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The function of an executive branch is, to oversimplify, to carry out what the legislature does.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were not pouring cash into political coffers because of their positions on abortion.

I've resisted putting too much detail here because it's ignored. It's ignored because I'm the one presenting it, or it comes from someone other than MSNBC, therefore the information is somehow "false." I'm tucking this post deep in the bowels of a thread, directing it primarily at you. Instead, I've been asking people to look up the history and names themselves. It's frigging all over the place.

Here's a story from 2002. Here's one from 2004. And another from 2004. I assume you know what Raines and Johnson are doing for a living right now.

You can go back further to root causes. Maybe the first crack in the system was Johnson privatizing Fannie Mae to get it off the budget. I don't know.

The regulations of 2005 died in committee. The ranking member of that committee was Dodd, who got the most cash from these outfits of any politician. I doubt it was because of his liberal social positions.

Trying to blame this on Bush is an act of political desperation. If you target some Republicans in Congress over the past twenty years, you'd have something more to go on, but the ones holding the bag of chickens in the barnyard right now are Democrats.

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