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  palin either is stupid and can't understand the question or she does not listen. either way, she scares the bush jr out of this conservative USAF Veteran.

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We're All Homeowners Now
The Next Right —  

NRCC Ad: Naming Names
Ace of Spades HQ — NRCC Ad: Naming Names More of this. More of this. Nothing but this for the next 32 days. The election hangs on this single issue. The public believes Republicans caused this disaster, and we'll lose based on that misperception. The Democrats actually caused it -- but Republicans, beginning at the top off the ticket, are inexplicably shy about saying so. More of this. More of this. If this US News blog post is correct, ...

New Ad Puts Blame Squarely Where It Belongs In Financial Crisis
Nice Deb — Naturally, they’re all Democrat names. Don’t believe your lying eyes? Check Snopes. Do we really want these people to control congress, and the White House? Really? Hat tip: Ace        ...

“What Just Happened?” - More Dems On Fannie & Freddie Health in ‘04
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —

Awesome: New GOP ad lowers the boom on Dems over subprime disaster
Hot Air » Top Picks — Awesome: New GOP ad lowers the boom on Dems over subprime disaster posted at 5:15 pm on October 3, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Via Ace . Gut reaction: One of the best ads I’ve seen this year, although part of that feeling admittedly is due to the intensity of my bitterness at the Democrats over this. I want to see them punished for it, this ad punishes them, ergo it starts off already halfway to being a “great” ad. Biases aside, though, try getting and holding a viewer’s attention for 90 seconds on a subject as dry and complicated as mortgage policy. Does this do it? Thanks to the arresting ...

What Just Happened?
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — Oh, it's good. via HotAir

A Little Classical Music To Accompany Classical Values
Classical Values — A Little Classical Music To Accompany Classical Values

Re: Going for the Gut
Weekly Standard Blog — The National Republican Congressional Committee are hitting the Democrats on Fannie and Freddie: Hat tip: John Henke

New GOP Ad Nails Democrats Over Financial Crisis
Stop The ACLU — Stop The ACLU Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Home About Us Petitions Email Store Log in Register Friday Links An American Carol opens today — support conservative films and go see it! New GOP Ad Nails Democrats Over Financial Crisis Posted on October 3, 2008 » Filed Under 1st Amendment , Democrats , Economy , News , Politics As Usual Trackback URL Comments Leave a Reply Name (required) Email Address(required) Website Comments for this post will be closed on 10 October 2008. Friday Links An ...

'But Everybody Wants to Avoid It Because He’s Gay...'
JammieWearingFool — Well, there's no longer any avoiding it . It's demonstrably clear Barney Frank's fingerprints are all over the financial mess, yet the media takes every measure to avoid reality. Unqualified home buyers were not the only ones who benefitted from Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank’s efforts to deregulate Fannie Mae throughout the 1990s. So did Frank’s partner, a Fannie Mae executive at the forefront of the agency’s push to relax lending restrictions. Now that Fannie Mae is at the epicenter of a financial meltdown that threatens the U.S. economy , some are raising new questions about Frank's relationship with Herb Moses, who was Fannie’s ...

What Just Happened?
The Jawa Report — October 03, 2008 What Just Happened? Good new ad from the NRCC - not letting Barney Frank (D), Maxine Waters (Communist) or anyone else off the hook. Probably too little too late. Ten bucks says they get some cease and desist letter for copyright infringement for something. By Good Lt. at October 3, 2008 05:05 PM | | l digg this ...

So Who's Responsible for the Fannie and Freddie Debacle?
Wizbang — The Democrats are responsible and this advertisement points fingers and names names - finally. It's brutal in its indictment of the House Democrats for getting us into this damn mess:... ...

Quick review of recent events -
Silent Running — Quick review of recent events - | October 3rd, 2008 Great. Just freekin great. US Politics | Wind Rider | trackback No Responses to 'Quick review of recent events -' No Comments yet - Speak up, people! Leave a Reply Name *Mandatory Mail *Mandatory (not displayed when posted) Website

What Just Happened?
The Corner on National Review Online — Friday, October 03, 2008 [image] What Just Happened? [ Stephen Spruiell ] Great new ad from the NRCC: McCain needs to run with this. Now. 10/03 06:07 PM

RNC Ad Shows Fannie & Freddie Tied to Democrats
Say Anything — This should prove to be a very effective ad. The Dems can’t contradict the facts and the narrative is easily understood. It’s time this albatross was hung around the neck of Democrats where it belongs! Hat tip Hot Air Cross Posted at Proof Positive ...

Republicans: A Week Late and 700 Billion Dollars Short.
The Sundries Shack — What a devastating ad the Republicans released today. Sure wish they had thought of this last week, WHEN IT WOULD HAVE DONE SOME GOOD! And only today we find out that while Barney Frank was sitting on the House banking Committee telling Fannie Mae exactly what to do, his boyfriend was a Vice President with Fannie Mae. Man, wouldn’t that have been something we should have seen in a newspaper, or an NRCC press release, when his goofy mug was plastered on my television screen every freaking day for over a week telling me just how much he ...

