Posted on 09/19/2008 11:40:48 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
P.S. and George Will cannot have it both ways.
“This country’s finished.”
I see you have a “Go, Sarah, Go” in your tag line. We only have a few years left of McCain, but Palin will be the gift that keeps on giving for decades.
Now is not the time to slink away in defeat. Now is the time to persevere and achieve victory!
McCain/Palin ‘08!
It was obvious to some from the start: See: The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities by Howard Husock, www.city-journal.org back in 2000.
POST OF THE DAY!!! Tax reform? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Here's what's coming down the pike, sports fans. State revenue departments will be working overtime to make up for the lost revenue from lower property appraisals. Expect more audits, "user fees", "special assessments", etc. I've been working in corporate tax departments for the past few years, and audit activity is increasing significantly.
“So Conservative principles are advanced by undermining the more conservative of the two legitimate candidates?”
Actually they are. “More conservative of the two” doesn’t mean what you apparently think it does. A Jimmy Carter can lead to a Ronald Reagan. If things must get darker to wake people up then NOTHING will stop things from “getting darker” Not Obama not McCain not anyone who isn’t Conservative. If things don’t get darker then Conservativisim is not needed. If it IS useful or needed and we vote for McCains, then McCains are what we will get.
For my part I don’t think McCain is conservative enough to save this country from the coming crash. And I doubt he or anyone else is enough of a Leader to lead us to where we must go. Ah, but now I get into Culture....
No one really understands it in any detail. They might understand the details of a single segment, and they might think they understand the overall system. But they don't. No one does. But what I do know is that in the past, every time government tries to "soften the blow" or create a "soft landing", the ultimate result down the road is worse. In fact that's sort of where we are now, in the "worse". If we "cushion this blow", but not allowing the consequences of the actions of these companies and agencies to play themselves out, the ultimate fall is going to be a whole lot worse. Since we aren't, it will be.
The problem is that no one wants the big crash to happen on their watch. There is no amount of spinning that's going to get people to accept that the big crash is necessary to sort out things. People want to believe in the myth of eternal and unending prosperity and so public officials accommodate that belief. At this point, the actions of the Treasury and Fed are probably the best that can be expected. When the crash comes, it will be beyond the help of any public body.
If Obama and McCain were really smart they'd throw the election to Bob Barr and let him get the blame for the coming economic s-storm.
And a Barack Obama can lead to SCOTUS appointments which may irrevocably tip the balance. Heller was only 5-4. Stabbing McCain in the back because you think we will only get four years of the Obamanation is a blisteringly myopic plan.
Believing McCain is some kind of SC saviour is one hell of a leap of faith. (Believing it all boils down to JUST the future supreme court appointments is simplistic.) Believing that Americans, in the face of the kind of liberal psychotic decisions that you rightly fear coming from a more liberal bench, would stand for them and suffer as the powerless, is delusional.
I can see voting McCain in the hope that it is the start of something good with respect to Palin. But I just don't have the faith in McCain that you seem to. What seem like simple math to you doesn't make any sense to me. Getting a slightly less inadequate sum doesn't amount to progress. It doesn't even qualify as treading water.
In the real world at a major Fortune 500 company, Paulson and Cox would both be fired.
Either that or they’d both receive promotions and a chance to work in Zurich... where they could explore new career opportunities and do less damage to the economy.
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