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Another public service announcement from the Hard Starboard Radio Network....

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D-Day has begun.

With your help and the help of almost 50,000 other Americans, we at the National Republican Trust PAC — also known as GOPtrust.com — have begun our TV assault in Georgia against Barack Obama and the left-wing Democrats who want total control over Congress.

Our new TV ad has begun to run across Georgia exposing Obama's plans.

As you know, Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss is fighting to keep his Georgia seat in GOP hands.

It is critical he does so. Chambliss will be the key Senate vote in stopping Obama's radical agenda.

But Senator Chambliss faces an incredibly stiff challenge from his opponent Jim Martin.

Just last week Obama, Chuck Schumer and Washington Democrats poured almost $1 million into the state to defeat him.

They are bussing in thousands of "organizers" to snatch this election from the GOP.

This is why our campaign is so vitally important.

Fox News analyst Dick Morris says this election is vitally important to all of us across the country.

Morris says if Obama wins the Georgia seat, he will ram through Congress a radical agenda on taxes, guns, abortion — he can even shut down talk radio!

Dick Morris says we at the National Republican Trust PAC "are leading the fight to save Chambliss and keep Obama from getting a filibuster-proof Senate."

Dick says this won't be easy for Chambliss because the Obama camp has more money and they are experts at voter turn-out — the key to winning this race.

But Dick says we can still defeat Martin and Obama.

We need your help today to do it!

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See our new TV ad exposing Obama and Martin:

Thank you.

Scott Wheeler
Executive Director

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Another public service message from the Hard Starboard Radio Network....

Stop Obama in Georgia!

Stop His Plans to Ban Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, Boortz

Scott Wheeler
Executive Director

Dear fellow American:

First of all, thank you for your generous support in the past election. We could not claim victory but we did have an effect.

I am writing you again about an urgent matter that will affect you and your family.

The Democrats now control 57 seats in the Senate. They are perilously close to getting the 60 votes in the Senate they need to end filibuster and pass Obama’s radical legislation.

A special Georgia Senate run-off election is slated for December 2.

The outcome of this race will impact all of us -- especially if the Republican loses and Democrats get total control of the Senate.

If the Democrats defeat Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss, they will be very close to getting the 60 votes they need in the Senate to pass Obama’s radical legislation.

Without the 60 votes, Obama won’t be able to pass a new Fairness Doctrine limiting the power of talk radio. Sen. Chuck Schumer, a leader of the Democratic Senate has called talk radio "pornography." He and Pelosi have one goal -- put Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, Savage, Boortz, Beck and all the major hosts, out of business once and for all.

Without the 60 votes, Obama can’t pass legislation to increase income taxes, increase capital gains taxes, increase FICA taxes or any other taxes.

Without the 60 votes, Obama won’t be able to pass new social spending programs estimated as costing as much as $1 trillion.

Without the 60 votes, Obama won’t be able to nationalize the healthcare system.

Without the 60 votes, Obama won’t be able to give 12 million illegal aliens citizenship and other government benefits.

Obama and the Congressional Democrats must be denied the 60 votes.

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The Democrats believe they may be able to persuade one or more liberal Republican senators like Arlen Specter to join them to pass Obama’s legislation.

They know they are very close to getting the magic number.

That is why they are pouring millions of dollars as we speak in Georgia to win this special election and elect the liberal Democratic candidate Jim Martin.

They will do whatever it takes to destroy Sen. Chambliss. Their union supporters will be bussed into the state for this last ditch effort to give Obama what he really wants: total control of the U.S. Congress.

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We at the National Republican Trust PAC, also known as GOPtrust.com, are launching an emergency appeal to Republicans across the United States to help defeat Jim Martin and keep Saxby Chambliss in the U.S. Senate.

Fox News analyst Dick Morris calls us at the National Republican Trust the “most important group now in the Republican Party, our version of Moveon.org but more effective.”

Dick Morris also said that "It's critical the Republicans win the Georgia race. The National Republican Trust PAC can make a huge difference."

We are demonstrating our important work by focusing national support to help stop Barack Obama in Georgia and elect Saxby Chambliss.

Early voting will start soon for Dec. 2 run-off. Time is short.

