Posted by
Matthew on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:36:48 PM
For the last decade plus, it has been common to see comments from the left including something about "Republican family values" as a little poke in the eye for a series of marital failures and odd behavior that has been, well, too common. It really doesn't matter that the same issues and items have been regularly popping up on the left side of the aisle, some say, because they don't hold themselves up as paragons of virtue.
One could have a sociological discussion about whether people in positions of power are inherently more ego-centric and less likely to hold to the beliefs they claim to represent, but that's not really the point here.
Over the weekend, news broke that Chris Dodd, among others, 'may have received' a sweetheart deal on multiple loans from Countrywide Financial. If that company isn't familiar to you, take a look at what pushed Jim Johnson out of his position in helping Obama narrow the list for veep-wannabes last week.
This is getting fun.
The chair of the committee that is supposed to keep an eye on the mortgage industry got special favors from Countrywide. Dodd says he didn't know he was getting a special rate; what a shame that he was so unfamiliar with something so central to what his committee should have been watching. Others have been mentioned as receiving similar treatment; fortunately, so far, the names have all been followed by a (D).
So ... now I guess we know what the Dems mean when they talk about their deep concern about the 'mortgage crisis' ...