Could Obama Want Democrats to Lose the House?

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What an absolute fraud, conman, liar, hypocrite and Global Fascist, President Obama or Barry Soetoro is even his real identity has not been fully disclosed after 2 years! Is that a President giving himself to the people?
What he has given the USA,is rotten, along with a Police State that out does, the Soviet Union in the time behind the Iron Curtain!
Thanks for all the hardship and trashing of our country Obama & Bush have done!
“Republican Rand Paul has opened up a huge lead in a new poll on the Kentucky Senate race, outpacing Democrat Jack Conway by 9 percentage points,” reports USA Today.
“Paul, an eye surgeon backed by the small-government Tea Party movement, is ahead 52 percent to 43 percent over Conway, the state’s attorney general, according to Gannett colleague Joe Gerth of the Courier-Journal in Louisville.”
A nine point lead just four days before the election is probably insurmountable for Conway, but with all the evidence of Democrats engaged in dirty tricks and vote fraud, don’t put anything past them.
All being fair, leftists are just going to have to admit defeat on this one. The establishment media’s sustained five month demonization campaign against Rand Paul, characterized by endless contrived smears and hoaxes, has failed completely.
If anything, the ceaseless attacks on Paul from a discredited establishment have helped his campaign. Last week, before the stomping controversy, a Mason-Dixon poll had Paul ahead by six points. If anything, he has increased his lead.
Indeed, some are even predicting a “Randslide,” and if Paul does comfortably beat Conway, it will represent a crushing indictment of the establishment media’s waning influence on politics, with the Internet beginning to take its place as Americans become more informed about the real problems that face America, and are not swayed by exaggerated jibes about Rand Paul’s college behavior 30 years ago and the infamous “Aqua Buddha” hoax.
Those who swallowed the hype whole and predicted that the smears against Paul ’spelled the collapse of his political career’ are now having to eat their words.
Rand Paul is quickly building a reputation as a Teflon Senator. His unparalleled ability to stay on message and stick to the issues amidst a bombardment of manufactured hoaxes regurgitated by the corporate media should see him coast to victory next week, barring any last minute shenanigans by Conway, who as we have learned from the drug trafficking investigation involving his brother, is not shy of bending the law for his own purposes.
PS: These are the type of,Independents you can trust! To keep America free! That is why the Main Stream Media under the Globalists’ power, discredits the Independent candidates so badly, they have no control, extortion, blackmail or under the table deal, with the Independents!
Full article: http://www.prisonplanet.com/rand-paul-surges-ahead-of-conway-despite-stomp-smear.html

Paul Revere of TX 11:16PM October 30, 2010

Yes, Fannie and Freddie purchased over half a trillion dollars worth of subprime debt during between 2001 and 2008 when the market crashed. Not only does this represent a very minor share of total subprime debt but it was not done as part of a government policy to expand lending to minorities or at the behest of congress. Congress was mostly in the dark about what was going on thanks to the Bush Administration who not only failed to warn congress but because Bush actually obstructed congressional deliberation on the looming financial crisis in the interest of promoting more home ownership and boosting corporate profits.
The housing boom made MBS highly profitable. Money shifted out of the stock market to mortgage backed derivatives on the assumption that rising house prices lowered the risk of these securities. Fannie and Freddie are GSEs that are required to serve a public function while making a profit as semi-private entities, two goals that often conflict. F/F found themselves under pressure from investors to boost profits by purchasing higher yield securities. This mean riskier subprime mortgages.
"At the same time, Fannie and Freddie were under pressure from shareholders to generate profits to bolster their stock price. Fannie dropped 17 percent from 2004 through 2006 and Freddie declined 7.9 percent. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index, by contrast, gained 7.4 percent. Fannie and Freddie gravitated to the securities as yields on agency mortgage bonds often fell below the cost of selling their debt. In 2006, AAA rated securities backed by subprime or second mortgages averaged 0.57 percentage points more than U.S. Treasuries, according to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. index data. That compares with 0.48 percentage points for fixed-rate agency mortgage securities. The public and private demands on Fannie and Freddie led to their demise, Paulson said on Sept. 7, when he announced the government was assuming control after their shares plunged more than 90 percent. HUD said the companies shouldn't blame policy makers for driving up subprime holdings. The companies weren't required to keep the debt on their books as part of their home-financing goals..."If Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are holding securities backed by these loans, it is because they were attracted to their yields and not because of a public policy designed to promote affordable homeownership,'' HUD said in a statement"
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ay0Kkt47a3s4
It should also be noted that F/F were not the root cause of the crisis. It was mostly private mortgage lenders who drove the crisis with predatory lending practices, lower lending standards, bribes to ratings agencies and incentives to expand the high risk, low end mortgage market which was made less risky by loan originators by an aggressive securitization trend for all home mortgages.
This was hardly the fault of the Democrats. The GOP's tolerance of massive corporate greed is far more culpable.

