Just another example of the Republicans playing a game at the expense of 'main street.' Unity is great President-Elect Obama, but if you think the Republicans are going to join you in your effort, think again.
Posted by Judith at November 14, 2008 07:32 AM"Is it evil?"
Well, I have no problem calling it/them evil, because that is exactly what these people are. Look at their works. These people have not one iota of compassion, empathy, love, care, morality, or integrity. What would you call it, misguided?
Posted by Judith at November 14, 2008 07:42 AMWhat is this? Oh good grief.
This is Chris Dodd playing kabuki C-Span drama-queen for the public, while abdicating his OWN Congressional responsibility to write these things into the legislation.
It was Chris Dodd and Barney Frank who gave the Treasury carte-blanche.
They COULD have written tighter legislation in the bailout bill.
They CHOSE not to, with little oversignt---which, you know, is their fucking JOB.
Dodd is playing you like a drum, fool.
Posted by Mary at November 14, 2008 07:42 AMDodd and Frank's joint legislation includes the following "regulation:"
Banks MAY use these funds to help strugggling homeowners.
Dodd and Frank did not write in "Banks SHALL use these funds for struggling homeowners."
See their game? It's the difference between the words MAY and SHALL.
This way, when the banks do exactly what the Dem Congress has ALLOWED them to do, those same Democrats can call a fake meeting and whine about what the banks aren't doing---all for public display---when the truth is, the legislation the bastards wrote, ALLOWED same.
They need contributions from these guys.
God Almighty, you're incredibly naive.
Posted by Mary at November 14, 2008 07:47 AM"Completely free from handcuffs and prison terms next year, that seems to be the latest scuttlebutt of magnanimity, what can you do? Get on with re-building a country."
In a society that no longer believes in the Rule of Law or accountability, they and everyone like them, will live to see another day. We have given them carte blanche.
God, it's gotta be great to be a banker or trader in this country!
Almost 3 trillion dollars dumped into "financials" over the last year. What has it done? Made a few people incredibly fucking wealthy.
I'm impressed with Obama's lobbyist position on his transition team. And I think the massive amount of money he raised for his election shows us all something. Maybe...just maybe, we can come together and put our few dollars together and buy back our democracy from the whores in Congress. You know, just outspend the lobbyists. Voting doesn't work, maybe money will.
Posted by phidipides at November 14, 2008 08:06 AMIt's not evil...it's sociopathy. These people are damaged goods, and should have been put on the short bus in grade school, but instead were rewarded for and encouraged in their ruthlessness.
Can you tell I'm fucking pissed today?
Posted by Dr. Wellington Yueh at November 14, 2008 09:57 AMShocked; I say.
The Republicans don't care about the workers.
Is Dodd a retard? Proably.
He wants to keep Lieberman on as Committe Chairman!
Do the Democracts really think that the Repulithugs will cooperate?
Posted by Paul at November 14, 2008 12:46 PMDr. Wellington Yueh, yeah your right. They certainly have all the characteristics.
Paul, surely the Democrats can't believe that anymore, but then again.....
Posted by Judith at November 14, 2008 03:54 PMU.S. Treachery Secretary Henry Paulson won't help out Detroit and U.S. automakers for one reason only: Labor Unions.
In Paulson's "Goldman Sachs" frame of mind, giving billions of taxpayer dollars to Wall Street firms and banks is ideologically acceptable because at these financial institutions the only workers possibly connected to labor unions are members of the overnight cleaning crews.
In Detroit, on the other hand, the United Auto Workers and other labor unions have a major presence, successfully representing working Americans in Detroit's boardrooms for many years.
Plus, one can't discount the possibility of "race" being behind U.S. Treachery Secretary Paulson's decision to stiff Detroit, with far more blacks being members of labor unions in Detroit as compared to the dearth of blacks being in middle- to top-level positions at Wall Street firms/banks.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that U.S. Treachery Secretary Henry Paulson is a typical Republican, which is why he was chosen by other typical Republicans like Bush and Cheney to be their U.S. Treachery Secretary...which means we are still in the Herbert Hoover phase of this world-wide financial crisis with the financial situation for millions of U.S. citizens bound to get much, much worse...with things turning around only when U.S. Treachery Secretary Henry Paulson is gone (no doubt back to a corporate boardroom somewhere) and replaced by someone who cares about America and American workers for a change.
Posted by The Oracle at November 15, 2008 10:34 PM