It’s always been the scariest thing to me about the mortgage crisis (which needs a more forceful name badly), because cities in the U.S. are legally rather weak corporate entities with no provision for guaranteeing the tenure of a citizenry or protecting its right to residency; viz. New Orleans.

A related article to the one from the Post is Newsweek’s The Predators Ball, on how the federal government-sponsored enterprises have been used as lobbyists in Georgia and other U.S. states to thwart the states’ attempts to regulate predatory mortgage lending.

Note that the states are generally the lowest level of government that can effectively regulate in this way, either directly or because cities, towns, and other municipalities might have to request certain assistance or the authority to carry out some kinds of actions from them.

Is that a common Vet reaction?

Yup. See #105.

“A veteran voting for McCain is akin to a chicken voting for Col. Sanders…”

Is that a common Vet reaction? Cause the GOP without the military vote is a GOP that might as well stay home. If Obama beats Reagen’s numbers on election day I’ll drink a case of red bull just to stay up and watch the MSM GOP talking heads try and explain this away.

Falsifying intelligence for a war of aggression, using terror to pass legislation undermining to constitution, using the military for domestic propaganda.

And all of them comfort our enemy, last I heard.