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Title: Homophobia: The other conservative solution to the financial crisis
Post by: Natasha on October 06, 2008, 05:12:49 PM
Homophobia: The other conservative solution to the financial crisis

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/homophobia_the_conservative_solution_to.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/10/homophobia_the_conservative_solution_to.php)
Alex Blaze
October 6, 2008 6:00 PM

Last week I wrote about conservative efforts to deflect attention away from the real causes of the current financial meltdown, deregulation, corporate greed, and the failure of conservative ideology, and pin it instead on scary minorities. Now Fox News has an article up about how this whole mess is really about the buttsex:

Unqualified home buyers were not the only ones who benefitted from Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank's efforts to deregulate Fannie Mae throughout the 1990s.

So did Frank's partner, a Fannie Mae executive at the forefront of the agency's push to relax lending restrictions.