Tag Archive 'Freddie Mac'

Tom Scott vs Christopher Dodd

Update: Looks like the Sevenload video has been removed. I updated with a YouTube version.
Radio Station Killed Pre-Election Interview With Senator Over Mortgage Scandal
Senator Chris Dodd was confronted by WELI radio host Tom Scott on October 28th over charges that Dodd received a sweetheart mortgage from Countrywide Financial in exchange for political favors. In the [...]

Finally - McCain Hammers Obama On Fannie And Freddie

It’s about freakin’ time….
And here’s another little tidbit…Daniel Mudd , CEO of Fannie Mae (with a mere $100 million in annual ‘compensation’) acknowledging the ‘familial’ relationship between Fannie Mae and the Congressional Black caucus, including a certain freshman senator from Illinois. Of course, in view of the money Obama, Maxine Waters and most of the [...]

Today’s Financial Crisis is Katrina All Over Again, But It Doesn’t Have to Be

Conventional wisdom, i.e. that of politicians that spend too much time listening to the mainstream media, is that the McCain campaign is conceding Democrat complicity in the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae crisis because they are afraid of being called racists.
Perhaps they were correct that the media would try that one on for size. A [...]

Video The Media Doesn’t Want You To See - Dems Lying About Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae

Today;s Hot Article: CNN Ignores Bernardine Dohrn’s Terrorist Past While Defending Obama

“We’ve been through nearly a dozen hearings where frankly we were trying to fix something that wasn’t broke. Mr. Chairman we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac and in particular at Fannie Mae under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Raines. - [...]

Influence Peddlers Freddie and Fannie and Their Friends in Congress

You’ve got to love an economics video that uses ABBA for its background music. You’ve also got to love an economics video that uses very simple language to show that Obama has been a very good friend to Fannie and Freddie, and they’ve loved him back, to the profound detriment of the American people:
Incidentally, [...]

McCain Camp Goes to War with the NY Times

The McCain camp has entered into an all out war with the New York Times alleging that the newspaper of liberal record is reporting with “a willful disregard of the truth“.
The latest dust up occurred after the New York Times ran a hit piece on John McCain with the inference that McCain campaign manager Rick [...]

Kill the Bill: 202-224-3121, If They Don’t Listen Vote Them Out

Call the Congressional switchboard, ask for your representatives, and let them respectfully know that you have had enough.
How does a very bad situation get worse? Easy, when members of Congress that created the meltdown of the nation’s financial systems are given unfettered access to a trillion taxpayer dollars to supposedly fix it. Rather than calling [...]

Henry Paulson Requests Non-Reviewable Authority To Dole Out Billions

Michelle Malkin looks back in time tracking Henry Paluson’s troubling record leading up to one of the worst financial disasters in U.S. history.
Henry Paulson is a former managing partner and COO at Goldman Sachs with a current net worth estimated at $700 million dollars. If you don’t think he has a financial stake in the [...]

ObamaMac Truth Alert: McCain Ties Obama to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Senator Obama talks a tough game on the financial markets but the facts tell a different story. He took more money from Fannie and Freddie than any Senator but the Democratic chairman of the committee that regulates them. He put Fannie Mae’s CEO who helped create this disaster in charge of finding his Vice President. [...]

Blame Democrats for Financial Crisis

Barack Obama has been on the campaign trail telling everyone that the failed policies of George Bush and his the Republicans are the reason for the economic problems and the financial meltdown of major investment companies. Nancy Pelosi is calling for an investigation into the crisis and she wants administration officials questioned to see why [...]