"All I can tell you is this. Rick Perry will never be paid by a tank to think."

[Fumesucker]

That was the final sentence of this piece, you can read the rest of it at the link..

:rofl:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/19/opinion/collins-republican-financial-plans.html?_r=2&hp

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The personal finances of the G.O.P. presidential hopefuls are important for two reasons. One is that we’re talking about people who aspire to the most prestigious and important job the nation has to offer. The other is that these folks seem to have done really, really well. Perhaps, they can offer career tips.

Remember when Newt Gingrich claimed that the mortgage giant Freddie Mac paid him $300,000 for his advice “as a historian?” Thousands of young history majors who were resigned to a future in which they would pad out their $2,000-a-semester salaries as part-time adjunct lecturers with fulfilling careers in bartending suddenly were engulfed with new hope.

Unfortunately, it turned out that Newt’s income actually comes from running think tanks that help promote the corporate clients’ goals in the public sector. That may be a little harder for the youth of America to put their heads around. But, kids, if anybody asks you what you want to be when you grow up, say: policy guru.

Gingrich wants everyone to understand that he does not lobby. Really, whatever the exact legal definition of lobbying is, that is something he did not do. The Gingrich Group got what turns out to be about $1.6 million to not-lobby for Freddie Mac, one of a long, long list of clients. Let’s all pause to recall the high dudgeon with which Gingrich announced, during one of the debates, that Representative Barney Frank ought to be put in jail for being “close to” Freddie Mac lobbyists. What kind of politician demands that an elected official be incarcerated for hanging out with the same people who are paying said politician $1.6 million or so to not-lobby?

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[livetohike]

1. LOL

:toast:

[spanone]

2. the really sad part is, he probably will be paid by a think tank.

that's how republicans honor their fallen fools.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Has Newt released copies of his Freddie Mac contracts?

Where it will state the scope of his obligations to Freddie Mac in exchange for the $1.8 million? I'm pretty sure the two contracts won't describe his contractual obligations as involving the giving of history lessons.

[nilram]

4. he also said that Obama should return campaign &#63232;monies he got from Freddie Mac

I wish he'd just crawl back under his rock.