Here’s Andrew McCarthy at The Corner asking why we can’t take a couple of days to re-tool the bill.
Here’s Dean Barnett at The Weekly Standard blog lambasting the Republicans for not passing the bill.
And here’s Dick Armey — ex Congressman and economist saying why the bill was bad in national Review Online.
And Larry Kudlow — whom I like too.
Bottom line: It’s not too late to get a good bill perhaps. And yes… the government does have to do something I realize that. I just wish the bums would get thrown out in November.
How much of a crisis can this be when they are going to take the next two days off as I heard tonight?
Now on that I’m with you entirely.
Whatever happened to “Vote the Bums Out!”?
When did voters become so stupid?
Here’s another one you love. Want to know how the “$700 billion number” came to be? They pulled it out of their ass. Via LGF, via LATimes, via Forbes …
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31397_$700_Billion-_Picked_Out_of_Thin_Air
What a pack we have.
Kenn’s Bill: Fund the bailout from congressional salaries and failed CEOs golden parachutes & pensions. Have a feeling the bailout amount will begin to shrink.
JohnFN,
One of the commenters there has a good line, “the tyranny of the urgent.” Nice.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
The author of this quote is presently indispute, but I think it’s rather appropriate to the moment.
JohnFN, Now that is a very interesting piece of information. And the public will largely never know this because the
Democrat Propaganda MachineMain Stream Media won’t tell them.I’ve been heated in other posts at this blog, but I try to keep an open mind, since there is a lot I know I don’t know about it. But the statement by a Treasury Dept. Spokeswoman that they effectively made up the the $700B number is very troubling indeed.
I think I may be coming around to Floyd’s position.
Daniel… I posted this at the “Suck It!” post: “Daniel… no harm no foul. This is what I love about conservatives… we can argue and get heated, but at the end of the day –we’re still right at the core.”
John FN… I saw that earlier and I did a spit take that would’ve earned me a Ph.D in slapstick.
The $700 Billion Dollar Pricetag? The Feds made it up….
According to Forbes, a Treasury Department Spokeswoman has declared that the $700 Billion dollar figure that’s been attached to the current crisis … well, they just made it up. They have no idea what the pricetag should be.
And EVEYRONE in…..