Bill Richardson Withdraws Over Corruption Charges

Bill Richardson is withdrawing his nomination to be commerce secretary, FOX News confirmed Sunday.
Richardson, who will remain governor of New Mexico, is facing a federal grand jury investigation into whether he exchanged government contracts for contributions to three Richardson political committees.
Richardson denies any wrongdoing but the investigation won’t be finished before he has to go to a Senate confirmation hearing.

Happy New Year to you, too, Bill! The dust hasn’t yet settled on the election and the scandals just keep on coming. (I believe this one was announced around Christmas Day, so that as few people as possible were even aware of it!) A Washington Post report on the grand jury indictment investigation is here.
Obama has accepted his withdrawal. Yeah. Right! Like he would do anything else! Way to pick ‘em, Barack! Your continuing good judgment is on an unbroken streak!
I suppose I should add, for the benefit of the pickers of nits around here, that it’s not technically “glee”, more of a gereral “schadenfreude”! Heh.
Hat tip Gateway Pundit
Cross posted at Proof Positive

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  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    Dino go pound sand everyone know Chicago is the captial of corrupt politicians.

  • http://bullwinkleblog.com/ Bullwinkle

    Obama’s aggressive socialistic agenda

    – Dino, being honest, a rare moment

    Finally! Someone is willing to admit Obama is a socialist and has an agenda, aggresively, no less. Too bad Dino is a well-knows lying Marxist piece of shit who will be denying he ever admitted it in a few days.

  • ellinas

    Any and all guilty politicians, companies, and individuals should be exposed and made to pay.

  • A Citizen

    It doesn’t matter how many sources your data comes from. It doesn’t change the actual events that took place.
    Now go change your tampon, we can still smell you.
    You should be more concerned with the data on AIDS fruit cup. You’ll be part of that soon enough. After all, you are a “catcher.”

  • ellinas

    So says the guy who doesn’t know the meaning of the words Insult and Attack.

    Hannitized on January 5, 2009 at 09:16 am

    Hannitized rest assured, Proof knows really well what insult and attack is. It is the application of these words he has a problem with. As long as they are hurled by cons/neocons/right wingers and republicans and directed against their imaginary enemies (people with different political views) he has no problem with the practice. Once the tables are turned on him he squeals like a pig.
    Hypocrisy you say? I say no! It is his way of deconstructing and demonizing his perceived enemies. He likes to attract attention by screaming words like: Oh my God! He called me less than man! He called me a child molester. He attacked my reputation without reason. Yet he has no problem utilizing attack dogs, and/or endorsing their behaviour.

  • Liberty

    The Democrat “show” is just starting! There is so much dirt around, starting with Rezko and pals, it will be an interesting 4 years!! The biased media can no longer control the dissemination of news, as they have done in the past, now that the blogosphere of the Internet and talk radio are here. The truth will come out. Who will be the next to to have their dirty linen aired?

  • http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

    The corruption continues! So much for “change.”

  • http://bullwinkleblog.com/ Bullwinkle

    Do I have to ask RealityBob to post his list of republicans caught up in scandals, indictments and prison?

    – peter-puffing LYING Marxist, Dino

    You do that fag, as soon as you find the comment here where any Conservative defended a Republican that had broken the law.

    Until then you’d be much better to keep your idiotic mouth closed.

    “The other guys do it too!”, is a chickenshit strawman tactic of the Left. The chickenshit Left.

  • A Citizen

    It seems that someones “personal” attacks are taken more seriously than the comments of an Anti-American, anti Israel, anti semetic, non-American, socialist, Marxist, communist sympathizer, who admires the likes of Hugo Chavez and other enemies of the United States.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Gee Carol, if there’s no opposing viewpoints, what are you going to debate? New hairdos?

    As for the unsavory comments, I expect that from the con-stems. At lesast a certain number of them. It’s that uncontrollable authoritarian streak, the same one that makes them so fond of fascism and domination/submission. They go into rages when someone won’t tow the line and engage in status quo thinking or share in their ignorance-based worldview. Drives them nuts. I’ve been banned and had my life threatened on blogs. Always, of course, by con-stems.

    It really drives them over the edge when you prove them wrong, not a difficult task. That’s why they HATE academia and the press- they’re filled with people who are smarter than the cons. Cons HATE smart people. They like dumb ones like reagan or bush. Or each other.

