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October 12, 2008 11:07:43 PM CDT


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  • June 2008
    • Countrywide 'Bailout' Is Dem Chicanery

      Countrywide 'Bailout' Is Dem Chicanery

      (Newser) - Congressional Dems are selling their $300 billion bill granting new taxpayer loan guarantees as a boon to homeowners, but Dick Armey sees more cynical motives in the “bailout” legislation. The former House majority leader writes in the Journal , pegging the recent revelations of sweetheart Countrywide loans for top (Dem) “banking players” to the active legislation, charging that “it’s all too clear who is being rescued.” More »

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      Financial Crisis   bailout   Fannie Mae   Freddie Mac   Countrywide Financial   congressional Democrats   Dick Armey

  • May 2008
    • Site's Grass Roots Planted in Right-Wing 'AstroTurf'

      Site's Grass Roots Planted in Right-Wing 'AstroTurf'

      (Newser) - AngryRenter.com might look “underdoggy and grass-rootsy, with a heavy dose of aw-shucks innocence,” the Wall Street Journal reports, but the anti-mortgage bailout website is actually the work of publisher Steve Forbes, former House majority leader Dick Armey and other Republican bigwigs. It’s a paragon of “AstroTurfing”—big-sponsor advocacy posing as spontaneous movement. More »

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      bailout   mortgage crisis   AstroTurf   Dick Armey

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