Anusol for the monkey.......
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UPDATED: Friday, February 20, 2009 23:38
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Quote:Funny, seeing you folks post over a non issue, when you actively ignore anything/ everything written which shows exactly what I say Bush did, in trying to set up regulations to rein in Fannie and Freddie. Video links don't even clue your myrmidons in either. Y'all are the hopeless class.
Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:You were far more charitable with him than I was in this regard.
Originally posted by SignyM:
If I ever had any doubts about your reading comprehension, those doubts have been laid to rest.
"Thanks." -Hero, 2009
The laughing Chrisisall
It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager
A concern of the GOP is that the people aren't informed enough to understand their policies, while a fear of the Dems is that the people WILL understand.
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The Kleptocrat Elitists jetting off should be a clue , even for the slow kids...
And the RE-R.I.P. is not going to work , not by any stretch of imagination...
All it will do is hasten the descent and exacerbate the crash at the end...
'...In truth, Geithner did us all a big favor on Tuesday by exposing himself as a stooge of the banking industry. Now everyone can see that the banks are working the deal from the inside. Geithner has assembled a phalanx of Wall Street flim-flam men to fill out the roster at Treasury. "His chief-of-staff is lobbyist from Goldman Sachs. The new deputy secretary of state is a former CEO of Citigroup. Another CFO from Citigroup is now assistant to the president, and deputy national security adviser for International Economic Affairs. And one of his deputies also came from Citigroup. One new member of the president's Economic Recovery Advisory Board comes from UBS, which is currently being investigated for helping rich clients evade taxes." The Obama White House is a beehive of big money guys and Wall Street speculators whose only goal is to nuzzle up to the public trough while strengthening their grip on political power.'
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22025.htm
" I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending ,
on the objects of benevolence , the money of their constituents."- -- James Madison
" The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
-- Plutarch - (c.45-125 A.D.)
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“The foundation of all Mental Illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.” Carl Jung
' ...The combined government & media sources of the world tell the tale of whole countries sitting on the edge of fiscal insolvency; civil unrest now becoming commonplace; starvation & suicide deaths soaring; staggering rises in unemployment; food shortages; rising threats & escalating wars. In my country (USA), the stories are the same…maybe 46 of 50 States, 80% of US cities & 2 of 3 US banks are fiscally insolvent; likely 1 of 5 workers unemployed or working part-time (due to lack of suitable employment); home foreclosures up 80% in 2008 (worse yet expected in 2009); the rise in homelessness expected to soon use up available resources; up to 1 in 6 go to bed hungry; likely 40% of States discussing possible secession options & Federal Government committing to unconstitutional use of US troops to quell expected civil disobedience or to enforce US sovereignty over the States. In spite of all of this, the majority of my fellow citizens seem to believe that we will somehow just be okay; that we are somehow more honorable & moral than everyone else.
Reality would seem to indicate that this is simply not true; that genuine hope lies only in the compassionate truth that our old, corrupt system of leadership & lies must die in order for honest resolution to occur. A monstrous lie, which is our silence to injustice, violence & racism, now covers my country like a thick fog. Though the preponderance of evidence would show us to be ‘freemen who have chosen slavery’ (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn), our ‘absurd deafness’ (Henri Nouwen) thinks it prudent to overestimate our status & to overlook the fact that we have allowed our corrupt leaders to lead us into ‘purposeful, pre-planned recessions & wars, theft of the world’s wealth, selling of drugs & laundering of drug resources, repressing dissent (to avoid exposure), convincing the populace that we are moral & honorable, & committing genocide to maintain an illusion of control’ (Mike Ruppert, Jenna Orkin, Paul Craig Roberts, David M. Walker, Michel Chossudovsky, Ron Paul, Cynthia McKinney, John Pilger, Jonathan Cook, Stephen Lendman). Oh, that this were not true!
The Day of Reckoning for the USA is nigh at hand. Soon…our lights will go out, our economy will come to a screeching halt (when our oil supply is no longer able to be financed, due to the world losing confidence in us or no longer being willing to bow to our arrogance), chaos will become the law of our land & greater, mass death will be perpetrated on our citizenry. Soon…we will reap the due consequences of what we have allowed to be sown on our greater world. '
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22031.htm
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I'm surprised nobody called me on what I thought was a patently obvious chain-yanker, although yes, I did call this one pretty damn close well in advance.
Jong, I do think you're onto something there, perhaps a bit biased, and with a sour grape aftertaste, but that don't mean you're wrong neither.
The modern day republicans have totally fucked themselves by abandoning core conservative principles like fiscal responsibility and limited intervention both economically and militarily, while practicing a radical conservatism to appeal to the darkest fringe of the religious right.