  • A Citizen

    Hey Dinah…How ignorant can I be. It wasn’t hard to figure out your views.
    Anti-American, anti Israel, anti semetic, non-American, socialist, Marxist, communist sympathizer, admirer of Hugo Chavez and other enemies of the United States

  • A Citizen

    You can’t destroy factual history you fool. Didn’t your daddy teach you that when he was playing with your asshole?

  • jimmypop

    I’ve been banned and had my life threatened on blogs.

    ok, so its impossibly far fetched that someone living in ND has relatives in canada, but we are to believe someone ‘threatened’ your life on a blog? listen, nobody cares about you so quit fighting it.

  • 2Hotel9

    All dinothefakehomo has done is post links to a bunch of history revisionist bullshit. Still waiting for actual economic facts.

  • 2Hotel9

    sanni is now crying in 9 threads. Show us the definition where attack and insult are the same word. You have not done so in the thread you were crying about it in, perhaps you will here. And since you have repeatedly had your ass handed to you in that thread, and embarrassed yourself so badly, perhaps you could provide all your proof, in this thread, that ND has high crime rates because people own guns, guns cause violent crime, and guns at “swap meets” are stolen. No one in this thread knows about that terribly embarrassing whining and crying you have done in that one, so you can feel free to provide all that proof here. Embarrassment free, of course!

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Cons HATE smart people.

    Wrong again my stemless friend! We are not given to self hatred. That is more a characteristic of the Left. But then, the Left don’t hate smart people! Heh.

  • jimmypop

    do the clintons wrong and you pay.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    A citizen, I destroyed all of your arguments a week ago and even showed you how Freddie & Fannie went to REPUBLICAN control in 2004.

    Don’t blame me that you can’t read. Then there’s this from another thread I started:

    Bush Administration policies led to meltdown

    Post your data-less junk all you want. We settled this already.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Proof When I said that you cons and neocons set the tone on this blog, you brushed me aside by hiding behind your “Jingle Bells” post. Not nice or upfront.

    Actually, it was both in the context of the original question! But, You can’t hold the example of A Citizen’s comment for “setting the tone” than you can Dino’s for his “Republicans made war on half of America” comments, or Sparkie’s snark or Hannitized’s twittery.
    The tone is a composite of all of the parts. Even your crude comments about masturbation are a part of the tone, so don’t try to dump it all on conservatives!

    I think that, for the most part, the front page postings set a retty good tone. But, it is Say Anything! Would you like us to censor you or Spark or Dino or Hannitwit for the sake of a nicer tone? I didn’t think so!

  • http://bullwinkleblog.com/ Bullwinkle

    What?

    It’s been nearly a day and Dino, the lying piece of shit Marxist still hasn’t backed his claim with links to indictments?

    How can that be?

    Maybe, just maybe the lying Marxist piece of shit was being a lying Marxist piece of shit when he made that lie up…

    Maybe, just maybe, the other lying Marxist pieces of shit (Ellinas, Hannitized, and Reality Based Bob) haven’t stepped in to help their comrade out because they, too, know Dino is a lying Marxist piece of shit.

    Birds of a feather, well, you know…

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    but alas it was lost to the fucking virus my computer got here at SA. As were ALL of my docs.

    Day-em, but that Karl Rove is smart! Heh.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    No one is apologizing.

    Fine. Now go get a dictionary and look up “apologist” and then get back to me when you understand what I actually said.

    And how about that 63 question questionnaire Obama had prospective members of his administration fill out?

    “Do you or any members of your immediate family own a gun?”

    “Have you ever had impure thoughts about livestock?”*

    How’d that work out for him? Heh.

    *BTW, that question was merely implied by the questionnaire!

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Let me elaborate on the question:

    Since the questionnaire was designed to weed out any potential embarrassment or scandal for the new administration, and presuming Bill Richardson took the test:
    How’d that work out for him?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    The best way to deal with Dino and ellinas is to ignore them.

    That may be, Carol, but then we’d lose out on the sheer entertainment value that unbridled ignorance brings with it!
    I like to think we’re providing an education to these skulls full of mush. I was once a liberal myself, so it’s kind of a calling with me! For example, up until a couple hours ago, Dino thought that an apologist was one who apologizes! With any luck, he’s looked it up and is better educated because of it. Hannitized thought that “Camp” was short for “Campaign”. With any luck, the realization of his error will sink in sometime before the next Congressional elections (in 2010)! Heh.

    Proof. You are attempting to jerk me around again.

    No, you’re doing just fine without me! Your argument is bogus. You’re jerking yourself around. (Or off, based on your last comment!) Heh.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    It’s funny to see you guys desperately clinging to the resignation of a man who is part of the administration that doesn’t take office for 2 weeks!

