If you’ve ever complained that the people who run the government just don’t understand what it’s like for the little guy, this story is for you.
Laura Richardson of Long Beach, California, just saw her house go into foreclosure like so many other Americans this year.
Just one little thing that’s special: she is a member of Congress.
You may recall our previous discussions of the House of Cards that is this administration’s concept of a housing policy:
The government got rid of the speed limit and the brakes and all the guardrails, and woohoo! Anything goes in the financial markets.
Mortgages were given to people who couldn’t possibly pay them back, bad debts were put in a dress and high heels and resold as speculative financial instruments, and now everybody owes everybody. But I’m sure everything is fine.
We have been warned that the storm was approaching.
But Congress didn’t seem to care very much, this was only a problem for the little people. Well, not any more:
She bought the three-bedroom, 1 1/2-bath home in the state capital for $535,500. The bill collectors started knocking soon after.
The city utility department placed a lien on her property in June 2007….
In December, she received a default notice on the mortgage from the collection agency of Washington Mutual….
County records show the property was sold to a company called Red Rock Mortgage Inc. of Sacramento.
Richardson says the house isn’t really in foreclosure. Um hm, that explains this sad visual:
A real estate agent’s lock box hung Wednesday from the front door of the 1926-vintage house.
Hello, Congress? The people, you know — the ones you were elected to represent — are hurting out here. A lot of people have lost their houses already. Many, many more are on the edge.
If *this* is what it takes to get your attention, so be it.
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So, Egregious!
Eg!
Egregious!
Wow, you’d think one of their own having a house foreclosed would get their attention.
boy the posts are coming fast & furious …. Hey Ann…. is it cold enough for you?
EG!
Speaking of fast and furious, how ’bout those McCainiac rejections…first Hagee, now, evidently Parsley as well.
Greetings earthlings!
Hey, I am here early enough to be on topic.
Hey, eg, you are the perfect nightcap, oh lady oh the west….
A California Democrat in a mortgage pinch – I’ll bet the Congress will get right on it.
I really enjoyed today! A nice break from the one teens of the last few days. I don’t think I was ready for that yet. But I did my good deed for today! A kitty was hanging around my house for a week or two now, and today I was able to get close enough to read her name tag and the phone number on it. I called the number and the lady called me back very shortly saying her cat had been missing for about 3 weeks or so. She said her neighbor has been taking the cat and driving it some distance from her house; she thought the cat was dead. I’m so glad I could return the kitty to her home. I figure this must pay me forward for a week or two at least.
eg, what i remember from the coverage of this is that she got a no down payment loan on a second residence – you know, that must make her one of those irresponsible bad loan borrowers the R’s are always blaming as the cause of the housing crisis.
Well, we hope something gets the attention of Congress. And not just to bail out the banks that gave out mortgages to people who *they knew* couldn’t pay them back, just to get the fees and record the phony “income” on their balance sheets. It’s all about the stock price and the stock options, screw the country.
I wish he would reject Arizona. We would feel better about ourselves here. Maybe he can become a Texan.
evidently this ABC report got his attention.
The SF mayor talking about the gay marriage ban overturn noted “As California goes, so goes the nation….” Women sleeping in their cars in gated parking lots in Santa Barbara, a Congresswoman’s home in foreclosure.
What will it take to turn this around?
A star in your good deed book. Nice.
To get a no down payment loan, it’s supposed to be your primary residence, ie where you live, and still should have proof that it’s possible to repay the loan. The borrower had no business taking out this kind of money [but the price of houses always goes up!!] and the bank had no business giving out the mortgage. Plenty of blame for everybody here.
Whoo-hoo, I had a job interview this morn, and, after a physical, I’ll be working 3-4 nights a week atop Mauna Kea in one of the Observatories tinkering on lasers…! 8-)
Regulation….. oversight…… are the true cure but I don’t think we can move past the wingnut “free market” stuff until more are hurting….
After watching the FDR special on PBS – seeing the years leading up to the great depression and how FDR worked to pull the country out of it…. I am afraid that the country has not hit bottom so that it can recover…..
congrats and jealous glare from this astronomy buff
Congrats….. is it Partay time?
Sounds interesting and beautiful. Congrats, CT. Maybe get pictures for us from up there.
CT that is stellar news ;)
For those who missed it, Clusterfuck got a rousing 23% JAR from Zogby yesterday.
Congratulations Mr. President.
Dress very warmly and tell the Universe that we are trying to set things right down here!
