Comments on: More Chicken Littles in Congress find their heads

By: Republicanvet

Republicanvet — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:35:25 +0000

On December 5th, 2008 at 10:15 am, walterc said:

I find it odd that the two people FINALLY questioning Paulson is Dodd and Frank.

The many faces of irony.

Yeah it is odd, hearing surrendercrats sounding fiscally responsible.

Where were they since at least 2000 when every spending bill that came up in Congress was larded up with billions more in pork?

Spending bills for Iraq? Billions added in pork.

Spending bills for Katrina? Billions more in pork.

How many earmarks were in each and every bill passed?

What has Congress done to make this process more open? other than scheme for ways to get around any accountability?

By: Republicanvet

Republicanvet — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:30:51 +0000

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd told reporters yesterday in Washington, referring to the Bush administration. “I am through with giving this crowd money to play with.”

And I am tired of sending my money to Washington so people like this dingleberry can “play with it”.

Perhaps if Dodd were a little more concerned about money being played with a few years ago, we would not be in this mess.

By: Bailout v. Bailout — The Opposite of Jim Bunning

Bailout v. Bailout — The Opposite of Jim Bunning — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:46:50 +0000

[...] have the power to withhold the second half of the $700B TARP fund from Paulson’s hands (h/t Michelle Malkin). If the GOP is as vested in bailing out the financial industry (albeit exclusively) as it [...]

By: TheCityTroll

TheCityTroll — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:53:47 +0000

Something you might enjoy reading

http://thecitytroll.blogspot.com/2008/12/leadership-of-republican-party-are.html

By: Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul

Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:46:09 +0000

Semi-related…

John Kyl on High Hewitt’s show says he supports Chapter 11 reorganization of the Big 3 rather than a bailout. Hewitt, from an auto town in Ohio originally, claimed that would doom them because nobody would trust their warranties and buy their cars during the year or so they were renegotiating crushing union contracts.

Kyl said he’d support, in that case, a Federally backed guarantee for the automakers warranty programs.

If the Big 3 survived reorganization, it wouldn’t cost the government a cent.

Kyl says a bridge loan or stap gap 15 or 20 billion dollars won’t fix the structural problems of the Big 3, and he is right.

By: drfredc

drfredc — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:20:53 +0000

Seems one other aspect of Government bailouts and handouts ought to be, if you get government financing/support you ought to be prevented from contributing back to the politicians that have provided you the handouts. This applies to CEOs and unions of bailouts, as well as farmers who get big chunks of change for growing corn or growing nothing at all. As most anyone can see, without a firewall to prevent a large portion of ‘welfare’ coming back to buy politicians for more of the same, there’s no end to this sort of garbage.

FYI, as far as I’m concerned, this ought to also apply to individual welfare benefit handouts, but then that’s just me.

If you want to contribute to the political process, you are free to do so, just don’t take government handouts and you should be good to go.

By: fighterDC

fighterDC — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:38:40 +0000

let’s now hope congress can bicker its way away from passing amnesty for illegal aliens.

By: rightisright

rightisright — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:38:33 +0000

The many faces of irony

…and evil corruption.

By: MrVIBEMAN

MrVIBEMAN — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:33:12 +0000

“I would be a very hard person to convince that this crowd deserves to have their hands on the next $350 billion,” Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd told reporters

Translation: I didn’t get enough campaign money or kickbacks from them yet, so all bets are off until they ‘show me the money.’

By: Chard402003

Chard402003 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:20:44 +0000

I can’t believe Dodd is saying anything considering he and that communist Frank caused this financial crisis by forcing banks to make loans to those who clearly couldn’t repay them. He should find a rock and hide under it until hell freezes over.

By: cheapseat

cheapseat — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:18:43 +0000

who was responsible for the great depression, hoover or rooseveldt. this is nothing more than making sure bush is blamed in the history books, while obama will again be the democrat hero fixing the horrible problem. my opinion is that the democrats and the media caused this problem by telling us ad nauseum over the last 2 years that the economy was the worst in 50 years. now it might be true, but it sure wasn’t last summer or a year ago.

By: rambler

rambler — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:04:34 +0000

They haven’t found their heads. They are looking for a way to stick everything they can to the Bush administration so that all of Obama’s failures to control the economy can result in more Bush bashing.

By: Flyoverman

Flyoverman — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:53:49 +0000

With those who said this is a delay to provide Obama the money, I agree.

ACORN must need a bailout.

By: IndyRich

IndyRich — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:48:03 +0000

So, the democrats only had to spend $350 billion of taxpayer money to buy Obama the presidency instead of $700 billion?

I suppose I should be more grateful that the guvment was so generous to leave me with something so I could feed my kids…

By: Rogue Cheddar

Rogue Cheddar — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:11:17 +0000

This is why bipartisanship is never a good idea! Our forefathers had it correct. The more they bicker the safer our money is.