    What’s even funnier is to watch all of the apologists for Obama heads ‘splode every time someone merely posts a news article about your man! Heh.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Do I have to ask RealityBob to post his list of republicans caught up in scandals, indictments and prison?

    Sure! But aside from misdirection, what does that have to do with Bill Richardson?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    The questionnaire was necessary in this poisoned political climate

    True. The questionnaire was posed to a bunch of Democrats! Some of whom might have strayed from the liberal plantation and actually bought a gun!

    BTW, Presumably Bill Richardson took that questionnaire. Again, I’ll ask:

    How’d that work out for him?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    You keep wallowing in this non-scandal

    Funny! It’s a big enough scandal to cause him to turn down a cabinet position in the Obama Nation, but if Dino says it isn’t a scandal, it must not be a scandal!
    Yeah. Right!

  • jimmypop

    Do I have to ask RealityBob to post his list of republicans caught up in scandals, indictments and prison?

    yes, please!!! id like him/ her to start with the KKK leaders (current or former) and killers that are currently in ‘pub leadership. I will leave the lights on.

  • Carol

    Gee Carol, if there’s no opposing viewpoints, what are you going to debate? New hairdos?

    Gee Dino…. I enjoy rational opposing viewpoints but your viewpoints oppose EVERYTHING. You twist and skew others’ viewpoints but expect all to accept yours without question. You ask if I want to debate new hairdos. I don’t, but if you do you can go to another site to do so. I’m sure there are many available. Maybe you can report back to those who might care.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Speaking of smart vs. not smart, (since you brought it up):
    Have you had the chance to look up the word “apologist”. Do you know what it means now?
    (Hint: It’s not someone who “apologizes” .)

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    A Citizen, you’re just pissed that you lost the CRA argument because you can’t find any data to support your ignorance-based conclusions.

    Your feeble attempts at disparaging me with comments about my sexuality or my extreme distaste for all things conservative are wearing thin.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Well stems, I gotta run over to my imaginary gay boyfriend’s house for dinner.

    You keep wallowing in this non-scandal about a guy who resigned from the not-yet-in-office Obama administration. You have a couple more weeks of fun until we take over on Jan 21st and screw with your heads until your ears bleed.

    Make no mistake, republicans will be beat down HARD.

  • Carol

    The best way to deal with Dino and ellinas is to ignore them. Maybe they’ll get bored and go away. Folks who crave attention usually do go away if they’re ignored. I enjoy good and reasonable political arguments but these two are ridiculous. If a Republican were to tell them that sewage isn’t good to eat they’d say, “Yes it is.” When I read their rantings I just grit my teeth and let it go.

  • 2Hotel9

    Bye.

  • Hannitized

    Have you had the chance to look up the word “apologist”. Do you know what it means now?

    So says the guy who doesn’t know the meaning of the words Insult and Attack.

    But kids dying wasn’t your challenge to me, it was self defense with a gun,

  • ellinas

    Proof. You are attempting to jerk me around again. You do know the difference between a personal attack and an attack on one’s writings/opinions. When Hanitized got a bit up close and personal you were squealing like a pig. A Citizen is not the only one with this nasty habit.
    Mr Bullwinkle right above him did the same.
    I have no problem with the front page postings, as they are designed to be provocative and invite dialog/debate.

  • ellinas

    You can’t destroy factual history you fool. Did’t your daddy teach you that when he was playing with your asshole?

    A Citizen on January 4, 2009 at 05:49 pm

    Proof When I said that you cons and neocons set the tone on this blog, you brushed me aside by hiding behind your “Jingle Bells” post. Not nice or upfront. Don’t masturbate me again by claiming ignorance.

  • A Citizen

    The only thing Dino beats is his meat! And he’s probably got Barney Frank on his mind while he does.

  • bill-tb

    Too bad, Richardson fit right in with the rest of the crooks, liars, and crackpots of the new administration.

  • A Citizen

    The only thing Dino beats is his meat! And he’s probably got Barney Frank on his mind while he does.

  • http://bullwinkleblog.com/ Bullwinkle

    Looks like Bill Richardson is doing his part to uphold Obama’s promise to keep corruption out of government. The fool actually believed Obama meant it.

    Too bad Obama didn’t actually mean it or he would have never nominated Richardson to begin with.

    The question is: would Bill would have dropped out if he hadnt been caught or had already been confirmed by the senate?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Bullwinkle, your expletive-laced posts are entertaining but a bit tiresome. And you people defend criminal republicans all the time. Like bush’s war crimes.

