[MarkL]

Sorry there Mr. President, but at some point, you just have to say “No More!”

The republicans in congress had been spending in a way that put the term “drunken sailors” to shame. That’s a big part of the reason that they’re no longer in office.

Just because THEY were spending like stoned democrats doesn’t mean that we have to continue to allow it!

Mark

[mathluv]

"It's a little hard for me to take criticism from folks about this recovery package after they've presided over a doubling of the national debt," Obama said. "I'm not sure they have a lot of credibility when it comes to fiscal responsibility."

So he wants to double down on the double.

"What I won't do," he said at another point, "is return to the failed theories of the last eight years that got us into this fix in the first place."

But it was the dims that caused the problems - bawney fwank and dodd on fannie mae and freddie mac. Sounds like he is not returning - he never left them.