Posted on 10/03/2008 9:54:40 PM PDT by BAW
Via Ace. Gut reaction: One of the best ads I’ve seen this year, although part of that feeling admittedly is due to the intensity of my bitterness at the Democrats over this. I want to see them punished for it, this ad punishes them, ergo it starts off already halfway to being a “great” ad. Biases aside, though, try getting and holding a viewer’s attention for 90 seconds on a subject as dry and complicated as mortgage policy. Does this do it? Thanks to the arresting music and graphics, you’d better believe it. More, please. (But leave Bush out of the next one.)
You Tube view here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exxVZTKq1vA
Maybe they should buy three consecutive thirty second slots and put it on TV.
That NRCC?
Oh Goody.
It doesn’t matter, the GOP just helped pass the bill that excuses this corruption.
Great ad....but they need to include the amount they gave Dodd and Obama!
(Yes, I DO realize its the House Republican campaign committee....the point would still be valid though.)
Hank
ok, they passed the bill. Let us get the crooks who passed this off on the rest of us.
So...the criminals win, and we get to whine about how unfair it is on the internet. Like we've been doing for years, and myself included on FR since the '04 election cycle.
This ad isn’t meant for those who’ve already made up their minds, but the undecided and the fence sitters.
Can I ask a stupid question...when Republicans sounded the alarm in 2003, didn’t the control Congress?
didn’t THEY control congress...sorry, it’s late!
The music overwhelms the spoken words. I’m older and a bit hard of hearing and I couldn’t make out a single word in the intro. Good idea but it needs refining and technical work. I agree there ought to be several such ads for short attention-span voters. Each should cover different people and types of corruption.
It's in there, though you have to watch closely.
Amen!
Ok that one I would donate to see again and again. Wheres Obama in the video ? Are they not allowed to show his face and the money he was given?
They should run this. This is a highly effective ad.
Exactly. We can deal with our own later. One thing is certain is we won’t have to worry about the Supreme Court, anything if the Dems control everything because everything will be lost.
HIldy,
I think the repubs had only 1 vote differntial and that was not enough to keep the dems from blocking things. Jumping Jim Jeffords shed his Republican skin and put on an Independant skin although he voted with the Democrats. I need to do a little research I do know that the Dems blocked almost everything.
The Democrats stopped the reforms plus there were a handful of Rhinos.
Great ad, but I suspect it's "preaching to the choir". That is, I bet it's mostly people like us who go to YouTube to watch it. This ad needs to be on TV where the mindless chattering class will see it whether they want to or not.
I hope McCain talks about this one.
FEDERAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE REGULATORY REFORM ACT OF 2005 was co-sponsored by John McCain.
John McCain’s speech to congress;
“Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae’s regulator reported that the company’s quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were “illusions deliberately and systematically created” by the company’s senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal.
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s report goes on to say that Fannie Mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated financial reports to hit earnings targets in order to trigger bonuses for senior executives. In the case of Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae’s former chief executive officer, OFHEO’s report shows that over half of Mr. Raines’ compensation for the 6 years through 2003 was directly tied to meeting earnings targets. The report of financial misconduct at Fannie Mae echoes the deeply troubling $5 billion profit restatement at Freddie Mac.
The OFHEO report also states that Fannie Mae used its political power to lobby Congress in an effort to interfere with the regulator’s examination of the company’s accounting problems. This report comes some weeks after Freddie Mac paid a record $3.8 million fine in a settlement with the Federal Election Commission and restated lobbying disclosure reports from 2004 to 2005. These are entities that have demonstrated over and over again that they are deeply in need of reform.
For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs–and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. OFHEO’s report this week does nothing to ease these concerns. In fact, the report does quite the contrary. OFHEO’s report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay.
I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.”
It never made it out of committee thanks to Chris Dodd, who was ranking member of the Banking Committee and now its chair.
I notice that there’s a concentrated effort on the Dem’s part to keep Obama out of the mess he helped perpetuate as an attorney for ACORN and a conscious effort by the Bubs to NOT use this damning history for their advancement. What’s up with that? Is the seat of President not worth pulling out all stops for? Or are the elected Republicans so used to caving to the Democrats now that they fear offending them?
