I think it's high time the American people were served first. If McCain doesn't do that then he deserves to be kicked out of office.
We have to remember that it was CONGRESS that created the mortgage mess by requiring mortgage lenders to fund people with bad credit so they could buy homes.
That’s what created the sub-prime mortgage market and that’s why we have a problem today. This is just more of the Law of Unintended Consequences coming home to roost, but too many Americans see it as a Bush problem, ora Republican problem.
I think it is an Alan Greenspan problem because he should have gotten in the president’s ear and told him everyday what a bad idea this was.
Now it’s our and our children’s and grandchildren’s problem!!
This November, when all those Senators and Congresscritters up for re-election tell you to vote for them because they will go to Washington to solve America’s problems, remember that, if they are incumbents, they CREATED the problems they say they are going to solve. Don’t become the embodiment of insanity. Don’t keep sending the same people back to Washington and expect a different result!!
Maurice Strong is still managing to keep his name out. But ping.
I agree with Mark Levin, we need an investigation on this. Someone should be sent to jail, and it could be multiple players, both parties, and the press is ignoring the whole,”what did he know and when did he know it” theme.
This is huge!
I’m still investigating these folks BUT they appear to have performed a much-needed service for the upcoming election. Visit THROW THEM OUT at the link below and check out YOUR guys at the House and Senate links.
http://www.throwthemout.com/index.php
At the bottom of the THROWTHEMOUT home page they touch on a very real problem up there in Malfunction Junction: THE HILL RATS MUST ALSO BE FIRED AND SENT OUT INTO THE REAL WORLD TO REAL JOBS.
In case you aren’t familiar with that term, these are the professional congressional staffers who are generally ideological eunuchs or hard-core liberal statists whose only goal is to lead, guide and direct the dummies the people send up there (aka “elected members”) every 2 or 6 years. They have a visceral need to be NEAR THE POWER. And it’s pretty heady stuff to actually BE the power. The political persuasion of the member – if he even HAS one — is largely irrelevant.
For example, most of the TAX LAW under which we suffer today was “crafted” (a term they believe imparts an air of professionalism to this perverse process) in the wee hours out of public view in Capitol Hill conference rooms by 30 something – or younger — staffers and K Street lobbyists at a large table littered with empty pizza boxes, soda and beer cans. The proposed bill – which can run to dozens or hundreds of pages of mind-numbing legal prose — is then presented to the member. Sometimes he actually reads it. Most do not, preferring a 1 or 2 page “Executive Summary” which may – or may NOT – accurately portray the contents of the proposed legislation.
And if some new member arrives and cannot locate an “expert” on – for example – tax law, why one of his staffers is more than happy to recommend an old college roommate – OVER AT THE IRS!! (To get the BIG PICTURE on this, simply swap YOUR favorite government bureaucracy for the IRS.)
And if their guy is fired by those idiot voters back in the district or state, they will scurry – like rats – to find a staff job with the new guy or another member just so they can stay near the power.
SPREAD THE WORD BY SHARING THE LINK AND RE-ELECT NOBODY!!!!
This is why Senators will always be poor candidates for POTUS, and this time we’re stuck with two of them.
Fairly typical hatchet job by the NYT. Naturally they miss the real point of the Fannie/Freddie collapse. Henry Cisneros & Andrew Cuomo began using the agencies to support their party’s social programs while they were Sec. of HUD. Add to that all attempts to bring oversight to the process being headed off by Barney Frank. Repubs no better on the subject. Critical point is that it is gov’t intervention in all its forms screwing up the system.