Comments on: Tim Geithner’s So Radioactive He Can’t Even Get a Deputy or Any Secretaries or Any Assistants!

By: Hot News » Annette Nazareth

Hot News » Annette Nazareth — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:18:20 +0000

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By: DAB

DAB — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:32:52 +0000

Although I can hardly call myself a Republican, I too have opened my mind during this election season and have come to realize that truth (and folly) lie in both camps.

As a newly minted “Independent” like so many others on this site I am glad for that part at least. Better to take the blinders off and refresh one’s vision from time to time.

By: adagioforstrings

adagioforstrings — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:57:53 +0000

I don’t think Obama=Bush III. I think Obama=Carter II.

By: adagioforstrings

adagioforstrings — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:53:06 +0000

Seconded & a brilliant photo shop to boot!

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:01:48 +0000

When you’re right, you’re right.

By: beebop

beebop — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:50:35 +0000

largely invisible to anyone but the very people who were deliberately and knowing bundling bogus loans and kiting worthless paper with deceptively high safety ratings.

Most of which was aided and abetted by ACORN and their ridiculous demands that people who couldn’t afford to buy homes should nonetheless be permitted to. I’d like to buy a new car. Maybe they’d like to help me?

By: beebop

beebop — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:48:10 +0000

I guess we’ll never know.

But we do know this. We’d have less pork in the current budget. And I doubt that someone in private life would find him or herself being held up for finger pointing in the press room. I think most adults would with money in the market would feel more confident. I think we’d have more of the cabinet in place. But again … we won’t know. What we do know is that the market has tanked. Spin that all you want.

By: KmX

KmX — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:30:15 +0000

Perhaps someone should do a photo shop of Obama as JJ from the 80s sitcom “Good Times.”

By: ziggy

ziggy — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:36:27 +0000

McCain certainly looked like 4 more years of Bush. He wouldn’t have been, of course, because McCain would now be dealing with the same melt-down scenario Obama now has on his plate. How would McCain have responded differently than Bush? More tax cuts, I presume, and the massively increased deficits that would go with them as federal revenues declined due both to deeper tax cuts and the tanking economy. What we would lack would be a spending plan to pour borrowed cash into a stalled economy–unless, of course, greatly expanded military spending could have somehow been arranged.

By: ziggy

ziggy — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:31:31 +0000

The only problem with that argument is you’d have to assume the houseing bubble and the subsequent bank crisis were political set-ups, when the circumstances that led to the bubble and the collapse had been building up over more than a decade–largely invisible to anyone but the very people who were deliberately and knowing bundling bogus loans and kiting worthless paper with deceptively high safety ratings. The crash didn’t come just because Obama commented on breaking news.

By: steel magnolia

steel magnolia — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:20:06 +0000

I like the bumper sticker “Rush is Right!” – Can’t believe this 30 year FORMER Democrat is even listening to Rush at all, but these are times when pigs are flying, up is down, hell is freezing over and I voted for an honorable hero with integrity.

By: beebop

beebop — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:14:07 +0000

ooops … I knew I’d read my comments somewhere … thanks!

By: beebop

beebop — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:12:49 +0000

Encourage declining confidence in economic recovery with continuous dire predictions; fixate attention on fallen and fluctuating market prices as the barometer, correlating each dip with some action or inaction on the part of your opposition. As confidence wanes the effect becomes more pronounced, and anxiety levels rise. In 2010 you make your case that the other guys were entirely to blame, and that their attempts to turn the tide have failed.

Hhhhhhhhhh?

Why does this sound so darn much like what happened to the economy that got little Lord Flauntitlaroy elected? The war in Iraq was turning out just like McCain said it would with the surge, so the markets went into a Soros inspired spiral? Live by the decline …… you can figure the rest out, right?

By: Docelder

Docelder — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:05:23 +0000

4 more years of Bush

I remember it well… the rhetorical rant… America can’t take four more years of George Bush. Ironic isn’t it? We now know Obama is the mirror image of Bush II. At once the exact opposite, yet exactly the same in effects. We need to guard for the rebound bounce and make sure we don’t wind up with Bush IV in 2012. We need to learn from this, as there are many lessons here to be learned.

By: Wisewoman

Wisewoman — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:56:58 +0000

Ziggy. You seem to forget that Obama blamed Bush for everything under the sun and went further by lying and saying that John McCain, if elected would implement all of Bush’s policies giving us 4 more years of Bush. Well it is now clear that whether you agree with them or not, it is Obama who is implementing most of Bush’s policies (FISA, Rendition, financial policy, helping the banks, keeping troops in Iraq, etc). IN OBAMA WE HAVE BUSHII. Brother, as we say in the AA community, you have been had !!!