Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Monday

With YouTube video showing Maxine Water's duplicity in what lead to the current banking crisis precipitated by the fall of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, voters in Los Angeles can send a message to the Macy's shopping grand dame of Los Angeles politics, finally ejecting her from Congress (long overdue) and elect Ted Hayes to Congress. Check out this video of Waters being challenged on Real Time with Bill Maher (hardly a Republican show) about her alleged lies about contributions she received from the two mortgage banks.


More than $40 million is being spent by both sides in the battle over Proposition 8, which removes the right of same-sex couples in California to wed.  Be sure to read my commentary urging you to vote no on the measure.


A blogger runs into Council Member Dennis Zine having lunch at the Eastside Market Italian Deli in Downtown Los Angeles.  No word on what Dennis was actually eating.

Here's yet another story illustrating the politically correct goofiness that has changed the meaning of youth sports in America.  It used to be that sports were to teach kids teamwork, responsibility and being their best.  May the best team win.  However in recent years because of concerns about children's "self esteem" these sports programs have worked to make everyone a winner such as giving a trophy even to losing teams and anything else to deman the efforts of the best performers.  The latest is a story about a prodigy nine year pitcher from a Connecticut Little League team, who has been disqualified from playing, because he is "too good."  Unbelievable.

You may wish to read my essay "The Audacity of Non-Conformity" over at my personal blog, Absolute Random Nonsense.  I detail my experience of being on the opposite side of the Presidential question of most folks I know as a young idealistic Democrat in 1984 and as a middle aged pragmatic Republican a quarter century later.

D'Oh! Obama's Democrats Said There Was No Issue With Fannie Mae But McCain Wanted To Regulate Them. In 2006

New video unearthed today from 2004 showing that Congressional Democrats made the claim that there was nothing to worry about at Fannie Mae, and in fact even went as far to inject the race card because then Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines - a former Clinton Administration official - happened to be African American.

"Mr. Chairman, we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and in particular at Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Raines. Everything in the 1992 act has worked just fine."
-Representative Maxine Waters in 2005

"The responsibility that the Democrats have may rest more with resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was president to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."
-President Bill Clinton, this week

"If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole."
-John McCain in 2006

At the same time Republicans including John McCain called for more regulations and more control on Fannie Mae while usual suspect Democrats Maxine Waters (please, please Ted Hayes win and send Maxine packing) and Barney Frank saying this was not necessary.



Amazingly, yet another video shows Obama at an event in 2005 celebrating Fannie Mae, from which he was the second highest recipient of campaign contributions in the US Senate though Obama has been in the Senate less than four years.



Thank God for YouTube because we have video showing that McCain supported regulation of Fannie and Freddie, and along with many others including then Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, express serious concern over what was to come.



Oh and where was Barack Obama on this? Apparently he voted present.

What's the new term these days? Epic Fail? Yea, Senator Obama, you and your Democrats did. What's more, you got PAID to do it.