We at the National Republican Trust PAC are planning a massive TV ad campaign to alert Georgia voters to the dangers of a Senate and Congress controlled by Barack Obama.

It’s important to remember that McCain beat Obama in Georgia by 52% to 47%.

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The special run-off will bring out far fewer voters than the general election. Obama’s campaign are masters at organizing small turn-out elections. They won every caucus state, for example.

Have no doubt the Democrats will throw everything they have to get out core constituencies for Jim Martin: union members, African-Americans and other special interests.

That’s why our work at the National Republican Trust PAC is so critically important.

Our TV ad campaign and other outreach efforts will alert Georgia Republicans that this election is like no other. In fact, the future of the United States depends on it.

You can help us in our fight to keep Georgia’s seat in Republican hands and out of Obama’s control.

The maximum donation is $5000 per person. With this amount we can blanket a whole city for a day with ads on broadcast and television.

But even if you donate $2500 or $1000 or $500 or any amount we will put your money to good work.

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Thank you.

Yours for America,

Scott Wheeler
Executive Director

P.S. As I am writing this to you, liberal Senator Chuck Schumer has just sent out an email to Democratic activists alerting them that his committee is targeting Georgia in the run-off “to help Barack Obama make fundamental change in this country.” If you want to stop Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama, the place to do it is Georgia. We need your help today. Please donate by responding by Going Here Now or use our Donor Hotline and call Toll-Free 1-866-957-1467

Now that Dirty Harry no longer needs him, poor ol' Joe Lieberman may have no place else to go:

U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, the former Democratic vice presidential candidate who backed Republican John McCain for president, will meet with Democratic leaders this week to determine his fate with the party.

By all accounts, it appears to be grim. Unless there’s some change in sentiment determined by a new balance in the Senate, the independent Democrat from Connecticut will likely lose his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, according to several reports. That may push him into the Republican caucus.

“I can’t see how he keeps the chairmanship for that committee, but they will talk and part of the discussion will focus on Lieberman’s actions during the presidential campaign,” a senior Democratic aide told Politico.

It isn't just his campaigning for his good, close, personal friend Darth Queeg, or his steadfast support for the War on Terror, that has cooked his neoBolshevik goose, either:

Even more infuriating to some was his appearances with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the woman who may become the new face of the GOP. "She's so strong, she's . . . so capable, she's so competent," he told a GOP rally last month in Clearwater, Florida.

On Tuesday, Lieberman said he feared that the country would be hurt if Democrats won a filibuster-proof sixty-seat majority in the Senate.

The Connecticut senator was asked on the Glenn Beck radio show on Tuesday whether he agrees with Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah that, “if we don’t at least have the firewall of the filibuster in the Senate, that in many ways America will not survive.”

Lieberman responded: “Well, I hope it’s not like that, but I fear.”

Dudes and dudettes, the Left HATES Sarah Palin for the same reason they hated Ronald Reagan, hated Newt Gingrich, and hated George W. Bush: they FEAR her.  They know they can't beat her if she challenges Red Barry in 2012, so they're determined to make sure she never gets there.  For one of their caucus to have actually praised and campaigned for her is, as far as they're concerned, an unforgivable affront.  And since J-Lieb isn't their sixtieth Senate vote, and they don't need him to retain control of the upper chamber, Dirty Harry has nothing to lose by screwing him over.

That is, of course, not to say that the "anhedonic Ben Stein," as I referred to him in the 2000 campaign, will finally, once and for flipping all make the jump even then.  I gave up on that chimera years ago, but figured if ever there was a time when he might have finally had enough, it would have been two years ago when his party denied him renomination for a fourth Senate term.  Winning re-election anyway as an independent, that would have been the perfect time to bid the Dems hail and fairwell, cross the aisle, and keep the Senate - nominally - in GOP hands.

But no.  He stayed put.  And while I can respect his party loyalty, I can only wonder at why he maintains it when that party has been so disloyal to him.  Can even Joe Lieberman remain in a caucus that has done everything but pick him up by his belt and collar and physically throw him out the door, then go out after him and beat him unconscious for gratuitous measure?

