Easy to refute a liberal hag like Dowd. The first paragraph is all Dem talking points,....Irrelevant.
Here's one.
FTA
Gingrich has excoriated Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae for dragging the country into a financial spiral and now demands that Freddie Mac be broken up. But it turns out that he was on contract with Freddie for six years and paid $1.6 million to $1.8 million (yacht trips and Tiffany’s bling for everyone!) to help the company strategize about how to soften up critical conservatives and stay alive. In 2006, the Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight office reported Democratic Party operatives James Johnson and Franklin Raines earned millions – Johnson earning roughly $100 million as Fannie Mae CEO from 1991-1998 and Raines earning more than $90 million as Fannie Mae CEO from 1999-2005 – after manipulating accounting.
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who else was paid MUCH MORE than Newt.... All the MILLIONS paid to consultants, and F&F needs
another bailout?
All the while Bawney Fwank said all is well. Even GWB saw the red flags of F&F.
Newt bought jewelry for his wife with his own money!!!!! (The Horror!!!)...
The rest of the article is Rampant blather from the Head Bit** In Charge of the NY Times...(not worth lining my bird cage)...
