Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Newt: What happened to the Tea Party?

This is what it adds up to: Newt Gingrich is the Republican front-runner. 


Here is the beginning of Dan Eggen's column in the Washington Post today:
After he left Congress, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made tens of millions of dollars from corporate clients, who paid his health-care think tank up to $200,000 a year for “access to top transformational leadership across industry and government.” Gingrich also bragged about his success in pushing conservative policies and legislation in Washington during his political exile.
Yet the former House speaker insists that he has never been a lobbyist.
What happened to the Tea Party?