Comments on: Bush and Bernanke Going Mental over Freddie and Fannie http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:19:26 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: wrensis http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1537053 wrensis Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:21:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1537053 <p>Does anyone remember the name of the Fannie Mae executive who “fell on his sword” and took the blame for the cooked books and got something like 4 mil a year for life as a quitting bonus?</p> Does anyone remember the name of the Fannie Mae executive who “fell on his sword” and took the blame for the cooked books and got something like 4 mil a year for life as a quitting bonus?

]]> By: JamesJoyce http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536811 JamesJoyce Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:58:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536811 <p>Like the mob and the introduction of heroin to American society. When making money no problem, until they lose a loved one, turned junkie?? Then the real cost of greed and lust for power are realized. Guess the money grubbers are losing money now. Good for them…………………</p> Like the mob and the introduction of heroin to American society. When making money no problem, until they lose a loved one, turned junkie?? Then the real cost of greed and lust for power are realized. Guess the money grubbers are losing money now. Good for them…………………

]]> By: wasabi http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536729 wasabi Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:23:29 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536729 <p>You know this has got to be bad when there were a series of Republicans on C-SPAN yesterday requesting more regulation of financial institutions. Who’d a thunk?</p> You know this has got to be bad when there were a series of Republicans on C-SPAN yesterday requesting more regulation of financial institutions. Who’d a thunk?

]]> By: dmac http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536726 dmac Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:19:30 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536726 <p>selise at 49–i still don’t like the idea of him being a keynote speaker at a gop ’strategy’ meet-up soon after being allied with us on strategy……smells. especially seeing that list of speakers.</p> <p>copycat forum, looking for copycat strategies, who better than one who just participated in one?</p> <p> got that funny feelin’ in my bones when i read his name……</p> <p>dunno.</p> selise at 49–i still don’t like the idea of him being a keynote speaker at a gop ’strategy’ meet-up soon after being allied with us on strategy……smells. especially seeing that list of speakers.

copycat forum, looking for copycat strategies, who better than one who just participated in one?

got that funny feelin’ in my bones when i read his name……

dunno.

]]> By: ceo1 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536724 ceo1 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:16:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536724 <p>I thought they would put this out on a Friday. It will also help the public forget about the loss of the fourth ammendment. To go along with the “shock”, on Wednesday or Thursday it was proposed that the Fed get mors power. Who appoints the head chief?</p> I thought they would put this out on a Friday. It will also help the public forget about the loss of the fourth ammendment. To go along with the “shock”, on Wednesday or Thursday it was proposed that the Fed get mors power. Who appoints the head chief?

]]> By: spacefish http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536712 spacefish Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:03:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536712 <p>Depends on the kind of “weeds.”</p> Depends on the kind of “weeds.”

]]> By: Bluetoe2 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536705 Bluetoe2 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:54:05 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536705 <p>The roots of the Black Walnut tree produces a substance, juglone, toxic to other plants in their vicinity. A GOP netroots is equivalent to natures juglone, toxic to the body politic.</p> The roots of the Black Walnut tree produces a substance, juglone, toxic to other plants in their vicinity. A GOP netroots is equivalent to natures juglone, toxic to the body politic.

]]> By: i4u2bi http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536702 i4u2bi Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:52:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536702 <p>I should have added Republicans are criminally insane.</p> I should have added Republicans are criminally insane.

]]> By: i4u2bi http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536698 i4u2bi Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:50:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536698 <p>At least outlaw all conservatives…they really are criminals.</p> At least outlaw all conservatives…they really are criminals.

]]> By: Bluetoe2 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536696 Bluetoe2 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:47:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/11/bush-and-bernanke-going-mental-over-sallie-and-fannie/#comment-1536696 <p>30 years of Republican economic policies beginning with Reagan are coming home to roost. Republicans need to be driven from Washington, the boardrooms and the newsrooms never to be heard or seen again. The Republican Party is nothing more than a criminal conspiracy. If Germany was able to outlaw the Nazi Party perhaps, in the interests of the American people, it’s time to outlaw the Republican Party.</p> 30 years of Republican economic policies beginning with Reagan are coming home to roost. Republicans need to be driven from Washington, the boardrooms and the newsrooms never to be heard or seen again. The Republican Party is nothing more than a criminal conspiracy. If Germany was able to outlaw the Nazi Party perhaps, in the interests of the American people, it’s time to outlaw the Republican Party.

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