Think this will backfire?
Looks to me like she’s a Bush appointment
“Sheila Bair stepped up to the microphone and told them off”
It was government action that forced most of these bad loans Sheila. You nitwit.
Oh right, people like ‘Putzhead’ Schumer can cause a bank run and be praised by the Dhimmicrat majority....
She was appointed to the post for a five-year term on June 26, 2006. Bair will also serve as a member of the FDIC Board of Directors through July 2013.
Bair also pursued a seat in the U.S. Congress (she lost the 1990 Republican nomination in her Kansas district by 760 votes). Bair began her career in the General Counsel’s office of the former US Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Bair assumed a prominent role in the Bush administration’s response to the crisis, including successfully pressing for a provision in the federal government’s financial rescue bill that temporarily raised the cap on FDIC insured deposits to $250,000 per account. She also used regulatory powers to temporarily guarantee bank debt and insure all non-interest bearing deposits to an unlimited amount. Additionally, Bair worked with the Treasury Department to inject capital into the country’s largest financial institutions.
Bair publicly criticized the Bush Administration’s $700 billion bailout package, saying it will not do enough to help Americans facing foreclosures. Bair told the Wall Street Journal “[W]e’re attacking it at the [financial] institution level as opposed to the borrower level, and it’s the borrowers defaulting. That is what’s causing the distress at the institution level,” she said. “So why not tackle the borrower problem?”
I don’t think BHO’s Presidential Authority has this kind of Reach. It was Government Threats that forced the Bad Mortgange loans in the First Place.
Hey Bair, you ain’t talking to a bunch of Ignorant DEMS . . . These guys work for a living and they know how they arrived to the Current Financial Crisis with BAD Mortgage loans.
Last time I checked, BHO could NOT control the Banking Business of the Private Sector except through bad Laws and Stupid congressional Tricks.
For Example, Oil company CEO’s being called to DC to Testify . . . they still left Rich Men and the Envy of the Bankers. Hell, Exxon has a better credit rating than the USA right now, don’t we wish Banks were in the same Profit arena ?
She should tell her story to Fannie and Freddie.
And Bawney Fag and Chris Dood.
The congress foisted this disaster upon us and now they’re blaming the banks who followed their demands to loan money to unqualified borrowers.
GIVE ME A BREAK
Things have proved she was 100% correct!
Nancy won't like that..
Well, she's actually a Bush appointee (and former Republican congressional candidate), but there isn't really much difference, is there.