What Just Happened?
Flopping Aces — The ad we’ve all been waiting for: ...

What Happened?
Power Line — The NRC has released this ad, which briefly and pretty effectively recounts the background on the current housing and financial crisis: Via Dartblog .

What Just Happened?
Boots and Sabers — Total Entries: 13824 Total Comments: 70551 Total Trackbacks: 979 Most Recent Entry: 10/03/2008 08:11 pm Most Recent Comment on: 10/03/2008 08:14 pm Total Members: 570 Total Logged in members: 6 Total guests: 103 Total anonymous users: 0 Most Recent Visitor on: 10/03/2008 08:35 pm The most visitors ever was 538 on 12/01/2007 02:11 pm Current Logged-in Members: Fuzz ...

The DC Nuke & the Saving Monks
The Anchoress — Random Thoughts is writing about what is happening to her finances. No one has defended President Bush more than I have during his time in office. No one. But his signing the “bailout bill” that Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the rest of them were giddy over this afternoon - it has stunned me. When I heard Joe Biden talk about giving courts the power to reset mortgage principles I thought he’d simply misspoken. Today I see it is a central point in this garbage “bailout” that I am less-and-less persuaded we “absolutely” needed, this ...

More, Please
The LLama Butchers — More, Please Posted by Robert at October 3, 2008 10:17 PM | TrackBack

This is how you make a political ad...
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator — This is how you make a political ad... H/T AllahPundit . Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at October 4, 2008 01:35 AM Comments Post a comment

What just happened? Obama Biden - video
USS Neverdock — It gets worse. 2. I would just add the following to Steve's excellent "How to explain Fannie & Freddie simply and in 30 seconds or less": Executive compensation: Franklin Raines ( Obama adviser and Fannie CEO 1999-2004): $90 million Jim Johnson ( Obama adviser and Fannie CEO 1991-1998): $21 million in 1998 alone — which, as Byron has detailed , was initially concealed from the public) (I haven't been able to find, in a quick search, how many more millions he made from 1991-1997) Jamie Gorelick (former Clinton administrat ion Deputy AG & Fannie vice chair 1998-2003): $26 million. Campaign Contributions Barack ...

And This
Right Wing Nation — And this:

RNCC on the Attack on Freddie and Fannie
PoliGazette — The Republican National Congressional Committee has decided to launch an attack on Democrats on their affiliation with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The ad is obviously aimed at Democrats and produced by a highly biased source, but it captures the pro-Fannie and Freddie policies of Democratic Congressional leaders in recent years quite well. ...

The Gloves Are Officially Off
California Conservative — This ad from the NRCC marks the official taking off of the gloves. This signals that they’re bringing the heavy artillery out. Check this out: It isn’t easy to hold people’s attention for 90 seconds. This video does. Bravo. Technorati Tags: NRCC, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Barney Frank, ...

Bill Dyer: The genesis of, and last clear chance to avoid, the national crap sandwich
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — This is an excellent video (follow this link for now ; I'll keep trying to get it to display properly here). The only improvement I could imagine for this spot would be at least a prominent mention of Senate Bill 190 in the 190th Congress, the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 . First introduced on January 26, 2005, its first listed purpose was to establish "an independent Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Agency which shall have authority over the Federal Home Loan Bank Finance Corporation, the Federal Home Loan Banks, the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and the Federal Home Loan ...

Hell to Pay: Brown v. McClintock Edition
Daily Kos — Senator Tom McClintock, R - Thousand Oaks, is running against Democrat and Ret. Lt. Col. Charlie Brown in the 4th Congressional District. --News10ABC To get a taste of how absurd that sentence is, you need to be familiar with California geography. How far would carpetbagger Tom McClintock have to drive from his Thousand Oaks home in order to vote for himself in the district in which he's running? Oh ... about 400 miles. Oh, wait. He's not eligible to vote in CA-04. My bad. But the distance between conservative carpetbagger darling Tom McClintock and our ...

Maybe It Wasn’t Sarah’s Fault
Patterico's Pontifications — I’m beginning to think I may have seriously slandered Sarah Palin. I’m serious about this. Let me explain. Although I watched the Katie Couric interviews and cringed, I was willing to give Palin a chance in the debate. After all, I supported her before she was picked. I know she’s a bright woman who has a solid record of accomplishment in Alaska. And I know she knows how to debate. So, unlike the rest of the country, I didn’t expect her to fall on her face. I wanted to see her go in there and kick Biden’s rear end. I was terribly disappointed at the beginning of the debate, when she gave ...

