Bailout

Sickening. Pelosi is not calling it a bailout, but a "buy-in". This shit makes me sick.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laland/2008/09/pelosi-its-not.html

 

hey, now lets bailout Detroit.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080928164938.dtc44u1c&show_article=1&lst=1

 

It may take ten years to recoup some of the lost value on these mortgages, but if you're going to throw a ton of tax payer scratch in the purchase of assets, it may as well be property.

But calling it a "buy-in" is a bit cheeky; the whole thing stinks to holy hell, but it just doesn't stink quite as much as the collapse of our economy. (to put it in perspective, my student loan hasn't been originated yet and is still in limbo and has been idling that way for a week ... good times).

 

There's going to be a lot more of this garbage if Obama is elected. We'll have a Legislative and Executive branch who will agree with each other so much they will be nodding like they're at the Wailing Wall. They'll be no brakes on the socialization train--it will be full steam ahead.

 

I agree.

 

oh bullshit.

there isn't enough money to do any of that stuff. your boy W has taken care of that.

 

Uh, what makes you say President Bush is "my boy"? I voted for Gore in 2000. As for having enough money, there is always money when you can "soak the rich" and "evil corporations".

 

who did you vote for in 2004?

 

I didn't cast a vote for President. Neither candidate deserved my vote.

I have political beliefs that go beyond bumper stickers. You should try the same.

 

I wish. Sadly, I think you're wrong. I don't think the Democrats are particularly left-wing, and that goes for Obama, too. Bill Clinton and Tom Daschle engineered a drive to the center for the party and the party is still very much centrist.

If he wins the Presidency, I'd love to see Obama be as left-wing as the Bush administration was right-wing.

 

Wow Amazing Obama got his energy bill going before he is even in office.... Or did he simply pitch something that was already in the works so he could try to take credit for it a year from now. I think the latter.

 

So will McCain be seen as the one who deserves big credit for this, creating a big move for him in the polls? Did his "I'm suspending my campaign and rushing to DC" gambit pay off for him?

 

The Government is kinda like an airplane... Neither can fly with only one wing.

And I'm really fucking tired so here's another analogy. If you paint your bedroom white and aren't happy with the color do you paint it black to fix it?

 

If analogies are what you like, here are two:

If you want to fly straight and the plane has been pulled to the right too far, you want to draw it back to the left to get it back on course.

If painting one's bedroom is a constant, never-ending process and the room is currently too dark, do you start to add some light colour (recognizing that you'll never have a chance to completely redecorate the whole room in one shot)?

 

And equally as sadly, I disagree with you. You may not think the Democrats are particularly left-wing, but all you have to do is to see who drives the Democratic Party train, and you'll see we're a long way from the days of the DLC. The extreme left wing of the Democratic Party controls it now, and Pelosi, Reid and Obama are all standard bearers of that part of the spectrum. Four years with those three at the helm working in concert will make the Bush Administration look centrist by comparison.

 

If this was a stunt, it failed. If he really believed he needed to come to DC to save the economy and he put his country first, then it will remembered as a profile in courage.

 

I hope. I think they are all quite left-center, but we'll see, if Obama wins.