steve of IL 12:58PM July 16, 2010

I am surprised by the amount of ignorance or perhaps sheer disregard people seem to reflect not just on Obama's policies or his achievements but..well, general knowledge. Certainly not everyone is expected or will know (myself included) the intricacies revolving the economic turnaround or running the 3rd most populous nation. We are talking about those, who could not manage their personal budgets and financial affairs and got themselves into foreclosures and unemployment (no disregard mean't to those hurt), how could one expect people to understand what it takes to be the commander-in-chief of perhaps the most dynamic and much revered nation and have every Tom, Dick & Harry (or McCain & Palin minded GOP addicts) try to roll out spikes all around you.
His performance so far has been undoubtedly better than his predecessor who focussed on externalities (invading sovereign states) at the expense of his home turf, wherein this guy has focussed his efforts to reach those whom he has been elected to represent - Health care, financial reform, energy conservation etc are not his 'personal' agendas, but those that affect the general mass and those he has made his own for sake of other's benefit. In all practicality, we should be well aware of the fact that no all pockets of wallet (and for that matter society) can hold and benefit from the amount of currency (profits/benefits). There may always be those who, in the short run, may not benefit from the change or even notice it around. You cannot justify the taste and tenderness of your steak until it has made its way to your dinner table.

Mister H of CA 9:16PM July 15, 2010

Lets get our FACTS straight, Democrats have contolled Congress for the past 3 1/2 years, which includes Bush's 7th and 8th year (when the housing market crashed and Democrat Barney Frank ruled the banking committee ridiculing conservatives who said housing was going to crash. Democrat Frank defended Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac saying all the sub-prime mortgages were fine, there was no bubble. All the while he and Democrats Pelosi and Reid and Obama raked in the campaign contributions from big shots at Fannie and Freddie. Voters should hold those Democrats accountable!
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I do think the article has substance, that if Democrats maintain the House and Senate along with the Presidency and the economy is not doing well in 2012 then Obama absolutely is a 1 term President (unless the Republicans really screw up with their candidate). Having the Republicans get a 1 vote majority in the house neutralizes all the blame going to Obama/Democrats and helps his re-election. More and more Democrats are publically stating that the recession will continue through 2012 making this scenerio all the more likely.

Tubaguy of PA 9:05PM July 15, 2010

Good. I like the branches of power locked in stalemates. Imagine if your office was run by all accountants. Some things would work better, but some things would suffer. What if it were run by all marketing people? If government is going to run effectively, it needs to act like a business. In fact, I remember liking when Obama tried doing this (although I don't know if it was simply a political move) when picking Democrat and Republican members of his Cabinet.
(That's one of the problems we're having in Jersey. The state is so whacked to the left we've run ourselves into a major deficit. Bring it back to the center and move fractionally to the right and the left on a case by case basis)

Charlie of NJ 7:28PM July 15, 2010

Rediculous..!
I can't see why the President would want a Republican House, it was THEIR SPENDING & the attitude that Wall Street couldn't do anything bad attitude before 2008 elections that got the economy to the point it is in today.
President Obama inherited the MESS created by 8 years of Republican house & executive branch rule, why would he want them to take over again...?

Howard Bingham of TX 7:01PM July 15, 2010

Both parties are pawns to big corporations, which is behind every major problem that we are facing now.
Health reform, financial reform, BP lack of regulation and oversight, the pulling of Glass-Steagall, all were accomodations made to expand the coffers of major industries.
Pretending that our problems are due to any one party will just keep us cycling from one corporatist to another.
The solution is not another party.
The solution is to not make is mandatory that a good Congress person cater to these international corporations in order to get money for the re-election campaign.
The solution is serious campaign refinancing with NO money coming from private sources. The public still owns the airwaves. This is do-able.

Joan Dalton of AL 5:52PM July 15, 2010

Here is another link that may inform you more.
“Democrats caused the recession and Republicans tried to stop it”
http://winteryknight.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/democrats-caused-the-recession-and-republicans-tried-to-stop-it/

Bill Hedges of MO 5:32PM July 15, 2010

Bill Clinton signed. Helped get him sub prime loans through banks.
Bush warned many times as my link shows. My point is Bush tried to stop recession. WAS all Democrat vote that failed the regulation.
Please point out where I said Republicans were all innocent. Nor do I say Bush is all innocent. Yet Bush sure gets most of blame here. And Clinton clean bill of health.
By the way obama threatened to sue banks backed by ACORN. Saying racism and thus involved in this mess with Clinton.
My main point of my links is Clinton caused recession to get started and Bush trid to stop.

Bill Hedges of MO 5:22PM July 15, 2010

"Republicans tried to get passed regulation to try and stop housing crash under Bush but by ALL DEMOCRAT vote it failed.
“McCain's Early Recognition of Fannie/Freddie Crisis”"
Then why did 3 Republicans write the bill that passed in 1999 ? The one that gutted Glass-Steegall - the law that protected the financial system since the Great Depression.
Why was that bill written ? For who ? Who benefited ?
Just curious ?

Pulse of IL 5:03PM July 15, 2010