“The people who have done and are doing this to us don’t care about Communism versus Capitalism, Right versus Left...”
Very true. We should never forget that Republican politicians are still politicians, and most politicians fall somewhere between card cheats and lawyers (card cheats being the more honorable of those two of course). Now and then, an honest man gets elected and manages to resist the temptations of office, but then they’ll have to face the combined wrath of the political class, since they then become a danger to all the other politicians’ rackets.
I think we’ll see some of this rare breed elected in a week, and they’re going to need all the support we can give them to weather the storm that the rats of both parties, the bureaucrats, crooked DA’s & judges, the IRS, and the media will try to throw at them.
Democrats and some [big-government] Republicans opposed reform in part because Fannie and Freddie were very good at greasing palms. Fannie has spent $170 million on lobbying since 1998 and $19.3 million on political contributions since 1990.
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The principal recipient of Fannie Mae’s largesse was a Democrat, Sen. Chris Dodd (D, CT), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. No. 2 was another Democrat, Sen. Barack Obama (D, IL).
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Mr. Dodd was also the second largest recipient in the Senate of contributions from Countrywide’s political action committee and its employees, and the recipient of a home loan from Countrywide at well below market rates. The No. 1 senator on Countrywide’s list? Barack Obama.