Radio Silence

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McCain's VP has begun demonstrating why she's being sequestered:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO4k1fIjivg[/YOUTUBE]

...and that's why John McCain for years has been calling for years to reform things, and cut bureaucracy, even at the lending agencies that our government supports. The fact is that Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac, have gotten too big and too expensive, to the taxpayers. [applause!!]

I honestly haven't got a clue what it is she is trying to say here. Blaming the federal government for the increase in size of these two privately held companies just makes no sense.

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yup. that's the ticket. i hope she keeps this up!!!


/schadenfreud

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And you know, the applause to that line is mystifying. Do these people not know, or is it more a situation where they know they're supposed to applaud, so they indulge her? I'm thinking it might be the latter, because they didn't just come right out with it, it took a moment, where people I'm sure were like, "Huh? Oh, are we doing this? OK -- woo hoo!!!"