    And Goon? Last study I saw shows North Dakota as the most corrupt place in America. You remember those pre-Christmas threads, don’t you?

  • jimmypop

    It’s been nearly a day and Dino, the lying piece of shit Marxist still hasn’t backed his claim with links to indictments?

    actually very few people here link to their sources. even the source of the original story (and that should be automatic when you dont post the whole story). people on the other political sites i post on would not tolerate this lose operation. :)

  • 2Hotel9

    dinothefakehomo, boob already told us that his posts are lies. You were in that thread and laughed and congratulated him on how clever he was, simply putting “guilty” beside people’s names. Now, lets us talk about all your lies and history revision.

  • ellinas

    Shame about Richardson. I actually hope the charges are baseless.
    Not that it matters to E, Hanni, Dinothetroll, or Hawk. Root for your team at all costs.

    Kenny on January 5, 2009 at 11:58 am

    You are either not paying attention, and/or making cheap points:

    Any and all guilty politicians, companies, and individuals should be exposed and made to pay.
    ellinas on January 4, 2009 at 03:14 pm

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Bullwinkle, all that kind of talk does is turn me on. I’m a little kinky.

    But then again, 2hoteldrunkard says I’m not a real homo.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    Just the first of many scandals to come out of this administration. But being from Chicago it will be nothing new for Barry.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    It’s funny to see you guys desperately clinging to the resignation of a man who is part of the administration that doesn’t take office for 2 weeks!

    That’s because you know the only way you can hope for a block of Obama’s aggressive socialistic agenda is to pray for more scandal. You have no ideas. You have no power. Your party leaders (if you have any left!) are shell-shocked and grief-stricken.

    Just remember that reagan had 138 members of his admin who were investigated, indicted and/or convicted. And despite that, look at all he was able to accomplish.

    Conservatism is on life-support. Supply-side, deregulatory policy is DEAD and buried.

  • Hannitized

    Proof boldly offers;

    Have you had the chance to look up the word “apologist”. Do you know what it means now?

    So says the guy who doesn’t know the meaning of the words Insult and Attack.

    http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/despite_being_a_top_gun_owning_state_north_dakota_recorded_exactly_two_murd/P200#c393040

  • ellinas

    You can’t destroy factual history you fool. Didn’t your daddy teach you that when he was playing with your asshole?

    A Citizen on January 4, 2009 at 05:49 pm

    Have you no shame? Hiding behind your monitor and keyboard hurling insults is civilized behaviour? Wow! Having being beat by DINO, now you disparage and demonize him. Very manly of you.

  • 2Hotel9

    And while you are at it, tell us again how the majority of American voters are wrong about destroying marriage. That shit is way too funny. Especially seeing as the majority of gays and lesbians voted against destroying marriage. Guess they are all evil too, what?

  • A Citizen

    With incentives in place, banks poured billions in loans into poor communities, often “no doc”, “no income”, requiring no money down and no verification of income. Worse still was the cronyism: Fannie and Freddie became home to out-of work-politicians, mostly Clinton Democrats. 384 politicians got big campaign donations from Fannie and Freddie. Over $200 million had been spent on lobbying and political activities. During the 1990′s Fannie and Freddie enjoyed a subsidy of as musch as $182 Billion, most of it going to principals and shareholders, not poor borrowers as claimed.

    Did it work? Minorities made up 49% of the 12.5 million new homeowners but many of those loans have gone bad and the minority homeownership rates are shrinking fast.

    1999: New Treasury Secretary, Lawrence Summers, became alarmed at Fannie and Freddie’s excesses. Congress held hearings the ensuing year but nothing was done because Fannie and Freddie had donated millions to key congressmen and radical groups, ensuring no meaningful changes would take place. “We manage our political risk with the same intensity that we manage our credit and interest rate risks,” Fannie CEO Franklin Raines, a former Clinton official and current Barack Obama advisor, bragged to investors in 1999.

    2000: Secretary Summers sent Undersecretary Gary Gensler to Congress seeking an end to the “special status”. Democrats raised a ruckus as did Fannie and Freddie, headed by politically connected CEO’s who knew how to reward and punish. “We think that the statements evidence a contempt for the nation’s housing and mortgage markets” Freddie spokesperson Sharon McHale said. It was the last chance during the Clinton era for reform.

