Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.
It is a travesty for anyone who is elected to office, who serves in an elective office, to engage in voter suppression.
What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.
Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.
The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.