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This headline on Fox comes close to matching Tom’s post from the other day: “Lawmaker Accused of Fannie Mae Conflict of Interest”
The story is thus: Barney Frank’s live-in boyfriend for 7 years was an executive at a company Frank’s committee regulated. I can’t think of a way to frame it so that that would not, objectively, be a conflict of interest.
Apollo posted this at 1:14 PM EDT on Saturday, October 4th, 2008 as An Insult to Drunken Sailors, Journalism
Is Barney Frank the most disheveled man in public life? The weight, wearing shirts that fit him 40 pounds ago, the hair, that speech problem that makes him sound like he’s perpetually inebriated. Aside from the fact that he was one of the people leading the charge for Fannie and Freddie to loosen their lending standards, he’s a horrible spokesman for the Democrats to have on any issue. He looks like he had three hours of sleep after a two day bender and rolled out of bed ten minutes ago.
I saw Brad Sherman on Fox earlier. He looked smart, and he dressed like a Congressman (i.e. in a nondescript suit with a nondescript tie). He inspired confidence that there are serious people working on a serious issue. The only confidence Barney Frank inspires is that the cheap aftershave market won’t crash.
Apollo posted this at 3:54 PM EDT on Friday, September 26th, 2008 as An Insult to Drunken Sailors
Well this is fantastic. $300 billion - i.e. $1000 from every man, woman, and child in America - going to bail out people who can’t pay their mortgages.
If you were responsible, if you thought twice before buying a home you couldn’t afford, if you bought a smaller home or a home in a not as nice neighborhood so that you could make the payments, if you stayed in your apartment for another year while you saved up for a down payment: Congress will take your money and subsidize the home purchases of people who chose to be irresponsible. Hope you enjoy your smaller home, or living in apartment that additional year, because the irresponsible are sure going to enjoy living it up in their nicer houses thanks to the money taken from your paycheck. P.S. And if you want to move up to a nicer house, fat chance, because part of the purpose of government spending this $300 billion is to jack up home prices.
This is about as unjust as government spending gets.
Apollo posted this at 6:33 AM EDT on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 as An Insult to Drunken Sailors, Amer-I-Can!
Its no wonder that everyone is so unpopular these days, our current choices being Big Spending Republicans and Big Taxing Democrats.
Well it turns out that 62% of Americans want smaller government and lower taxes.
Too bad we won’t get a president this round that will offer that choice.
I miss Fred.
Jamie posted this at 3:54 PM EDT on Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 as An Insult to Drunken Sailors, Amer-I-Can!
An interesting short story on conflicting federal, state, and local regulations of how many toilets sporting facilities need.
Line of the day: “Sometimes ‘potty parity’ isn’t what they mean or necessarily want. . . . They’re actually wanting potty asymmetry.”
Apollo posted this at 1:19 AM EDT on Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 as An Insult to Drunken Sailors
I hope no one supports John McCain because they think he’ll stop the growth of government. He won’t, and strangely the press is on to him. Though I think this might be one of those issues like Obama and Wright: it could potentially get huge negative coverage because McCain has spent much time emphasizing that he’ll be tough on spending. Now that he’s got the nomination and is opening the Santa sack, he’s looking like a regular politician when it comes to spending.
I miss Fred.
Apollo posted this at 10:53 AM EDT on Thursday, May 1st, 2008 as An Insult to Drunken Sailors