Posted on 09/29/2008 10:05:29 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement after the vote in the U.S. House of Representatives against the financial rescue plan. He said:
“I have never been more disappointed in the Congress than I am today. I hope every member of the House of Representatives—Republican and Democrat—who voted against this legislation will work in the next twenty-four hours to improve the bill. Now is the time to put the national interest above the self interest.
“Speaker Pelosi’s partisan comments before the vote obviously did not help matters. Now is not the time for extreme partisanship but time for our nation to pull together for the common good.
“If we do not address this issue, our nation may be headed toward a major financial collapse. For the common good, we must find a solution to this problem. Without the ability to borrow money to build a business, buy a home, or go to school, our country will be brought to its financial knees.
“Today’s actions will ripple throughout our economy. More people will lose their homes. Businesses may be forced to shut their doors. Life savings and retirement accounts will take a severe hit. I fear those who voted against this legislation have put our nation’s economy at risk.
“Democratic and Republican leaders must find a way to bring more votes on board to this bipartisan bill. I will continue to do my part in this effort as I realize the cost of congressional inaction will be steep.”
Recall the Hillary Clinton quote:
"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
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To quote Hawk Harrelson, “He Gone!”.
Now is not the time for extreme partisanship...
UM YES..
Sen. Clinton’s misuse of the term doesn’t mean the “common good” is a bad concept. It is a central concept in Catholic social teaching.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
John McCains butt boy at again.
Sorry, Goober! Y’all predicted that the end would come last Friday if this wasn’t passed...then the end would come on Saturday if this didn’t pass...then the end would come on Sunday night when the Asian markets opened if this didn’t pass...tonite if this didn’t pass...call me skeptical!
Yeah, things are gonna get a little hairy for awhile, but that’s the nature of the market! Enough with all the ‘we’re gonna die!!!’ stuff! Technically, yes, we will, but it’s not as drastic as y’all are trying to make it out to be! Sheesh!
Are our federal prisons too full to accept about 20 more Democrats?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It's long OVERDUE IMHO. I think we found the GOP's silky pony.
SC needs to dump this moron.
Exactly.
Grahamesty is giving his advice on another bill..
First there was Global Warming.. Pass it or it’s the end of the world.
Next there was immigration. Pass it or it’s the end of the world.
Now it’s the bail out. Pass it or it’s the end of the world.
Don't they collect enough cash each day, that if managed properly (i.e.not tied up in risky speculative options) could be used to pay wages and purchase the wholesale goods and services they need to stock up their stores?
The whole Just-In-Time bunk which required all loose change to be gobbled up and reinvested in speculative stocks to "maximize profits" and borrow, borrow, borrow is a major culprit in this whole fiasco.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Goobermint, I assume you would agree, operates on QUITE a different level than 'Catholic social teaching'.
Republicans need to make sure that ACORN receives no additional funds in this bill. In fact, they should insist on cutting ALL Thederal Thucking Thunds to ACORN. Make the Dems fight for it, putting the ACORN issue on the front pages of the papers. Make the Sheeple say, “honey, have you ever heard of this ACORN business?” over their morning coffee. Wake the Sheeple UP!
Man he’s such an ass - I’m sending him an email and telling him so.
My response to Graham is “If you can’t say something smart Lindsey then please do not say anything at all”. This bill is actually more likely to get worse now with the Democrats crafting it. The House GOP needs to stop this until they get the bill they want or no bill at all.
;^)
maybe I should too
this is weird, maybe I should stock up on canned food and ammo while i'm at it
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Please tell me he’s vulnerable this year. Since nobody bothers to poll the race, I’m guessing not.
Horse hockey! Is that what the crap sandwich was made of?
I am proud of the House members who did not vote yea.
vaudine
Despite the fact that Hillary used the term, there is such a thing as the common good.
He must be supplying an orfice for Barney and enjoying it.
The 'Pubbie members of the WhoreHouse won't touch it, not even more than 1 or 2 RINOs. The question will become whether all the 'Rats will turn into lemmings and vote for Pelosi's little Marxist dreamboat, given they'll be facing the voters in 5 weeks' time.
