The ‘reactive chorus’ rose, if inartfully, against the sweeping and untrue defensive term “apparently the only way they can try to also implicate Democrats”. Try not to kill the messanger.

There are lots of DEMs being held culpable for abetting the GOP and K Street here.

Plenty of DEMs, elected or not, also ‘made theirs’ out of the collective billions eked out of American/global pockets during this housing bubble manipulation.

This in no way detracts from the sweetness of a Gotcha Gingrich post.

newt says lobbyists are to blame

newt was a lobbyist

Sharon completely misses the point and anything delaware liberal posts she defends the republican no matter what without reading the actual article

Sharon on Definition of a Hypocrite

Noting to any and all who are following this drama that both Sharon and Liz needed to make up something that I never wrote to even have something to criticize. Notwithstanding the Comedy Gold of Sharon actually defending more of the Fannie and Freddie show. That, I think, is enough to get you drummed out of the wingnut brigade. But then, we are talking about hypocrisy — and here you both are!

Thanks for playing, ladies!

Liz, you’re right about Cassandra. I love the whole “I didn’t say Dodd and Frank!” when it was perfectly obvious that she was excluding any Democrats (and Dodd & Frank are) from the cursed class of persons receiving money from Fannie and Freddie. And, as usual, she completely ignores the various Fannie and Freddie people in the Obama campaign. But that’s to be expected.

(hah! did I just say that?)

Casandra you cant say that Dodd and Frank werent involved…they were

She didn’t say that. Your reading comprehension is as bad as your spelling. What she was talking about was that there is a demonstrably false idea out there that Fannie and Freddie are the cause of the current crisis. Fannie and Freddie deserve their share of scorn for their business failures, but they do not originate mortages nor regulate mortgage underwriting.

Bill Clinton was just as involved in outsourcing america as were the republicans. Truth is truth, facts are facts, and none of them can be let off the hook.

That said, I can’t say I am surprised that Newt is wrapped up in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac river of money. Half of McCain’s campaign team was too. It is no wonder with their fingers in the pie too that they keep insisting that Fannie and Freddie are the cause of the current meltdown. That is quite wrong, of course, but this is apparently the only way they can try to also implicate Democrats.