That was suicidally idiotic, and the absolutely crowning moment of that kind of stupidity was sending Bolton to the UN, whos inexplicable and inexcusable behavior and belligerence firmly assured that NO one there is gonna back us up for a long long time...
Sure, they're corrupt as hell, but we really coulda used a hand, or even dumped it into THEIR lap to deal with and let THEM take the blame for what was GOING to happen as soon as you removed Saddam from power.
But done is done, and you are quite correct that in essence, the republican party as you knew it is all but dead.
Me, I wanna finish it off, cause what's left, even if it ever does rise again, is gonna be some twisted zombie-vampire version of it carrying all the flaws and none of the redeeming qualities of the original, and as such I think we'd all feel just a little bit better staking it and laying it to rest before that happens.
And as I pointed out before, if you get your shit together NOW, and get a viable third party up and running, or even a decent, functional coalition of the ones we already have, flawed or not - people are gonna get sick of democrat bullshit pretty quick and start lookin for other options when the next elections roll around.
Me, I wanna be there with a candidate, plan of action, and the personnel and infrastructure to get it done quickly and efficiently, even if I may not agree with their entire platform, so long as I believe it will bring a net benefit to our country and our people.
A MUCH smarter idea than cuddling up to the corpse of a dead and rotting party while pretending Palin is tinkerbell and if you clap your hands and BELIEVE just hard enough....
Pffth, the american people ain't got time for faery tales, and it's pretty obvious the democrats and business is usual ain't gonna pull us outta this tailspin, so wouldn't it really be a better idea to get our shit together NOW, while we've got the jump on it and no one, not even the democrats (too busy celebrating their "victory" - as if pushing over a corpse is some kinda win?), is gonna give thought to sabotaging or opposing it until much closer to election time, at which point we'll be ready for it ?
We can DO this, but it does mean surrendering certain treasured illusions, which you obviously have.
Let's get it on, ehe ?
Done right, they won't know what hit them.
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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Rap
108th Congress (2003-2004)
House Seats
227 Republicans
205 Democrats
2 vacant House Seats
1 Independent
Remember Dennis Hastert ? House Majority leader in 2003 ? Or have you forgotten so quickly ?
108th Congress (2003-2005)
Senate Seats
Majority Party: Republican (51 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (48 seats)
Other Parties: Independent (1 seat)
And Bill Frist was Senate Majority leader. Ahhh, who could forget Bill, diagnosing Terry Schiavo by remote in the Senate.
And WHO was the pres'dent at the time ? I dunno, Rap, you tell me. It slips my mind.
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I know ! It was Barney Frank !
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Quote:I have posted ad infinitum about Fannie and Freddie. Kudos to Bush for trying to rein them in. That was the one good thing that he "tried". Too bad he didn't succeed despite the fact the Repubs had control of Congress.
Funny, seeing you folks post over a non issue, when you actively ignore anything/ everything written which shows exactly what I say Bush did, in trying to set up regulations to reign in Fannie and Freddie.
But bad on Bush for setting up the rest of the dominoes. Even if he had succeeded with Fannie and Freddie, our economy would still be catastrophic. The income spread- which Bush encouraged- would still make us dependent on debt to prop up consumption. Lehman would still have failed. Countrywide and IndyMac would still be in the shitter. Scams would still have rune rampant on Wall Street. The panic would still have gone global. We would STILL be facing a deficit.
Now, you can't even muster up the balls to say "good on Bill" for reversing the deficit trend? All you can do is "sour grapes" about how it was only a "projected" surplus?
Sheesh!
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Not enough to over rule their votes, but nice try. Read the articles, rue. Most of these attempts to regulate never even made it out of committee! So spare me the head count, I'm just telling you how it really is.
It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager
A concern of the GOP is that the people aren't informed enough to understand their policies, while a fear of the Dems is that the people WILL understand.
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And as I pointed out before, if you get your shit together NOW, and get a viable third party up and running, or even a decent, functional coalition of the ones we already have, flawed or not - people are gonna get sick of democrat bullshit pretty quick and start lookin for other options when the next elections roll around.
Good point. Support the candidates you can support. Push for the actions you can stand by. Out of the ashes....
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Not to mention that good ole' Bush forbade states attorneys general from going after lending agencies making predatory loans, and lowered capitalization requirements on investment banks. ALL of this was to keep the loans flowing to give the APPEARANCE of a healthy economy. Which Rap fell for - it was ROARING - wasn't it Rap ?
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Silence is consent.
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"Most of these attempts to regulate never even made it out of committee!"
Committees run by --- who ? I'll give you a hint - the majority at the time.
Now --- who was that, again ?
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And Barney Frank was president, right Rap ?
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