Gingrich made big bucks pushing corporate welfare

Newt Gingrich spent the last decade being paid by big business to convince conservatives to support big-government policies that would profit his clients.

Gingrich’s consulting firm racked up $1.6 million in fees from the government-sponsored enterprise Freddie Mac, we learned this week from Bloomberg News. Gingrich’s job was to help Freddie Mac win over conservatives to this market-distorting, bubble-fueling, housing-subsidy entity, which is now officially owned by the federal government.