I used to have respect for Joe Lieberman as a man of principle.  Still do, to be fair.  But that has become largely offset by the pathos of a man whose misplaced loyalty has drained him of almost all his self-respect.  If he stands there, takes the final bitch-slap, and quietly plods to the proverbial back-bench, the 111th Senate will only have ninety-nine Members, because he'll have disappeared altogether.

Another public service announcement from the Hard Starboard Radio Network....

Dear Fellow American:

Please check out our latest web ad on what may be the biggest issue of the day - Senator Chuck Schumer's drive for a sixty-seat majority of liberals in the Senate and what that would mean for our country.

Yes, I'm talking about that Chuck Schumer; the same one who dismissed repeated warnings about Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and fought to protect risky Wall Street hedge funds from scrutiny.

If Schumer's efforts are successful, it would likely be the end of the filibuster for conservatives, the most important legislative brake available to the minority. Wall Street's biggest cheerleader would then have unchecked power to control the agenda in the senate.

We all know what that would mean - there would be nothing to disrupt or stop Schumer and the left's drive for higher taxes, a massive redistribution of wealth, activist judges, reckless reductions in defense spending, unrestrained pork barrel spending, and barriers to free trade.

And you can be sure that the Big Labor bosses who have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on supporting Schumer's project will get exactly what they want, beginning with passage of card check legislation to do away with the secret ballot for union elections, which would increase union membership by millions and give unions even more political clout. That's not what American needs.

They say absolute power corrupts absolutely and we've sadly seen evidence of that in recent days with the Ted Stevens verdict. But a Senate controlled exclusively by those wedded to a leftist agenda would give Chuck Schumer and his left-wing allies the kind of absolute power that could allow them to force through a liberal agenda that America cannot afford.

I hope you'll think about this important message and share this ad with your friends and neighbors. And if you can, please consider supporting our efforts to keep making these kinds of hard-hitting ads that are having an impact on the important debates facing our nation.

Cordially,

Joe Eule
Chief of Staff
Freedom's Watch

"Haw-Haw" Murtha on his western Pennsylvania constituents:

Ah, but not to worry; the Adscam crook and Butcher of Haditha subsequently apologized for calling the people who keep re-electing him irredeemable bigots - by in essence saying, "they can't help it, they're just a bunch of rednecks":

U.S. Representative John Murtha is calling many of the people who put him in office "rednecks."

The news comes one week after Murtha claimed the area is racist, then apologized for that comment.

In explaining his comments about racism, Murtha, D-Johnstown, told WTAE Channel 4 Action News on Monday it's difficult for many in the area to change. Murtha said that just five to ten years ago the entire area was "redneck."...

"What I mean is, there's still folks that have a problem voting for somebody 'cause they're black.  This whole area years ago was -- was really redneck, particularly older people.  They're hesitant, they want change but they don't want to see things go too far."

I guess it's all in who you insult.  "Rednecks" are fair game for a Democrat, but let a Republican like ex-Virginia Republican Senator George Allen have a "macaca" moment, and he's exiled to the foul nether regions, never to be seen or heard from again.

But Murtha's would seem to be a much worse faux pas.  It wasn't like Allen's electorate had an overabundance of minorities in it, and he didn't make a blanket declaration about any of them in any case.  Heck, even when Barack Hoover Obama made his derisive, contemptuous "bitter clinger" slur about the very same "redneck" demographic (that helped defeat him in last spring's Pennsylvania Primary), he did it at a private gathering in San Francisco.  Congressman Haw-Haw slandered his own constituents right out in public and to their very faces.

Think it'll cost him his congressional seat?  Bovine fecality, it will.  And behold my current Pennsylvania projection: Obama 53.9%, McCain 43.4%.  That's ten and a half points, gentles.  Philadelphia alone can't tip the Keystone State that much.  But if a Republican congressman had brought up, say, The Chosen One's Islamic background - oh, wait, that's right, one of them did last spring, and McCain immediately repudiated him.  Do you hear Barry O condemning and distancing himself from Murtha?

No you do not, because he doesn't have to.  The "redneck racists" that both have repeatedly slimed are going to dutifully vote for them anyway.  Because, you know, those "goddam macaca Republicans" are so much worse....

