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WHat the hell are we thinking! Where is the conservative leadership in this country?

Posted on 11/12/2008 7:50:46 PM PST by rfmad

Seems like cutting the capital gains tax would have been a whole lot better than this Bailout. Cheaper too.

This whole Bailout has led to untold worldwide economic turmoil and collapse. Why doesn't the president Fire the Secretary of the Treasury and cut capital gains immediately. Maybe we can cancel the bailout before much of the $$$ is spent and do what was needed in the first place. Who knows the market might be 15,000 if he a had done that in Sept.

One dang this is for sure it would not be this bad and every Tom, Dick and Harry business would not be getting a handout. Where the hell is the conservative leadership in the country!!!


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 110th; anothervanity; bailouts; bigvanity; drunkentantrum; supersupervanity; supervanity; vanity
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1 posted on 11/12/2008 7:50:46 PM PST by rfmad
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To: rfmad
Where is the conservative leadership in this country?

That assumes there is any. Which there isn't. And never will be again.

2 posted on 11/12/2008 7:52:06 PM PST by Old Sarge (For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
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To: rfmad

She’s in Alaska and they’re doing everything they can to discount her existence and ideas.


3 posted on 11/12/2008 7:53:38 PM PST by NordP (PALIN POWER: She's Reagan in heels, Teddy Roosevelt in a dress & like Rummy at a press conference!)
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To: rfmad

Out of Chaos comes Order. NWO that is.


4 posted on 11/12/2008 7:53:53 PM PST by screaminsunshine
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To: rfmad

Yep. Darn right.


5 posted on 11/12/2008 7:53:56 PM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: rfmad
This is what has become the face of the Republican party over the last 8 years by the RINO's led by Georgie RIno Bush. Once it was beautiful but now it's disfigured.

6 posted on 11/12/2008 7:54:37 PM PST by MAD-AS-HELL (How does one win over terrorists? KILL them with UNKINDNESS)
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To: Old Sarge
Two questions being asked, but your answer works with both of them.

Leadership, and "capital gains".

With downturns like this reaching back 5 years the stock being sold on today's market is probably being sold at or less than the price paid ~ and that leaves NO CAPITAL GAINS to tax.

7 posted on 11/12/2008 7:54:48 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: rfmad

WHo said any one was thinking?


8 posted on 11/12/2008 7:54:55 PM PST by listenhillary (No representation without taxation! ~~ Mark Steyn)
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To: rfmad

“...Why doesn’t the president Fire the Secretary of the Treasury and cut capital gains immediately.

Um... because the President is not a dictator (yet) and he’d need an act of Congress to amend the tax laws.


9 posted on 11/12/2008 7:59:09 PM PST by April Lexington
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To: NordP

She supported the bailout.


10 posted on 11/12/2008 8:00:30 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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Trying to recall, what was she up to then?


11 posted on 11/12/2008 8:03:10 PM PST by John W (Voters were more afraid of losing their money than losing their souls.)
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To: listenhillary

He could lead that what he payed to do! Unfortunately he is almost invisable.


12 posted on 11/12/2008 8:04:08 PM PST by rfmad
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To: John W

Busy claiming she did not “have to check her opinions at the door” to join McCain’s campaign, if I recall. Has she since repudiated the bailout?


13 posted on 11/12/2008 8:04:31 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: rfmad

When the leader of an ideological movement is a talk show host, that ideological movement has some dammed big problems...


14 posted on 11/12/2008 8:05:49 PM PST by KoRn
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To: rfmad
Seems like cutting the capital gains tax would have been a whole lot better than this Bailout. Cheaper too.

While I agree on the bailout, a capital gains cut is meaningless right now - there are no capital gains to be had so therefore no taxes anyway.

15 posted on 11/12/2008 8:06:17 PM PST by RockinRight (Now it's my turn to have a psychotic, uncontrollable hatred for the President.)
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To: rfmad

There are lots of conservatives in this country, but there are no conservative leaders. Once anyone gets an elected position he seems to do whatever it takes to keep his position, even if that means selling out to the liberals.


16 posted on 11/12/2008 8:10:43 PM PST by BuffaloJack
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To: pissant

If she didn’t have to publicly follow the top of the tickets lead, that would be a first for a VP candidate in the modern era.

At the rate its going, she may repudiate it any day now. Of course, it no longer is what it was, either.


17 posted on 11/12/2008 8:11:22 PM PST by John W (Voters were more afraid of losing their money than losing their souls.)
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To: NordP

Absolutely right!


18 posted on 11/12/2008 8:11:25 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: John W

I’m all ears. Hope she gets around to repudiating her support for McCain’s amnesty plan and global warming legislation too.


19 posted on 11/12/2008 8:12:39 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: rfmad
Why doesn't the president Fire the Secretary of the Treasury

In these closing days of his administration, Dubya is working
on his legacy.

And seems to be doing one heck of a job destroying it.

Once I come to terms with how screwed we are financially,
and how much worse it will get after Inauguration Day...
then I can sigh and reflect on how Dubya's reign ended not in
a bang. But with a wimper. (from lots of people who are looking
at their 401(k) statements.
20 posted on 11/12/2008 8:22:10 PM PST by VOA
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