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Bush signs economic bailout bill
AFP via Google News ^ | 2008-10-03

Posted on 10/03/2008 12:28:50 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush on Friday signed a mammoth economic rescue package aimed at saving troubled US banks and easing a credit crunch that he warned could spell disaster for the US public.

After campaigning for the bailout for two weeks and courting reluctant lawmakers in person and by telephone, Bush signed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 before leaving Washington for the weekend.

(Excerpt) Read more at afp.google.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 110th; bailout; biggovernment; billsigning; bush; bush43; bushtruthfile; corruption; dumbass; ihatebush; mccaintruthfile; obamatruthfile; rino; socialist; term2; traitor; unconstitutional
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To: rabscuttle385

“Bush has trampled on the Constitution.”

This whole thing makes me want to vomit.

(are we starting to sound like Dims?)


41 posted on 10/03/2008 12:41:57 PM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Further cementing his place in history as one of the worst presidents this country has ever had.


42 posted on 10/03/2008 12:41:58 PM PDT by South40
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To: epluribus_2

What wallet. They depleted mine.


43 posted on 10/03/2008 12:42:35 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: epluribus_2
Hang on to your wallets.

Maybe that should be bend over and grab your cheeks becaause here it comes like it or not.

44 posted on 10/03/2008 12:42:42 PM PDT by Ron H. (October 3, 2008 - the day we morphed into the 'United Socialist States of America')
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To: epluribus_2


I think I will read this book yet again and take more notes
45 posted on 10/03/2008 12:42:49 PM PDT by ezo4
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To: rabscuttle385

Bush makes FDR look like Ayn Rand.

Bush is the Biggest Socialist to Ever Live in the White House.


46 posted on 10/03/2008 12:43:00 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: rabscuttle385

I thought spending and funding bills must originate in the House.

Given that, shouldn’t the “bailout” spending bill go back to the senate under a new name, and get voted on by the senate, as is spelled out in the constitution?

I was told that the reason the House could not modify the Senate bill in any way was because of this.


47 posted on 10/03/2008 12:43:31 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: realcleanguy
"The Democrats have saved their campaign contributors"

Not to mention Barak Hussein Obama's campaign staff and managers Jim Johnson, Frank Raines and others.

48 posted on 10/03/2008 12:43:31 PM PDT by KriegerGeist (I'm now considered a "Bitter Clinger" to my guns and religion.)
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To: Sunnyflorida; 6323cd; roamer_1; AmericanInTokyo; 383rr; djsherin; GunsareOK; calcowgirl; ...
Folks, if this is what we get under Bush, imagine what we'll get under McCain!

And yes, I realize that Obama will be no better.

49 posted on 10/03/2008 12:43:45 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (May God save the Republic and her citizens.)
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To: Ron H.

The framers of the US Constitution wrote another document for just this type of situation, it’s called the:

Bill of Rights.

We now are slaves to the government.


50 posted on 10/03/2008 12:44:21 PM PDT by stockpirate (Welcome to the United Socialist States of America- McCain voted for the bailout!)
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To: rabscuttle385
Folks, if this is what we get under Bush, imagine what we'll get under McCain!

Just damn...

51 posted on 10/03/2008 12:45:20 PM PDT by Mojave
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To: P8riot
Well I guess I can default on all my loans and expect them to bail me out too.............NOT!

I know you're saying this in jest but I bet you a dollar to a doughnut that will start to happen all across america. The thinking will likely resemble, "why not, Uncle Sam will bail out the credit card companies like they did Wall Street".

52 posted on 10/03/2008 12:45:21 PM PDT by Ron H. (October 3, 2008 - the day we morphed into the 'United Socialist States of America')
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To: rabscuttle385

“”We have acted boldly to help prevent the crisis on Wall Street from becoming a crisis in communities across our country,” Bush said after the House approved the bailout by a vote of 263-171, reversing its rejection of the bill earlier in the week that sent world stock markets reeling.


53 posted on 10/03/2008 12:46:17 PM PDT by meandog (please pray for future President McCain, day minus 107-Jan. 20--and counting)
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To: rabscuttle385

Market down over 1%.

Great job DC. Way to rescue us!/sarc


54 posted on 10/03/2008 12:46:47 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA ("I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction" Obama, from Au)
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To: Terpfen
I see BDS is alive and well.

Yes it is and BDS Stands for:

BUSH is a DAMN SOCIALIST

55 posted on 10/03/2008 12:47:17 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: rabscuttle385

Financial Security in our Time


56 posted on 10/03/2008 12:47:22 PM PDT by McGruff (It's Drill Baby Drill!)
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To: rabscuttle385

BDS indeed.

We don’t LIKE the bailout bill, but that doesn’t mean it’s unconstitutional. Please point out the relevant text in the Constitution that supports your opinion.

Until then, please stop batting around hyperbole.


57 posted on 10/03/2008 12:47:29 PM PDT by Terpfen (To all you knee-jerkers: remember Rick Santorum.)
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To: politicket

I hope the dems investigate him for war crimes lol.


58 posted on 10/03/2008 12:47:32 PM PDT by omega4179 (pence 2012)
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To: BipolarBob
Whoo-pee we're saved. heavy sarcasm


59 posted on 10/03/2008 12:48:12 PM PDT by meandog (please pray for future President McCain, day minus 107-Jan. 20--and counting)
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To: P8riot

YES WE CAN!!!!!!


60 posted on 10/03/2008 12:49:02 PM PDT by tonyinv ($)
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