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What is wrong with these people?
http://www.gallup.com/poll/110050/Gallup-Daily-...
Honestly, after having been caught in 2004 purposefully skewing their poll results to favor the republicans I don't know why they are given any credibility at all.
I wonder if MSNBC is reverting back to its Faux lite ways.
This is terrible. Why is Fox allowed to voice prejudice and misleading information, and if Olberman and Matthews call anything into question, they are pulled off the chairs?
Who got to MSNBC?????
I wondered why Olberman was not on his show Friday night when he said he was going to have a special comment about it.
Kilkenny letter, and others, are real about Sarah Palin:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/sarahpal...
Here is the NY Times' article on Olbermann's & Matthew's demotions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/business/medi...
It's good to return both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to government control. They were originally government agencies doing government business to maintain an even keel in the real estate business. That was good work. The evil was to privatize them. That evil resulted in more evil, a terrible collapse and mismanagement that is attributed to greed. Putting both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac back under government control is a sensible first step back to a proper set of guidelines and legitimate limits.
It is not an attack on future tax payers, it's a welcome step back into a carefully managed economy. The free-for-all is over. Hopefully.
"Gramm’s role in the swift and dramatic recent restructuring of the nation’s investment houses and practices didn’t stop there.
"A year after the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act repealed the old regulations, Swiss Bank UBS gobbled up brokerage house Paine Weber. Two years later, Gramm settled in as a vice chairman of UBS’s new investment banking arm.
"Later, he became a major player in its government affairs operation. According to federal lobbying disclosure records, Gramm lobbied Congress, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department about banking and mortgage issues in 2005 and 2006.
During those years, the mortgage industry pressed Congress to roll back strong state rules that sought to stem the rise of predatory tactics used by lenders and brokers to place homeowners in high-cost mortgages.
For his work, Gramm and two other lobbyists collected $750,000 in fees from UBS’s American subsidiary. In the past year, UBS has written down more than $18 billion in exposure to subprime loans and other risky securities and is considering cutting as many as 8,000 jobs."
The link is here: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9246....
This point needs to be made forcefully as it is outrageous for McCain to claim that he will be the solution when his top economic adviser is a major cause of the problem.