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Debate Highlight: Bachmann & Gingrich Spar Over Newt‘s ’Lobbying’

One of the most talked-about exchanges from last night’s Iowa debate featured the former Speaker of the House going toe-to-toe with Congresswoman Michele Bachmann over Newt’s $1.6 million dollar payment from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:

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  • kelsonus
    Posted on December 21, 2011 at 1:35pm

    http://www.therightscoop.com/rush-reads-thomas-sowell-column-on-newt-gingrich/

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  • TOMMYSURIA
    Posted on December 19, 2011 at 12:42pm

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    The first step is to reinstate Glass-Steagall. Without a return to the original Franklin Roosevelt Glass-
    Steagall standard, there is no possibility of the continued existence of the United States, as economist
    Lyndon LaRouche has insisted. Only the re-imposition of the FDR Glass-Steagall principle will separate
    commercial from speculative banking, thus freeing the nation from obligations to Wall St. and the City of
    London, and re-establishing a credit system for rebuilding the nation.
    H.R. 1489, the Return to Prudent Banking Act of 2011, is now before the House of Representatives, which aims “to … revive the separation between commercial banking and the securities business, in the manner provided in the Banking Act of 1933, the so-called ‘Glass-Steagall Act.’”
    We, the undersigned, therefore demand that Congress immediately act to pass H.R. 1489, and identical
    legislation in the Senate, as the indispensable first measure to save the nation.

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  • Daddymac10
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:07pm

    If the voters don’t take lying and corruption serious, then why are we vetting these candidates?? Newt‘s supporters wanna forget that he’s a big government internationalist guy who got caught supporting the housing scam. They wanna forget he’s a draft dodger, Newt’s a professional liar. When we all know the allegations are facts, his best answer is to say, “your facts are not true??” Checkmate Newt, your finished!! They hate Michele Bachmann for exposing frauds like Newt, Romney, Perry, and Paul. WHAT IS MICHELE SUPPOSE TO DO WHEN ASKED A DIRECT QUESTION ABOUT HER OPPONENTS?? Lie about all the skeletons in their closet?? Thankyou Michele Bachmann for being the only one with enough courage to take on Newt. You will get my vote on November 6, 2012..

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  • RESET21776
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:34pm

    Ron Paul and Gary Johnson are the only sane candidates running for political office. I will be voting for Ron Paul. Though I do applaud Michele Bachmann for going after Newt “the joke” Gingrich. But sadly she does not stand a chance at winning.

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    • wilson38115
      Posted on December 18, 2011 at 9:04pm

      You say Bachman can’t win.. well if people keep on talking like that she wont.

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  • Okie from Muskogee
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 2:22pm

    Government Sponsored Enterprises are Enterprises that run off Government money. Newt took 1.6 million taxpayer dollars. Newt is the same as Barney Frank, a crook! 

    Who knows what today is? It is the anniversary of the TEA Party. Everyone likes to say TEA and say they are aligned with TEA but how many are reminding you about today…

    The founder of the modern TEA Party, Ron Paul, which began 4 years ago is holding his TEA Party money bomb again today. He has already raised 1.4 million in 12 hours and has a goal of 4 million. Your support is needed….

    If your TEA please donate….You are greatly appreciated! 

    http://www.ronpaul2012.com/

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  • Joe Schmuck
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 2:10pm

    All candidates are going to get some tough questions specific to them. However, maybe it’s just me, but it seems that the ‘softball’ questions go to those ranked higher in the polls.

    ‘Softball’ questions where most of the candidates would answer some questions basically the same such as on the pipeline.

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  • kalayaan
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 1:33pm

    I am sure Glenn is one of the sources of Bachmann….Glenn really abhors Gingrich….no matter what you say…I am for Gingrich!!!! GINGRICH!!! GINGRICH!!! GINGRICH FOR PRESIDENT!!!

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  • MarsBarsTru7
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 1:21pm

    In this exchange Gingrich sounds very much like Barney Frank to me.

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  • Mrs. Bowers
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:39am

    This debate was awesome. Michele held her own, so did the others when given a chance to speak. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

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  • Evil_Conservative
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:39am

    Where is the story about Bachmann vs Paul on Iran? But i suspect why. Because Beck has gone soft and supports RP. RP’s stance on things like Iran nukes proves what a wackjob he is and why he should never be considered for POTUS.

