Fanniegate

Is this the game-changing scandal the Republicans (led by the Tea Partiers) can get the country to believe in? It’d be “Main Street” rising up against the corrupt alliance between “Wall Street” and Democratic special interests. And it would have the big advantage of not being personally directed against our president (in the sense he’s not one of the main evildoers).

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