Once again, they’re not after the truth — they’re looking to conceal it. What they’ll deliver is more hot air from so-called “housing advocates” obscuring just how much Fannie and Freddie contributed to the housing bubble, the 2008 financial collapse and the Great Recession.
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Sean Bielat is even better than I thought
I wrote about Sean Bielat yesterday. He’s Barney Frank’s opponent, and he’s got a chance to win.
“Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2009
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, released its 2009 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.”
Barney Frank: Fannie And Freddie Must Go
Maybe Frank, like so many others in his party, is feeling the heat in this November’s election. Democrats’ popularity is plunging after years of economic incompetence that has left America’s once-thriving economy a shambles.
DeLay: after 6 years, no charges in Abramoff case
Remind me—why is Barney Frank still a member of the House in good standing despite this?
Ronald Reagan’s words more relevant than ever
This video mix of Ronald Reagan and current politicians shows how prescient Reagan really was and how his warnings are coming true today.
Maxine’s bank president living high while begging for funds
OneUnited Bank bought or leased luxury real estate CEO Cohee used and, until federal regulators complained in 2008, paid for his Porsche. Cohee’s East Coast spread was an $880,000 condominium on Miami Beach’s Ocean Drive, and out west the bank leased a $26,500-a-month mansion for him on Palisades Beach Road in Santa Monica, Calif., owned by Bruce Springsteen’s drummer, Max Weinberg.
Maxine, Barney, Fannie, Freddie & TARP Hanky-Panky
Maxine Waters’ OneUnited Bank ethics scandal includes Barney Frank, Treasury, Fannie and Freddie in $ 12,500,00 of taxpayer funds diverted to a corrupt bank to cover losses by Maxine Waters and her husband. Someone should go to jail.
Maxine Waters faces ethics charges
“A House panel is preparing to accuse Rep. Maxine Waters of at least one ethics violation in her efforts to help a bank with ties to her husband, and the longtime Los Angeles Democrat plans to fight the charges in a House trial, according to a source familiar with the case.” LA Times
Three-Quarters of Congressmen Support Auditing the Federal Reserve, so Why Isn’t It Law?
The legislative system has become so convoluted and corrupted that not even the legislators know what is in the bills, where the bills are being written, or what bills are pending. Given the current system, it should come as no surprise that a bill which would allow the Congress to audit the Federal Reserve should be stalled in a committee and will soon die.