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  • DRFilms
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:23am

    Sorry, but Newt’s record will haunt him no matter how he tries to spin it. I gotta hand it to him though… He’s a good speaker and good at worming his way out of his mess… kinda Like Obama… oh crap.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWPz1Qdq1uI

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  • plugthedamnhole
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:03am

    Romney appoints liberal judges to the courts…………….

    That is conservative… ?? Beck can vote for that….??

    Ron Paul as a third party is better than Gingrich ..?? Beck can support that..??

    Newt sat on a couch as Glenn took a Drink .. ??? Who doesn’t have a past ??

    Only Glenn can change.. ?? Done with this hyprocrite…….

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    • Top_Down
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:21am

      I think this is great that you are posting the exact same post as you did in other articles so here is my response that that post in other articles:

      You need to listen to that again. He hired democrat judges over some Republican judges. Not liberal judges. If you look at the list of judges, almost all but 1 was conservative, though they may have been democrats they were conservative democrat judges that were good on the law.

      That was the only way they were passed through the Massachusetts board. That is as conservative as you can get.

      He did we explaining that he was strong on social issues, minus abortion which he was converted to: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2011/dec/romney_correct_myself.html

      THAT IS CONSERVATIVE IN A LIBERAL STATE. ROMNEY IS A TRUE CONSERVATIVE EVEN THOUGH HE CAME FROM AN INDEPENDENT BACKGROUND.

       
    • GilbertAcct
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:26am

      The daily candidate website is a scam!! Top_Down changes his name every week and continues to solicit on the blaze! (formerly Mad_Hatter and fastfacts).

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    • Top_Down
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:49am

      Again drop the fastfacts. mad_hatter is my work computer and this is my home computer. I have never hidden this from you. TheDailyCandidate is no scam they cover all the candidates, you are just mad that I use them all the time because they have some great videos and I personally defend Romney, whom you hate. Paulie supporter usually hate Romney and all other candidates. Where is the scam?

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    • Top_Down
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:56am

      Plus, I boost four different websites including Heritage and others. They are no scam, though you like trashing them as well.

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    • GilbertAcct
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:01am

      The scam is that you solicit this website. Hundreds and hundreds of posts. You try to funnel Blaze readers to it. Then after a couple of weeks when people are getting sick of you, you change your name and do it all over again.

      You also create phony intermediary websites like american parchment to try to hide the links. You also use tricky links like tiny.cc or url2…

      But I must admit, something like this is fitting for a Romney supporter… as is the name calling.

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    • GilbertAcct
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:13am

      This home computer and work computer stuff is ridiculous. I log in with the same user name from my work computer, my home laptop and my home desktop. If Top_Down is your home computer then why didn’t you create this account until December 13th? This corresponds directly with when you stopped posting under Mad_Hatter. You are as dishonest as the candidate you support.

      I guess when everyone gets sick of Top_Down advertisements, you’ll move to an internet cafe computer so you can create a new user name?

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    • ashtongramp
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 12:16pm

      I agree with Top_Down… GilbertAcct get your facts right. you don’t know what your talking about. People like you try and scare people off with nothing to back it up. Are you afraid of letting people go to the website and letting them find out for themselves? Most people are smart, and if it is a scam, most people will know. I went there, and I personally thought that is was a very factual and well done website. GilbertAcct, are you going to tell everyone not to listen to me because of what I think? It looks like from all of your past comments from all over The Blaze you are just a Mitt Romney hater, you have not brought up anything to add to a good conversation. Just Hate.

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    • GilbertAcct
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:06pm

      Ashtongramp… Top_Down and I go back a long way. I disagree with his tactic of funneling people to the daily candidate by using the success of the Blaze. It is all he posts. He also creates intermediary sites because people started catching onto him. It especially annoyed me when I saw him (as Mad_Hatter) condemning someone for doing the same thing. He changes his name to try to hide (or the Blaze kicked him off). But he dishonestly claims that he has to have multiple names for multiple computers (his buddy Clinger_Bible/FoundingFather2 told me the same thing). The looks like the Blaze is starting to delete his solicitous posts also.

