White House Mortgage Meltdown: Bush Gives Out Wrong Hotline Number

Harried homeowners seeking mortgage relief from a new Bush administration hotline Thursday had to contend with a bit of temporary misdirection from the president himself.

As he announced his plan to ease the mortgage crisis for consumers, President Bush accidentally gave out the wrong phone number for the new "Hope Now Hotline" set up by his administration.

Read more about Bush's mistake here.

Read more about Bush's plan to help hundreds of thousands of troubled homeowners here.

Comments

[Agent86]

Would you believe that Bush has been dialing the wrong number since he was born?

[amanda85]

Anybody knows the Chinese translation for this?

"The Capitalists would sell me the rope I will hang them with."

-- Karl Marx

[fourex]

Reading teleprompters and NIE's is not Bush's strong point, in fact anything in writing other than a comic book is a long journey for him.

[DELICIOUS]

JUST KEEPS PROVING THAT THE INMATES ARE RUNING THE ASYLUM!

[BuzzingAlong]

George has been misdirecting people all of his life. Why would anyone expect anything different?

[peterg76]

What? Little George put a mortgage on the White House? Is there nothing he won't do to avoid taxing the rich?

[vet64]

So this means the Liar in Chief lied again asn so is a Pathological Liar. Just can't help it.. Like a Kleptomaniac.
Anyway how long would the Decider in Chiefs nose be if his veracity was measured in the length of his nose... Like Pinocchio and everytime he lied.
Pinocchio. long live Pinocchio!

[TotobiAyokoh23]

Wait a minute! This is not funny anymore; it is a national tragedy, a disaster waiting to happen. What next?

[TLV]

This is so priceless.­..like when Cheney told Americans in 2004 to go to FactCheck.com to find out about his Halliburton interests when he should have said FactCheck.org and also when the Bush administration gave out a telephone number to call for Katrina relief that took the caller to a phone sex call room.

Bunch of doofuses running this joint!

[OddBodkins]

A bash on FOX from Matt Groening on FUTURAMA -Bender's Big Score: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALO7t2LZ-dc

[MikePatronSaintofTruth]

Dana Perrino, White House Press Secretary, stated that the liberal media is maliciously spreading rumors that Bush got the number of his own hot line wrong. Just because Bush gave a toll free number to a pharmacy in Dallas which was dissimilar from the toll free number for the mortgage hot line... doesn't mean he got it wrong. Bush is a brilliant man, let's face it. There must have been something the numbers did wrong... maybe the numbers were feeling under the weather. It was just a different number, and the liberal media is trying to spin this as if Bush did something wrong. As if GEORGE BUSH is stupid, yeah, RIIIIIGHT!

[expation]

It works one of two ways: there can only be one master. Either the people live in fear of their government, or the government lives in fear of its people.

We long ago gave up any control over the doings of our government and the ruling class it serves, who have always been our golden calf.

We've kept waiting for our rulers to trickle the goodies down to us, like good little girls and boys, and they finally have. It's all over us, and it looks like chocolate sauce, but it smells like (and is) the shit we deserve for being such IDIOTS!

So what are we going to do about it, huh?

[bolderdash]

I wouldn't be a bit surprised that Bushie purposely gave out the wrong hot-line phone # to a friend's Hedgefund # to buy speculative RITS, or Mortage backed securities from Fanny Mae or Freddy Mac.

The Treasury, via through Bushie's White House Red-button emergency hot-line, gets preferential first-class treatment. It starts at the top of the greedy-feading troul, and then trickles down to the rest of the masses. That's us, uless you're part of the one quarter of one-percent of the American annual wage earners. Ronald Raygun's 'Freedman's' economic philosophy is alive and well in Bushie's White House. They believe in the free market capitalistic system for the priviledge, and borrowing from the tax payer's bail-outs, via the Fed's Treasury, is tantamount to "their" Entitlement. when will the sleeping giant of the middle class going to wake-up to them being ripped off?

[fourex]

What are the Chicago School Free Marketeers saying about this fed intervention? Are they making more exceptions?

[tablogloid]

Yes, we have all gotten a phone number wrong maybe a few times in our lives. But why is the President giving out phone numbers to the media? Why doesn't he lead this country for a change? Why does he not clean up the big mess he's made? Spoilt Brat!