Just don’t aim them my way … *g*
Evenin’ all !
iirc, she bought the home with the intention of living in it but then she ran for the seat vacated by the death of a fellow congresswoman, a district where she already had a home.
can we foreclose on the whitehouse’s occupants since we the people own it and the current occupants have squandered the goodwill with which they were allowed to occupy it?
I just need to take a physical to determine if I can handle the altitude, of which I think I’ll pass with flying colors…!
LOL
Brava CT!
And katymine, I fear you may be right.
How high is it? Nosebleed high?
Heh, I know… I’ll have to dust off my ancient winter wear…!
I’m starting to listen to Ed Shultz on a regular basis, though he can get on my nerves if I listen too long, but basically like him.
A caller told him that the way to reach KY is to visit them. They are so poor that the only thing they have going for them is pride and skin color. If someone came and talked honestly about helping them, it might change their mind, but they can’t relate.
She also told him about HillybillyHousewife.com and how that person has “emergency” weekly menus for $45. He’s going to call her up.
Friday news dump….
McCain Restricts Medical Records:
“Their houses are made of grass” high … *g*
Obviously, she didn’t exercise enough “personal responsibility” or she wouldn’t be in this situation! Seriously, I wonder if she’s tried to talk to the financier about a workout. Many people don’t know that is a possibility, but you’d be surprised what you can talk a mortgage company into when they’re facing the prospect of having another wasting asset on their books and a low potential for a fast sale. Surely this legislator is not an attorney or she would be better equipped to deal with this problem.
Just a couple hundred feet shy of 14,000 ft…! I do dread the winter months, as they make sure you bring extra gear and foodstuffs when the roads get snowed in…!
Hey, Parsley is just the garnish for this week’s menu of foibles.
Preachers and lobbyists both.
can ya get snow tires in paradise ct?
Great post Egregious!
Hey, Dood!
Is the bear Catholic?
are you going to drive to your new job in a super Nova?
nyuck, nyuck…
I enlisted a new reader this afternoon, big shoutout to Scott if you are reading this!
Good question, I’ve never seen ‘em!
F me.
Wonderful! Congratulations! Hoo rah!
That’s wonderful! Congratulations!
David Neiwert’s post on “bushvilles” was a good one.
FWIW Santa Barbara is Reagan country…
Wow! Good for you CTuttle. But can you whisper from work?
*groan* They provide the transportation to control traffic on the mountain!
ET can get you a sled dog team I am sure.
Ed can be a good guy but he has a large ego….. Wendy, his wife is his moderator….. Met them both when they were here and Wendy & I exchanged emails for a couple of years….. then he trashed our state rep over the treatment of the Katrina evacuees and that was it for me…
are you one of them Road Scholars then?
Start a petition, Suz!
That is so awesome I don’t know what to say except;
WHOO HOO!
Wow.
He can be excused if he takes Kyl with him! Just the two of them–go, please!
At least he’s letting the Arizona Republic see them. They’ll probably have the best stories about the McCain’s medical info.
From ABCNews … Woman loses home over $68 Dental Bill
Thank you LS!
I know they have computers that are linked to hi-speed lines…! I should be able to pop in every now and then from atop the mountain!
Why don’t they just beam you up ?
He raises good questions, good points, brings good guests, but yeah, the ego is too much in the foreground for me to swallow everything he says.
I listen to his show as sort of a thermometer and like to hear the callers.
No Way McCain. No, not, nyet.
Don’t tell me, NBC won’t be getting them either. Restricting them tells us all we need to know, doesn’t it?
Help! He’s fallen and he cain’t get up!
Sorry. I was going to lay off the age jokes but couldn’t help it.
Release ALL of McCain’s health records…it is a matter of National Security!!
Oh, I get it…McCain discussed his health with W, and so it is Executive Privilege.
I’m sick of this crappola!!
All kidding aside, it kinda is. Watch closely for who is picked for VP…
Good evening all. Thanks egregious.
exactly – mcsame didn’t pull this shizz when he was running in 2000 – his medical records were open without all these rules that make it sound as if his medical records were classified
maybe he got his friend cheney to use his special stamp on em
BTW, I want my MTV…! ;-)
Bite your tongue! We’ve got more than our fair share of dumbass Republicans in this state already, thank you very much. We don’t want any of yours!
That is exactly my main point about all of this. McLame is a “vehicle” to get an unelectable VP into office…soon to be the next P’nit.
How’re you feeling, Betsy ?
Wonderful, CT!
I just stumbled in, I missed Mark, dammit.
EG,
Killer post.
I guess maybe all these bullshit rose colored glasses articles I keep seeing just reinforces my belief that the MSM is an official arm of the governments propaganda machine.