      He also poses as someone who is slowly converting to Romney because of the daily candidate site, when he is in fact a Romney fanatic.

      Thanks for looking at my past 10 comments and deciding that I add nothing. Lately I have mostly been arguing with Top about his soliciting activities. I enjoy getting in discussions with you Romney folk about his dishonesty. I get my best information from the audited financial statements of MA. I also find polls where most people in MA don’t like Romneycare and want it repealed. If you’d like to debate about Romney I would love to, as long as you don‘t follow Top’s tactic of straw men and name calling. First off, you can explain to me how it is “hateful” to point out actual figures from the MA CAFR which disagree with what Romney claims? How is it “hateful” to point out that he cherry picks favorable

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  • SUMTHINSTINKS
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:42am

    This is ridiculous! I’ve never seen anything like the attacks on Newt Gingrich. He hasn’t done anything wrong. Michele Bachmann’s only strategy has been to attack the front runner each and every time. She’ll never win because of it. She’s an ASS!!!

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    • DRFilms
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:27am

      So, being convicted of ethics violations, voting for big government, pushing national ID cards and unfunded mandates is not wrong? Being run out of your office by real conservatives who were against you is good somehow? Holy geeze…

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  • GodsDotr
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:57am

    Newt‘s remarks reminded me a lot of Clinton’s “I did not have sex with that woman” statement.

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    • gramma b
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:25am

      Precisely. Apparently there is a precise legal definition of “lobbying,” and Newt found a way to make tens of millions of dollars peddling his influence and contacts while avoiding that strict legal definition of lobbying. That’s the only possible explanation. He wasn’t paid tens of millions of dollars for giving history lessons.

      Perry was right. If you will cheat on your wife, you will cheat on other people. The man is an influence peddling serial adulterer. He long ago perfected the art of giving weaselly, dishonest explanations for his whereabouts and behavior. He told his first wife and the mother of his children that she wasn’t young enough or pretty enough to be First Lady. He cheated on his first wife with his second wife. He cheated on his second wife with Creepy Callista. And, while he was doing that, he was out railing publicly against Clinton for being a cheater. The man obviously has no moral core at all. Didn’t he recently sign a pledge that if he is elected, he won’t cheat on Creepy Callista. How bizarre is that? Does that mean that if he is not elected, all bets are off?

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  • GulfPeg
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:50am

    Bachman did call a spade a spade. Gingrich DID lobby for Freddie Mac and then was paid $1.6 million for his “advice”.

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  • Rightallalong
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:50am

    Classic Newt – I was against it before I was paid to be for it … and if it gets me elected I will be against it again … until I get paid even more to be for it. Oh yeah it was consulting, yeah thats it CONSULTING (wink wink nudge nudge)

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    • drhunt
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:00am

      Did you actually listen to Newt’s comments? Newt was a part of the Habitat for Humanity program in Georgia. Allowing middle income and lower middle income citizens an opportunity to purchase homes is NOT a bad thing. But the way that Bear Stearns, Goldman, Lehman, and the GSE’s walked down the income ladder to reach the NINJA loan level, (NINJA=No Income, No Job Applicants), is criminal.

      Until someone can show proof that Gingrich used his influence to get Sen. Richard Shelby to sunset S. 190(109) Bill in Committe…then they should just STFU…and that includes you.

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    • Rightallalong
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:06am

      Hey Doc I suggest you start taking the meds again. Your problem with reality and that anger issue seems to be surfacing again. Its ok, we will all move slowly so as to not confuse you ….

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    • drhunt
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:30am

      @RightAllAlong…the only meds I need to take is high blood pressure meds, which appears to be a necessary addition to my daily routine when I read some of the comments here.

      The vetting process continues, in the GOP debates, and here on The Blaze…

      Hope this helps.

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    • justafollower
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:43am

      Doc… sorry charlie. That’s just not good enuf for me! Here’s how I break it down
      Freddie is HEAVILY subsidized by the gov’t
      Newt took their money
      = Newt took tax payer money

      Newt gave “advice” for the money.
      Newt has a lot of political buddies..
      = at minimum conflict of interest.

