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teapeebubbles

09/08/08 3:12 PM

#49535 RE: teapeebubbles #49534

The Third Bush Administration in Oh So Many Ways! "The Palin administration won't release hundreds of emails from her office, claiming they cover confidential policy matters. Then why do the subject lines refer to a political foe, a journalist, and non-policy topics?"
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teapeebubbles

09/08/08 3:19 PM

#49536 RE: teapeebubbles #49534

Palin’s first gaffe: Claims Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac are taxpayer-funded....

Speaking in Colorado this weekend, Gov. Sarah Palin tried to explain the recent federal bailout by claiming that lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” The companies, however, “aren’t taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization,” McClatchy noted. Palin’s satement “is somewhat nonsensical because up until yesterday there was sort of no public funding there,” said Andrew Jakobovics of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. “The ‘too expensive to tax payers,’ I don’t know where that comes from.”