Freddie Mac employee Newt Gingrich tries to worm his way out of another fix

Psst, did I forget to mention Freddie Mac?

Now that it’s public knowledge Newt Gingrich’s favourite villain Freddie Mac actually paid the disgraced Speaker $1.6 million for lobbying ‘advice’, I guess it will shoot down any chances at the presidency. If he were a Democrat, he’d already be dead meat.

But no, in conservative circles, what Gingrich did was just part and parcel of the dirty work