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Bank nationalisation gains ground with Republicans
Financial Times ^
| 2/17/09
| Edward Lucea
Posted on 02/17/2009 2:30:49 PM PST by Callahan
Nationalisation, long regarded in Washington as a folly of Europeans, is gaining rapid ground among US opinion-formers. Stranger still, many of those talking about federal ownership of banks are Republicans.
Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator for North Carolina, said that many of his colleagues, including John McCain, the defeated presidential candidate, agreed with his view that nationalisation of some banks should be on the table.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lindseygraham; mccain; rino; socialistagenda; wheredidthewhigsgo; whigs
Barack Obama, the president, who has tried to avoid panicking lawmakers and markets by entertaining the idea, has recently moved more towards what he calls the Swedish model an approach backed strongly by Mr Graham.Personally, I'm moving towards this Swedish model:
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posted on
02/17/2009 2:30:49 PM PST
by
Callahan
To: Callahan
Pure, unadulterated IDIOCY. (not the babe, the idea of nationalizing banks)
To: Callahan
This is currently the headline on Drudge. He’s pushing the Swedish angle.
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posted on
02/17/2009 2:32:27 PM PST
by
Callahan
To: Callahan
Personally, I'm moving towards this Swedish model: Now THAT'S a stimulus package I can get behind!
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posted on
02/17/2009 2:33:34 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
To: Callahan
McCain, Lindsay Graham?
I thought they said “Republicans?”
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posted on
02/17/2009 2:33:36 PM PST
by
Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: Callahan
This young lady is not guilty of anything ... ever.
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posted on
02/17/2009 2:33:55 PM PST
by
BluH2o
To: Callahan
Were did you get my picture....LOL.
Anyway, in response to the article. It is worse than I thought when Republicans agree that banks should be nationalized.
We are so screwed. Really send condoms to congress asking them to wear protection while they screw us.
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posted on
02/17/2009 2:34:15 PM PST
by
svcw
(This maybe my last transmission - God have mercy on us.)
To: Callahan
Not even a girl like that can make Euro socialism sweet.
To: Recovering_Democrat
Freddie & Fannie failed in some part due to political tinkering in lending rules. How much more will our banking sector be suseptible to this kind of stuff when we create these large banks taxpayer owned?
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posted on
02/17/2009 2:35:51 PM PST
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: Callahan
"Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator for North Carolina, said that many of his colleagues, including John McCain, the defeated presidential candidate, agreed with his view that nationalisation of some banks should be on the table."South Carolina
South Carolina
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posted on
02/17/2009 2:37:00 PM PST
by
blam
To: Callahan
Nationalization of banking is a serious issues, one that scares me, and not to be mocked with stupid pictures like this.
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posted on
02/17/2009 2:38:15 PM PST
by
Jane Austen
(Boycott the Bahamas!)
To: Callahan
Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator for North Carolina, said that many of his
colleagues fellow RINOs, including John McCain, the defeated presidential candidate, agreed with his view that nationalisation of some banks should be “on the table”.
There, fixed it.
To: Recovering_Democrat
Then they are not Republicans.
To: Jane Austen
The gaining strength of this nationalization is really having an impact on the Markets. Most of these pols are too stupid to grasp the connection.
To: svcw
If you read the article, the only "republican" they can find that backs this idiocy is drooling, lobotomized RHINO Sen Lindsey Graham. I was worried until I saw that it wasn't an ACTUAL conservative.
They no doubt called him to comment while he was in his office getting the air in his brain cavity recycled. You understand, it's like trying to get that beebee to roll into the little hole under the plastic...
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posted on
02/17/2009 2:44:18 PM PST
by
jonascord
(Hurray! for the Bonny Blue Flag that bears the Single Star!)
To: Callahan
Nice to see Graham and McCain reuniting their "beautiful friendship". (Knew their stand on the "Stimulus Bill" was an aberration.)
To: Recovering_Democrat
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posted on
02/17/2009 2:46:33 PM PST
by
stockpirate
(A people unwilling to use violent force to preserve liberty deserve the tyrants that rule them. SP-0)
To: jonascord
If you read the article, the only "republican" they can find that backs this idiocy is drooling, lobotomized RHINO Sen Lindsey Graham.If he says that McQueeg supports it, then McQueeg probably does but is too scared to publicly say so, hence Lindsey's stunts are trial balloons.
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posted on
02/17/2009 2:49:40 PM PST
by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
To: Recovering_Democrat
It’s not idiocy. It’s in the plan to socialize the country. Credit in the hands of the federal government is one of the planks of the Communist Manifesto.
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posted on
02/17/2009 2:50:25 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. Margret Thatcher)
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