Posted on 10/03/2008 12:28:50 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
I am confident that most people capable of critical thought, were thinking, "What kind of bullsh*t is this"?
I have nothing printable to say.
I was just rereading your post that I made my first comment in response to, and think that post strongly implies that NO pork (or at least not THIS pork) was passed by the Senate before the bailout came along. That is, the pork measures were NOT available to the House to pass any time it wanted to.
-- Harry Reid Seante was sitting on a pork list they wanted to pass but had no other bill to which they could hang the strips of rotting bacon --
-- Democrat criminal enterprise intended to add the pork cooking in the Harry Reid Senate --
-- Had the House passed the MOnday bill, the Senate could have added layers of pork --
I don't think a reader would be apt to conclude, from those assertions, that the House already had the Senate-passed pork.
Another point necessary for attaching responsibility for the pork strongly (or solely) to the Democrats is the margin and holdouts for Senate passage of the pork bill, HR 6049. What cleaner measure of "who's for the pork and who's against the pork" than a vote on the pork bill standing alone? HR 6049 cleared the Senate on a 93-2 vote, with zero Republican objectors. Both NAY votes came from Democrats.
I didn't and don't mean to get your goat, and in that spirit, I'll stifle any urge I may get to comment in regard to your posts.
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Since McCain voted for this nonsense, I hope people here who are mad at Bush refuse to vote for McCain this November.
Better to vote for the devils advocate than the devil himself.
I feel so bad for Bush... He has tried so desperately to be a “moderate/centrist” president, that NO ONE likes him. Goes to show that you cannot please everyone...& when you try... you piss off everyone. I bet he can’t wait until Jan.
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.
-—Quote often attributed to Alexander Frasier Tyler but it is doubtful. Probably a compilation of quotes. Whoever said it was a genius.
Already did!
Financial ping
Didn’t more Democrats than Republicans vote for the bailout? Surely this can be used against them.
Well there could be an asteroid, gamma ray burst or an alien invasion heading for earth and the money is actually going to be used to defend against it and this is all just a big cover in order not to alarm the populace.
Sad part is, unless the above is true I will never forgive any Republican who voted for the P.O.S.
“Since McCain voted for this nonsense, I hope people here who are mad at Bush refuse to vote for McCain this November.”
Naaah. Won’t happen. Sen. McCain could vote for three bills like this, name himself high lord and messiah, promise to strike the letter “Q” from the english language, and most “conservatives” would still be saying that we need to vote for Sen. McCain or the sun will go supernova.
Don’t expect common sense from partisan fanatics.
Quite a few of us have been wondering the same thing.
..but he lost me with ...amnesty.
You say "I still have enough faith in President Bush to believe that he would not deliberately endanger the country's financial status"
You're either naive or easily fooled...
..but then, many moons ago, so was I ....
...how you can defend him NOW.....I have no clue.
Either, depending on how you squint at the bill.
If you want to have a good guess at where the next big disaster will occur, just watch Jamie Gorelick. She is now at a DC law firm, as far as I can tell. If the pattern continues, she will be chosen for a high leadership position in some organization that will be the center of the next disaster.
Sorry, I can't buy that.
He's the one pushing, pushing, pushing this along with the Dems...
.wouldn't even consider the House Republicans new bill or work with them on it...
..and signed this as fast as he could!...IN SPITE of MILLIONS OF AMERICANS CALLING...ANGRILY CALLING.
Buy what you want!
I am trying to make some sense of the fact that the President; Pelosi; Reid; Obama and Senator McCain are all in agreement on the bailout.
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