Barry Hood tells Joe The Plumber to lie back and enjoy being fiscally raped:

Yep, that's the sprit, Santa Barry, "organize" all that wealth you didn't create and piss it away to all your lazy, ignorant, shiftless, greedy, grubby, indolent friends, and make sure no more of it can EVER be created EVER again.  And when that gets all used up, blame "the rich" for being as pauperized as the "poor," which will include all of the former middle class by the time you're through with us.  Go on, kill the golden goose, then take an axe and hack its carcass to bits in a fit of "populist" rage for the supreme outrage of dying at your "compassionate" hand.

Okay, I got a little carried away there.  The "rich" will always be with us because they have enough to know where to put it so that you can't get at it, and the "poor" will always be with us because you and your party couldn't survive without them.  It's the middle class of 401(k)/mutual fund investors and small business owners that will shrink under your "populist" hammerblows.  Fewer small businesses started up, more small businesses driven out of business, and the jobs they create - believe it or not, the majority of the W-2-receiving workforce - eradicated right along with them.  THAT's the "middle class squeeze," and it will only land full force once you and your rich, Donk friends are calling the shots.

Put another way, you don't want to see middle classers rise UP the income ladder, you want to see middle classers driven DOWN into the ranks of the working poor.  That's the way income theft and "redistribution" works.  It's the only way it CAN work.

But don't just take my middle-class, economically literate word for it.  So also sayeth the Wall Street Journal, as they have, quite vindicatorally, for years:

One of Barack Obama’s most potent campaign claims is that he’ll cut taxes for no less than 95% of “working families.” He’s even promising to cut taxes enough that the government’s tax share of GDP will be no more than 18.2% — which is lower than it is today.

It’s a clever pitch, because it lets him pose as a middle-class tax cutter while disguising that he’s also proposing one of the largest tax increases ever on the other 5%. But how does he conjure this miracle, especially since more than a third of all Americans already pay no income taxes at all? There are several sleights of hand, but the most creative is to redefine the meaning of “tax cut.”

For the Obama Democrats, a tax cut is no longer letting you keep more of what you earn. In their lexicon, a tax cut includes tens of billions of dollars in government handouts that are disguised by the phrase “tax credit.” Mr. Obama is proposing to create or expand no fewer than seven such credits for individuals[.]

In other words, welfare through the tax code.  The earned income tax credit reproducing cancerously.  Meanwhile, the OTHER five percent - which pay something like two thirds of all individual income taxes already - will get massacred at the lower end (i.e. the upper middle class) and the upper end will simply move their resources out of the country where Barry's merry men can't steal it.

So, then, Obamanomics will outsource capital AND jobs by discouraging "the wealthy" and "corporations" from putting their wealth-creating, well, wealth to growth-stimulating (which is to say, wealth-creating) use - which President Hussein will doubtless condemn as "fiscal treason," followed by legislation that would outlaw moving capital out of the country by forcing its investment here so the feds can get their hands on it.

Too extreme?  He'd never dare?  Hey, the Democrats will have total, unchecked, near-dictatorial power - who could stop them?  Who would dare try if B.O. won by the "historic landslide" all the "experts" are now predicting and a matching mandate to go with it?

Here's a sneak preview of the coming, all too familiar chickenheartedness, in case you were uncertain:

House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) on Sunday indicated that he is open to working on a second stimulus package as long as it “makes sense.”

“But let’s not use the stimulus package as an excuse to do what Democrats have wanted to do from day one of this Congress, which is a huge public works plan,” Blunt said on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) said Democrat would do a second stimulus that will “give the middle class and the average citizen the same kind of relief that we try to give to the financial sector.”

I know what Blunt is thinking: he doesn't want to put himself and his caucus in the PR position of being against "stimulating" the economy in the midst of its crumbling three weeks before an election.  But he and his party are ALREADY being blamed for Barney Frank's party's Financial Logic Bomb, and flexing the old RINO "go along to get along" muscle won't change the murderous ballot box fallout from that.  Indeed, there is no instinct that renders Republican officeholders more singularly and comprehensively useless, which is why the ascendancy of that instinct always coincides with fewer and fewer Republicans holding office.

