I work in the mortgage business and am glad to see someone talking about Option mortgages, these are bad news. According to lenders 80% of the people with these mortgages are making the minimum payment (negative ammortization). In my experience at least half the people with these do not understand that when they make the minimum payment, their ballance goes up. They are woefully uninformed.

Andrew, it would be interesting to see computer models of the economy if we had not had this housing bubble, which is partly caused by crazy mortgages.

y guess is that had it not occured, our economy would have tanked after Sept 11.

Um...small, fiscally responsable government.

Maybe it is. Do you have any research that demonstrates otherwise.

Crearly, anyone reguardless of intelegence or compitence can become AG. It's so buteaful it makes me want to cry.

Gitmo

Anon who said the CIA was terminating the thread, you probably could get in trouble for pretending to be the CIA.

US attorney that prosecuted the 2 border patrol agents had been on Lou Dodds and Glen Beck several times.

We keep hearing that a political solution is needed, but we think that political solution is one unified country. If the Iraqis idea of a political solution is 3 seperate countries, this will be more difficult than we think. Personally, I don't have a problem with the Iraquis, or other Asians and Africans, throwing off their colonial borders.

I still think Gore cost Nader the election.

and thank god you did because he has gotten so much accomplished.

You are saying that because we have not discovered them they are not there.

He shouldn't be required to answer questions from "commeners".

He was the only Republican that went to the NAACP debate. He seems like he actually wants to be presidebt of all Americans, not just the republican base.

Everyone judges the economy based on their own situation. If you judge things based on your portfolio, things are good. I fyou judge things based on your checking account, things are bad.

Or even married? Sometimes people or groups need to get some space, some perspective. They may come back ready to get something done.

"The moral problem is always present, whether you opt to try and form a third party, or retire to a cave on a hilltop. If your conscience isn't confronted, it's generally because you succumb to the pretense that you aren't involved."

I support a third party because neither of the two mainstream parties have platforms I support. I don't want a continuation of the current policies reguarding the war on terror (republicans), nor do I want socialized healthcare (democrats) and those are the choices.

about government healthcare, once we have it all the great service provided by the government after Katrina can be extended to include healthcare.

Is this Carl Rove?

"George Bush would survive impeachment". Look at the prcentages of American that would like to see impeachment, then consider the fact that there has not been a major campain for it. On their own, nearly 50% of the people have come to that conclusion, a big push by congress could do it.

But it wont happen, the Republicans have gotten to where they are because they are aggressive, and the Democrats have gotten to where they are because they have no backbone. They control both houses of congress, all the money, but they still can't stop the war they were elected to stop.

Thats no problem because, except in Chicago the dead can't vote.

Hillary is gonna get the nomination and she has not said she will withdrawl.

Is he gonna show up for the you tube debates?

about a Manson/McVeigh but a McVeigh/Manson ticket....that's something I could get behind.

Have you ever been to North Dakota?

"remember that Bush/Cheney supported the brief military coup against him,"

I am not saying you are wrong, but what is the proof of this.

If it was not for all this subprime and other lending stuff, our economy would have tanked after September 11th.

One more thing, the subprime issues will pale in comparison to the option ARM issues that are soon to come.

After all if property (which is what a corporation is) can be a person, than surely a person can be property.

I may not agree with everything he says, but he has real conviction in his beliefs about personal responsability and fiscal conservativesm. You can figure out his core beliefs and then know what his position will be.

he is not moving to the left, he is staying put while the republican party is moving off in some other direction. Take a look at his contract with America (1992 I think), the republicans today are nowhere close to it.

I thought 11001 would be good.

We got rid of Talent, and put in McCascal.

Is that the public dosen't understand the difference between reporting and opinion peices? These guys, O'Reily and lots of others never come out and say they are doing opinion peices, but they are. If anyone ever calls them on it the can claim it is obvious, but most people do not see the destinction.

BobbyG

are you a blogger, or just offended that you won't and can't be taken seriously? Most bloggers are the same jackasses who thought the govt. bombed the world trade center or think that aliens were responsible for the "roswell incident".

It's funny you should say that, I think the aliens bombed the world trade center.

Shouldn't that have been Joe Lieberman (I-Tel Aviv).

Their blowing alright but it's not the wind.

Maybe they have discipline, but the leadership has no backbone.

evidentally prefer being the minority, thats the direction thier headed. Maybe when they loose in 08 they will choose leadership with a backbone.