Posted on 12/12/2008 8:34:55 AM PST by GreaterSwiss
Blank checks are dangerous things.
In the meantime, tantrums will not run the country.
Deal with it. God, the republican party have become such indescribable whining losers!
And Congress is screaming about it, right?
Right.
What I’d like to see them do is just front the big 3 the dough using as collateral those “environmental” loans the automakers already have. What the administration asked Congress to do is release the restriction on those loans so they could be used for restructuring. Congress couldn’t get that done, so it’d be pretty funny for treasury to either buy them or make loans against them, effectively removing the “green” restrictions that kept the big 3 from using them in the first place.
That move would leave Congress with the choice of either dropping the restrictions on the loans or accepting responsibility for treasury holding a bunch of worthless collateral. Could be lots of fun there and it’s exactly the kind of thing a lame duck administration doesn’t have to worry about doing.
Bush and the union’s gave us the finger.
And with The Holy O coming to be in charge, it's only going to go down hill.
In the last 40 years, it has increased at an uprecedented rate.
Bush is messing up big time on these financial issues, no doubt but you are making a ridiculous comparison. Why do you curse something good that Bush has done? Kerry would have been better than Bush, is that what you are suggesting? Kerry would have done a better job with regards to terrorists?
And IF anyone should start ranting all about "one issue voters" let me remind them that they are alive because of one issue, someone choose to keep them that way, alive.
“Bush is messing up big time on these financial issues, no doubt but you are making a ridiculous comparison. Why do you curse something good that Bush has done? Kerry would have been better than Bush, is that what you are suggesting? Kerry would have done a better job with regards to terrorists?”
All I am saying is that the Republican nominee must be a proven fiscal conservative first and foremost. You went off on some tangents. No Huckabee’s, No Bush’s, etc etc.
“but at least Bush is pro life, right?? When will we learn its much more important to get a fiscal conservative in the White House??”
This is a huge problem around here. People are so morally outraged by abortion they fail to act rationally. A President cannot stop or even make much of a dent in the rate of abortion (even overturning Roe), but he can be very instrumental in reversing and preventing socialism.
There are thousands of socialists and populists around here that are tolerated because they pack a gun, are christians, and are anti-abortion.
You are absolutely wrong on that point. I don't want anyone in the White House that doesn't respect the right to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness". Life is foremost and first. Why it is even negotiable is just an indication of how sick this country and world is. All three legs of conservativism should be met. We haven't had that since Reagan. Palin is the latest who has these qualities.
RE :”All I am saying is that the Republican nominee must be a proven fiscal conservative first and foremost. “
That is easier said than done, we always get the Worst of two evils WOTE argument , “Bush vs Mccain, then Gore, then Kerry”, then “McCain vs Obama”
Then we get same logic for bailout, “Blank check for president because alternative is unexceptable, WOTE”
Most of FR drank the WOTE coolaid over McCain vs Obama, and will again if things dont change.
The FOCA, which Obami promises to sign immediately, wont make much of a dent in the rate of abortion in this country?
“This is a huge problem around here. People are so morally outraged by abortion they fail to act rationally. A President cannot stop or even make much of a dent in the rate of abortion (even overturning Roe), but he can be very instrumental in reversing and preventing socialism.
There are thousands of socialists and populists around here that are tolerated because they pack a gun, are christians, and are anti-abortion.”
You’re right...I sense a lot of people here would be happy servants of the state as long as Roe v Wade was overturned.
No fiscal conservative will ever be allowed anywhere near the White House again. The banks don't care if a political candidate engages in the modern bread and circuses MSM entertainment of taking up hysterical, overwrought stands on social issues one way or the other, but threaten to mess with the financial system and they'll have their minions brand you a lunatic before you ever get near a primary victory. Ron Paul was never a serious threat, but they stuck him with the "Truther" label just to be sure. Sarah Palin might have proven to be a fiscal conservative, so they turned her into a snake-handling Quayle clone. And just because FReepers love her, don't think that caricature hasn't stuck hard with the general public - I still hear lots of people talking about what an "idiot" she was.
Congress failed to act? Last I remember, Bush and Congress reached an agreement. It was the Senate that shot it down.
I hereby resign as a subject of the Federal government of the USA.
I am firing the Washington DC infrastructure (Executive, Legislative, Judicial, and extra-Constitutional Fed and Treasury agencies) as my representative government. They have, almost to a man, violated the social contract in too many ways to enumerate, and thereby nullified all authority granted by way of it.
So, I currently have no government beyond the state of Texas. I will be conducting interviews for Federal representation when circumstances indicate it is necessary and prudent to do so. In the mean time, any and all taxing authority is hereby revoked, and all subordinate power is nullified.
It's fall gardening season, so I'll be preparing to water the tree of liberty.
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