What Blunt, along with John Boehner and Mitch McConnell and their scattered post-November 4th survivors need to say and do is not that they'll work with the Democrats, but rather do everything they can to obstruct the Democrats and loudly declare and explain the folly of Democrat policies at every turn.  In a word, they need to become ideologues, every bit as strident as the Democrats have been for all these years, minus the assassination fantasies.  It won't stop the majority from its vengeful, extremist, overreaching rampage, but it will ensure that the public knows whose policies are being imposed, and stick the correct party (for a change) with the blame for them when they have their catastrophic effects.

Maybe somebody should ask Blunt what he thinks about this whizbang Obamanomical scheme:

The crawl underneath a speaking Obama on Fox News right now:"Obama: Propose a 3-month moratorium on foreclosures."

Why stop there?

Indeed.  Oh, it starts "small," but it's just one more left-wing camel nose in the tent.  Once you ban some (nationalized, don't forget) mortgage lenders from foreclosing on properties that, after all, are the security against the mortgage loans that funded them which are no longer being repaid - kind of the flip side of the government forcing those mortgage loans to be offered in the first place - how do you justify opposing an extention of the moratorium, both term and to all mortgage lenders?  Sounds to me like the means of causing the remaining mortgage lending institutions to collapse and get them swept up in the nationalization dragnet along with the others.  A dynamic not all that dissimilar from the overall strategy of the Democrat Financial Logic Bomb itself: force the American people en masse into dependence on government, and permanent, functionally compulsory alliegence to the Democrat Party, by frontally demolishing the economy so that they have no other choice.

Sorry, Congressman Blunt, but "going along to get along" doesn't cut it.  It never did, but it is even more pointless now.  The Democrats don't want to get along with you and your party; you're irrelevant to them at best, and seek your utter annihilation at worst.  They're turning America into a giant Belarus before your very eyes.  That's not anything to "go along" with, and it won't save you or your party politically; it will pound the final nails in your, and its, political coffin.

Don't go along with Obamanomics, Roy; take your beleaguered nominee's intermittent advice and fight!  Fight now, while you're still allowed to.  Remember, every successful popular movement needs its martyrs, their lives of far more use sacrificed than living in disgraced, dishonored servitude.

Think of it as the downpayment on the big 2010/2012 comeback.  It's the only way the political pendulum will ever swing back in the direction of truth, justice, and the American way.

UPDATE: Does Team Sith have the collective doorknob's sense to make Joe The Plumber their campaign mascot for the last three weeks?:

Remember Republican ex-Congressman Mark Foley of Florida?  Remember how his homocybersex with underage pages was the Democrat dirty trick coup de grace of 2006 that suddenly made illicit homosex in politics matter again and put a really creepy face on the Donks' "Republican culture of corruption" meme that, along with Iraq war fatigue, carried the neoBolshevik Left back to power on Capitol Hill?

Remember the "pro-family" Democrat who took his seat two years ago?  You will now:

West Palm Beach Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-FL), whose predecessor resigned in the wake of a sex scandal, agreed to a $121,000 payment to a former mistress who worked on his staff and was threatening to sue him, according to current and former members of his staff who have been briefed on the settlement, which involved Mahoney and his campaign committee.

Mahoney, who is married, also promised the woman, Patricia Allen, a $50,000 a year job for two years at the agency that handles his campaign advertising, the staffers said.

A Mahoney spokesperson would not answer questions about the alleged affair or the settlement, but said Allen resigned of her own accord and “has not received any special payment from campaign funds.”

Senior Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives, including Representative Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), the chair of the Democratic Caucus, have been working with Mahoney to keep the matter from hurting his re-election campaign, the Mahoney staffers said.

Well.  Guess that "It's 'just sex' for Democrats and a 'culture of corruption' for Republicans" one-way street is still in mint condition.  You'll also note that while Foley did the honorable thing and resigned in disgrace, Mahoney is not only NOT falling on his sword (for getting Ms. Allen to fall on it first....) but his party is helping him cover it up in order to keep his adulterous ass in Congress.  Because only Democrats know what values REALLY matter, and that is their never ending mission to make all Americans one big "family," with Father Barack "benevolently" running our lives like Landru himself.

