him of influence pedaling. influence peddling. gingrich claims i wasn t a lobby under the law. is that a liability? of course newt took some positions that could be said to be in accord with the people signing checks to his think tanks. remember he supported the prescription drug benefit in congress in 2003 that president bush was pushing. a lot of conservatives opposed that. he was very silent on fannie mae and freddie mac the housing agencies supported by the government and their crash contributed to the financial meltdown. i think newt is going to explain that i believe he was not a lobbyist. i don t he went to congress and said vote for this, that, still a lot of explaining to gregg: gingrich said i have a lifetime record of being a consistent conservative. yet, he appeared before a centrist republican group and said, everywhere i ve been
cash to go hire somebody. the old trickle down thing. the previous administration, well, i think they tried that for eight years. it crashed the economy, exploded the deficit and left president obama with another mess to clean up with the recovery act. for more, let me bring in florida congressman alan grayson. congressman, good to have you with us tonight. thanks, ed. mr. gingrich claims that he wants to be president, yet he fails to step forward with any kind of plan to put people to work other than to offer up more tax cuts. what do you make of that? i think that he s a disgrace. i wonder why anybody takes him seriously anymore. if he does to america what he did to his own personal life we re all in deep, deep trouble. if you look at what the republicans are proposing, which is nothing, how do you communicate that to frustrated americans who are on the sideline and not involved in this economy? they can see that for themselves. they can see that the republican party is a h