We are SO fucked, but not if you ask a Sheeple!
Party on America, that burning smell is our economy, not McCains lousy ribs on the grill.
Nice catch, LS !
Still in a flare-up. Didn’t do anything or even leave the house today. :(
Maybe McGigilo’s new health records release falls under the new “unclassified but controlled” type of information.
Arrest them. Now.
I bet it’s someone who doesn’t partake of caffeine. Or alcohol.
I’m with you, Katymine. Big Ed’s ego was too irritating to bother listening anymore. To hear him tell it, he invented talk radio. Blech.
One reason Sheriff Joe gets such GREAT press from the Arizona Republic(ian) is that his cousin is one of their top reporters….. Ya think McBush has the same connections?
Too bad the Phoenix New Times can’t get a copy….. they post them on the internet so that Dr Kirk and I could review them….. dang
Actually, I think this mostly happens with unscrupulous mortgage brokers who don’t work for any particular bank. And so many people have been able to take out mortgages for 125% of their house’s value due to the amazingly fast rate of appreciation of home values for the past several years, that only 100% financing probably seemed a safe bet. Until the last year or so, when the values started going down, not up, nobody seemed to know that the bubble would burst and leave some folks holding the bag. As an example, last year when I refied my house, it appraised at $170K. I went for a walk the other day and a house on my block is for sale at $108K. The house has the same floorplan as mine. Thank goodness my mortgage amount was only for $93K, or I’d be worried.
Did you get some sleep ? Try my “sleep” MP3 file, it works like magic (I hope)
((((( TexBetsy ))))
Congrats! Sounds like fun!
*hand on monitor*
He’s 0 for 3 right now. The first candidate was “not gay”, the second was not “Christian”, and the third was not white. For a Republican Veep, those are all dealbreakers. I’m not sure why we’re bothering with the Kabuki theater here. There’s no way he’s going to pick anything but a Protestant heterosexual white man. So please don’t even bother trotting out Liddy Dole.
Hey Busted, thanks for the words of encouragement, much appreciated.
We’re gonna have Merkley back later in the campaign, this was just an introductory Blue America session to say howdy and congratulations. This guy can defeat Gordon Smith and put a real progressive Democrat in the Senate in place of a Republican. Very exciting race.
Here it comes:
Think Progress.
And good evening, EG. Thanks for this post. I have a friend who is desperately trying to sell her mother’s house.
Hmmmm…I’m feeling very ecumenical today!
Slept from 4 AM till 1 pm minus the time to answer a phone call at 9. ack!
Geez, how low can he go?!!
That’s not good, Ma’am! 8-(
Just to prove there is no climate change…. will post the temps this week
Saturday – 100
Sunday – 110
Monday – 109
Tuesday – 108
Wednesday – 98
Thursday – 57
They are getting ready to steal it again….McGigilo gets annointed by the corporate media..the Dem gets demonized and/or destroyed…the machine results won’t make sense. Just saying. History repeats itself. Fool me once, fool me twice, here comes the third time.
Never again am I going to dinner an hour away without my wheelchair and cushions and a lunchbox full of ice packs. Certainly not after working a “full” day.
But he might make your old ones look good by comparison.
Thanks for the update. I didn’t realize that the beauty contest was just round one…just courtesy?
I was so hoping for a pair of flip flops like Mitt & McCain!
Sending gobs of healing energy your way …
Do you think there will be a leak? EG could review them too, if time permitted. I didn’t know you were a doc, katymine.
Thank you.
i slept from 5am until 7:15 when i got woke up by a friend, 150 miles away, who thought the big wildfire was in my backyard – its not a threat to me as it started 15 miles east and south of me and is being pushed to the south/southwest by the high winds. made for an exciting wake up call tho.
finally got a nap this afternoon and only got woke up twice with calls from concerned family/friends.
i ask for absolution from all typos and misstatements in advance please.
Thank you for doing what you do and being who you are
Nurse….for 35 years….
Holy mercury, batman! where are you from (sorry i don’t remember/can’t figure it out)?
Hey Loo Hoo. While I can’t give advice on a particular property, housing prices out here are very unlikely to go up any time soon = couple of years. If she gets any kind of decent offer, take it. Or keep the house and rent it out, hoping to wait out the storm.
Banks are increasing their invisible inventory of houses by enormous amounts. When the banks start selling, this will destroy the prices across entire neighborhoods. I’m reading up and hope to have a post on this pretty soon. It’s the rest of the iceberg.
Ooh, you paid for your sins from yesterday’s meetup, eh?
