Just a coincidence, I'm sure!

[Standing Wolf]

Look Who's Buying IndyMac
Larrey Anderson
The FDIC has just announced that a consortium of private equity and hedge fund firms would be buying IndyMac. IndyMac was an independent "bridge bank" spun off of Countrywide Mortgage in the late 90s.  IndyMac acted as a "bridge bank" to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

New York Democrat Charles Shumer precipitated the fall of IndyMac in May of 2008 by releasing "inside" information that the mortgage company was in dire financial straits. This disclosure created the initial "bank run" that is credited by many economists as the initial trigger that prompted the current mortgage crisis. The FDIC took over the operations of IndyMac in late summer of 2008.

So much for history. George Soros is in on the deal to buy IndyMac from the FDIC. Soros has a long history of making loads of money by first creating a financial crisis and then stepping in to grab up the bargains. Perhaps the most famous example of this tactic is "Black Wednesday," when Soros nearly sunk the entire economy of Great Britain through currency speculation.

George Soros has helped bankroll the campaigns of the Democrats in Congress who created this mess. Now, it appears, he is cashing in on his investment.

Hat tip: Otis A. Glazebrook (IV!)

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/01/look_whos_buying_indymac.html

I'm sure representatives of the Democratic (sic) party will investigate this amazing coincidence in very short order.

[41magsnub]

Soros would make an acceptable Bond villian...

[AZRedhawk44]

Soros would make an acceptable Bond villian...

Yeah, but which Dem-chick congresscritter villainesse would get the provocative Bondesque name?

Dianne Feinstein = Carrie Dufour
Cynthia McKinney = Pippi Longhose
Barbara Boxer = Guarantee Sherwin

/shudder.  No Democrat Bond villains!  Their evil seductive accomplices wouldn't be.... seductive!

http://www2.fanscape.com/bond/bondgirlname/


Contrast with:

Michelle Malkin = Rubi Diamond
Ann Coulter = Pippi Longhose (what are we missing about McKinney?)
Mary Katherine Ham = Fiona Plum

Nope.... evil Bond chicks must be conservatives.

[41magsnub]

Janet Reno:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rosa_Klebb_by_Lotte_Lenya.jpg

[Manedwolf]

Soros would make an acceptable Bond villian...

Orson Scott Card made him into one in an unfortunately terrible novel.

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

Well, we all knew there was a reason Shumer tried to kill IndyMac.  Know we know what the reason was.

[Manedwolf]

Well, we all knew there was a reason Shumer tried to kill IndyMac.  Know we know what the reason was.

I fully expect he'll get away with it, because too many of the members of the Stupid Party remaining are still trying to figure out how to make Republican Lite work the next time, unable to fathom why McCain blew it.

[longeyes]

What we are seeing in all too many places are not problems that are going to be solved by either political party.  They will be solved by "History," something this nation has long considered itself either exempt from or in control of.  At some point everything is called into question, is on the table, is fair game.  "They" will push this as long and as hard and as far as they can; they really have come to believe that they are indeed Masters of the Universe.

[Perd Hapley]

I fully expect he'll get away with it, because too many of the members of the Stupid Party remaining are still trying to figure out how to make Republican Lite work the next time, unable to fathom why McCain blew it.

Yeah, ya gotta ditch half the party, in order to save it.   

[gunsmith]

the depressing thing is no Obama voter I've talked to knows who Soro's even is.

[Standing Wolf]

the depressing thing is no Obama voter I've talked to knows who Soro's even is.

No one ever said the leftist extremists are too cheap to spend money on competent public relations expertise.