Tim Carney has a post over at the Washington Examiner in which he reviews the responses to his column on Newt Gingrich’s lobbying for corporate welfare (ethanol subsidies, housing subsidies, and the expansion of Medicare to include drug subsidies). He notes that practically no one wrote to defend these policies themselves. Their complaints took two forms:
1) Quit picking on a conservative! We all need to stand together!
2) Newt’s work as a consultant for subsidy-sucklers was just free enterprise. Don’t knock it.
Tim doesn’t let them get away with either one of these. (Tim, I’m happy to point out, was my editor on Meltdown back when he worked at Regnery.)