This is how Jim Gooch is ruining the Commonwealth of Kentucky as a shill for king coal. The fact that Steve Beshear and the Kentucky Democratic Party have allowed this buffoon to go unchallenged is just as bad. [H-L]
Point of hypocrisy/frustration: Today at noon, Steve Beshear will attend a Boy Scouts luncheon at Keeneland. But he couldn’t be bothered to show up in Pikeville for the inauguration of Pikeville College’s new president – a former governor. [Beshear's Public Schedule]
Jack Conway is beginning to sound passive, discussing boring ass banking 24/7. Only boring, ridiculously focused people like me understand that shiz. It’s a lesson in how to fail. [C-J]
Some guy in Bowling Green says Greg Stumbo should resign over the school projects deal. The guy must have a screw loose, because I’m pretty sure about 90% of the legislature should resign – not just Stumbo. [Bowling Green Daily News]
Wait, there are two more! [Here & Here]
Who walks off with the farm and who gets hosed during the budget process? [Larry Dale Keeling]
It’s fine for you to support your churches and your community. But you people in Frankfort need to back the eff up and away from throwing our tax dollars at fundamentalists and organizations that don’t benefit the entire community. You don’t get to preach about fiscal responsibility only to throw pork at your favorite mouth-breathing hate group you call a “church” or whatever. [Marion County Line]
You know I don’t agree with the Courier-Journal editorial board often, but take note. This horse shiz of using children as pawns in Frankfort has got to stop. Greg Stumbo should be ashamed and the rest of the legislature should be immediately repenting. [C-J]
Pee Alert: Jim Bunning? Popular in Kentucky? Alecia Webb-Edgington and crew are showing their true colors. [AP via MSNBC]
That feller with a pickemup truck and a Dubya sticker is just so mad at Ben Chandler he could spit. [John Cheves]
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1 Mark H (Not Hebert) // Mar 15, 2010 at 7:29 am
I don’t necessarily have an issue with banking reform, but to exclude Fannie and Freddie from those same reforms is ridiculous on its face and shows just another card in the administration’s plan for dealing with the toxic assets still sitting out there in the CMBS market. A mean good God, they were a huge part of mortgage debacle, so to exclude them from reform is insane, if not crooked.
After Barney Frank pushed to have the debt caps lifted from Fannie and Freddie, it’s obvious that we the taxpayers are going to eat the losses after the toxic assets current sitting on the lender’s books, are going to be purchased by Fannie and Freddie. The banks get their money (especially Goldman Sacks) and the taxpayers eat the losses.
Now you have Major Jerry going along with developers here in town who overbuilt in the condominium market, by rezoning condos as “homes” in an attempt to slip them past Fannie Mae’s underwriting standards so they’ll (we taxpayers) will buy the mortgages. Jerry can call it an “innovative approach,” but it looks and smells like fraud on the American taxpayer to me.
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