Comments on: Lobbying Felon Jack Abramoff Calls Out Newt Gingrich’s Corrupt Freddie Mac Deal

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:40:00 +0000

So…. Newt was already out of Congress, acting as a private citizen, did NO LOBBYING, and provided strategic advice to a company that came to his firm for it? The only scandal here is David Gregory NOT going after Abramhoff for accusing Gingrich of doing something wrong. Are all the employees of Freddie Mac criminals? Just another sorry attempt by the media to bring down Newt.

By: RedOnTheGreg

RedOnTheGreg — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:19:00 +0000

Sure, he’s a crook, and a convict, so naturally they want to pretend he’s not one of those Law Abiding Republicans. The truth is, there.s no such thing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:44:00 +0000

I guess it’s how the guy comes off to me. I’ve seen lots of ex-cons and ex-users turn their life around. If they chose to do that by helping others kick a habit… good for them. As for Jack… I’m making a judgement call and it is only my opinion. He just doesn’t come off sincere to me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:39:00 +0000

That’s nearly as cynical as saying that a former drug user who is providing drug rehab “is pimping the only angle he has left to keep him in the game.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:32:00 +0000

I am a libertarian. But he comes off like a tool who is pimping the only angle he has left to keep him in the game.

By: Neal Boyd

Neal Boyd — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:27:00 +0000

Not for office, but he’s been pushing gold for years. Savage was the one who got kicked off of cable for this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAA2KxgqVvk

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:00:00 +0000

So the fact that he’s now advocating policy that directly conflicts with what had been his life’s work is not an indication of any change of heart?

I’m surprised you’re not a bit more supportive of Abramoff. Aren’t you libertarian? It seems to me that what he’s suggesting is in keeping with the desire to keep the market free.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:08:00 +0000

I don’t know about him. Not running for office or selling gold, is he?

By: Porphyry

Porphyry — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:35:00 +0000

And a commie named Tommy convicted him, No “alleged,” no quotation marks.

“And no one does squat
About obscene levels of executive compensation.”

Except that Congress just started hassling Fannie/Mac about *their* bosses’ bonuses! It’s the same defense: we need the $$$ to keep “talent.” OK, either it holds for both private & public sectors or for neither.

By: Neal Boyd

Neal Boyd — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:26:00 +0000

Michael Savage… or at least his radio persona.

By: Mythominhtran

Mythominhtran — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:07:00 +0000

American folks are no longer dumb!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:53:00 +0000

Ya… I never see THAT around here…..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:52:00 +0000

So he’s a liar and a felon unless he says something you like? I tend to think people are who they are. If you are a liar and a felon… you are… I don’t know… I liar and a felon.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:13:00 +0000

But it is his turn. Just ask him. He will confirm.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:08:00 +0000

Much as I would like to attack Newt, I’m wondering how hypocrisy becomes corruption in legal terms. Corrupt soul? No doubt about it. Legally corrupt? Not so sure.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:06:00 +0000

Yes, but Gloves is transparently oblivious.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:02:00 +0000

I wrote a list somewhere of all the people we supposedly feared. I know I missed a few.
I had every current Republican candidate but Santorum (the joke), plus a few who almost ran, plus Christine O’Donnell and Sharon Angle. Glenn Beck was in the list. Who am I missing?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:59:00 +0000

“Blunt language cannot hide a banal conception” (James Wolcott)

Also, what bumsrush said.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:16:00 +0000

Gingrich will never be elected because, frankly, he’s fat and ugly to a lot of people, and he’s got a trace of asshole in his demeanor, like a trace of shit on a piece of toilet paper.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:12:00 +0000

The correct phrase is “couldn’t” care less, not “could” care less. Careless language signifies careless thought, but perhaps you couldn’t care less.

By: Chauncy Gardner

Chauncy Gardner — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:55:00 +0000

He’ll be done with “frontrunner status” by Monday. Newt is a top level political whore. Bought and paid for many times over. Need a favorable opinion on either side of any topic? Write Newtie a check. Wifey needs more bling!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:39:00 +0000

http://www.getmoneyout.com/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:38:00 +0000

Oh my I hope not!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:37:00 +0000

http://www.getmoneyout.com/

Why not sign this and pass it around to everyone you know.

By: RW

RW — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:26:00 +0000

Newt said Barney Frank should go to jail because he protected Fannie and Freddie all the while Fannie and Freddie were involved in bad business practices. As a Democrat beholding to Fannie and Freddie, Frank is corrupt.

Who was Newt lobbying? Unless Newt lobbied poiticians with a quid pro quo, what is the corruption?

By: Tom Bennett

Tom Bennett — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:41:00 +0000

This is again, off topic, numb nuts.

By: Tom Bennett

Tom Bennett — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:40:00 +0000

You’re a reactionary wonk, huh? This is about Gingrich.

By: smald4lib

smald4lib — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:35:00 +0000

Both parties are bought and paid for. That’s why those people are in the streets. We need to reel in the money being spent to elect and buy our so called representatives and playing party politcs, sniping at each other, is called conquer and divide. It plays right into the 1% hands when politcs of left and right are dividing people, not uniting people to fix our broken democracy.

The politcs of less government means nothing to people who have no jobs. There is no history of any libertarian government in modern times that is successful economically. Our country was built on protectionism and tariffs, and so other countries, like China and Japan are only using our blue print to build theirs. That’s not libertarian politcs, it’s government and the privated sector working together.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:22:00 +0000

Its not Republicans or Democrats it is BOTH. This is the heart of the problem – they are all getting rich ‘representing us’ problem is we are not the ones paying them. It is special interests on both sides. The reason they pay our ‘representatives’ is so that they can be ‘awarded’ our money vis-a-vis pork and corruption.

Take the money out of politics or nothing will change.

By: Neal Boyd

Neal Boyd — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:12:00 +0000

Newt? I fear not.

Wicked witches who use newts? Again, I remain unafraid!