Abramoff thinks that Newt Gingrich is corrupt but do the voters???

[Rosa Luxemburg]

IS this man fit to run for president? It would seem that Republican voters like their candidate corrupt - more corrupt the better?

The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reprimand House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and order him to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House's 208-year history it has disciplined a speaker for ethical wrongdoing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/leadership/stories/012297.htm

Even Abramoff thinks Gingrich is corrupt!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68547.html

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/gingrich-makes-corrupt-politicians-list/279301

[JDPriestly]

1. K&R. Thanks. Great find.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. If he is the GOP nominee then he will be sunk

providing Obama sinks the Swiftboats before they leave port!

[Octafish]

2. A Bought Man who'll stay bought is their best hope.

In the GOP, though, they answer to a higher power: Cash.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. I stand can't their duplicity

They complain to everyone in America out someone else then they are doing it themselves. There is a lot more about Gringrich that hasn't come out.

[Octafish]

5. Noot's as dirty as they come. So dirty, he had to resign as Speaker of the House...

...which tells us something.

Underneath the surface is where most of the iceberg exists. Mother Jones spelled things out real nice:

Newt Gingrich's Congressional Ethics Scandal Explained

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Lost in the campaign trail barbs about Gingrich's ethical lapses, however, is any sense of what Gingrich actually did, either allegedly or as a matter of record. In short, he used a network of consulting firms, educational institutions, and even a charity for inner-city teens to promote a set of clearly partisan political goals designed to sweep Republicans into power in Washington. Gingrich's web of interconnected organizations formed the early prototype for the multimillion-dollar public and private network he established after leaving public office, known now as "Newt Inc."

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The great DUer David Swanson posted an excellent essay in Politics 2012 that details how Noot kept the MIC running when the USSR collapsed, giving some of us hope there'd be an actual peace dividend.

How Newt Gingrich Saved the Military Industrial Complex

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As Mary Beth Sullivan recounts ( http://MIC50.org ),

"On the first day of the opening of the 101st Congress, Speaker Wright convened a meeting of members who had proposed economic conversion legislation, and their aids. The purpose was to ensure that all proposals be joined into one, and that this legislation be given priority. To dramatize the importance of this bill, it would be given number H.R. 101."

Seymour Melman, a leading proponent of the bill recounts what happened:

"Supporters of such an initiative did not reckon with the enormous power of those opposed to any such move toward economic conversion. In the weeks that followed, these vested interests waged a concerted and aggressive campaign in Congress and the national media to bring down Jim Wright over allegations of financial misconduct."

"The allegations," Sullivan writes, "had little substance, but Newt Gingrich, representing a headquarters district of Lockheed Martin, led the Republican attack. Sadly, they won. According to Melman, 'Their media campaign drowned out any further discussion of economic conversion … A historic opportunity had been destroyed."

Most of all, what you said, Rosa Luxemburg: Something else the tip shows is the guy used power to get money and money to get power. I'm so old I remember when leaders used their power to make life better for ALL Americans, not just like-minded greedheads and warmongers.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. People have short memories or are ignorant

Many of the voters don't know about this. I'm sure the media will do their best to keep this off the screen.