Something to ponder when voting next month...
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. — All the unintended consequences. The Democrats weren't out to destroy the economy and damage pension fund investors (or us, here at Castle Argghhh!) when they started putting the arm on the mortgage industry to make loans to less-than-stellar credit risks. They had an honest goal in mind - to get more people otherwise on the margin into home-ownership, and a lot of the positives that derive from that, cascading into 2nd and 3rd order effects. They were protecting their program when Barney Frank told us everything was okay, and resisting regulation of Fannie and Freddie when the alarm was being raised by the Republicans. They were being ...

Palin’s Debate Reviews Are In…
Pajamas Media — All agree she did good. But will it make a difference? [image] In essence, the mainstream media reviews of Sarah Palin’s competent performance in the vice presidential debate actually didn’t much differ from those of the conservative media, although the implications of her mastery of the debate format were hotly disputed. In short, she beat the spread ...

National Republican Congressional Committee Blasts Democrats On Bailout
Say Anything — More of this please: Make no doubt it about, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are at the very heart of our current economic downturn.  Those two government sponsored entities (literally called GSE’s in government acronym speak) owned or secured 51% of the nation’s $12 trillion mortgage market.  When they went, the housing market went.  And when the housing market went, a good chunk of our overall economy went with it. And it all happened because of stupid government policies and the liberal politicians who backed them. ...

Note to Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis: It IS The Economy Stupid
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — National Republican Congressional Committee Ad: What Just Happened? on the financial meltdown caused by the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Memo to Team McCain, including Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis entitled: IT IS THE ECONOMY STUPID. ...

Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: Want more Fannie Mae disasters for your kids? Then Vote Democrat!
Doug Ross @ Journal — [image] • YouTube : What Just Happened? • New York Post : The Lies Biden Told. • Jammie Wearing Fool : Welcome to Camp Obama. • American Thinker : Fannie Mae's Easy Credit -- Nine years ago, Steven Holmes of the New York Times wrote admiringly of the way Bill Clinton and the Democrats could claim credit for "Eas[ing] Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending." It amounts to a map of how Bill Clinton and Democrats created this crisis... • Moonage Political Webdream : Jamie Gorelick's BAAACCCKKK! -- I will admit Jamie Gorelick’s life reads like a movie. Only problem is it would be a bizarro Forrest Gump ...

Okay: Let's Go!
Little Miss Attila — Okay: Let's Go! How did we get here? Fannie and Freddie had friends in Congress that enabled them to continue operating in an unsound manner. h/t: AllahP Spread the word.

Open Thread
Moonbattery — On a tip from V the K.

L.A. Times Distorts the Record on Responsibility for the Mortgage Crisis
Patterico's Pontifications — [Written by Patterico but posted by DRJ.] The Los Angeles Times has a typically ridiculous article about who is to blame for the mortgage crisis. Not surprisingly, it includes almost every liberal claim floating around out there, and eliminates virtually every fact that might indicate Democrat inaction and Republican action. The headline reads: In D.C., few evade blame for financial crisis. The deck headline reads: Congress had a big hand in oversight failures and deregulation, in part through a philosophy of reducing government’s role. Rep. Waxman begins hearings ...

Maybe McCain does want to win: He finally attacks Obama on Fannie/Freddie
Michelle Malkin — Last week, the McCain campaign said it would be too complicated and politically incorrect to blast Obama for his Fannie/Freddie complicity. [...] Read the rest »

John McCain Finally Blasts Obama and Democrats Over Fannie Mae Financial Crisis
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — National Republican Congressional Committee Ad: What Just Happened? on the financial meltdown caused by the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Flap said yesterday that Team McCain needed to attack the Democrats and Barack Obama on the financial crisis, ...

McCain Hits Dems, Obama On Financial Mess
Riehl World View — It's about time. McCain starts attacking Obama on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That significant portion of our current problem needs to be placed squarely where it belongs - on the Democrats in Congress and even Obama himself. He took their money, hired them for his campaign - he needs to be forced to own it, as he'll never take responsibility for anything left to his own device. Our current economic crisis is a good case in point. What was his actual record in the years before the great economic crisis of our lifetimes? This crisis started in our housing market in the form of subprime loans that were pushed ...

Must Watch/Must Email Videos
Ace of Spades HQ — Must Watch/Must Email Videos Viral attacks truth is where it's at in 2008. Democrats in their own words: Watch through to at least Barney Frank's comments about a "general shibboleth about soundness" and "wanting to roll the dice" in favor of affordable housing. Link. ...

Helping With the Burst Here
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler — Because some videos just need to be seen by people far and wide, so watch ‘em and spread ‘em. And thanks to LC & IB Ace for putting them up. Know how the Obaminable Blowman and his Donks are blaming the Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae collapse on “Republican deregulation?” O RLY? Let us take you back to 2004. Watch how Dhimmiswine react to an, ahem, REPUBLICAN trying desperately to get some regulation pushed through because he’s worried that otherwise the two are going to collapse and create a huge mess to clean up. You know, like they actually did 4 years later: YouTube Preview Image Or how about this one, a short timeline of what ...

