Showing posts with label Freddie Mac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freddie Mac. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Democrats' Dilemma/McCain's Opportunity

Eyewitnesses say Thursday’s meeting at the White House featured Obama speaking for the Democrats while McCain was silent. Phones rang off their hooks with both Republican and Democrat all opposing the Paulson bill. McCain deputized Boehner and Blount to block the bill and protect taxpayers. Paulson would protect financial institutions.
Pelosi, with all the votes necessary for passage, did not want to be held accountable for a $700 billion bail-out.
Congressmen of both parties answered their phones. Almost ten-to-one of the callers cried foul—urging a vote of NO.
No one mentioned Mozillo of Countrywide, who bought and paid for Raines and Hoffman who ran Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Nor were Chris Dodd and Barney Frank mentioned. Both were elbow-deep in payoffs. All were chin-deep in ego. All were champions of sub-prime lending.
Chris Cox does not understand accounting. Sarbanes-Oxley required posting mark to market. The rating agencies blessed the original false ratings. The Wall Street firms and banks gained from this prolifigacy. They are now punished by the downturn.
The blame lies with the politicians--Obama, Frank, and Cox—and their cohorts who got rich through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with Tom Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin, Charles Schumer, and the Chicago gang. They bankrolled Obama. The Ivy League which looks down on the man in the street, a President preoccupied with Iraq, and the bit players obscured the real villains—who cashed in on free money from government-based mortgage lenders. Now they will pay!