    2001: Republicans try repeatedly to bring fiscal sanity to Fannie and Freddie but Democrats blocked any attempt at reform; especially Rep. Barney Frank and Sen.Chris Dodd who now run key banking committees and were huge beneficiaries of campaign contributions from the mortgage giants.

    2003: Bush proposes what the NY Times called “the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago”. Even after discovering a scheme by Fannie and Freddie to overstate earnings by $10.6 billion to boost their bonuses, the Democrats killed reform.

    2005: Then Fed chairman Alan Greenspan warns Congress: “We are placing the total financial system at substantial risk”. Sen. McCain, with two others, sponsored a Fannie/Freddie reform bill and said, “If congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system and the economy as a whole”. Sen. Harry Reid accused the GOP ;of trying to “cripple the ability of Fannie and Freddie to carry out their mission of expanding homeownership” The bill went nowhere.

    2007: By now Fannie and Freddie own or guarantee over HALF of the $12 trillion US mortgage market. The mortgage giants, whose executive suites were top-heavy with former Democratic officials, had been working with Wall St. to repackage the bad loans and sell them to investors. As the housing market fell in ’07, subprime mortgage portfolios suffered major losses. The crisis was on, though it was 15 years in the making.

    2008: McCain has repeatedly called for reforming the behemoths, Bush urged reform 17 times. Still the media have repeated Democrats’ talking points about this being a “Republican” disaster. A few Republicans are complicit but Fannie and Freddie were created by Democrats, regulated by Democrats, largely run by Democrats and protected by Democrats. That’s why taxpayers are now being asked for $700 billion!!

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    Oh the boys here just love that list…but alas it was lost to the fucking virus my computer got here at SA. As were ALL of my docs.

  • Socks

    Kenny, I don’t think it matters (at least politically), whether or not the charges are true. We should all be worrying about who our current President-Elect will replace him with.

  • A Citizen

    We should all get off Dino(Dinah)Where else could an anti-American, anti Israel, anti semetic, non-American, socialist, Marxist admirer of Hugo Chavez and other enemies of the United States spout his bullshit? Let’s give the communist sympathizer every chance to write his nonsense and continue to prove to us what a waste of air he is. Let’s all give him a round of applause for being brave enough to expose himself to us for what he really is!!! After all, someday, somewhere, someone will find him and give him what he deserves.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Yeah Goon, and when Clinton was President Arkansas was the most corrupt place in the country. That’s what your kind said then.

    If Mother Teresa had won the Presidency as a democrat while alive you would have said she was a whore. All you people have is character assasination and guilt by association. You have little else since your ideas are shit. But even the allegations you throw against democrats are merely projection and fall flat when one considers all the republican scandals of the last 8 years.

    ________________

    2 Hotel nutjob, please refresh my memory.

    xoxo,

    Dino the fake homo

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Do I have to ask RealityBob to post his list of republicans caught up in scandals, indictments and prison?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Citizen-stem, you got NOTHIN’!

    Well, nothing except your ignorance.

  • ellinas

    Step away from the bottle, 2hotel.

    DINO on January 4, 2009 at 04:43 pm

    I second the motion.

  • http://bullwinkleblog.com/ Bullwinkle

    Where’s the link to the indictments, turd burglar?

    I noticed you didn’t provide any with your confession that being talked to like you so richly deserve turns you on.

    Bullwinkle, all that kind of talk does is turn me on. I’m a little kinky.

    Link to some REAL indictments?

    Surely you have some links to back up your claims, right, you cowardly little lying Marxist turd?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    No one is apologizing. We don’t have to. Too busy getting ready for the biggest inauguration in history followed by 8 years of the humiliation and beating down of the republican party.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Wasn’t my data, asswipe. It was the data of multiple sources with more economic policy knnowledge than you’ll ever have or even read about.

    You’re just a sore loser, bitchboy.

  • A citizen

    You didn’t disprove anything with your manipulated data. You just can’t accept the actual events that took place.
    We all accept you for what you are. None of us here care that you you’re a cock sucker and like to get fucked in the ass. After all, you are a LIBERAL.

  • 2Hotel9

    What was that lie you told, dinothefakehomo? About how no one has ever attacked America, that America is ALWAYS the aggressor? Tell us again about how America provoked war with Japan and Germany. That was too fucking funny, lying asshole.

  • A Citizen

    1977: Pres. Jimmy Carter signs the Community Reinvestment Act into Law. The law pressured financial institutions to extend home loans to those who would otherwise not qualify. The Premise: Home ownership would improve poor and crime-ridden communities and neighborhoods in terms of crime, investment, jobs, etc.

