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Here is a sampling of coverage of the Dodd/Countrywide Mortgage Scandal that continues to threaten the fate of the mortgage bailout bill before Congress. The vote could happen as soon as today, but the scandal might make senators think twice about bringing the bill up in this climate.

FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey sounds off in The Wall Street Journal.

FreedomWorks President and CEO Matt Kibbe writes a piece on the scandal for Red State.

TownHall.com reporter Amanda Carpenter investigates the role Senator Conrad played in moving the mortgage bailout bill through the Senate. She talks about her story on Fox News.

And FreedomWorks interns make Fox Business News when they protest Senator Dodd’s Countrywide scandal outside Union Station in DC.

Finally, here are some links to other news outlets covering the story.

Hannity and Colmes

Hartford Courant

Jesse Hamilton points out that Dodd has conflicting explanations.

The Kansas City Star calls for an investigation, and points out that the senators involved violated the Senate ethics rules regarding gifts.

National Review has a great piece on the scandal.

UPDATE: Nine Senators have sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid asking him to delay the vote on the mortgage bailout in light of the Dodd/Countrywide scandal. This is an encouraging development!

Here is the video from last night’s Glenn Beck Show on CNN. FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey discussed our website AngryRenter.com and the looming mortgage bailout.

Here is the video of FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey’s recent appearance on CNBC’s show Kudlow and Company. In an earlier post I quoted Armey’s statement about Barack Obama. Now you can watch the video and hear Armey address Obama and liberals in general.

Dick Armey, chairman of FreedomWorks, slammed Senator Barack Obama for his lack of experience and his liberal voting record on CNBC’s Kudlow and Company last night.

Here is the full quote:

It’s very hard to predict what the future behavior would be of a person who’s had no past record of actually initiating anything. But what we do know about Senator Obama is he has the most liberal voting record of anybody in the Senate.

Therefore, we can observe that he will go along with any left-wing scheme that comes along. While he’s never had a policy initiative of his own, we could expect that if he were to win the White House, he would take the initiatives that came out of Congress – an increasingly more liberal and emboldened Congress – and you’d get many left-wing schemes coming out of the House and Senate to his desk, which he would sign, and embrace, and call his own.

[Obama] is a fascinating person. It’s so hard for me to understand how a person who is so wholly devoid of any on-the-job, policy accomplishment can take the job with these kinds of responsibilities, having demonstrated none in his life.

FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey debated the “right to health care” with liberals in Boston, Massachusetts for PBS. The complete debate will be aired on various stations throughout the country over the next few weeks. Here is a clip.

My boss Dick Armey has penned a column for Real Clear Politics that contains advice for John McCain. Hopefully his economic advisers are paying attention.

Sen. McCain has already proved his willingness to take bold free-market stances. His attacks on earmarks, despite ambivalence from party leadership, have shown him to be a leader in the fight against government waste. Who else would campaign against ethanol subsidies while in Iowa? Meanwhile, few have defended free trade as ardently as McCain, even as public support for open trade dwindles. Whatever criticisms some might have of the man, no one could say he lacks political courage.