So how's that Mahoney coverup coming along?  Maybe not so well after all:

Perhaps this ABC-aired audio clip of Mahoney firing Allen, which led to her threat to file a multi-million dollar palimony suit against him, helps explain his unorthodox attempt to personally bury it down a deeper black hole than Rahm Emanuel's office:

Representative Tim Mahoney (D-FL) requested an ethics investigation of himself yesterday after ABC News reported that he paid hush money to a former mistress who once worked on his staff and was threatening to sue him.

According to ABC News's Web site, which cited anonymous sources, Mahoney, 52, paid $121,000 to former staffer Patricia Allen and arranged a $50,000-a-year job for her at a Nashville-based public relations agency. Mahoney won the seat in 2006 after GOP Representative Mark Foley resigned amid reports that he sent sexually themed electronic messages to male former congressional pages.

"While these allegations are based on hearsay, I believe that my constituents need a full accounting," Mahoney, who is married, said in a statement yesterday that did not address whether the allegations were true. "As such, I have requested the House Ethics Committee to review these allegations. I am confident that when the facts are presented that I will be vindicated."

Throw it down the House "Ethics" mineshaft!  Brilliant!  Wow, why couldn't Foley have thought of that?!?

Because the Democrats and their Enemy Media propagandists would have screeched, "COVERUP!!!!!", that's why.  And they'd have been right.  So Foley quit instead, and the GOP still lost thirty-one seats and the House majority for what's looking like generations.  Meanwhile, nobody, least of all any Republican, is calling for Mahoney's lynching and hanging his philandering ass around Crazy Nancy's botoxed neck.

Would it mitigate GOP losses in three weeks?  Probably not.  But that's part of the game Republicans are going to have to play if they ever expect to get back to within shouting distance of national relevance, much less respectability, and least of all the majority again.  Might as well get started on that long, hard road out of political hell.

In the beginning, there was "Affirmative Action lending," and Bill Clinton and Andrew Cuomo saw what it was, said what it was, and it was very, very bad:

Notice Barry O's cameo appearance as an ACORN capo against Citibank?  Notice how Cuomo's "fairness" doggerrel sounds awfully similar to False Messiah's domestic/economic policy stump speech rhetoric?  Care to speculate on the inteventionary excesses he and Crazy Nancy and Dirty Harry will openly and thuggishly indulge in once they have total power and no longer have to resort to long-term sabotage plots?

Wonder why the Wall Street Journal says Chris Dodd should be answering questions under oath instead of asking them?:

Former Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld was under oath Monday when he was grilled on Capitol Hill about his role in the current financial meltdown. But if Members really want to understand the credit mania, they should also call Chris Dodd.

The Connecticut Senator has been out front denouncing the “companies that form the foundation of our financial markets,” for “their insatiable appetite for risk.” He has also decried “reckless, careless and sometimes unscrupulous actors in the mortgage lending industry” and he has proclaimed that “American taxpayers deserve to know how we arrived at this moment.” To that end, we propose he take the stand — under oath.

Ah, but Dodd's testimony would be but the warm-up act.  Barney Frank and his Fannie Mae exec ex-boyfriend would be the main event (via Newsmax Insider):

Critics are crying “conflict of interest” over Democratic Representative Barney Frank’s live-in relationship with Fannie Mae executive Herb Moses while Frank was on the House Banking Committee.

Moses was Fannie Mae’s assistant director for product initiatives from 1991 to 1998.

He was also openly gay Frank’s live-in boyfriend during that time, while the Massachusetts lawmaker was on the committee that had jurisdiction over government-sponsored Fannie Mae, Fox News’ Bill Sammon reported.

Now that Fannie Mae is at the center of the recent financial meltdown, the relationship is coming under increased scrutiny.

“It’s absolutely a conflict,” said Dan Gainor, vice president of the Business & Media Institute.

“He was voting on Fannie Mae at a time when he was involved with a Fannie Mae executive. How is that not germane?

“But everyone wants to avoid it because he’s gay. It’s the quintessential double standard.”