      Finally, Freddie Mac should be SHUT DOWN. Newt doesn’t believe that nor will he profess that he does. We all want people to have a house! Freddie Mac is not the answer to that. And btw everyone DOES have a house. All the people that can’t get qualified for a loan rent one. That’s how the world works.

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  • drhunt
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:48am

    I thought Gingrich did just fine in that exchange. I love Michelle, but her continued attacks on Gingrich on this particular subject might make her look desperate. Someone really ought to talk to Rick Lazio, and ask him if Newt’s comments are accurate. It’s a bullet point that definitely needs to be cleaned up prior to the general election debates.

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    • bikerr
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:36am

      If you love her spell her name right, unless you love Miche“LLe” Obama.

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    • drhunt
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:03am

      Uh ohhh…the spelling police out in force this AM. Must be that I‘m factually correct if that’s all they’ve got…

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    • bikerr
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:46am

      @drhunt—Factually it’s MicheLe Bachmann and MicheLLe Obama. So who is upset about facts?. Support who you want,but please use only facts. May the most Conservative win.

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  • countryfirst
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:23am

    Santorum is a true conservative, if we get behind him he can beat the current oval office occupant, and that is all he is an occupant. But if you’re looking for a true decimator of our country BO more than fits the profile.

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    • nanzofsc
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:25am

      Really respect him, but they don‘t give him any time and I’m afraid he can’t make it – hope I’m wrong and he has a good outcome in Iowa!

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    • Rightallalong
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:47am

      Santorum is one of the better ones however the fact that he is so Pro-War is a problem.

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    • MarylandPatriot
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:36am

      its a problem unless he can sell it, he needs more time on stage to really get his view across and to help people understand that Iran is a martyrdom state and wouldn’t mind destroying themselves to take out their enemy, which is not the same as the cold war or Cuban missile crisis, i think he nailed it WHEN he had time to talk

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    • bikerr
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:49am

      @Rightallalong— He is Pro American,if that leads to war…well let’s go!

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  • nanzofsc
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:20am

    6 negative articles about Newt since the debate here on the Blaze – so, “the truth has no agenda”, right!

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    • Mike Liberation
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:39am

      My sentiments exactly. I’ve been a longtime defender and supporter of Glenn, but in this GOP race, its obvious the coverage and slant of every story involving Newt has been incredibly biased. Just because Bachmann and Santorum happen to be the most outspoken candidates in matters of faith, DOES NOT make them the best president. I want someone who will fix the economy, not dictate to me on social issues, despite the fact I may agree with them in principle. Michelle and Rick are great people, but let’s be honest… they aren’t “presidential”.

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  • Nobel Reggie
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:19am

    You know you are getting a fiscal and social conservative with Michele. With Gingrich, you know you are getting the flavor of the week…he touts what ever position he feels he is polling better. The primary is where you vote for the candidate who is most in line with your values. The general election is about voting for whom the parties have chosen for you. (UNLESS this time WE chose the candidate in the primaries, and force the parties to answer to us. WE can set the table this election…but we can’t buy into their argument that we have to vote for someone THEY deem as “electable”. That’s their rhetoric, and it is time we change that dialog and ACT).

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    • nanzofsc
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:21am

      She’s gotten nasty and desperate.

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    • bikerr
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 9:41am

      @nanzofsc—Yeah,Don’t you just love it when people want U.S.A. to improve ,get back to the freedoms we once had? Michele is the most Conservative of the bunch and the Only one who will put U.S.A. the farthest down the road to that end.

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  • TheLastBestHopeofManOnEarth
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 7:48am

    Love her!

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  • gmoneytx
    Posted on December 16, 2011 at 7:43am

    Bachmann is such a wh0re monger! If people take her seriously, she will be one that breaks up the vote insuring Obama’s re-election…

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    • therealconservative
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 7:50am

      your’re clueless

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    • MarylandPatriot
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 8:10am

      Wow, that is completely unnecessary, a wh0re monger? if you don’t like her, that’s your right but be decent about it

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    • ashtongramp
      Posted on December 16, 2011 at 12:27pm

      MarylandPatriot… I agree! Be respectful, is it really that hard to be opinionated without being crass?

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