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Posts Tagged ‘mortgages’

TOWN HELL

Black Town Hall Questioner Tears Apart McCain In Facebook Message

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

You may recall the second question from Tuesday night’s town hall debate from a young black fellow named Oliver Clark. Clark asked the candidates what the bailout package does for the Average American. McCain responded by attacking Obama for not regulating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — it was his ONE JOB AND HE BLEW IT — and in the process said to Clark, “You probably never heard of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac before this.” Because how would anyone have known about these two mortgage giants that back 70% of the country’s mortgages? Well, it was condescending anyway, and Clark has posted a hilarious message on his Facebook saying that he has like 500 college degrees and calling Walnuts a horrible racist. MORE »


ELITIST MONEY-LOSERS

World Astonished That Stock Index Falls During Historic Financial Crisis

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Well here is your updated Dow Jones thing, about which every “person on the Internet” today has been freaking. It went down like 350 points after a far greater initial plunge. This has baffled many, many people today, that this stock index fell triple-digits on a day when every remaining bank on Earth basically failed. MORE »


NO SHIT SHERLOCK

John McCain Admits He Was Not Clairvoyant About The Subprimes

Friday, September 19th, 2008

What is a subprime?Hmm, here is an interesting video clip sent to us by a Wonkette New Hampshire Primary Operative. It shows John McCain last November talking with some nice New Hampshire newspaper editors about economic things and good christ, maybe everything he said was rubbish, but this was possibly the first time we saw him looking not grumpy or confused or ghoulish in… ever. The six-minute segment is sort of interminable for those of you watching at work so here is a sad/lovely quote: MORE »


THE NEIGHBORS ARE WATCHING

Obama Keeps Child Slaves In Fancy Illegal House

Monday, July 7th, 2008

The front page of GOP.com — one of America’s top sources of humor — uses this graphic to represent “Obama’s Glass Houses.” It links to a scandalous item about how Obama locked into a modestly below-average mortgage rate because he had good credit. Oh no that is terrible oh no. We’re mostly interested in the “glass house” illustration in this graphic, however. Is that what a Liberal’s illegally-financed home looks like? All clear-like with fancy angles and such? Indeed, most Liberals live in subprime replicas of Dulles airport. [GOP.com]


THE SUBPRIMES

Which Senators Are America’s Hobo Kings?

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Senator Brownback, you've CHANGEDWith all this talk about Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad getting SWEETHEART MORTGAGE DEALS giving them literally fractions of a percentage point off their mortgage interest and fees, it’s instructive to find out how many of America’s senators even have mortgages. A shocking number do not, which means they are either living in cardboard boxes like 99% of their bankrupted constituents, or they paid off their houses in 1957, back when John McCain was running for his first term. Find out what Politico’s intrepid researchers dug up, after the jump. MORE »


TAXES

Clinton Fears U.S. Becoming Island Nation Of Samurai

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Your eyes are hazel And soft as cloudsHillary Clinton is afraid that Americans are going to start prancing around in knee socks and filming radioactive giant lizard-based horror films, now that we are sinking into a “Japanese-style malaise.” But these terrible tragedies can be avoided if we resort to crazy nanny state policies like having the Federal Housing Administration purchase underwater mortgages. MORE »


FEDERAL RESERVE

Ben Bernanke Saves Economy Again, For Eternity!

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

The Federal Reserve cut the federal funds rate — “the” rate — by half of a percentage point today to 3%, a week after they freaked out and cut it by three-quarters of a point. Ben Bernanke and his minions indicated there may be more rate cuts on the way, too. Hooray! Eventually they can get that bitch down to 1%, then we can all buy mansions with $5 down payments and deal with the damn adjustable interest later. Because we’re all getting mansions! [AP/Breitbart]


FOX NEWS

Damn Demrats And Their “Liberal” Desire to “Change”

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Gibson.jpgWhile not quite as disastrous as Bill Kristol’s suicide bomb of a WaPo Outlook feature, Fox News’ John “War on Christmas” Gibson has these words for us this morning: “I know you don’t want to hear about Iraq, but I’m going to tell you anyway.” Damn him! Must keep reading… despite… hatred… MORE »


RICK SANTORUM

Rick Santorum Brings Shame to His Proud Name

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

march06_santorum.jpgCould someone help us out here? Someone gave Rick Santorum a mortgage. We got that far. And Rick Santorum is poor, right? That’s the deal? So he wasn’t supposed to get the mortgage? Is this one of those things you have to be rich to understand? It’s like letting Lieberman into your country club, right? Like, in exchange for pro-golfing legislation or tax breaks for polo shirt-manufacturers or something. What we can understand is this: we’ve got to get ourselves a PAC. MORE »