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The gall and stupidity of Nancy Pelosi never ceases to amaze me.  Today, with arguably the economic welfare of the United States on the line, and for that matter, several other countries of the world, Nancy Pelosi assured the world an agreement to bail out the struggling spec market was at hand.  She’d have it [...]

Tags: bailout, bush administration, community reinvestment act, economic policies, economic welfare, fannie-mae, freddie-mac, house speaker, jimmy carter, nancy pelosi, partisan, political ploy, Politics

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In a move that surprised me, the bailout bill was voted down in Congress.  It was fairly close, 228-205 I think it was.  In order to get it back on track, some media are saying Pelosi expects nine Republicans to change their votes for a re-consideration.  This is how she’s motivating the Republicans:

Now, slap me [...]

Tags: bailout, congress, democrat, democrats, dow, fannie-mae, fiasco, freddie-mac, pelosi, republicans, roosevelt

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Obama and Ahmadinejad have been intertwined quite a bit in this race.  Seems kinda odd to me.  First, we had Obama’s flap that he would sit down with Ahmadinejad unconditionally.  He even cited Henry Kissinger as approving.  That didn’t fly with Kissinger too well who denounced Obama’s claims and flat out stated McCain is right, [...]

Tags: Ahmadinejad, grand hyatt, henry-kissinger, hillary clinton, obama, palin, penny pritzker, political rally, presidential race

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Joe Biden, the forgotten step-son of the Obama/Biden campaign, was highly critical of our fearless commander in chief over his handling of the finance market crisis.  He had this to say:
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what [...]

Tags: 1929, commander in chief, finance market, franklin-roosevelt, great-depression, joe-biden, katie-couric, market crisis, television

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This is kinda nutty if you ask me:
Connecticut Dems Circulate Censure Resolution on Lieberman
Blondin said Lieberman’s speech at the Republican National Convention, in which he praised McCain and criticized Democrat Barack Obama, convinced her that state Democrats needed to take a stand.
“Our point is not that Joe should in some way be prohibited from supporting [...]

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Sandra Bernhard had this to offer when defending her man, Obama:
“Now you got Uncle Women, like Sarah Palin, who jumps on the sh** and points her fingers at other women. Turncoat b****! Don’t you f*****’ reference Old Testament, b****!” Bernhardt said. “You stay with your new Goyish crappy shiksa funky bulls***! Don’t you touch my [...]

Tags: barack obama, barbara-streisand, bitter pill, conservative issues, conservative values, conservative voters, conservative woman, entertainment industry, fiscal policies, irony, john-mccain, megan mullally, old testament, plastic glasses, religious right, sandra bernhard, sarah palin, social conservatives, tina fey

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Given it’s opportunity to see a woman advance to the second most powerful position in the world, NOW punted.  She’s not “woman” enough according to them.  In reality, she’s not liberal enough for them.  They didn’t even bother to fact-check their opinions, they had already made up their mind.  Now, most people I’m sure had [...]

Tags: liberal, National Organization for Women, NOW, sarah palin

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If you’re going to debate this current financial market crisis or criticize the efforts to mitigate it, you HAVE to read this article by Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters.org:
…The Carter-era Community Reinvestment Act forced banks to lend to uncreditworthy borrowers, mostly in minority areas.
Age-old standards of banking prudence got thrown out the window. In their place [...]

Tags: 1977, community reinvestment act, fannie-mae, freddie-mac, hillary clinton, jimmy carter, john-mccain, market crisis, minority areas, nancy pelosi, newsbusters, noel, sheppard

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Barack Obama’s milking the current financial “crisis” for everything it’s worth right now on tv.  I finally had to give up even trying to listen.  According to him, it’s basically time to admit defeat and gut the entire capitolist base of our economy and replace it with a pure socialist model.  That would solve all [...]

Tags: 1929, aig, barack obama, black sunday, cheese, clinton, djia, Dow-Jones, financial crisis, great crash, great-depression, kraft, losses, perspective, resolution trust company, stock market

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When the stock market tanked on news of AIG being bailed out by the government, and Lehman joining the ranks of failing spec banks, John McCain did the unthinkable, call it maverick if you will, and told the US the economy was fundamentally OK.  Barack Obama immediately seized that comment and hammered away at McCain. [...]

Tags: aig, assurances, barack obama, bear stearns, donations, economist, fannie-mae, freddie-mac, john-mccain, lehman, merrill lynch, rhetoric, socialism, stock market

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