WASHINGTON — A House panel has ended a probe of alleged preferential lending by Countrywide Financial Corp. to lawmakers and aides without taking action, saying the ‘‘serious matters’’ submitted for review fall outside its jurisdiction.
Allegations surrounding mortgage loans to House members and staffers through Countrywide Chief Executive Officer Angelo Mozilo’s ‘‘Friends of Angelo’’ initiative or other so-called VIP programs are either too old or involve people no longer employed in the House, the Ethics Committee’s Republican chairman and ranking Democrat said in a statement Thursday.
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Lots of slimeballs in the halls of Congress seem to be running like the rats of Hamlin from this countryside Financial scandal because it involves the rats or some of their rat colleagues. Yet this same gang of slightly over 400 also thinks nothing of running home to avoid spending a few billion tax payer dollars to help out residents and governments in New York and New Jersey to start recovering from the impact of Hurricane Sandy's damage to shorelines and inland. And this bunch are represented here in Massachusetts by 11 Democrats and a Republican. Of those, only the Republican, Scott Brown, has said anything I have seen published about his vote on the gullible gully fiasco, which has caused lots of even liberal talking heads to start pointing out that President Barry 'the glib chatterbox' O has been very testosterone-prone in his pronouncements of who he will tussle with over issues and whom he won't, but not doing much about serious problems like the Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security impacts. Maybe the slimeballs in the House ran home from the New York-New Jersey damage situation so as to avoid adding $60 billion or so to the federal deficit. Uh huh... Ya think? More than a few of the Beputlican House members cornered by tv news reporter s asserted that they weren't happier with the final bill because their peers in the House lacked the courage to vote to improve the final product. Yeah... right. . . .