[wmposh]

On a side-bar France says US idea of breaking up commerical banks from investment banks is a bad idea. In their part of the world combining the two is crisis resistant

[maddog55]

Freddie Mac sounds like one of Franks male escorts. That being said since Bwarney Fwank is to blame for their problems to begin with.. abolishing them may be a tactic to cover his a$$ (no pun intended).

[freeangel]

bawney fwank wants to really keep these entities—he’s just going to change their names so that citizens don’t get it.

[AmericaUnite]

Heard last week on The John Batchelor Radio Show that if Freddie & Fannie fail, there would be a world wide ripple as the Chinese & many other foreign governments own a lot of it.

[saganite]

You have to wonder what will succeed Fannie and Freddy. If Barney and Teh ONe are involved we’re probably going from the frying pan into the fire.

[gwilhelm56]

Of COURSE Bwaney FWANK wants to dismantle Fanny/Freddie.. He Needs to get RID of the EVIDENCE of his and DODDS, Explicit INVOLVEMENT in this SCAM.

[paulycy]

[pyx]

Barney Frank has been one of the staunchest defenders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their mission to increase access to affordable housing. Now he’s helping to lead the charge to dismantle the troubled mortgage giants.

Barney Frank almost single-handedly CAUSED the housing crisis by using legislation to force banks into giving unsecured loans. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac along the massive bonuses received by their government executives now represent hard evidence against Barney Frank.

[henbane]

Barney is running scared.

The Patron Saint of Fannie and Freddy has a long history of promoting and protecting these two mortgage-hungry monsters.

All his dodging, ducking and back-filling cannot cover his big share of guilt in the financial collapse of the American housing markets.

Check out the September 9, 2008 issue of The Wall Street Journal

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Fannie Mae's Patron Saint

Taxpayers are now on the hook for as much as $200 billion to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and if you want to know why, look no further than the rapid response to this bailout from House baron Barney Frank. Asked about Treasury's modest bailout condition that the companies reduce the size of their high-risk mortgage-backed securities (MBS) portfolios starting in 2010, Mr. Frank was quoted on Monday as saying, "Good luck on that," and that it would never happen.

There you have the Fannie Mae problem in profile. Mr. Frank wants you to pick up the tab for its failures, while he still vows to block a reform that might prevent the same disaster from happening again.

At least the Massachusetts Democrat is consistent. His record is close to perfect as a stalwart opponent of reforming the two companies, going back more than a decade. The first concerted push to rein in Fan and Fred in Congress came as far back as 1992, and Mr. Frank was right there, standing athwart. But things really picked up this decade, and Barney was there at every turn. Let's roll the audiotape:

In 2000, then-Rep. Richard Baker proposed a bill to reform Fannie and Freddie's oversight. Mr. Frank dismissed the idea, saying concerns about the two were "overblown" and that there was "no federal liability there whatsoever."

Two years later, Mr. Frank was at it again. "I do not regard Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as problems," he said in response to another reform push. And then: "I regard them as great assets." Great or not, we'll give Mr. Frank this: Their assets are now Uncle Sam's assets, even if those come along with $5.4 trillion in debt and other liabilities.

[Swing_Thought]

“I do not think we are facing any kind of crisis,’’ Frank said at a 2003 hearing.

I wonder if this was the same hearing where Ron Paul, his GOP colleague on the House Financial Services Committee said;

The connection between the GSEs and the government helps isolate the GSE management from market discipline. This isolation from market discipline is the root cause of the recent reports of mismanagement occurring at Fannie and Freddie. After all, if Fannie and Freddie were not underwritten by the federal government, investors would demand Fannie and Freddie provide assurance that they follow accepted management and accounting practices.

Ironically, by transferring the risk of a widespread mortgage default, the government increases the likelihood of a painful crash in the housing market. This is because the special privileges granted to Fannie and Freddie have distorted the housing market by allowing them to attract capital they could not attract under pure market conditions. As a result, capital is diverted from its most productive use into housing. This reduces the efficacy of the entire market and thus reduces the standard of living of all Americans.

Despite the long-term damage to the economy inflicted by the government’s interference in the housing market, the government’s policy of diverting capital to other uses creates a short-term boom in housing. Like all artificially-created bubbles, the boom in housing prices cannot last forever. When housing prices fall, homeowners will experience difficulty as their equity is wiped out. Furthermore, the holders of the mortgage debt will also have a loss. These losses will be greater than they would have otherwise been had government policy not actively encouraged over-investment in housing.

And just how disingenuous is the congressman now?

From the article; “Nobody saw this coming,’’ he said in an interview.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

WASHINGTON - Barney Frank has been one of the staunchest defenders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their mission to increase access to affordable housing. Now he’s helping to lead the charge to dismantle the troubled mortgage giants. [snip]

[Would that be because of Paulson’s book now revealing the Russia/China negotiations to sabotage our economy?]

Russia Urged China to Dump FANNIE, FREDDIE Bonds...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=afbSjYv3v814
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2441326/posts
“This is indicative of how dangerous the Chinese holdings of U.S. debt are. It is a huge financial weapon ...”

[In light of Russia’s attempt to manipulate Fannie/Freddie bailout during China’s Olympics ...]

YouTube:Shocking Video Unearthed Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our

Economic Crisis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs&feature=channel_page

Another hot news item:
Even Saturday Night Live Agrees, Obama Blaming Bush
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2441353/posts
SNL makes fun of the SOTU address, taking swipes at the many blame games happening in DC right now. From Martha Coakley’s defeat to blaming Republicans super minority to Bush making a mess of the White House. See Video Here

[More news coming as the morning progresses. Feel free to contribute. I’ll respond to this post after a while. FRegards ....]

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[chainsaw]

Barney just wants to eliminate the evidence.

[Rocky]

He can’t receive gifts from them anymore. People are too aware of his previous ties to them. So now, they are fair game and taking them down is a way for him to win some votes in November.

[A Strict Constructionist]

OK guys we’ve pushed this scam as far as it can go. The rubes have figured it out. We need a new one to fleece the marks. Clarity my as..

[A Strict Constructionist]

OK guys we’ve pushed this scam as far as it can go. The rubes have figured it out. We need a new one to fleece the marks. Clarity my as..

[mad_as_he$$]

No Barney wants it shut down so the evidence of his crimes can be destroyed.

[Timocrat]

As chairman of the House Financial Services Committee he could be a leading architect in their possible demise, working with his committee colleagues and the Obama administration to rebuild the mortgage finance industry.

Why exactly is the government doing anything? Are they saying that they made such a wonderful success of Fannie and Freddie that they are now ready to really make a go of a new GSE?

[Munz]

A bit late isn’t he?
What his take is not big enough?

[Oceander]

That's a start, but we still need to have the head of Bawney's political career on a platter - silver or otherwise - before we can conclude that the sad, tawdry affair of Fannie and Freddie is behind us. There is no substantive difference between Mr. Frank and any of the ponzi-scheme operators who have received their just deserts; it is high time that Mr. Frank joined them.