This post is now open for Digging…
I am in a suburb of Phoenix…… it is raining cats & dogs right now….
dugg and thanks neuro
Will these news outlets not print these releases? What’s the use of a limited release – I thought the aim of this type of thing was so the public would know. I guess not any more.
I don’t know if people know, but housing in CA is extremely pricey and Santa Barbara is one of the most expensive areas. I can understand why someone would be tempted to take a no down payment loan. Before the crash it was unthinkable that housing prices in CA would ever go down. level off already high prices maybe, but never down.
Poor woman, and apparently she isn’t the only one
We’re having that hot and cold, fog and wind shift too. Tonight is an advisory for wind, and it’s raining like crazy. SoCal. Apparently the wind knocked over a semi on the 15.
No! No, no no! Not even if the move would increase the average Republican IQ in BOTH states! He’s yours! We don’t want him here!
Me too, Betsy.
This is just a guess but I suspect that the news outlet would need to sign a letter to guarantee privacy with penalties not to release the actual documents before they would be released.
So the sky just opened up over Arizona when McCain renounced Hagee, huh?
Snarky has a nice post up about 8th graders protesting against standardized tests by turning in empty papers.
And I have a picture of the Larry Craig BOBBLE-headed doll.
i heard it was a tornado that blew over that semi – is what my mom said her news was calling it (she’s in palm springs)
that sounds about right. have a communicator sign a nondisclosure statement. then what is the f’ing point?
God, he just gets stupider by the day. If he’s healthy he should be shouting it from the mountaintops!
Suzanne or lurking mod, please change 122 to BOBBLE-headed.
Thank you!
Wonderful post, egregious — but I got stuck reading the LATimes comments; apparently, the reason Congresswoman Richardson got into this trouble is — wait for it — she’s a DEMOCRAT.
What a buncha wackos over there!
I imagine if you walk into a Sacramento mortgage broker and say “I was just elected to the General Assembly, and I need to buy a house. Can you help me?” the answer is always “Yes ma’m, here’s your 110% loan, how much should we make that for?”
From the Congresswoman’s statement, it sounds like she’s had one hell of a year:
Hey EG! Just stumbled in after doing academic stuff. So, I read the post, and skimmed the comments.
EG! High five, or words similar. Great post, and great comments!
{{{{ betsy }}}}
i feel fortunate that i was forced to sell my house 2-1/2 yrs ago, right before the housing market started its nosedive. I was pretty depressed about it at the time, it was a blessing in disguise.
Speaking of which, I saw that the Methodists are pushing even harder to stop Shrub’s Lieberry…! ;-)
I’ll look forward to that post. My friend is trying to take care of her mom and put her kids through college. I suggested she take any offer too. It’s gone down $100 K in one year.
lurk fixed it for you
Na he came with three horsemen of the Apocalypse (veep picks) to make the full four up at his compound up at Sedona….. yep…. someone is weeping because they tarnished our lovely state…
I saw that over at the Treehouse and died laughing…!
I suspect that is the point – he isn’t healthy. Nobody who looks like he does could be healthy IMO.
((((( NDFG )))))
Tell AK thanks, I really appreciated his post on Main Core !
Dugg.
i’ve been on the market for a year and half
huge sigh
My partner keeps talking about moving to Santa Barbara, and I keep pointing out that the median house price is over $1,000,000. I don’t understand how you can have a viable city if houses are that expensive. The working people who run cities usually make anywhere from $20,000 to $100,000 a year. How can you afford housing on a salary like that?
Then why all the games? why doesn’t he say “hey privacy” like everything else? I’m so sick of games.
Thank you lurking mod!
It helps if I read to the end….. of the post at Huffpo…
Nothing is being released…. They get access….. take notes….. NO copies… no way to validate info…. boy is he tight with BushCo MO for sure
Have you buried St. Joseph face down in the yard yet?
I don’t know, but I need to actually read the article. I just got home from work and saw this. You guys have probably already had fun with it:
I HATE this special access sheiss!
last year
She did that months ago…!
Yep, when Banks begin selling their inventory, it’s going to get really bad.
Crist’s not gay! He has a girlfriend!
Probably, a parent told me Lake Elsinore.
wry lol. we did it once too. didn’t work but it turns out we are better off financially staying put.
glad you aresafe and sound!
Arnold looks pissed McSame didn’t wear a tie.
And what color is McCain, anyway?
Over and over –
What is McBush HIDING!!!
What is McBush HIDING!!!
