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Well come on. Did you really think his Democrat buddies would let him down … I do love the admonishment. Hey, when they told you that you were a VIP … you should have known. Indeed. The committee told both men that while they may not have violated Senate rules, the simple fact that they…
Hot Air points to this video from the CBS evening news last Friday, that shows how wide spread the Countrywide VIP loan program for Congressional leaders. Dodd and Conrad are still the marquis names … but there are more.
Newt always calls it like he sees it and in this case listen to what he has to say about Connecticut’s senior Senator Chris Dodd. At the heart of this mess, and a beneficiary of Fannie Mae largesse … Newt says he should step aside … but he says it with feeling.
Great show today. Fox Business Channel’s Dave Ramsey, out of Nashville, will be joining us this morning to talk personal finance … and the folks who are campaigning to Dump Dodd in 2010 will sound off later in the show. Just to wet your appetite … here’s my classic Dave Ramsey moment. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdBDgLPgBPQ
A piece of the Dodd-Frank “Financial Reform” bill recently signed into law creates a new Bureau of Consumer Protection. No one is really sure what this new “bureau” will do that isn’t already being done by several other bureaus, or agencies, or sections, or departments, but we now have this nifty new, and yes, costly,…
Well it seems that Kevin Rennie was correct. It seems I was correct. It seems your better instincts were correct. That Irish cottage that the senior Senator bought for a song with the help of his financial friends is worth just a little bit more than he had disclosed. OK … more than a little…
OK … lukewarm … but both the Hartford Courant .. Mr. Dodd should have released the documents months ago. Countrywide was a major player in the subprime mortgage debacle. Five years ago, it issued the loans to Mr. Dodd, then a member of the Senate banking committee, as part of the company’s VIP program, trimming…
Here’s the headline from the JI: Simmons weighs run for Senate And about time. Dodd’s vulnerable … his tenure alone makes him vulnerable. Add to that his reluctance to come clean on his mortgages and his stunning lack of leadership at best and complicity at worst during the mortgage meltdown makes him a liability as…
Anything that creates a new government bureaucracy is a bad idea in my mind. The feds have trouble getting the ones they have to work properly. No where has that been seen better than in the financial meltdown.
Last week we posted Newt Gingrich’s speech where he called on Americans not to give up the fight to stop an out of control expanding government. Don’t tell me you’re tired, he said, not when Washington’s troops kept fighting in the snow, even when they had no shoes.