Posted on 10/20/2008 3:00:34 PM PDT by fishtank
I have a good friend who does an internet Catholic radio show and he had Esterhaus as a guest a few weeks ago. Excellent interview, I am sure Savage did well with him too (I will listen to the replay).
Medved had him on today for an hour and it was great. I am hoping Prager has him on as that would probably be a great hour.
Prayin’!
A google search for "trickle up poverty" gets almost 3,400 hits with much discussion of Savage and who said it first.
Sans the discussion of the last few days I doubt that Limbaugh would have heard of it, I tend to believe that someone he knows mentioned it without attribution.
I cannot believe that the #1 guy has staff listening to the #3 guy and so blatantly using #3's material.
IMO both Levin and Savage are so tiresome claiming that virtually everything they say gets stolen -- as though no one else can think. With Levin it's the "back benchers" are stealing whole shows of his not just well-turned phrases.
Then there's the real possibility that Limbaugh thought of it himself -- trickle down wealth / trickle up poverty -- the juxtaposition is obvious to a bright person.
to all those so called conservatives making excuses for Colin Powell, they should be so forgiving of savage for jerry brown. I think they are due their mistakes.
Man I like the billy bones song, I love the mandolin. I hope to play it good enough some day
“Then there’s the real possibility that Limbaugh thought of it himself — trickle down wealth / trickle up poverty — the juxtaposition is obvious to a bright person.”
Yes, that’s very possible.
You’ve got to admit that the golfbag’s comments about Colin Powell’s race-motivations are irrefutable (the thing about looking for liberal unqualified white guys endorsed by Powell was spot-on).
By the way, now that Rush’s job is to primarily carry the water for Bush, I find my self actually listening to his show (regularly) for the first time in about 4 years.
In a strange way, I think lots of other talk-junkies are feeling the same way.
he has not been carrying water for anyone for a loooong time. You should have heard him during the amnesty battle.
He was carrying water just a few days ago, whne he refused to acknowledge that BUSH himself was leading the charge to SOCIALIZE the American economy through these bank bailouts.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Dems have been engineering this for decades, but WHY did Bush NOT oppose the takeovers? In between Savage, Frobes and Gingrich, there was no shortage of free-market solutions.
Bush is a fake conservative, and Rush is STILL carrying his water.
Rick Davis: In the Doghouse
Posted September 24, 2008
It’s only getting worse for John McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis. Following the news that Davis was paid $2 million over five years as president of an advocacy group set up by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the New York Times now reports that Freddie Mac paid Davis’s lobbying firm $15,000 a month up until last month. The firm was kept on the payroll because of Davis’s close ties to McCain. The news comes after McCain insisted that Davis has had no involvement with Freddie Mac for several years, leading progressive bloggers to wonder whether McCain lied to Americans or whether Davis lied to McCain. Either way, liberal bloggers are irritated by the lies and secrecy and the fact that Davis did next to nothing for the money he received. They’re also skewering the statement McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb published denying the allegations, calling it a “nondenial” and a “complete mess.” One blogger says the news should be “absolutely devastating” to the campaign. It’s unclear whether Davis will continue as McCain’s campaign manager.
U.S. News.com
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Freddie Mac hired ‘stealth’ lobbyist
Effort targeted bill to regulate agency
Last updated October 19, 2008 11:02 p.m. PT
By PETE YOST
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse.
In the cross hairs of the campaign carried out by DCI of Washington were Republican senators and a regulatory overhaul bill sponsored by Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. DCI’s chief executive is Doug Goodyear.
Freddie Mac’s payments to DCI began shortly after the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee sent Hagel’s bill to the then GOP-run Senate on July 28, 2005. All GOP members of the committee supported it; all Democrats opposed it.
In the midst of DCI’s yearlong effort, Hagel and 25 other Republican senators pleaded unsuccessfully with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., to allow a vote.
“If effective regulatory reform legislation ... is not enacted this year, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system and the economy as a whole,” the senators wrote in a letter that proved prescient.
Unknown to the senators, DCI was undermining support for the bill in a campaign targeting 17 Republican senators in 13 states, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The states and the senators targeted changed over time, but always stayed on the Republican side.
Excerpt
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/384063_freddie20.html
Recycled Savage thread?
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