Comments on: The Bailout is Back

By: Michael Miller

Michael Miller — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:17:03 +0000

"This is Iraq without the body bags, and without the personal honor of brave soldiers in the trenches to give the crisis some kind of dignity."

Well said.

By: Methinks

Methinks — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:10:12 +0000

Anyone actually read the new plan? Besides the items Coyote mentioned, there is so much pork in this thing that we’re going to wish they passed the first one (which I also opposed – not that it matters). Now, we’re threatening that we need to subsidize all manor of port or this whole thing will just bring down “Main Street”. Did anyone mention that Main Street will be paying for this?

By: Xmas

Xmas — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:49:00 +0000

Stan,

I can agree with you that removing Saddam was an excellent move. But that's not the point of his post.

I think Coyote is pointing out that if you don't trust the means that Bush used to justify the invasion of Iraq, how can you trust what Bush is saying now? It's...cognitive dissonance to hold "Bush Lied, People Died" in your head and "Bush says this is a financial crisis, they must pass this bill."

It's even more historically blind to believe that since the House and Senate Democrats are behind this bail-out bill, then Bush isn't lying this time. The Iraq war resolution was supported by Hillary Clinton and many other Democrats. They came to regret that vote years later, but at that moment of panic they ran with the rest of the lemmings.

By: stan

stan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:45:35 +0000

What about those of us who think that Iraq has been a significant success? That removing Saddam resulted in our learning of the Libyan nuke program and the removal of same, the elimination of the prospect of Saddam's various WMD plans for the future, the revelation of the vast corruption of the UN and the oil for food scam, the revelation of the traitorous conduct of our supposed allies, the development of a significant ally in the middle east, a significant improvement in the attitudes of the muslim street toward the US, and a very significant diminution within the muslim street in its enthusiasm for terrorism. These are all extremely significant developments that would not have happened without Saddam's removal.

And no successful attacks on US soil since 9/11 -- a damn good thing.

By: Jim Collins

Jim Collins — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:14:34 +0000

They could have, but they couldn’t take the chance that McCain would get credit for the bailout. Obama screwed up when McCain went back to DC last week. Now that Obama has returned to DC he can take the credit for saving the economy. What a bunch of BS.

By: NASCAR Wife

NASCAR Wife — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:35:19 +0000

"and excoriating Republicans for being so ignorant and narrow-minded"

Did you point out to her that the democrats are the majority party in both houses of Congress and could have passed this bill without republican help?