Is Newt Gingrich Really Outraged About Corruption?

Douglas Carpenter

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Thu Jan-05-06 04:07 PM
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Is Newt Gingrich Really Outraged About Corruption?

Go to: http://www.workingforchange.com/blog

"The media is falling all over itself to portray former House Speaker
Newt Gingrich (R) as a saint for publicly saying he is "outraged"
over the GOP's corruption scandals. Incredibly, almost no one has
noted that it was Gingrich who was the architect of the "K Street
Project" and the systems of corruption that have taken over politics.
Perhaps even worse, it was Gingrich who was the key figure in helping
a guy named Jack Abramoff ascend to prominence as a lobbyist and
vote-buying artist in the first place. So how come the media is
allowing Gingrich - who is gearing up for a run for president - to
get away with playing Mr. Clean?

Go to http://www.workingforchange.com/blog
{http://www.workingforchange.com/blog} for the details of Gingrich's
role in the GOP corruption scandals"

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Avalux

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Thu Jan-05-06 04:08 PM
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1. No, he's not outraged; he sees an opportunity.

By portraying himself as a "good guy" - may give him an inside track in the Repug party for 2008.

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movonne

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Thu Jan-05-06 04:09 PM
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2. Because they all apart of this Neo conservative agenda....

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MADem

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Thu Jan-05-06 04:10 PM
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3. Read this--he INVENTED corruption at the present levels

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/01/05/gingrich/index.html

...Before the 1994 election, several reports noted that Gingrich had been warning the heads of corporate political action committees to give generously to Republican candidates or face political retribution. It was a threat that soon became conventional wisdom, as Republican leaders built increasingly close ties to the lobbying community and more and more corporate funds found their way into Republican coffers. By 1996, Gingrich found himself saddled with a number of ethical problems similar in type, though not in scale, to the Abramoff scandal. He was accused of misusing nonprofit organizations for political purposes, personally benefiting from political contributions and giving false statements to ethics investigators. The House eventually voted to reprimand Gingrich and require him to pay a $300,000 penalty.

Back then, many of Gingrich's Republican colleagues turned against him, in much the same way that Gingrich has now taken to criticizing Republicans tied to Abramoff. "Newt has done some things that have embarrassed House Republicans and embarrassed the House," said Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., at the time.

At the Rotary, Gingrich joined a growing chorus of Republicans who are trying to get out in front of the ever-broadening ethics scandals. For instance, Grover Norquist, a former advisor to Gingrich, has called on Congress to consider making it more difficult for individual politicians to give favors, like pork barrel spending, to favored lobbyists. "If you put the birthday cake under the sink the cockroaches will find it," Norquist said, in a telephone interview Wednesday afternoon. "Get rid of the cake and you will get rid of the cockroaches."

Norquist has personal ties both to Abramoff and the scandal, having worked closely with the former lobbyist, who was a personal friend, for decades. According to documents and testimony produced in the Senate, Norquist played a role in Abramoff's work, at one point arranging meetings between Abramoff's clients and White House officials for which Abramoff later took credit. Norquist's organization, Americans for Tax Reform, also received money from Abramoff's clients that was later used to pay Ralph Reed, another Republican strategist, who was secretly working with Abramoff. ...

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Thu Jan-05-06 04:11 PM
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4. Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

That is hilarious. He is corrupt through and through. Gotta hand it to the repukes,though. They are always innocent and moral until they are caught. LOL

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Benhurst

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Thu Jan-05-06 04:12 PM
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5. Yes, of course he is outraged. In fact he is every bit as outraged

as he was about Clinton's affair with Monica, an affair which took place during a period when Newt was regularly boinking one of his young staff memebers on Capitol Hill.

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sweetm2475

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Thu Jan-05-06 04:15 PM
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6. Newt's full of crap. So is the media. We know that. What scares me is..

the rest of our dumbed down electorate. Like the same ones who still think Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9-11. Or that Ronnie Earle is just a rogue prosecutor. Or that Bush needs to spy on us to save us from the turrists. Or that Middle Easterners hate us for our Big Macs. OMG I need to stop, now I'm scaring myself.:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

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PDJane

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Thu Jan-05-06 04:16 PM
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7. Oh, honestly.........

Gingrich? Gingrich is another guy who gives weasels a bad name...........

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xchrom

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Thu Jan-05-06 04:23 PM
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8. gingrich is discredited re: money and scandals -- BUT --

Edited on Thu Jan-05-06 04:26 PM by xchrom

like forgotten weapons of mass destruction -- it would take a responsible media to make sure the ghoul stays dead.

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Hello_Kitty

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Thu Jan-05-06 04:32 PM
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9. Of course he is

And the Contract on..I mean...with America was all about responsible and ethical government dontcha know?

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HR_Pufnstuf

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Thu Jan-05-06 05:00 PM
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10. Here is Newt gem from Faux today.

"He's gonna bounce back" - Newt Gingrich, on Ariel Sharon, 1-5-5

uuhhhhhhhh, The Amazing Gingrich.

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Jacobin

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Thu Jan-05-06 05:03 PM
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11. Only because they got caught

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