Democrat Fannie/Freddie Defense: LIE
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Maxine Waters Gives a Sneak Peek The lamestream media has been doing a pretty good job of shielding Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats from blame in the current credit crisis. It's therefore no surprise that when Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) was called out for it by Steve Moore, her first instinct was to lie: Waters denied having received donations from the Fannie and Freddie, but Open Secrets revealed a month ago that she had. She insists that she supported sensible regulations, when the videotape shows the opposite. HT: ...

Surprise: Negative ad that hits Obama on Fannie and Freddie proves highly effective
Hot Air » Top Picks — Surprise: Negative ad that hits Obama on Fannie and Freddie proves highly effective posted at 2:10 pm on October 15, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly How long has the righty blogosphere been screaming at the RNC to go nuclear on this? No ad we’ve posted this year got as much grassroots buzz as that “What Just Happened?” dynamo that leveled the Dems on this same subject. Why McCain’s made Ayers the centerpiece of the attacks instead, I’ll never know, especially with Democratic voters reacting almost as well to this spot as Republicans did. Presumably, Team Maverick’s own focus groups are ...

Negative ad that hits Obama on Fannie and Freddie proves highly effective
Hyscience — AllahPundit is raving about these ads and says this is what McCain has needed all along - to finally go nuclear. After watching them you'll agree!: How long has the righty blogosphere been screaming at the RNC to go nuclear on this? No ad we've posted this year got as much grassroots buzz as that "What Just Happened?" dynamo that leveled the Dems on this same subject. Why McCain's made Ayers the centerpiece of the attacks instead, I'll never know, especially with Democratic voters reacting almost as well to this spot as Republicans did. Presumably, Team Maverick's own focus groups are populated with nuts like ...

What Just Happened?
Dean's World — Democrats on Fannie and Freddie, in their own words. Hard to believe this ad isn’t running all over.

For the First Time Ever: An Entire Post Swiped From Hot Air
Ace of Spades HQ — For the First Time Ever: An Entire Post Swiped From Hot Air Since you guys don't believe me. Believe the focus group. Please watch the clip below the fold. Let me quote: "This tested the highest ever of any negative ad in this entire campaign." Surprise: Negative ad that hits Obama on Fannie and Freddie proves highly effective How long has the righty blogosphere been screaming at the RNC to go nuclear on this? No ad we’ve posted this year got as much grassroots buzz as that “What Just Happened?” dynamo that leveled the Dems on this same subject. Why McCain’s made Ayers the centerpiece of the attacks instead, I’ll never know, especially ...

Obama and the crisis - video
USS Neverdock —

Que Paso?
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator — Que Paso? Posted by Val Prieto at October 16, 2008 08:04 AM Comments Post a comment

Ace’s Proposed Insurrection
Patterico's Pontifications — The media is not going to do anything to help John McCain, ladies and gentlemen. The media will give us stories like this: [T]he 90-minute debate was a perfect distillation of McCain’s general election campaign, with all of its inconsistent messages. He spoke passionately about education and free trade and put Obama on the policy defensive more than in previous debates, but he also spent precious minutes bickering over a domestic radical [note well" "radical" and not "terrorist" -- P] from the 1960s. He spoke of his desire to reach peaceably across the aisle, while at times exuding what ...

Help voters understand "what just happened
BatesLine — If you'd like to help the rest of America see this ad -- on TV, not just the Internet -- so they can understand the role that Barack Obama and congressional Democrats played in the mortgage meltdown, please contribute to the American Issues Project ...

Obama - What just happened? - video
USS Neverdock —

Barney Frank Blames Republicans for Freddie/Fannie Failure
Weekly Standard Blog — In response to Republican demands that Congress investigate how Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae imploded, Barney Frank said today: “In an unusual event, even by this year’s standards, House Republicans appear to be demanding a criminal investigation of their failure to legislate,” said Frank in a statement. “The Republican demand that their legislative record of non-action be investigated appears to be the political equivalent of the note left to the police by serial offenders: stop me before I do not legislate again.” This is the same Barney Frank who said in 2003: ...

Unprecedented Fearmongering
California Conservative — Anytime President Bush warned us about being vigilant as we fought the terrorists, Democrats would chastize him for playing on people’s fears. It’s to be expected, though, that these same Democrats aren’t critical after President-Elect Obama delivered a speech that’s mostly fearmongering with a tiny hint of optimism. It’s impossible to miss the pessimism in his opening: We start 2009 in the midst of a crisis unlike any we have seen in our lifetime, a crisis that has only deepened over the last few weeks. Nearly 2 million jobs have been now lost. And on Friday, ...