What is McBush HIDING!!!
the truth
Is this for real? Forget about pdfs and the Internet. Can someone ask McCain if he’s ever heard of the Xerox machine? I’m sorry, but this isn’t “releasing your medical records”. It’s a very flimsy cover story for McCain to say, “I’ve already released my medical records.” No, you haven’t. Tell you what: We’ll all chip in to cover your costs at Kinko’s. We’ll also pay for copies of all of your wife’s tax returns. Someone (NYT, are you there?) needs to call bullshit here.
There you have it. It’s that new controlled access unclassified crap that McCain has no right to.
Must be ominous.
Who’s the VP??? Foggettabout McCain.
The Puke VP choice is the new King (in their minds).
There are two houses on my walk route that have been on the market for over a year…… there were 12 in total on a 2 mile route with For Sale signs out….
Seeing Ads on Teevee for Homes auctions like they police auctions…..
Or the lie.
People with condos are finding the fine print prohibits too many in the community from renting, so there’s a rent-waitlist at many condo boards. Can’t sell it, can’t rent it. Sounds like your home owns you, not the reverse.
Oh…and I have a primate nephew.
ding ding ding ding
He looks 100 years old in that photo. Going to look really bad standing on a stage with Obama – young, smart, attractive. Oh, my.
It’s redacted, no doubt.
Anybody heard anything about QuakerGirl lately. I keep worrying that I may have missed something now that I’m not seeing her name so much. If she’s around, I just want her to know that we’re still thinking of her and wishing her the best!
Anemic?
Inquiring minds want to know the guy’s Hct & HGB …. Hemocrit and Hemoglobin levels…. (red blood cell count)
ghost white?
That’s what I said! He’s NOT GAY!
I’m not in the mood for spoonfed sh*t about McNotatallwell’s health records.
I call major BS. This will boomerang bigtime.
Cheney is getting ready to install Romney or Jeb.
The news organizations participating in this charade need to be called out for the quisling collaborators they are. You wouldn’t see I F Stone signing up to part of the “press pool” on this Friday Follies.
Sanjay Gupta is going in for CNN, apparently. You know what a pitbull journalist he is….
The thing that gets me about the housing crisis is that there will be entire communities harmed by foreclosures in numbers large enough to create a sense of abandonment. Empty homes invite vandalism and worse. This will be the ruin of a lot of neighborhoods.
Were there any grownups in this process? The outcome was predicted years ago when the real estate bubble began.
400 pages of medical records strikes me as a lot of medical records. More than you would have if you went in for regular, uneventful checkups, for instance.
Yes. Quislings, Quislings, Quislings…the world’s been to this rodeo before.
and only 3 hours to look at them with other news organizations doing the same.
looks like they are trying to hide something in plain sight by putting vasoline on the lens
Please don’t call it “his” compound. You know — all the houses are belong to Trollope.
He is a cancer survivor.
True. I’d forgotten.
and chemo brain is a well documented hazard of cancer treatment…
The man is a train wreck. With a couple of recurrences of an often fatal disease. He’s no more likely to survive probably than Ted Kennedy. They paint Uncle Teddy as if he’s a goner. McCain’s situation is pretty damn dire.
The VP is the key.
Smoke and Mirrors.
I really don’t think McCain will be the nominee. I don’t think he’ll make it to the convention.
I stand corrected…… THEY are up at the Kept man’s compound…… CindyLou’s little place in red rock country…
At least Gupta is an MD, so he’ll know what he’s looking at. The rest of the folks in there aren’t going to have a clue.
(DISCLOSURE: I was a med student at U of Michigan when Gupta was a resident. Met him once, briefly. Seemed like a nice enough guy.)
who do you think will replace him if he don’t, teddy?
Probably kind of wet tonight.
Vaseline on the lens would be a nice change………..
His ill health is why the choice of VP is so critical. If they put Lieberman in….
I recall predicting that Shooter wouldn’t make it 6 months.
The Neocons hate him. He is a “front” for the next Neocon “installation” unless we prevail…We’ve got our own problems..and they want us out of the way. They are incredibly dangerous and completely ruthless…ask the 1 plus million Iraqis just for a start how dangerous these people are.
I love the clowns that are painting Obama as a neophyte also pumping up the prospects of 36 year old Bobby Jindal for McAnger’s Veep.
-G
Lieberman,
I am NOT going to say what is on the tip of my tongue.
Traitorous motherfucking bastard.
That is why they need to find a “fine figure of a man” so that when they are on the stage…..na….. they need someone who makes McBush looks good…. OH how about his mom?
Right. Isn’t that just typical.
