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More audacity, this time from Pelosi. I guess he’ll have to be a real maestro to hold hearings in which people don’t wonder why he’s not a witness. Don’t get me wrong, I hope every sleazebag pays, including Wall Street sleaze. As Biden noted last night in one of his stronger moments, you have to know the cause of a problem before you can correct it. But there’s hasn’t been a single word about Acorn and the corruption of the noble but nearly fatal Community Reinvestment Act. You can’t “make housing affordable” by making riskier loans, obviously. Although, we have to admit, housing’s a lot more affordable now, isn’t it? So the value of our personal property is down and responsibility for the debt of others is up. If that’s what we have before an Obama presidency, I guess I’d better start rehearsing that Obama hymn. Oh, wait, there’s another.

Somehow I doubt Frank Raines and Jim Johnson will come up in Barney’s hearings. Ever.

Barney Frank conducting investigations on the meltdown? Hey, O.J., head over to Bundy and collect some evidence, will ya?

Let’s enjoy some clasic Pelosi:

“Under the leadership of our chairman, Barney Frank, as I called him on the floor, a maestro, we were able to make improvements, working in a bipartisan way, making improvements in the legislation, and then make more improvements in the legislation before it came back to the floor today.

“The eye now is to the future. To shine the bright light of accountability on what is happening in our financial markets so that it doesn’t happen again. That accountability will tell us how we got to this place and ferret out the abuses. That accountability will honor our trust to the American people.

“Mr. Frank will be holding hearings on where we go from here, because we are about the future.

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