Ben Wetmore

Acknowledgement: Amanda Carpenter

So, the Senator Dodd countrywide scandal is being covered by some greats, such as Amanda Carpenter here on FoxNews. It seems that FreedomWorks is making a serious effort to attack this mortgage debacle, which is a good thing. Even though students are often the ones penalized the most in that their rents will be rising, they're unlikely to tie the two things together, or to make the connections between government policies, and their rising rents. I live in a poor part of the state, and I'm paying $460 for a room in a house, in DC I paid regularly over $650 a month for a room in a house, and dealt with multiple roommates all the time. Obviously the devaluation of the dollar plays a part, as does the slowing economy, but the fake prices of houses and buildings thanks to artificially low interest rates, and a lending industry willing to give 6 year olds credit, has quite a bit to do with it. Yet even Barack Hussein Obama only says vague statements about responsibility, etc. -- There's no answer which gives the lending industry a bailout or free reign to continue irresponsible lending.
UPDATE: O'Reilly covered the scandal tonight, maybe it's making MSM?!?! Maybe a $300 billion bailout for an idiotic industry is causing a few to ask who is watching the watchers. Something that's not being covered, but needs to be shouted from the rooftops on this, is that Dodd's Senator father was just as corrupt, using campaign funds to finance his personal life. Like father, like son.

Labels: amanda carpenter, corruption, Dodd, loans, messaging, mortgage, o'reilly, politics

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Acknowledgement: FreedomWorks rocks Dodd's house with a Panda suit

So, being a conservative doesn't always have to be about complaining, my post a few days ago about the problems of the party in getting the message out included the observation that Sen. Chris Dodd took an illegitimate Countrywide loan, and there was no one covering it. Well, I was wrong like kong, because FreedomWorks has sent a Panda to Dodd's house of corruption asking Congress to stop PANDAring (pandering) to the mortgage industry, including setting up a website on the subject of the corporate bailouts, angryrenter.com -- in a sea of conservative movement mediocrity, they stand out like rockstars. Freedomworks gets double points for using a costume, my favorite protest trick in the book, thank you Saul Alinsky. Now, it'll be tough for this to catch on, and a lot of these smart ideas never seem to crack into the MSM and die a quick death on the conservative media ghetto, but hopefully it'll get some traction. As a complete aside, there do seem to be a few people who will do original reporting and break things from the low-level to the larger media markets, people like Michelle Malkin, O'Reilly and a few others.

Labels: Dodd, freedomworks, marketing, messaging, movement

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