San Jose has tripled the size of their “code enforcement unit” in the building inspector’s office. They go around and note which houses have too-long lawns, or live-in squatters, or meth lab smell. But there aren’t enough of them, and the numbers of abandoned homes are proliferating.
Another problem: swimming pools abandoned to become breeding grounds for West Nile mosquitos. One county in the Central Valley is using a helicopter to check for stinky, dank, green pools. Our next plague could be breeding in one right now.
It’s not really all that much for someone of his age and his known history of melanoma. I suspect that they’re going to dump a lot of useless forms and insurance paperwork in there, and they’ll probably mix it all up to make it hard to sort through. An experienced physician–working by himself or herself–could probably sort through it all in an hour or two. A roomful of reporters, on the other hand, is probably not going to have any idea what they’re looking at.
Good point.
EG, we have one foreclosure in our neighborhood. A couple who went for a monster house on a huge piece of land. They tried selling this house, and then rented it out. The tenants got the foreclosure notice and moved. The grass is dying, and it looks terrible.
She works for Countrywide…
and since they can’t take their cell phones in with them (nor any other electronic devices) they can not have someone telling em when they find something important
They just want a “front” to continue what they are doing. They have no plans to go anywhere at all. That is why Rummy is still there for example…they are all “still there”..
It is a friggin’nightmare.
He’s said he sees his dermatologist every three months. And I don’t think his psych records are going to be “released.” 400 pages isn’t a lot, actually, when you consider that he has lots of health issues and a Cadillac plan.
This will be their guy.
hee hee
Well, he’s bionic, practically.
D’Oh…and that doesn’t look suspicious at all…D’Oh…
Let me count the ways….Grrrrr…
Comment deleted by author due to extremely bad taste.
Can’t say I have NO manners.
Or maybe Toobz?
She works…for Countrywide…gag
You would hope the people IN the industry would have some perspective about what they can afford in a house.
You know…you are so right. I knew that, I just forgot…and I frikkin’ live in Governor Goodhair’s state!!! Of course it will be Perry. Bingo, and then…when he suddenly is the Prezdeinent, he will choose Jeb as VP…and so it goes…
It is also a surreptitious way of getting THE ONLY non-Anglo elected Republican in the nation(Gov’s, Congress, Senate) in the news so that the GOPuds can use him as their brown skinned trophy of diversity.
-G
I doubt it. He hits the major criteria (Protestant straight white man), but he holds George W Bush’s former office, and he makes Bush look like Einstein. The comparisons to Bush will be unavoidable, and that’s exactly what they’re trying to avoid.
having a cat that is not named a swear word is softening ya dood – pretty soon you will be getting manicures and drinking lattes
Shoot me now.
They can’t come back in if they leave for anything but the bathroom, which precludes any out-of-room consult with a medic, I suppose. It’s all on Gupta, I guess.
Notice that the New York “Vicki Iseman” Times was excluded.
I wonder who is going in for WaPo?
Here is the NYT article
McCain Set to Release Health Data on Friday
Hmmm. Has W taken him under his wing…um cloak?
If he makes Bush look like Einstein he must have difficulty tying his shoes.
cherry picked summaries written by his lobbyist campaign staff
I’m thinking they’re enjoying their new place and what with the mess, she made a calculated move.
Perry is a lock.
Gooper
Fundy
Texas Governor
He doesn’t have the intellectual cred to embarrass McThusula,
perfect Christian portfolio, just enough heft at the bottom of the ticket.
Does this remind anyone of the so called “email dump” during the DOJ hearings? “we released a gagillion number of documents containing pertinent info like ‘hey, wanna go to lunch?’ emails, ‘ten funny things to say to a fired USA’ etc” you need more info?
doc dumps are the oldest trick in the book. jeez. did we just fall off the turnip truck?
Oh no! BK softening…! ;-)
Certainly, it doesn’t seem like they are avoiding it…it seems like they are ramping it up if anything….I’m continually astounded by the rallying around Bush/McSame..
They will put Bush’s extension in…they already successfully, including an additional election, put Perry in place of W here in TX, and why not repeat it in DC as the McBush backup…
If I had a dime for every person in the business, including Real estate agents, who bought into the BS and lost tons of money …
is is like a document dump – but they are limited access and time to examine the dump – they did learn that much
because its worked out so very well for them
“Sir, you’re done down there. They’re loafers.”
It sucks.
The blogosphere must simply continue to demand that he RELEASE his records. This charade is completely unacceptable.
my neighbor who goes on walks with me said that her realitor told her that homes were starting to sell again and thought it had hit bottom…. I just laughed….
707
Great post, Egregious.. it’s difficult to feel sorry for someone who has an income and health care like a congresscritter, but I wouldn’t wish an eviction on anyone outside of Bushco.
