[rdavis84]

bump.

[Skwidd]

Beat the drum, Dems. It's the only 'issue' you have.

[TLBSHOW]

do you know this story leaves out an important part. and you left out an important part. The Barf Alert!

[VRW Conspirator]

First, create the problem by taking actions that encourage fraud. Second, do nothing while the frauds become epidemic. Finally, when the scandal breaks, claim like Claude Rains in ''Casablanca'' that he is ''shocked, shocked'' that gambling is going on.

Right out of the Clinton play book. Where were these guys around the Clinton era?

Another hit piece by the Boston Globe.

[guitfiddlist]

Democrat hypocrites are excited. They think a tanking stock market can somehow be tied to a long ago incident, investigated by the SEC and found to be unwarranted. But the other shoe will soon drop on their sanctimonious sneering mugs. Exhibit A: The Global Crossing fiasco - involving a $1 million payoff to Clinton, an $18 million profit to McCauliffe, and a $400 million contract to Demoscum chum Gary Winnick, GX CEO - who is busy building a $100 million house in Florida with my money. Gee, what 5 year old can't connect those dots. Tough for Democrats, I suppose.

Then there's exactly WHEN the other companies started cooking the books. In the latter 90's, pinhead. Get a calender, read it. Try to understand it. Then try to remember which scumbag of yours was in office at the time.

Now there's this beautifully poignant and breaking story of Enron/Citigroup, involving some familiar DemoRats. It is axiomatic that Democrats are ridiculously more guilty in spades of all the things they sling at Republicans, desperately hoping they'll stick. And you used to get away with it. But you forgot one thing this time, bozo, you don't control the entire media anymore. Even in that craven capital of corruption, the Kennedy butt-kissing state of Massachusetts. So in the immortal words of Michael Savage, you have a nice day.

[Gorest Gump]

Galbraith is an economist.

I beg to differ.

[WRhine]

What I find interesting after reading the responses to this article is that no one commented directly about the charges that Bill Black and James Galbraith leveled against GW Bush and his family. The posts seemed to fall under three categories "this is a democrat hit piece", "bush was cleared of any technical improprieties", "everyone does it". After 8 years of railing against the Clintons and their legacy of crimes I find the remarks on this thread eerily familiar.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Wait i gotta scrape something of my shoe

[Commiewatcher]

And they had to dig up an old fossilized dinosaur named Galbraith. He is best 'remembered' as being the architect of those 'Great Society' programs which confiscated about $5 trillion from the sucker taxpayer and flushed it right down the toilet with nothing to show for it.

And he talks about a fraud. GMAFB

[Texas Eagle]

Give it up. Unlike Clinton's semen, this stuff is not going to stick.

[Lee_Atwater]

Galbraith is an economist

James (Jamie) Galbraith is the son of John K. Galbraith. Like his father, Jamie is not a serious economist, but a political whore. I think I explained this matter to you previously.

[lawdude]

Interesting to note the dems forced W to sell his stock. Now they complain. And the stock sold below its peak. Wonder what dem made the bucks on the deal?

[Republican Wildcat]

Ah, going all the way back to bash three Republican Presidents and praising Clinton, king of ethics, for working "clean up" the accounting industry.

Quite transparent.

[jumpstartme]

Working for the DNC?

[copycat]

: First, create the problem by taking actions that encourage fraud. Second, do nothing while the frauds become epidemic.

Um, these "frauds" were not perpetrated on W.'s watch, but were done during the Decade of Fraud, the reign of the schlickmeister.

Any fraud that was overlooked was no doubt designed to create an economic "legacy."

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

He conveniently ignores the fact that overreaction by Congress (dem controlled at the time) exacerbated a relatively minor problem into a full-blown debacle.  An analysis of some of the "risky" investments that S&Ls were forced to divest themselves of showed that ultimately payed off handsomely, and would have, in fact, kept many (if not most) struggling S&LS afloat at the time.

[Jhoffa_]

This is a just a sideshow.. If the SEC didn't move on Bush there is nothing actionable to be found.

The main attraction is the smearing of the VP, this is fluff and trendy November window dressing.

[MEGoody]

Clinton's role in corporate fraud: Character doesn't count. 'It's the economy, stupid' (meaning money is more important than honesty).

[TatieBug]

McLame?As the D's would say, "the dirty little secret." Just curious.