{"id":195400,"date":"2008-07-11T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/11\/kiss-of-death-for-fannie-freddie-from-white-house-marketwatch\/"},"modified":"2008-07-11T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T10:04:00","slug":"kiss-of-death-for-fannie-freddie-from-white-house-marketwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/11\/kiss-of-death-for-fannie-freddie-from-white-house-marketwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiss of death for Fannie, Freddie from White House &#8211; MarketWatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rex Nutting, the Market Watch Washington Bureau Chief says that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/kiss-death-fannie-freddie-white\/story.aspx?guid=%7B81C67604-B78A-4BC4-A9A2-A2C58C59B509%7D\">the implosion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is a certainty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why does he see it as a certainty?  Because Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> don&#8217;t see it happening.<\/p>\n<p>Other Things that Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> never expected:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Terrorists to fly airplanes into buildings.<\/li>\n<li>Saddam Hussein to have been telling the truth about not having any weapons of mass destruction.<\/li>\n<li>Iraqis to object to a long-term occupation by a foreign power.<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Katrina.<\/li>\n<li>People in New Orleans to object to the government&#8217;s response to Hurricane Katrina.<\/li>\n<li>The Democrats to take control of Congress.<\/li>\n<li>The Democrats to cave in so easily on important issues after they took control of Congress.<\/li>\n<li>Scooter Libby to get caught.<\/li>\n<li>Jack Abramoff to get caught.<\/li>\n<li>Abu Ghraib to be discovered.<\/li>\n<li>Scott McClellan to smell the coffee.<\/li>\n<li>The housing bubble.<\/li>\n<li>The credit bubble.<\/li>\n<li>The housing collapse.<\/li>\n<li>The credit squeeze.<\/li>\n<li>Bear Stearns to fail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To quote Bender the robot, &#8220;We&#8217;re boned&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rex Nutting, the Market Watch Washington Bureau Chief says that the implosion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is a certainty. Why does he see it as a certainty? Because Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 don&#8217;t see it happening. Other Things that Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 never expected: Terrorists to fly airplanes into buildings. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1261,1004,1265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bubble","category-finance","category-housing-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}