Scum of the Earth

So we have this major economic crisis and the country is in peril. The politicians must pass a bill that will supposedly save us, but they haven’t yet? And why? Because they want to add all kinds of “sweetners”.

Two Saturdays ago, it totaled just three pages — the White House’s request for $700 billion to rescue tottering financial institutions by buying their devalued mortgage-related assets.

After an intense weekend of negotiations, the draft of the bailout legislation before Congress had swelled to 42 pages.

The following Friday, after almost a week of marathon talks between Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and key lawmakers in both parties, the working version was up to 102 pages. It went down to defeat Monday in the House, mostly at the hands of Republicans.

Once the Senate was finished adding sweeteners Wednesday to entice reluctant House Republicans to change their minds and vote for the bailout, the bill heading for passage had grown to 451 pages.

It was a 700 billion dollar bill. Now it’s at 850 billion. And whose to blame? Politicians, way greedier and less intelligent than the wall street clowns that are complicit in this mess.

A pox on both their houses.

I’m smiling!

Is this bill better than the Paulson plan? 
Selection       Votes
Yes, Congress should pass it.    1%  3
Yes, but Congress shouldn’t pass it.    6%  33
No, Congress shouldn’t pass it.    45%  236
Who cares, guillotine the bastards!    48%  254
     
526 votes total
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Posted by BrockTownsend  on  10/02  at  10:59 AM

It’s insane.  The Republicans could have won the election on this one bill, by simply standing up in public and saying “We will not support this bill unless ALL of the pork is taken out.”  But no, they couldn’t help slobbering into the trough themselves. 
At this point I hope the terrorists nuke Washington.  It’s the only way to be sure.

Posted by  on  10/02  at  02:13 PM

“At this point I hope the terrorists nuke Washington.  It’s the only way to be sure.”

I haven’t heard the “nuke” one yet, but I assure you that many are expressing basically the same thing.  I can’t remember where I read it today, but it stated we rebelled against the king for less grievances that we have now, but I’m afraid the welfare mentality has taken over too many of the people.  My 3x grandfather who fought at Brandywine, and my many ancestors who fought in the “Late Unpleasantness” would be ashamed of the cowardly/brainwashed people the majority of Americans have become.

Posted by BrockTownsend  on  10/02  at  02:23 PM

I’ve always been pretty much unimpressed with both parties my whole life. While I am a fiscal conservative, my problem with Republicans is they’re almost as bad as the Dems with the taxpayers money. They’ve only gotten worse over the years. Now they are as bad as the 70s Dems.  Only a few Republicans like Fred stand out as true fiscal conservatives. McCain does get some credit from me for being an anti-pork guy. But he voted for this thing because he thinks it has to be done to stop the bleeding.

We’ll see if Congress passes it. They might not.

It does have some good stuff thrown in, however.

What I do like however, is seeing the dollar go way up and oil go way down.

Posted by  on  10/02  at  04:29 PM

Ron Paul has been right all these many years, hasn’t he?

Posted by BrockTownsend  on  10/02  at  05:41 PM

On economic issues and civil liberties, I agree with Ron Paul very strongly.

On foreign policy I think he is more naive than Obama. Which is why I couldn’t support him fully.

Posted by  on  10/02  at  06:54 PM

According to the latest info, all those crappy pork projects are not being attached to the bailout.  In fact, they have all been approved before and are just being tacked on as a sort of labor-saving device for Congress.
So the “good” news is that they aren’t exactly tacked on pork. 
The bad news is that Congress passed all that crap already and nobody knew.  My god, the WASTE in Washington!!  Can you imagine what this country would be like if Congress wasn’t spending hundreds of billions every year on this sort of utter crap?  We’d be shipping supplies to our Mars colony from the space elevator using our fusion drives.

Posted by  on  10/02  at  09:03 PM

When lunatics run the asylum…

Posted by  on  10/02  at  10:05 PM

“On foreign policy I think he is more naive than Obama.”

I don’t agree that he is naive.  He simply follows the Constitution 100% of the time.  If it is not authorized, he votes against it.
His position is that if we had done this from the beginning, we wouldn’t be in a war with Muslims now. Would they stop trying to kill us now if we left?  Good question, and the answer may be no.

(Vox Popoli. BT)
Rep. Ron Paul, on CNN deploring the $700 billion bailout the president has just signed into law. He shook his head, saying that the government is throwing kerosene on the fire by spending more money.

“They’re not dealing with the fact that this country is bankrupt,” he said, of the Congress. “Doing nothing would have been a reasonable alternative.”

Paul also said that we are on the verge of major events in this country. He did not elaborate.

Posted by BrockTownsend  on  10/04  at  09:21 AM

The Muslim fanatics were against us because of our culture, which they think is corrupting. They only use that “you interfere with our business” excuse to try to get sympathy from other America haters.

They have been attacking US interests for a long time. Teddy Roosevelt had to deal with them in his fashion back in the day.

Posted by  on  10/04  at  09:39 AM
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