Posted on 09/26/2008 7:25:01 AM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
When he said "this sucker could go down," Bush wasn't talking about the bailout plan.
He was talking about the American financial system.
Even the mainstream media were stunned by the details emerging Thursday night of what went on behind closed doors in the White House Cabinet Room at a meeting that brought together leading members of Congress from both parties; the two presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain; and George Bush and assorted administration officials.
Beforehand, Congressional leaders said they were basically united on the bailout plan. It seemed like Bush and the two presidential candidates would give their stamp of approval, and the deed would be done.
But then, according to reports, House Minority Leader John Boehner announced that he and fellow Republicans just couldn't go along with a proposal that violated their free-market principles by putting the private sector's financial assets--worthless though they may be--into the hands of the federal government. The meeting then devolved into shouting matches and recriminations, according to reports.
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Silence (tolerance) IS consent in Washington DC my friend.
Evil will prevail every time good people don’t do enough to stop it...
And the taxpayer ALWAYS gets the tab.
I find the level of ignorance, even in many self-styled “conservatives” today, to be frightening!
You ain’t lyin’...
Congress is filled with treacherous traitors... We are nearing the point when only the 2nd Amendment will save us and we will have to use it before we lose it.
Oh that is PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!
Did you know who started the subprime markets ... Jimmy ‘the Hammer’ Carter (forced upon the mortgage lenders).
Do you know who came up with the zero-down idea ... that would be the Clinton Administration.
Do you know who put all of those lame concepts to work? That would be a Democrat controlled congress.
Do you know who tried to put an over-sight department on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? That was the Bush administration ... and it was shot down by the Democrat congress.
Do you know that two of Obamas economic ‘advisers’ were given control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by the Clinton administration and they both sucked about $100-million dollars out for their ‘service’ before walking away?
Why are people so short on the real history? Simple .. because they trust what they read/hear from the wrong sources (that would be the major media) and are to lazy to GO GET the truth.
Nearly EVERY single failed welfare program in the country (and that would be ALL of them) were ‘dreams’ of ‘change’ by Democrats and they are all major failures.
If the Democrat Party was a forest .... 80% of the trees would be dead and all of their speeches would paint a picture of the beautiful forest they created. So ... instead of all the rhetoric demeaning Republicans ... how about somebody sending me a list of all the wonderful, successful and spectacular things we have that were created at the hands of the Democrats.
I signed up at the age of 17, took the oath and meant every word of it. Did combat time in ‘Nam. I won’t shy away, they’d best not doubt me.
Semper Fi
Thanks for your service, my friend. Then and now.
Colonel, USAFR
Dittos to you sir!
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