A top Republican House aide told Fox News: “He writes housing and banking laws and his boyfriend is a top exec at a firm that stands to gain from those laws? No media ever take note?”

Frank and Moses met in 1987 and lived together in Washington, D.C., until they split up in 1998.

National Mortgage News disclosed that Moses “helped develop many of Fannie Mae’s affordable housing and home improvement lending programs.”

Critics charge that such programs led to the mortgage meltdown and the recent government takeover of Fannie Mae, according to Fox News, which noted that Fannie Mae and its financial cousin Freddie Mac “are blamed for spreading bad mortgages throughout the private financial sector.”

In 1994, Frank thwarted efforts by President Clinton’s Department of Housing and Urban Development to impose new regulations on Fannie Mae.

Two canoodling pole-smokers sodomizing Wall Street and ultimately, the American taxpayers.  My, but the salacious metaphors write themselves, don't they?

Actually, one cannot imagine these testimonies because (1) they'll never happen under Democrat auspices and (2) if Republicans were still in the majority they'd be even more unlikely because they'd never have the balls to play hardball against that bloated albino and My Boy Lollipop.  Heck, they WERE in the majority for most of this scam's lifetime and they never blew the whistle on Dodd or Frank, much less ousted their worthless (and in Frank's case, well-aerated) asses.

Not that any of this matters anymore.  The conventional wisdom is set in cement: "Wall Street greed," cultivated by "Republican avarice" at the expense of "the little guy," let too-free markets "run wild," and it was heroic Democrats like Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Hoover Obama who led the federal government to the "rescue" and "saved the economy".  But truth will have to be its own reward, if for no other practical reason than to set the stage for the swing of the political pendulum back towards the center-right in 2010 and 2012.

On that score, Ensign Ed has composed a pretty good prologue:

While Democrats like Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi keep blaming “greed” for the collapse, it was Democrats like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd building that “greed” into the system in order to drive the subprime lending market.  And it was Democrats like Frank, Dodd, Maxine Waters, and Lacy Clay who suggested that regulators like Armando Falcon were racists for blowing the whistle on the Ponzi scheme they created.

The Democrats decided, as Michelle says, that mortgages were a civil right, and wouldn’t cost the American taxpayers a dime.  How well is that working out, America?

And it's going viral:

Well, maybe not always THIS "out there," just not embeddable.  At any rate, if the Democrats' devastation of the financial markets is becoming a rising pop culture topic, it may be safe to say that their thus far successful blame deflection to the GOP is undergoing serious erosion.  Either that or Hollywood is sufficiently confident in Obama's inevitability that they feel like the truth can no longer hurt him.

I have to think the latter explains Alec Baldwin's inexplicable candor:

The, the thing we have to remember, a friend of mine who is very close to the financial community in New York pointed out that Democrats have a lot of the responsibility for this as well. I mean, it was Clinton who killed the Glass-Steagall, and it happened under a Democratic president. Barney Frank and his committee, they, they kept propping up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac saying everything's fine, everything's fine, everything's good. And it was his job to know everything wasn't fine. And Barney Frank let you down and let us down as well.

"Killing Glass-Steagall" had nothing whatsoever to do with killing Wall Street, of course; it just allowed banks to diversify their holdings, which helped mitigate the damage, if anything.  But just imagine Alec Baldwin - the same Hollywoodie who, during the Clinton impeachment saga, publicly called for the public execution of the late GOP Congressman Henry Hyde and his entire family - publicly letting slip that Fannie/Freddiegate is not, after all, "entirely" a Republican "deregulation" scandal.  Is overconfidence causing the Left to lose its message focus?

Maybe this helps explain Nostrildamus' sudden haste in convening his House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to "investigate" anybody and everybody but the party primarily responsible for carpet-bombing the financial sector:

Democrats aimed their harshest attacks at deregulation and CEO pay, using former Lehman Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fuld as an example during a recess hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) also released internal documents showing Lehman’s compensation committee recommended $20 million in “special payments” to three departing executives on September 11, four days before the firm filed for bankruptcy.

Republicans, for their part, launched a campaign to pin the financial meltdown on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and attacked Waxman for not holding a hearing to dig into the now-nationalized mortgage giants.

