Barney Frank to Retire

Spittle shield vendors to be hit hardest.   The number one source of spittle on Capital Hill,  Barney Frank, has announced his retirement,  Karen is heartbroken, from Lonely Conservative:

Good Riddance! Barney Frank to Retire

Now that the damage is

Carlisle, PA– I’m at the truck stop in Carlisle as I write this.

Getting comfortable in the new truck I’ve been assigned is an effort that has taken weeks… as I suspected it would. There’s still work to be done

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• YEAH, I KNOW…. I let these Nightly Forays into political  and social commentary slide for a few nights. I’m still getting used to

Today the headlines read something like:  Government Stands to Reap $7.5 Billion Profit from Sale of Citi Stock.  This was reported in both the Wall Street Journal and our local rag, the Des Moines Register, and while estimates vary as

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This is the Slippery Edition

• ANOTHER FAKE:  Billy Beck points to yet another fake from the Democrats. You know.. the ones saying

Aaron Task over at Yahoo’s tech Ticker makes a point I’ve made here at BitsBlog several times:

Before this discussion goes any further, Jeff Matthews of Ram Partners, wants you (and presumably policymakers) to remember this: “The epicenter of the

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This is the “Goin’ Mobile” edition.

Yes, that pic is taken outside the Jake in Cleveland, just before a wind gust knocked it over, wiping

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This is the “Boy are we ever LOST” edition.

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Over at OTB, Steve Verdon restates what I’ve been saying here for weeks:

An older article, but relevant.

It is important to understand that, as GSEs, Fannie and Freddie were viewed in the capital markets as government-backed buyers

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Another weekend is here, but we’ve got lots to cover before we get there. So, let’s get to it.

• Personaly, I think Palin won on

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• Leaving aside the issue of the Republicans who bolted off the bailout plan yesterday, changing their vote from ‘yes’ to ‘no’, (I’ll get back to

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Lots to cover today, as always and as dictated by events, most of it to do with the bailout which at this point (About

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

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