HAMP, as many people know already, is a massive failure. Chris Hayes runs down why on The Rachel Maddow Show. Atrios at Eschaton has been all over this for months.
ROBERTSON: [S]omething happened a long time ago in Haiti and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. Napoleon the Third and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, “We will serve you if you get us free from the [...]
Should be the memoir title for the political consultant who thought the “I guess I am a racist” commercials were a good idea. Rachel Maddow discuses the ridiculous “I guess I am racist” ad with Melissa Harris-Lacewell.