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It's not just RIck Santelli, gang. Right now it's "No!" rather than "Hell No!", but American don't seem to care for President Obama's housing plan. Here are some key numbers from Rasmussen: ... 55% of American adults say the federal government would be rewarding bad behavior by providing mortgage subsidies to financially troubled homeowners. Among investors, 65% hold that view. ... 77% of Republicans and 60% of those not affiliated with either major political party believe the mortgage help subsidizes bad behavior. Most Democrats (51%) disagree. ... 76% of Americans are not willing to pay higher taxes to help people...

Tea Party revolution brewing The kettle's whistling. Tea Parties are popping up all over the country. People are flocking to these sites which have cropped up practically overnight in search of information about rallies, demonstrations and Tea Parties in their cities. The revolution is brewing! "Somebody in our government needs to finally pay attention. It is what I've been talking about that was coming for a very long time and that is disenfranchisement which will turn into anger and then turn into God knows what," Glenn Beck said Friday on his radio program about CNBC'S Rick Santelli's passionate comments made...

Not a live thread. Santelli making the rounds. Can't wait to hear this one!

SAN DIEGO TEA PARTY!!Time: February 27, 2009 from 9am to 10amLocation: San Diego Bay , just north of The Star of India!Organized By: American Spectator, Americans for Prosperity, TCOT, Don'tGo, Smart Girl Politics, Heartland Institute, Americans for Tax Reform

When CNBC’s Rick Santelli argued last week that President Barack Obama’s mortgage bailout plan would force hard-working Americans to pay for their neighbors’ mistakes, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed him as a know-nothing derivatives trader out of touch with Main Street. But if the White House simply dismisses Santelli’s point, it may do so at its peril: A Rasmussen poll released Monday found that 55 percent of those surveyed thought federal mortgage subsidies to those most at risk of losing their homes would be “rewarding bad behavior.” Santelli’s “Network”-style diatribe has already spawned a Facebook group and plans...

No doubt about it: Populist messages resonate — and by the looks of it — those messages can grow pretty darn fast. Last week, CNBC's Rick Santelli expressed the frustration of a lot of Americans who are working every day and paying their bills only to find out that, through President Obama's Mortgage Relief Plan, they also will be working to pay the bills of those that lived beyond their means. Not exactly living the dream. Santelli's populist message or rant, depending on who is framing the message, has begat a movement. So, in the spirit of the Boston Tea...

Once upon a time, cable channels were embarrassed by on-air outbursts or other anchor antics. Now, some are glad to post the video clips on the Internet as quickly as possible to maximize publicity and Web traffic. On Thursday, CNBC swiftly uploaded a televised rant by Rick Santelli about President Obama’s plans to address the housing crisis. By doing so, the network injected the reporter’s opinions publicly, and the widely replayed video clip even provoked a response from the White House the next day. Mr. Santelli is normally a strait-laced newsman; he has reported live from the Chicago Board of...

Here is video of a Meet the Press panel yesterday discussing Rick Santelli's attack on the Obama Mortgage Plan last week. Surprisingly, the panel, including moderator David Gregory, point out the practical truth in the comments made by Santelli, and they agree that his comments have struck a nerve, based on the reaction of the White House. . . . . . (Watch Video)

According to CNBC’s Rick Santelli, he didn’t launch into his self-described rant on the floor of the Chicago_Board of Trade against President Barack Obama’s mortgage bailout plan the other day with any other agenda than to vent his belief “the government is promoting bad behavior” through the program. Santelli said over the weekend it was only just occurring to him how his newly raised profile from his call for a Chicago Tea Party -- which seems to have resonated with many Americans, made him a viral video star and drew a White House rebuke -- might be parlayed into other...