That would make them all effectively worthless. GET OVER IT. Ted’s finally going to meet his master soon so we now have the chance to bury the “Great Society” with him. All it takes is the courage to say no to spending like there’s an infinite money tree and make people work for their survival. Pare it all down to basics while adopting the attitude that anything less than bailing out a hurricane-destroyed city is up to state and local governments.
Yes, but they didn't have enough votes to beat back Democratic opposition in the Senate (where you need 60 votes to avoid filibursters).
dumb music
Did you not watch the whole thing? There’s a lot of Obama in it.
I don’t consider this a very effective ad at all. I am glad to see it, though. I like some of the elements but I don’t think they are assembled in a workmanlike nor linear manner to construct the desired coherent message. Or ANY coherent message for that matter.
This story is an A > B > C > D > E story and if the idea is to connect the dots for those folks who don’t yet get the timeline, the ideas have to be aligned properly. I am not saying it is an easy tell, but I don’t believe this ad does it even halfway well.
Why in blazes is there a gal with a British accent announcing the first part of the ad??? Why? Is this a US problem with US Dems in the US Congress or is it a BBC news vignette about ivory poachers in Tanzania? IMO, this inspires dispassion, aloofness.
The first 20 seconds: posits that the reckless social agenda nearly brings the economy to a halt. “Social agenda” is already above the heads of 50+% of the electorate.
I mean, the ad does not connect the monies taken by the Dems to the alleged agenda of F&F and certainly doesn’t connect the failure of F&F to the bailout, and doesn’t connect the alleged “stopping of the economy” to the bailout....in short, IMHO, this is a very jumbled piling-up of elements that isn’t going to make anyone who doesn’t already understand the story understand it any better.
Politeness is going to kill us, folks. How politely is the media treating Sarah Palin? We don’t have to throw fourth grade playground insults, but we’re just wasting money and effort conducting ineffective and non-connecting feather duster attacks.
The ad I saw had Waters, Meeks ,Rangel and Franks. No Obama. Its called ‘what just happened’?
Would have liked to see the contributions to Barack Obama included... Did I miss that?
The liberal media has already anticipated part of this by saying that this mess is due to deregulation which, if you are objective, is probably only like 20% of it, the rest is due to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
They’ve got their talking points down while our guys were bending in the wind. Already over half of Americans blame the Republicans for this when its clearly the fault of democrats.
We really have to fight if we’re going to take back our country from the propaganda and outright lies of the MSM.
bookmark
Awesome. Music sounds like Phillip Glass. Superior video, communicates well.
Yeah, great—IF IT GETS SEEN BY PEOPLE.
I do like the ad, I just hope it doesn’t stay on the ‘net circulated among those of us who already know the ‘rats are to blame.
“”it doesn’t matter who created the situation that brought this bill. Our Republicans have just joined with the Democrats to give us the most damaging new law since Smoot-Hawley.””
Well, yes it does matter - all these congressional and senate elections in November are VERY important, and with the fraudulent spin the dem leaders are publicly, relentlessly putting on all this to keep majority control of both houses, voters NEED to know the truth. And not ALL republicans bought into this deal. Even a lot of the ones who did finally end up voting for it, argued for a long time against it - don’t forget how the previous week’s vote turned out on the original Paulson bill.
yes, you’re right. the dems, especially in this campaign, just love to incessantly throw up “all the years the republicans controlled both houses of congress” - well most of the public isn’t educated to the fact that the “control” was only by a hair - not nearly enough to make a real difference. If you’re looking at a 51-49 majority, for example, well what can be done with that? REAL control (such as what they’re gunning for in the senate) is a Super Majority, which is filibuster-proof, and they’re dangerously close to getting that.
The weakness of our own side leaves me speechless at times... I understand that the MSM is extremely powerful and completely corrupt - but our side has let it slide for so long. I admire and cheers the house Pubbies for finally taking a stand, but resident Bush seems to have just given up. God help us.
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