The mortgage industry political establishment was in shock this week following news that the Mortgage Bankers Association of America had fired its top lobbyist, Howard Glaser, a person widely credited with rebuilding the trade group’s large government affairs department. Significantly, sources pointed to internal conflict – if not a power struggle – among MBA’s senior staff as the principal reason the trade group’s president, Jonathan Kempner, gave Glaser his walking papers. "The word is that