Post Tagged with: "Barney Frank"

October 23, 2010 09:54

The Barney Frank shuffle

New Sean Bielat ad highlights Barney’s flip flopping and dodging of his culpability in the housing crash and the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacle.

October 23, 2010 08:22

The Bailout That Keeps On Giving

Together, Fannie and Freddie own or guarantee close to half of the nation’s $10.6 trillion mortgages. Last year the Obama Administration lifted the spending limit, placing the American tax payer in the position of the inexhaustible lender.

October 20, 2010 05:36

Barney Frank Is Anything But On Housing

No one contributed more to the policies behind the housing boom and bust, which led to the economic disaster we are now in, than Frank.

October 20, 2010 05:28

The Cynically Ruthless Barney Frank, Enabler Of The Mortgage Meltdown

Among longtime politicians who are being seriously challenged for the first time this election year, Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts best epitomizes the cynical ruthlessness that hides behind their lofty rhetoric.

October 15, 2010 05:22

Barney’s Big Lie

Sean Bielat came out swinging in a pair of debates this week, blasting the 30-year congressman as “one of the leaders of the economic disaster” and pointing out that as a veteran of the House banking panel, Frank pushed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to load up on risky mortgages while fighting proposals to reform them.

October 14, 2010 08:30

Barney buddies get bundles of money

Free private jet ride from ‘friend’ hedge fund owner who received $200 million in bailout money. Bailouts make strange bedfellows.

October 14, 2010 07:10

New Obama appointee had role in housing crisis

Former Fannie Mae lobbyist and now National Security Adviser, Thomas E. Donilon, worked to help Barney Frank, Obama and others protect Fannie from calls for additional oversight.

October 13, 2010 07:50

Help FIRE Barney Frank

Frank has for years been a strong supporter for Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac and affordable housing programs. The Bielat campaign wasted no time in capitalizing on Frank’s remarkable reversal, making an ad contrasting Frank’s previous statements. The video has been getting a lot of play for an online campaign ad – over sixteen thousand views in just a few days.

October 9, 2010 08:37

The Marine Who Has Barney Frank Worried

In a district where Scott Brown won, Sean Bielat mounts a serious challenge. You can help at Sean Bielat for Congress

October 4, 2010 05:21

Maxine Waters Triggers FDIC Probe – Barney Frank involved

An ethics investigation into Rep. Maxine Waters (D.-Calif.) has found that “connections to prominent people” were a consideration in giving millions of TARP dollars to an unqualified failing bank in which her husband was heavily invested.