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Atlas Blinked: Fiscally conservative Republicans were lost at sea in the Panic of 2008
Reason ^ | December 2008 | David Weigel

Posted on 11/19/2008 5:32:31 PM PST by rabscuttle385

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To: antonia; lainie

THAT’S THE PICTURE. THANK YOU!


21 posted on 11/19/2008 9:13:35 PM PST by callisto (Close your eyes and press escape three times. Do you want to play another game?)
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To: antonia; callisto

Ah, yes. There they blow.


22 posted on 11/19/2008 9:14:01 PM PST by lainie (The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
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To: antonia

So much for the dire, international emergency. It was really much more personal than that; Pelosie, Franks, Dodd, Reid, Paulson ~ all just got their arses covered and made a huge profit at that.

23 posted on 11/19/2008 9:18:16 PM PST by antonia ("Be the person your dog thinks you are....")
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To: lainie
There's TOO much joy in this picture for the news they were pronouncing.

It WAS the October surprise.

There is no oversight on WHERE our money is going and large portions of the "package" are redacted. Everyone and his brother is jumping on board for handouts and Congressional leadership is comprised of extreme leftists. I pray God is watching over our nation and will protect us from the potential damage.
24 posted on 11/19/2008 9:24:31 PM PST by callisto (Close your eyes and press escape three times. Do you want to play another game?)
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To: antonia
all just got their arses covered and made a huge profit at that

And propelled Obama into the White House.
25 posted on 11/19/2008 9:26:50 PM PST by callisto (Close your eyes and press escape three times. Do you want to play another game?)
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To: ClearCase_guy; bvw; boxer21
Your posts are the grimmest I've read today, but I suspect they are prescient.

My concern is that Someone with the Gold will come and buy up the cheap assests of this country, and then proceed to tell us what to do. That would be the end of our freedom.

How about a Middle-Eastern National Sovereign Fund ? And oh, by the way, your First Amendment rights are now abrogated, because you can' t slander the Prophet.

And we will ensure this by having veto power over textbooks, so that our version of history is taught.

BTW, you will be visited by a memeber of our new National Civilian Defense Force who will check your weapons against our records and limit your ammunition purchases.

26 posted on 11/19/2008 9:44:09 PM PST by happygrl (BORG: Barack 0bama Resistance Group: we will not be assimilated)
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To: happygrl; ClearCase_guy
Barack is the smallest part of it. If there wasn't a BHO, there would be another man, almost as if picked at random, to fill the same stage role.

Barack might even be helpful, a savior, in a perverted sort of way. Right now, today, we are moved into a phase of self-destruction that is quick, a phase that could end us as a nation and even as I said before end the whole arc of liberty that began in earnest about 800 years ago. Perhaps a very over-aggressive tyrannical Barack would wake us out of our fantasy indulgent stupor. And we would reject him before his administation could ever establish.

But is seems that that administration was already in place, he is just a walk-on news reader. Why? The 'bailout', the rapid submission of all our men of industry, business and finance to a new almost totally fascist order of corporate ownership and paper money printed in tank-loads at political and insider whim.

If you are not in you are out -- your money and your business will quickly be reduced to that of paupers trading with paupers for rags.

But let's talk about the BCS playoff system!

27 posted on 11/20/2008 4:39:50 AM PST by bvw
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To: callisto

I have been looking for that immage too - it seems to have disappeared...


28 posted on 11/20/2008 5:37:34 AM PST by frithguild (Can I drill your head now?)
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To: NonValueAdded
More and more it seems like the Panic was engineered.

It was engineered, but couldn't have been if conditions weren't a little shaky anyway. The housing bubble was destined to burst, and with it, those democRAT-induced loans forced upon banks by the Community Reinvestment Act (and enforced by groups such as ACORN, and accepted by the Bush White House) were going to go belly-up. Conditions were good. All it took was a few negative words from the left, and perhaps some orchestrated shorting by Soros and the off-shore friends of Obambi and the whole thing could unravel.

I wonder if they expected such a large drop in the DOW. They've just stolen about 40% of peoples' retirement savings with their trickery.

29 posted on 11/20/2008 5:43:55 AM PST by meyer (We are all John Galt)
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To: meyer
I don't think they did anticipate the Dow drop. Otherwise, they wouldn't have tried to re-jigger the various *solutions* every other day and they wouldn't have tried to arm-twist the Republicans to sign on to take the blame. I think they tried for a quiet, unnoticeable bureaucratic coup, with the majority of compliant taxpayers going about their normal lives, working, spending and paying the confiscatory tax rates.

With all their connections on Wall Street and all the financiers and big-buck investors who touted zerO and his tax scheme, why haven't they re-instituted the 90s PPT? They actually have the ability to do this before the inauguration. If they wait until January 20th to do something, it will be too late.

30 posted on 11/20/2008 8:18:35 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: bvw

With All Eyes on Obama, Port of Los Angeles Security Under Control of Chinese President’s Son
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1815/pub_detail.asp


31 posted on 11/20/2008 1:49:28 PM PST by happygrl (BORG: Barack 0bama Resistance Group: we will not be assimilated)
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To: antonia

Where’s the damn rope?


32 posted on 11/22/2008 3:34:13 PM PST by GregoryFul
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