Just catching up on the thread.. Is it just me or am i the only one who thinks the press should not accept Mccains limitations in re medical record review?
you are not alone
There have been four African-American GOP-ers elected to federal office since Reconstruction.
Four.
-G
not more texas mafia…
Have you seen the Realtors’ ads on teevee lately? Talking about how, on average, homes almost double in value every ten years and that, if you are one of the millions of families who needs to sell your home, every market is different?
Realtors must be really hurting to have to run national ads on the networks to convince people not to believe their own lying eyes.
We need to demand two things from McBush…
1. complete and unfettered release of his medical records
2. Cindylou’s income tax returns
No if, ands or buts…
Whew.. Well if they do accept the mission as define.. let’s hope they have Dick tracy spy cams..)
Ummm, no.
Yeah, no slack. No slack, no slack McCain. Release all of it. No compromise!!! No appeasement!!
Talk about appeasement!
McLame’s phony chickensh*t release is “appeasement”. Lather, rinse, repeat.
McLame is an appeaser.
Thanks Eureka!
Hope the reporters examining McCain’s records don’t all start on page one and run out of time. If they can divvy it up and each take a few pages, maybe they can get somewhere. The good stuff will be in the footnotes or in the numbers. Need fast readers and fast writers and thinkers. Is Marcy free?
Sometimes we do get press credentials…wonder if there’s still time.
i wonder if they are gonna have em walk through metal detectors like the tsa at the airport. ya spose any of em will be selected ‘randomly’ for a more thorough screening?
They could just turn down the offer.
you funny…..
OUR media…. and McBush…. McRib himself? …. they will roll over and fetch if he asks….
since when does a candidate running for office get to select who will be doing the reporting on issues involving his campaigh?
Send in GRITtv!
I think they should REPORT on the situation honestly. Like what they didn’t get and how rushed they were, and the lack of being able to discuss anything…But then I live in neverneverland.
I doubt they will. but they should.
That’s pretty amazing.
Oh, look, Potomac Pravda already has a McCain health article up. Who needs the stinking records when all you’re gonna do is fawn and slobber? More ballwashing:
Cindy doesn’t look like she even has a but….
The GOP GROPE… ewwww
iokiyar
I ain’t capitolizing it because that whole meme fell out of the back end of a steer.
that is what size zero jeans means iirc
So much for the NYT calling bullshit. They didn’t even get the headline right. He’s not releasing anything. He’s letting a small group of people (that doesn’t even include anyone from the NYT) look at the “health data”. We’re just going to have a bunch of reporters bitching about not being able to read his doctors’ handwriting. Sanjay Gupta will probably have the good sense to go straight for the path reports; everyone else is going to be trying to figure out what all the 3 and 4 letter abbreviations stand for.
since they started scenting the paper with BBQ sauce. they’ll be provided with smencils too.
Obama re-releases his own complete medical files the same day to any and all who want them, spiral-bound.
not if she is bragging on wearing size 0…. size ZERO jeans….
I F Stone said: read every government document from the back page forwards. There’s nothing worthwhile in the front, and all the good stuff gets buried in the endnotes.
When you think about the Iraq NIE before the AUMF vote in 2002, the dude was pretty prescient for a dead guy.
National media declares John McCain’s balls are squeaky clean. They know because they’ve been washing them since 2000.
-G
SPOILER ALERT!
Cindy McCain is the 12th cylon!
This is astounding…
Right on.
Breaking News:
Congress subpoena’s flying dildo.
Dildo to declare executive privilege according to Robert Luskin.
-Gi
Agreed.
Why would they care? And are they the actual records? And has he delayed a year so that he can get doctors who are liars?
nothing this administration does surprises me anymore….. rape, pillage and burn…. and if that is not destructive enough….. use cluster bombs and threaten to start new wars…
Oh good grief..that is pathetic..
“That is the implication of a body of research on the lifetime effects of captivity and war trauma and the anecdotal experience of the small group of naval aviators imprisoned with McCain at the notorious “Hanoi Hilton.””
Cause they’re mostly all dead!!!
McManiac is FINE..f’d up, insecure, neurotic, and emotional.
No problemo…no temper problem…no memory problems…yeah, uh huh…5 1/2 years in a POW camp, with torture, had no long lasting effects on McCain. John is the bionic man. Those wimpy Iraqi vets are just weak wimps…PTSD…spit…damn cowards.
Yay….I now rebelieve in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the tooth fairy.
That’s how it’s done!
