Posted on 09/17/2008 10:01:15 PM PDT by tallyhoe
A September 11, 2003 New York Times article shows that President Bush proposed “the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.” His proposal: An agency within the Treasury Department to supervise mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Fearing that mortgages would no longer be available to people who were unable to pay them back, Democrats eventually killed the proposal. The current meltdown in the mortgage industry is a direct result of giving mortgages to people who could not pay them back, a practice protected by Congressional Democrats.
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Why is this printed in the New York Times? They never print anything unless it is republicans fault.
That’s right out of their playbook. They have been selling us out for so long. They really should be held accountable even if it means some jail time.
Fearing that mortgages would no longer be available to people who were unable to pay them back, Democrats eventually killed the proposal.
Excellent work finding this.
I'd say an article in the NY Times is proof enough -- or do you want something signed in blood?
As far as why he's taking blame, ask John McCain, who said today that "Two years ago I warned this Administration and Congress that regulations for our home loan agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, needed to be fixed…"
So where was McCain five years ago?
And no, I'm not a troll, and I wouldn't vote for Obama if my life depended on it. Let's just say I'm sick of the "bipartisan" BS and distortion of history.
McCain’s advisors are just now getting him unstuck from the post-partisan label he has been characterised with.
Good. I’m glad to hear it.
Do you know where he was when he made this statement? Did he have a large audience?
These are the specific portions of your post that make a Republican doubt your loyalties “”....George Bush has sent our boys to die in Iraq to create an Islamic republic....... I don’t trust GWB as being the author of anything sensible. “”
And this quote belongs to someone else, not me: “”No. I think he’s a lawyer and a comedian; two professions where total honesty, strict accuracy, and unbiased presentation are not regarded as essential in presenting a point of view. “”
And yes, the GWB federal spending spree has been another step away from the Republican ideal, towards Socialism. I never said I liked it, and I cringe every time he adds another hand-out, pass-out program. His failure to use the veto pen is a historical anomaly in itself.
But, I don’t criticize or condemn his choice of Iraq to fight the central war against islamic jihadist and terrorism. (If the CIC wanted to see our guys die, he could have put them on a bus and sent them to the ‘Community Organizer-Obama’s’ home turf in Chicago, since it boast a higher death rate than the Iraq War. The surge worked and GWB should have listened to McCain when he advised this troop increase in 2004.
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campaign rally in Iowa today. Not sure about the audience though, but there was another thread on it
Most childish tagline of the month award.
Mr. Woodhead. The tag-line was penned by GWB. Our boys died for an Islamic republic. Those are the facts. Deal with them.
Nope they blocked it from getting out of committee! With the help of liberal or Moderate Rino’s
Still believe the Drive-By civil war BS, don't you.
BTW most of our blood spilled in Iraq was spilled fighting Al Qaeda.
McCain was talking about this in 2003 and 2005!
Some more stuff in the Iraqi Constituion.
"This Constitution guarantees the Islamic identity of the majority of the Iraqi people and guarantees the full religious rights of all individuals to freedom of religious belief and practice such as Christians, Yazedis, and Mandi Sabeans."
"Iraqis are equal before the law without discrimination based on gender, race, ethnicity, origin, color, religion, creed, belief or opinion, or economic and social status."
"The State guarantees the protection of the individual from intellectual, political and religious coercion."
There's a lot more too.
bttt
Thanks grampa, they really make me sick.
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