I say she'll crap out with her 2nd arrogant attempt, and at LEAST half her party will abandon her. How say you?
William Jefferson, DEMOCRAT from Loisiana is STILL being investigated.
Not much to be done about it, sadly, short of a revolt or a fortuitous occurrence in real life of the ending of Clancy's novel, Debt of Honor.
''Investigated'', my fat Scots arse!
F(r)agmeister ping
Dow futures up almost 100 points.
My family has acres of fertile ground, private well and septic, plenty of guns and ammo, a rottweiler, own our house clear, and we hardly owe anybody anything. That’s all from a lifetime of work and acting responsibly. Please don’t tell me I need to bail out a bunch of Democrat deadbeats with my tax dollars.
Let the freaking thing “collapse”.
Just when you start to want to like Grahamnesty, he pisses you off agian.
OK, just think, putting documents from the National Archives into your socks was just a mere indiscretion.
When crooked and corrupt scumbags like Sandy Berger and Frankin Raines can steal with impunity and not spend a single day in prison, it’s clear that the game is rigged in favor of the political elite. And there is nothing in the world to stop these vermin from stealing elections. Nothing.
Please ping me if any politician ever goes to jail for vote fraud.
However, your example is exceptionally useful in describing the lengths to which the political class will go toward keeping their power, and the law and the Constitution be damned.
Burger, were I the judge, would have gotten 20 years at HARD labour...or until such time as he gave up his principals AND they were convicted.
I agree about ACORN. I also think that anything in this bill that the Democrats tried to put in there that does not belong needs to be exposed. We need commercials and ads in papers with the lists of things that were attached to this bill by the Democrats like money for ACORN. Somebody needs to go over this bill with a fine tooth comb and find out what is in there and get it out to the public.
I make take this sentiment seriously if this milksop weren't always crying about getting along with the other side, which just laughs at how easily he's played.
If THIS isn't a time to be partisan--to stand up and prove how our side is the right way to go, then WHEN?
Of course, Linds can't decide whose side IS his side, so why am I bothering? What a gutless, spineless, mushmouthed twit.
And fully approved by none other that Marcus Tullius Cicero, once Consul of Rome, and arguably the greatest statesman (and certainly the greatest lawyer) ever.
''Assassination is one of the weapons of democracy.'' -- M. T. Cicero
See also the Vince Flynn novel, Term Limits (in which, frankly, the author chickens out...but that's just my view).
No, we vote in this nation.
Take that nonsense somewhere else.
From Fox News website...
The trial of a Louisiana congressman charged with bribery will be delayed so an appeals court can hear arguments on whether his status as a congressman protects him from prosecution.
The trial of Rep. William Jefferson, a Democrat, had been scheduled to start next Monday. His defense attorneys filed an appeal Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria.
The appeal had been expected since earlier this month, when U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III rejected an argument that the indictment should be tossed out because it unconstitutionally infringed on his privileges as a congressman.
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But he did vote "NO" on the bailout ...possibly looking for some political sympathy from the other side of the aisle, hmmm??
Read and weep . You were punked !
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/
Looks like we may have to kill this Bullsheet Bailout AGAIN
Latest news is that the Fed just went ahead and printed another 300 BILLION dollars......
Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve will pump an additional $630 billion into the global financial system, flooding banks with cash to alleviate the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression.
The Fed increased its existing currency swaps with foreign central banks by $330 billion to $620 billion...................... Today’s blast of term liquidity will settle the funding markets down, and allow trust to slowly be restored between borrowers and lenders,’’ said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. in New York
and on the supposed credit crunch, well its another huge lie........
the amount of all bank credit at all commercial banks, which is reported weekly. For the most recent week reported, the one that ended on September 9, this credit amounted to $9,406 billion, which is only slightly less than the all-time peak of $9,485 reached in the week that ended on March 26, 2008.
UNTIL THEY PUT THE CULPRITS >>IN<< JAIL, OUR MONEY STAYS >>OUT<< OF STOCKS AND BANKS.
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