They just make sh*t up. Maybe we should just make sh*t up too.
A’holes. All of them.
Plus he wears diapers.
Bush gets in Marine One and we have a phony prick flying around .
Re wasted money in iraq
And how long have we been there? why is this only coming to light now? (No, that’s not arhetorical question…)
So if McKeating has “renounced” his two religious leaders, who the hell is his religious advisor now?!? Is he an atheist so sumthin?!?
The fundies will love that.
The two guys he renounced are so batshit crazy that the Fundys have to be grateful to get them off the front pages.
Just plain Lutheran would be fine with them.
Drive by …
On topic and not a joke
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING…..index.html
P.S. I know where Curtis Park is – where Richardson’s house is – it’s a normal average neighborhood
He is going to get his Come ta Jesus moment.
found this on teh google…
John McCain’s Skeleton Closet
it goes on and on including links
Living in a car with your dogs…at least she’ll be warm.
My sister adopted a teenage girl who had literally been living in a car.
Dildo One.
-G
P.S. The wingnuts must be blowing o-rings left and right. Bush and some general apologized for offending Muslims after the Koran/sniper incident.
Frau Malkin gets snubbed by the McAnger blogger outreach.
Israel enters into appeasement talks with Syria.
McAnger runs green-washing rhetoric up the flagpole.
Now McAnger is dumping on the fundagelicals.
Operation Alienate the Christofascists is well under way.
-G
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..id=topnews
Yep – and my arrest records before I started civil disobedience in 1996 show no CD arrests before 1996.
McAnger…that one could have legs.
hahahaha
an un-baptized baptist!
what’ll McCain think of next?
oh shite: “before I started civil disobedience in 1996″
i miss comment edit
“in the time frame of records we are releasing” is such an elastic phrase.
nothing gets butt-ween her and her Calvinists.
kirk, 707 — I thought “disobediende” sounded kinda exotic, a’ la Espanol ;-)
lurk fixed it for ya kirk
Well over in Snottsdale the let the media check McBush’s medical records kabuki starts tomorrow… ya think there will be anything after that blue ribbon medical panel reviewed it before the document dump?
It’s there for the taking.
-G
You are in fine form.
Bingo.
Half of what they plan to release could be dental check ups and vision tests.
I’m hoping someone wearing a real gauzy top has nipplecams and we’ll see ever single page.
Good pick-up, ES – that is total BS.
Followups of POW’s totrured in WWII disprove the WaPoo’s bylthe deceptio.
Jeebus – I used to be so happy to buy the WP on the streets in Philly in the early 80’s.
What a sad decline for the WaPo. “Pravada on the Potomac” is right (in both senses).
Gawd, how that prick Graham must hate his mother.
and you, with a post pushing 300 comments!
spew
happy 1300th birthday, Mont Saint Michel
Oh!
Mindwalk.
Thanks, lurk!
And katymine: nope. McCain could release records for (a few) MD’s to review eight years nago.
Now he controls access and hides the records. Whatever he shows will have been scrubbed.
And his wee willie winkie.
Is Madame Punaise from near there? Terrific place to visit.
fresh thread upstairs
Suzanne has tunes upstairs!
I will be there on July 1st….. have a hotel booked across the bay at Dinard
one region to the west
enjoy!
More hagiographic BS devoid of empirical data.
really.
just compare any president before his campaign, after the campaign, and after four years in office…even happy go lucky bush looks like crap.
A bit of homeowners withholding maintenance/assessment payments might generate an amended declaration of condo pretty quick. No association can afford to carry many defaulted units for very long even if it has accumulated conservative reserves.
Tenant occupied units beat liened vacant/foreclosed units cold. Too many of them is the death knell bell toll for all. Any condo with problem units needs a highly skilled savvy board.
You know it doesn’t look a day over 1200.
And it could not have happened to a more deserving person. Now we get astrological repoerts pro bono?
This is very germaine as a hidden market force. Warren Buffet is buying European companies. Our economy looks low budget and he says that the financial crisis is in it’s first phase. Car makers announced sale suck as many of their customers take out equity lines on their homes to buy cars and that is dead.
How do you spell how screwed Bushco has left us while they have our treasury to live on. It is time to raise that upper 2% earners taxes a bunch and ease the pain.
The drugs are important, too. Get the info on what cocktails he’s using…and if he should be drinking alcohol with them! Given his mood swings I bet he’s on at least one anti-depressant.
Anybody thinking these records aren’t heavily “sanitized” – fooling yourselves.
Love those idioms
This is a very late/early post. I had not heard of rev’d up effort. I hope you are soooooo right.