The Sandlers were a threat to a lot more than the political right.

Jeff Jacoby like many other Neocons is trying to foist the blame for the subprime meltdown on the left.

Yet, the problem with the subprime mortgages was not really the making of the loans but the securitization of the loans and the rating of the subprime mortgage-based securities (CDOs), for they were treated as high yield low risk junk bonds — a sort of oxymoronic form of gross fiduciary irresponsibility because they were as a consequence able to have a huge leveraged effect throughout the world financial industry to the detriment of the world economy.

Lasky is either completely clueless in finance or totally intellectually dishonest or both.

Unfortunately, it does not address the political conspiratorial roots that lie in Neocon-warmongering, for the problem with the ratings would never have shown itself if the economic boom that the Neocons had promised had really occurred.

I am not a fan of Ed Lasky and The American Thinker, quite the opposite. Thus I would question Lasky's scapegoat "outing"

America no doubt can use a foundation on the left and I agree with Phil, the idea of Jewish camping is funny. We should alert the neurotic New Yorker on the topic.

Did they promise a boom? I only remember them celebrating over at Weekly Standard the brilliant perspectives of economy under Bush.

Yes they did promise a boom, LeaNder, they've promised lots of booms, duly delivered then cleaned up after the bubble burst. They promised a boom after Iraq was dissmembered and privatised, not materialsed due to heavy resistance, however, the usual faces are making a killing, literally.
Joachim Martillo is a Jew, who the hell gave Weis or any particulalr one of us the keys. Has Weis an argument to offer other than the usual rhetoric I had hoped he might be above. If he is so sure Joachim is wrong, why not deabte the issue with him? If he can't he should withdraw the hyperbole.

Oh, please, please let them succeed!

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6041368.html

That said, I wouldn't put MoveOn.org or Human Rights Watch on the left. The former is a front for the corporate Democrats (funders of Iraq war, renewers of the Patriot Act and FISA courts, bailers-out extraordinaire of Wall Street). The latter is now an echo chamber for the US establishment with its harangues of left wing rule in Venezuela.

If the Sandlers wanted to move America leftward, they wouldn't be wasting their money on these decidely neoliberal groups. Likelier is they want to buy shares in the forthcoming redistribution of government patronage under Obama. Maybe it's an early deposit on an ambassadorship. No quo if you don't show the quid!