“Any hearing on oversight that does not begin with Fannie and Freddie and [former Fannie Mae CEO] Franklin Raines will be a sham,” said Representative John Mica (R-FL). “This is like investigating a train robbery and only talking to the dining car stewards.”

Christopher Shays' ringing denunciations of Donk culpability are of particular interest:

And why does Chairman Waxman want to keep out of the public record any documents that show who is actually responsible for the subprime meltdown?  To save taxpayer money, of course!  A claim dripping with risible contempt for the intelligence of his listeners, but still not quite as malicously insulting as that of his dinnermashing comrade.

Perhaps I've been too pessimistic about justice being done in this economic hurricane.  It's like a dam has burst and all the carefully cultivated and reinforced mendacious levees the Donks built around Barack Hoover Obama and themselves are fracturing under the deluge.  Or maybe the better analogy is the Egyptian Army racing across the bottom of the Red Sea after the Israelites and not quite making it to the opposite shore before the waters collapsed on them.

Or maybe the election is already over and the coast is clear for them.

At any rate, here's ten more minutes of truth-reinforcement as a public service:

Note to Team Sith: ARE YOU F'ING PAYING ATTENTION?!?  ARE YOU GOING TO GLOM THIS NRCC AD AND BLAST IT INTO EVERY CORNER OF THE FREAKIN' COUNTRY between now and Election Day?

You'd bloody well better:

Ace sez:

More of this. More of this. Nothing but this for the next thirty-two days.

The election hangs on this single issue.

The public believes Republicans caused this disaster, and we'll lose based on that misperception.

The Democrats actually caused it -- but Republicans, beginning at the top off the ticket, are inexplicably shy about saying so.

More of this. More of this.

Ace is right.  But John McCain does not approve of that message:

Expect McCain to make the case on television, but don't look for him to turn to Obama in the next debate, point his finger, and say something like this (courtesy of the Ace of Spades HQ blog):

I stayed away from making these partisan attacks, even though you lied ridiculously about me and your own attempts at 'reform.' I held back, because partisan attacks — even truthful ones — would harm our country and reduce the chances of getting a vital bill passed. Well, the bill is now passed. I put country first. You didn't, and you lied on top of that. And now — only now that this crisis has been dealt with, to the extent we can — I'm going to give you a bit of straight-talk about Fannie, Freddie, my attempts to reform it, and your attempts to block reform on behalf of your big donors and friends in ACORN.

Nope, that is not going to happen. Why not?

1) It is a complicated argument, and McCain is not good at making complicated arguments, not even about earmarks. (Note, additionally, his lack of defense of the war in Iraq during his debate with Obama. Amazing.)

2) There is a racial component to criticism of the Community Reinvestment Act that can make it sound like you are scapegoating minorities for Wall Street's problems.

3) The campaign believes McCain's time is better spent talking about taxes and energy and healthcare. Really.

Or, in still more distilled terms...

1) McCain is an inarticulate boob;

2) The same RINO timidity that dissuaded most Republicans from braving the obligatory Donk racial demogoguery to overrule Chris Dodd and Barney Frank when they were in the majority and put the brakes on the Fannie/Freddie gravy train before it was too late;

3) McCain is surrounded by purblind idiots.

I gotta wonder, though; with The One already running around lying like a rug in order to lay the foundation for the final communization of the American economy, if Maverick does glom the NRCC offering above, isn't that belated straight talk at least somewhat likely to come up in the two remaining debates?  And doesn't that possibility argue AGAINST such straight talk animating Darth Queeg's marketing spots, particularly in light of their highly conspicuous absence so far?

On the other hand, why does the argument have to be complicated?  J-Ger seems to summarize it well:

[T]he market wasn't running free; the government, through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, loaned billions of dollars to people you wouldn't loan $200 to because you didn't trust them to pay it back. Then, through the Community Reinvestment Act, they punished banks that didn't make enough loans to people who do not have the credit, assets, income, or down payment to qualify for a normal mortgage, a.k.a. the subprime market.

No one in their right minds loans money to somebody who they think won't pay it back. But the government said banks had to, for reasons of "fairness".