh scabby?

[scb]

"Top 30"

And again, Farley, "ABOUT 30 top corporations" is *NOT* the same as "THE top 30 corporations". 'Course, what's a little thing like "integrity" mean to an individual such as yourself, 'eh??

You are what you are, "Farley/Top 30". Deal with it.

-scb-

P.S. - Talk about "changing the subject"....bet it's not much fun always having the topic come back to what you actually said, is it? [smile]

[Farley]

scabby ignoring the facts and shouting more untruths will only make you hoarse....but happily scabby, you are right where you belong with other reichwing "high credibility" goBPers like Cain, Romney, Palin, Gingrich....eh scabby?

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-Farley- (or should I say "Mr. Top 30")

Curious...just when have you ever been a purveyor of "facts" to ignore? Or are we talking about "Farley facts" here?. I.e. - outright fabrications.

You are what you are, "Farley". Deal with it.

-scb-

P.S. - Have to admire just how "specific" and "logical" you are when it comes to substantiating your accusations. Very smooth indeed! [smile]

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Pelosi releases the Gingrich Flood!!


The other day, Nancy Pelosi gave a heads' up that she was gonna spill the beans on Newt's 84 (yes, that's eighty-four) ethics violations while he was Speaker of the House.
I assumed that she was gonna hold off until after the GOP primary dust settled, but apparently she figured that since the info is public record anyway, she might as well just go ahead and make it reeeeeeeally easy for the public (and the lazy-ass media) to find.


Gingrich was fined $300,000 and reprimanded twice, becoming the only House Speaker in history to be reprimanded by the House.

Here’s the 1280 pages of the Ethics Committee report.





BONUS NEWT IDEAS



Newt Gingrich promises to name John Bolton Secretary of State



Some of Bolton's greatest hits:

• In 2002, said Iraq "could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year" if it obtained fissile material. He also played in a role in the infamous yellowcake forgery.
  
• He accused Cuba of developing biological weapons with the intent of selling them to Iraq.
  
• He lied about being investigated for falsifying the case for WMDs in Iraq.
  
• He blocked Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice from receiving accurate information about Iran.
  
• And more recently, he said the U.S. should have launched a unilateral military attack on Libya.

In short, John Bolton's exactly what you'd expect from Newt Gingrich: the continuation of a long line of incompetent and dangerous Republican foreign policy leadership.

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Before we get TOO carried away here, perhaps we need to remind ourselves that, of the "84" ethics violations, it appears that they were all eventually dropped by the House Ethics Committee, and that the "fine" was specifically described NOT as a "fine", but rather a "cost assessment", designed to "reimburse the committee for prolonging the investigation".

As for his being "only House Speaker in history to be reprimanded by the House", one might note that while he may be the first to be technically "reprimanded", he was the....

"SECOND House speaker to be charged with wrongdoing. The first was Jim Wright (D-Tex.), who resigned in 1989 just 45 days after the ethics committee accused him of using bulk sales of books to get around House honoraria limits. That probe was triggered by a complaint filed by Gingrich." (see links below)

...and that many believe the charges against Gingrich were political pay-back for that "resignation".

Mentioning this because, in terms of "ethics", it would appear that the original post represented at least as great a deviance from "ethical behavior" as Gingrich's.

Reference:

http://www.washingto...ries/011897.htm

...and...

http://www.washingto...ries/101198.htm

...among others.

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