Newt Gingrich made between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in consulting fees from two contracts with mortgage company Freddie Mac, according to two people familiar with the arrangement. 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. – Bloomberg News
Poor right wing primary voters. Just when they find a new flavor it turns out that their selection is rancid. Of course, anyone who knows history knew Newt Gingrich would break their hearts, but wingnut Republicans this season seem to thrive on stupid.
Newt Gingrich is nothing if not a scalawag, who will take the money out of your wallet and leave you with a hangover if you believe one single word this man says.
Gingrich says that all he did for that money was tell Freddie that their business model was “insane.” Anybody find that believeable? – David Frum
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” a fitting quotation from Santayana, considering Mr. Gingrich is supposed to be such a brilliant historian. Republicans have been hoodwinked by their own hubris.
It’s really too bad the “wingnuts” have taken control of the Republican party. Where did true statesmen such as Dwight Eisenhower go?
The guys wouldn’t even nominate Ronald Reagan today.
Douchebag is as douchebag does.
Bachmann supposedly hates the government but the first thing she did when she graduated from her third rate law school was go to work for the federal government. She had five children while working their and according to people who worked with her she took full advantage of the IRS’s generous maternity leave provisions. Many of her co-workers said she was absent more than she was there. So of all the private law firms in this country the only job she can find is with the big bad federal government. These people are all hypocrites and the richer they get the cheaper they get. They’ve all spent a lifetime mooching off the government. Their like all those people who got rich off affirmative action and now deny that it ever helped anyone. The new breed of rich are just parasites.
I think an overwhelming number of all of us humans (and if we’ve lived long enough) have done or said something in our lives that was hypocritical or made us into momentary hypocrites. It’s part of the human condition, in my view.
What’s separates most of us from the Gingrich’s and Bachman’s (and their ilk) is that they have made their living and way in the world by practicing high hypocrisy and making it their calling card even if their supporters turn a blind eye to the truth of who they are as high hypocrites.
Gingrich’s political stances domestically and internationally are toxic for most Americans and for America. And, why he is one of those supposed Anti-Romney choices is beyond me because his flip flops have also been problematical.
-He was against the Paul Ryan budget then he was for it. -He was for the Health-Insurance Mandate then he was against it. -He was for Cap and Trade before he was against it. -He believed in Global Warming before he didn’t. -He was for intervening in Libya before he was against it. And, so on.
I’m no great supporter of President Obama (didn’t vote for him in General in 08, voted Green) but Gingrich’s utter crap about Obama being a socialist, the most radical POTUS in history (and he has the nerve to call himself an historian?), that Obama has a “Kenyan, anti-colonial worldview” is all so preposterous and full of stinky windbaggery that if one didn’t know Gingrich was a politician, they would mistake him for a Steven Colbert type of comic. He lies high and low and often.
I try my best not to let hate into my world. You don’t even have to be magnanimous to feel that way. Hate is just an emotion that harms everyone in it’s path. So, I don’t hate any of these pathetic creatures, like Gingrich and Bachman, let’s just say I actively dislike them.
Gingrich is one person whose long-time “dickishness” (shout out to Jon Stewart) has turned him into a person of ignoble character. I have no respect for him. None. The way I see him is that If he had magical powers, he would use them much as Voldemort used them in the great Harry Potter series.
J.K Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books described Voldemort and the parts of that description that fit Gingrich are as follows: “Voldemort is abnormally self-centered, intelligent (but less so than he regards himself) devoid of the normal human responses to other people’s suffering, and whose only ambition in life is to become all-powerful. He also derives amusement from inflicting pain on others without any remorse and does not recognize the worth and humanity of anybody except himself. He believes he is superior to everyone around him and is incredibly power hungry.” This could be descriptive of a number of people but I think the match with Gingrich is arguably resonant.
On a personal level and having to do with his personal life with one of his wives, what struck me most outside of his insolent hypocrisy and chutzpah (in this case, the Bill Clinton impeachment) which was bad enough, was this: http://tinyurl.com/y8d9yyb How he left his first wife who was in hospital with cancer (I guess I feel this more on a personal level than before now since I was diagnosed with breast cancer a year ago. I now know what that feels like and the support I’ve had in my life and don’t know what my life would be now without it)) and the rest of his sordid “dickishness” contained in that link. And, as a gay woman, Gingrich’s behavior towards his wives (especially his first wife) and his kids at that time coupled with the video in that link, on an emotional level, turns my stomach. This goes way beyond being unfaithful, for we can all succumb to that even if it’s only a thought not played out in life.
All human beings fall short of an ideal of who we all want to be or think we are in our heads. That’s life, and again, the human condition. But, for me (on a cerebral level), the insolent hypocrisy and chutzpah and “dickishness” of someone like Gingrich is beyond the pale of any semblance of human decency and he is not worthy of being POTUS.
GOSH! 1.6 mill huh? That’s ALMOST enough to pay the tab at Tiffany’s for his current concubin…OOOPS…WIFE isn’t it?