{"id":1276,"date":"2009-10-17T15:47:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T15:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2009-10-17T15:47:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T15:47:51","slug":"its_always_embarrassing_to_get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Always Embarrassing To Get Caught With Your Hand In The Cookie Jar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704322004574477411300771366.html\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, the House Oversight Committee was scheduled to meet Thursday afternoon to mark up several minor pieces of legislation.&nbsp; According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;California Republican Darrell Issa notified committee Chairman Edolphus Towns that Mr. Issa would call for a vote to subpoena Countrywide documents from Bank of America, which bought the failed subprime lender last year.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When Mr. Issa and the GOP members of the committee sat waiting for the meeting to begin, Democrats huddled in a back room without explanation. Thirty-five minutes later, the committee announced that the meeting had been postponed indefinitely.&nbsp; The article further reminds us:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>&#8220;Recall that, under the &#8220;Friends of Angelo&#8221; program, named for former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo, Democratic Senators Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad received sweetheart deals on home mortgages. Mr. Issa wants to uncover the full story on Countrywide&#8217;s effort to influence Washington policy makers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Does anyone want to make any guesses as to when this committee will meet again and if they will find a way to avoid the subpoenas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to yesterday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal, the House Oversight Committee was scheduled to meet Thursday afternoon to mark up several minor pieces of legislation.&nbsp; According to the article: &#8220;California Republican Darrell Issa notified committee Chairman Edolphus Towns that Mr. Issa &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1276\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}