Eric Florack on September 26th, 2008

Should we point out I wonder that Banking Committee chair Barney Frank’s ex-boyfreind worked at Fannie Mae?

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Eric Florack on September 18th, 2008

Bruce:

As Ed Morrissey points out, 2005 would be the year John McCain made this speech:

Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae’s regulator reported that the company’s quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were “illusions deliberately

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Eric Florack on September 17th, 2008

Investors Business Daily:

Obama in a statement yesterday blamed the shocking new round of subprime-related bankruptcies on the free-market system, and specifically the “trickle-down” economics of the Bush administration, which he tried to gig opponent John McCain for wanting to

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Eric Florack on September 14th, 2008

It’s a virus — and it’s spreading. Do a Google News search for “since the Great Depression,” and you come up with more than 4,500 examples of the phrase’s use in just the past month.

But that doesn’t make any

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Eric Florack on September 8th, 2008

Art, over at the Conservative Reader, yesterday:

Today US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced plans for the new Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to take Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae into conservatorship.   The power to do this was provided

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Eric Florack on June 12th, 2008

Trying to play Mister Apolitical is taking it’s toll. The WaPo:

Today’s news that Jim Johnson, one of three people charged with vetting potential vice presidential candidates for Barack Obama, is stepping down from his role illustrates the perils ahead

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