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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Lew Rockwell Warned Us About Gingrich

Under his skirt, Newt Gingrich is revealed to be a bankster operative.

Gingrich made between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in consulting fees from two contracts with Freddie Mac, Bloomberg is reporting.

Bloomberg continues:

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.
Bottom line: Lew Rockwell told us all we need to know about Newt, when he recently wrote:

Some years ago, I was invited to speak at a National Review conference in the government capital. In my talk, I praised our predecessors in the Old Right, who came together in opposition to FDR's domestic fascism and drive to war. Afterwards, in the question period, up pops a furious Newt Gingrich to say, at length, that conservatives must love Roosevelt--he was Reagan's hero, after all--and to criticize Franklin or his policies was to risk being written out of the conservative movement. I responded that this is what's wrong with contemporary conservatism: its corporatism and militarism. I never saw Newt again, and I was not invited back.

Newt is a neocon, i.e., a champion of the corporate state and perpetual war, and a corrupt DC lobbyist of the worst sort. He may talk a good game, once in a while, with Obama in power, but it is all just a partisan trick.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

of course he is
he is practical

Anonymous said...

There all the same.

Anonymous said...

6:54PM
Did you mean They're all the same?
or did you mean "There, All the same!

Anonymous said...

Oh, FGS!
What did Hairy Reid make DURING his re-election bid last year. hope you don't think it was nothing

Anonymous said...

Newt got the budget balanced. Had the lowest unemployment level as Speaker then anyone has in decades. That's all I need to hear.