Bureaucrats
Video: Clinton Ties Failures To Dem Congress
In case you hadn’t seen this…
Barney Frank Caught Connected To Executive Fannie
In digging around for answers on the specific origins of this mortgage crisis (the overall origin is easy: Democrats), I stumbled on a couple of things I didn’t know. I was surprised to find out first that Barney Frank (Buddy Hackett’s love child) is gay, and second that he had a homosexual “lover”, Herb Moses, who was an executive at Fannie Mae during Frank’s years overseeing Freddie/Fannie. (By the way, said “lover” made millions of dollars at Fannie during that time and subsequent compensation. It sickens the mind and heart.)
Can you think of a worse conflict of interest? It’s one thing to do it on a small scale, like on a city council where only some stand to lose. That’s worthy of prison and a boot to the head. But when you’re writing laws to help, and blocking laws to regulate, your boyfriend’s company — and when those actions and positions eventually contribute to the instability of the entire American economy (and we see the economies of the world at large, as a result), you don’t need to be fired. You need to be in prison, forever. And in Barney’s case a women’s prison, because a men’s prison would just be a resort.
On this point Pelosi is 100% as responsible as Frank for defending him. Massachusetts and California should be ashamed of their foolish and embarrassing bureaucrats.
”It’s absolutely a conflict. He was voting on Fannie Mae at a time when he was involved with a Fannie Mae executive. How is that not germane?…. If this had been his ex-wife and he was Republican, I would bet every penny I have – or at least what’s not in the stock market – that this would be considered germane. But everybody wants to avoid it because he’s gay. It’s the quintessential double standard.”
— Dan Gainor, vice president of the Business & Media Institute and a T. Boone Pickens Fellow
”C’mon, he writes housing and banking laws and his boyfriend is a top exec at a firm that stands to gain from those laws? No media ever takes note? Imagine what would happen if Frank’s political affiliation was R instead of D? Imagine what the media would say if [GOP former] Chairman [Mike] Oxley’s wife or [GOP presidential nominee John] McCain’s wife was a top exec at Fannie for a decade while they wrote the nation’s housing and banking laws.”
— An anonymous ‘top GOP aide.’
Post VP Debate: Biden’s Fantasy World
There’s a great piece in the Wall Stree Journal about the VP debate and Biden’s falsehoods.
Speaking of which, Mr. Biden also averred that “Our commanding general in Afghanistan said the surge principle in Iraq will not work in Afghanistan.” In trying to correct him, Mrs. Palin mispronounced the general’s name — saying “General McClellan” instead of General David McKiernan. But Mr. Biden’s claim was the bigger error, because General McKiernan said that while “Afghanistan is not Iraq,” he also said a “sustained commitment” to counterinsurgency would be required. That is consistent with Mr. McCain’s point that the “surge principles” of Iraq could work in Afghanistan.
and…
Then there’s the Senator’s astonishing claim that Mr. Obama “did not say he’d sit down with Ahmadinejad” without preconditions. Yet Mr. Biden himself criticized Mr. Obama on this point in 2007 at the National Press Club: “Would I make a blanket commitment to meet unconditionally with the leaders of each of those countries within the first year I was elected President? Absolutely, positively no.”
And…
Closer to home, the Delaware blarney stone also invited Americans to join him at “Katie’s restaurant” in Wilmington to witness middle-class struggles. Just one problem: Katie’s closed in the 1980s. The mistake is more than a memory lapse because it exposes how phony is Mr. Biden’s attempt to pose for this campaign as Lunchbucket Joe.
We think the word “lie” is overused in politics today, having become a favorite of the blogosphere and at the New York Times. So we won’t say Mr. Biden was deliberately making events up when he made these and other false statements. Perhaps he merely misspoke. In any case, Mrs. Palin may not know as much about the world as Mr. Biden does, but at least most of what she knows is true.
History on Video: Dems Defend Stupidity Fiercely
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“I think the responsibility the Democrats have may rest more in resisting any efforts by republicans in congress or by me as president to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.” -Bill Clinton
Burning down the house – what caused the financial crisis
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Video: Democrats And Fannie Mae = “Family”
Ongoing Port Authority Incompetence, Are We Surprised?
This article on the ongoing fiasco at Ground Zero reminds me of one of my favorite lines in Deadwood… “I am a sinner who does not expect forgiveness… but I am not a government official!”
The rebuilding of the World Trade Center, destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, won’t be completed until the middle of the next decade, and will cost as much as $3 billion more than planned, according to people familiar with the matter.