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Barney Frank plays the race card (surprise)
Sister Toldjah —
... in this country anymore, Frank has just demonstrated why. He brings up race in this issue because he doesn’t want to have a discussion about the root causes of this problem - or at least not a discussion that would include his and his party’s significant role in this economic crisis. It’s an attempt to set the parameters for the debate by cutting it off at the knees. I hope Republicans on the Hill, for once, do not fall for it.
Hat tip: Ed Morrissey
The all-purpose excuse
Betsy's Page —
... o had a wonderful send-up of this malarkey. Now we're seeing this all-purpose excuse being expanded to answer criticisms of Congress for not exercising sufficient oversight of what was being done with these sub-prime mortgages. Ed Morrissey has the story. Barney Frank is now lashing out at people who are critical of Congress's role, spurred on mostly by Democrats, of encouraging subprime loans to poor people, many of whom were black. Morrissey explodes this piffle. In that sense, the CRA [Community Reinvestment Act] is a bit of a red herring. The real cause of the collapse ...
Has Barney Frank No Shame?
GayPatriot —
... Ed Morrissey who alerted me to Barney’s latest comment provides a nice summary of the conservative view of the mortgage meltdown which I provide below the jump (H/t ...
1984 finally arrived 24 years later.
Rachel Lucas —
... SNL did a skit this weekend about the bailout, which was actually shockingly accurate and fair, including implicating George Soros and Democrats in general. But you can’t watch the video of that skit now because it’s gone, gone from YouTube and Hulu and the NBC video page.
Malkin has screenshots and the transcript of the skit, and also a theory: Soros made some phone calls.
It just keeps getting more fun every day.
Also meanwhile, you’re a racist if you think the meltdown had anything to do with the Community ...
Barney Frank: Only a Racist Would Criticize Me
The Sundries Shack —
Yesterday, we learned that if you criticize Barack Obama for his long association with an anti-American scumbag terrorist who became the darling of the Chicago political scene, you’re a racist.
Today, if you criticize Democrats in any way for their responsibility in this financial crisis, you’re also a racist. That’s according to Barney Frank, whose boyfriend was a VP for Fannie Mae while he sat on the House Committee that had oversight duties of the government-sponsored entity and who repeatedly said that there was no ...
Democratic Barney Frank Blames Republican Subprime Anger on Racism
PoliGazette —
... United States Representative Barney Frank (Democrat) blamed criticism of Republicans about subprime lending - the habit of the government to force companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to hand out mortgages to individuals who would not be able to pay those mortgages back if something happened to the housing market - on ...
CARNIVAL OF THE INSANITIES
Dr. Sanity —
... perfectly ok to link McCain to Bush, but linking Obama to Ayers is "guilt by association". Exultent in their hypocrisy . 3. Education reform we can all believe in...NOT. 4. ATTN: all those who would dare criticize our Dear Leader...STOP RIGHT NOW;or, you'll be put on the appropriate medication Just a thought:when you're a hammer racist, everything looks like a nail racially-tinged. And, frankly, that goes for him, too. It's a matter of free-Associated Press. 5. An air of ...
Barney Frank: A Cowardly Hater
Pajamas Media —
... of our age. Such a flippant and illogical term exemplifies PC-speak. Rep. Frank has a long history of cowardice and mindless aggression in regards to his ideological foes. Identity politics are his trademark and last fall he even suggested that racism was the force behind those who questioned the wisdom of passing the Community Reinvestment Act ...