President Obama's massive mortgage-bailout plan is nothing more than a thinly disguised entitlement program that redistributes income from the responsible 92 percent of home-owning mortgage holders who pay their bills on time to the irresponsible defaulters who bought more than they could ever afford. This is Obama's spread-the-wealth program in action. Team Obama is rewarding bad behavior. It is enlarging moral hazard. It is expanding its welfarist approach to economic policy. And with a huge expansion of government-owned zombie lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Team Obama is taking a giant step toward nationalizing the mortgage market. Reporting from the...

Here is video of Rick Santelli destroying Obama's Mortgage Plan on Larry Kudlow yesterday. Every time Santelli opens his mouth, it is a breath of fresh air because he is telling the common-sense truth, which we are not hearing much of these days. Santelli directly responds to the charge by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs that he has not read Obama's plan. . . . . . (Watch Santelli)

Little-Known Trigger Predicts Huge Rally Ahead And so it happened. With CNBC's Rick Santelli doing his best to start a riot on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed the threshold. It now sits at its lowest point in six years. Lower than the last bear market. We could get the chart guys out and debate where the next level of resistance lies, but it's pretty clear to the average American that this thing seems like it's far from over. But amidst the hubbub...amidst the talk of bank nationalization, stimulus, good banks and bad...

Rant for Rant Obama's populist smackdown over his housing plan. By John Dickerson Friday, Feb. 20, 2009 On Wednesday, Barack Obama unveiled a $275 billion plan to shore up the housing market and forestall some future home foreclosures. It prompted an impassioned, scattershot, and ultimately clownish response from CNBC's Rick Santelli. Without apparently reading the plan, he railed that "government is promoting bad behavior" and that the plan was an effort to "subsidize the losers' mortgages." He then turned to rally the traders around him who booed. Waving his arms like a frustrated conductor, Santelli asked: "How many of you...

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While the Obama administration battles to keep people from losing their homes, one Florida lawyer said she has a better answer to the toxic mortgage epidemic sweeping the country - fight back against the loan servicers and banks that are improperly pressing the foreclosure actions. "The loan servicers bringing most of the foreclosure actions in the country don't own the mortgages and have no standing to take away a person's home," said the lawyer, April Charney, who has stopped scores of foreclosure actions in Jacksonville, Fla., where she works as a Legal Aid lawyer. In essence, Charney has forced scores...

Saving America: Time to hit the streets? Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff Sunday, February 22, 2009 Jim DeMint's gentlemanly air and refined tone belie a power and an urgency in his words. The stately senator from South Carolina sees America's unique centuries-old system of freedom dying out. And he thinks we may have to take to the streets to save it. "I would think it's time to start thinking about peaceful demonstrations," he told us last week. Seriously? "Seriously. "The power of the people is there. Freedom is in the people's hands right now, and it's about to slip through." Of...

After the White House Propaganda Minister Mocked Him, Rick Santelli Responds. Kudlow seems a Bit TICKED too!!! The Traders Are Not The Only Ones Mad About Washington!

Santelli Launches ChicagoTeaParty.com This is more video of Rick Santelli and Steve Liesman from yesterday. Things get heated and Liesman tells Santelli to shut up as they shout over each other. The debate is simple: bailout thy asshat neighbor or not? How accidents can chage the course of history. I'm sure we will hear the details in the fullness of time, but $20 bucks says Rick Santelli had no intention whatsoever of disclosing his private idea for a Chicago Tea Party on the air yesterday. I've watched the video several times and it is certain that his emotion got the...

This is very simple. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs went out of his way today to blast CNBC's Rick Santelli for his "rant" yesterday against Obama's mortgage assistance plan. The early press reaction asks why the White House would give Santelli free publicity and elevate him to Official status? Easy: they'd rather the opposition be identified with Santelli and stock brokers than with, say, a Joe the Plumber type (but who actually is a plumber and who has serious real reservations about the mortgage plan). Let opponents of the plan get into a tizzy, and let them have Santelli...

This man tears Obama press secretary Gibbs apart in defense of Rick Santalli. Line by line he shows what a liar this Obama man is.