Isolated staffer.

Wife-like politicking detected.

Oh, hey! There's that other shoe!

Frankly, the two events are frankly unrelated, frankly.

It makes me greatly happy that I'm going to get to see Newt Gingrich fail so spectacularly for a second time in my life, and that his second failure, more like a shooting star than a supernova this time, will still be every bit as intensely beautiful as his first.

What the fark could Tiffany's possibly have to lobby about?

actualhuman: mitchcumstein1: What the fark could Tiffany's possibly have to lobby about?

FTFA: Filings by Tiffany's lobbyist, Cassidy & Co., and other government records show that the firm's spending on "mining law and mine permitting-related issues" in Congress, as well as the Forest Service, the Interior Department, and Interior's Bureau of Land Management shot up sharply between during the period when Callista Gingrich was chief clerk at the House Agriculture Committee.

Huh, I thought they just got all their shiat from Sierra Leone.

actualhuman: In related news apparently the Forest Service is under the purview of the Agriculture committee.

... Yes, the US Forest Service is a subsidiary of the United States Department of Agriculture. In fact, those things we call "trees" are actually considered a harvested resource, and are sometimes managed in a fashion similar to some farms (at least for a short amount of time).

So I bought my wife some diamonds. Who cares?

This is not a bookmark. Oh, wait, yes, it is.

Trump made much better news than Gingrich. No offense, Gingrich, but your scandals just can't hold a candle to the Donald's.

That's it.

I'm done shopping at Tiffany's. Never again.

We need to get the A.G. to look into these silver lobbying shennanigans.

Pfft, amateur.


/another politician getting a sweetheart deal from a lender he regulates
//is anyone surprised that neither side is innocent in this?

Wow, does this make him a douchebag? I needed confirmation!

mitchcumstein1: What the fark could Tiffany's possibly have to lobby about?

How about reading the f'ing article? You should be banned by IP address.

NewportBarGuy: Wow, does this make him a douchebag? I needed confirmation!

To any even-tempered person, this is just another example of a politician getting something that the rest of us can't because he holds some sort of power - remember, politicians are more equal than others. Douche-worthy? Maybe. More like "just yet another slimey politician."

To most of the progressives on Fark, though, he's a criminal because he's a Republican caught doing something somewhat underhanded. Only Republicans can be guilty of scandals - no Democrats. When it's a Democrat caught doing it, it's "to help the poor" or something, so it's excusable. No excuses for Republicans, though.

And.... the other shoe drops.

It would be more fun watching the republican clown parade of presidential hopefuls flame-out if they would do it a little slower. I'm going to have to replay a few of these campaigns in slow-mo to catch the details.

Hydra: When it's a Democrat caught doing it, it's "to help the poor"


Give us one recent example of this excuse being given here.

exparrot: Yeah, because getting a mortgage at a rate that other folks with the same credit were getting is the same as a half-million dollar zero interest line of credit.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Glad to see you take a politician's press secretary at his word, though. I'm sure you believed everything Scott McClellan told you, too?

Satanic_Hamster: mitchcumstein1: What the fark could Tiffany's possibly have to lobby about?

How about reading the f'ing article? You should be banned by IP address.

Why would I read the article? I get to talk with intelligent and reasonable people like yourself when I don't.