Before the real estate meltdown and the government bail out of the GSEs, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee had this to say (link):

These two entities “ Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac “ are not facing any kind of financial crisis, …The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing…Barnie Frank Sept, 2003

When asked if her health plan would hurt small business,

I Can’t Go Out And Save Every Under-Capitalized Entrepreneur In America…Hillary Clinton

Speaking of oil company profits,

The other day the oil companies reported the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits…Hillary Clinton

Comrade Clinton as quoted by the AP in 2004

We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good…Hillary Clinton

Speaking at a fund raiser in San Francisco,

You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations….Barack Obama

An impeached judge who pled guilty to taking a bribe had this to day about Sarah Palin

Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks…Alcee Hastings, September 2008

Is justice blind or does a teenage mom deserve more justice because she had sex at 14 years old? Speaking of how he would appoint Supreme Court Justices (notice that he did not mention the Constitution)

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criteria by which I’ll be selecting my judges…Barack Obama

When contemplating what to do with the budget surplus, the President said

We could give it all back to you and hope you spend it right… But … if you don’t spend it right, here’s what’s going to happen. In 2013 — that’s just 14 years away — taxes people pay on their payroll for Social Security will no longer cover the monthly checks… I want every parent here to look at the young people here, and ask yourself, ‘Do you really want to run the risk of squandering this surplus?’-Bill Clinton, January 21, 1999

Barack Obama to Joe the Plumber

I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.

Joe Biden on how to avoid bankruptcy

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’” Biden said. “The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.

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