    Results: Statistics bear out that it did not help.

    How did the government get so deeply involved in the housing market?

    Answer: Bill Clinton wanted it that way.

    1992: Republican representative Jim Leach (R-IOWA) warned of the danger that Fannie and Freddie were changing from being agencies of the public at large to money machines for the principals and the stockholding few.

    1993: Clinton extensively rewrote Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s rules turning the quasi-private mortgage-funding firms into semi-nationalized monopoies dispensing cash and loans to large Democratic voting blocks and handing favors, jobs and contributions to political allies. (This potent mix led inevitably to corruption and the 2008 collapse of Freddie and Fannie.)

    1994: Despite warnings, Clinton unveiled his National Home-Ownership Strategy which broadened the CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) in ways Congress never intended.

    1995: Congress, about to change from a Democrat majority to Republican, Clinton orders Robert Rubin’s Treasury Dept to rewrite the rules. Robt. Rubin’s Treasury reworked rules, forcing banks to satisfy quotas for sub-prime and minority loans to get a satisfactory CRA rating. The rating was key to expansion or mergers for banks. Loans began to be made on the basis of race and little else.

    1997 – 1999: Clinton, bypassing Republicans, enlisted Andrew Cuomo, then Secretary of Housing and Urban Developement, allowing Freddie and Fannie to get into the sub-prime market in a BIG way. Led by Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd, congress doubled down on the risk by easing capital limits and allowing them to hold just 2.5% of capital to back their investments vs. 10% for banks. Since they could borrow at lower rates than banks their enterprises boomed.

  • 2Hotel9

    Oh, William Richardson? I know you are going to be reading this, your overinflated ego demands that you see everything written about you. Fuck you, lying, thieving, anti-American scumbag. go ask your boy Kim Jong for a job.

  • http://bullwinkleblog.com/ Bullwinkle

    Bullwinkle, your expletive-laced posts are entertaining but a bit tiresome. And you people defend criminal republicans all the time. Like bush’s war crimes.

    – Dino, lying Marxist piece of shit

    Hey, cock-gobbler, I said:

    You do that fag, as soon as you find the comment here where any Conservative defended a Republican that had broken the law.

    Where’s the link to prove it?

    Before you say Bush broke the law and committed war crimes let’s see copy of the indictment, a REAL indictment.

    You seem to the opinion that Bush committed war crimes but I didn’t ask for your warped, anti-American opinion. Let’s deal in facts. Opinions are like assholes, we all have them, (but we all don’t use them like you do), but that doesn’t make them true.

    Until then keep your gay mouth shut.

  • welder4

    not much difference between glee and delight . I will agree that the politicians on both sides have bad eggs in their baskets but to see it so easily on Obama’s picks is especially gleeful and delightful and maliciously gloatable .It is now our turn to bash the president in time of war .The new york times has actually resorted to out right lying now . Go figure ?

    long live freedom to speak our minds .

  • Spartacus

    Do I have to ask RealityBob to post his list of republicans caught up in scandals, indictments and prison?

    Do you really think it would take much time to create an equally lenghty list of democratic “energizer bunnies” that have been caught, but keep on going? Be careful of what you wish.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    The questionaire was necessary in this poisoned political climate that conservatives have created in this country.

    It’s not a while lot different than what conservatives do, though. There was that young xtian zealot idiot who performed an inquisition on the ideological purity of US attorneys. When the fascists took over Congress in 94 they made their staff answer questions about their lives and personal beliefs.

    Don’t forget. RIchardson hasn’t been convicted of anything. Party while you can!

  • 2Hotel9

    Citizen? Hate to have to be the one, bro, I gots to take you to the woodshed on this point! dinothefakehomo is not gay, and the only sex it has ever had is with one or the other of its hands. Sorry to be all harsh and whatnot, but it had to be done.

    dinothefakehomo? What “data” are you babbling about? You surely don’t mean all those op-ed articles written by people who have never run a business and know nothing of actual economics you keep linking. That is just too funny.

  • 2Hotel9

    “Have you no shame? Hiding behind your monitor and keyboard hurling insults is civilized behaviour? Wow! Having being beat by DINO, now you disparage and demonize him. Very manly of you.”

    e, exactly where has dinothefakehomo “beat” anybody?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Step away from the bottle, 2hotel.

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    Shame about Richardson. I actually hope the charges are baseless.

    Not that it matters to E, Hanni, Dinothetroll, or Hawk. Root for your team at all costs.

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