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This is becoming somewhat of a routine it seems:

GM said it will nearly exhaust its cash cushion by year’s end, leaving barely enough for day-to-day operations through the first half of 2009. It said it has ended merger talks with Chrysler, delayed future product plans and cut benefits. But it said those measures may not [...]

Tags: 1979, aig, auto producer, automaker, automotive industry, bailout, barack obama, Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act, Ford, GM, harry reid, jimmy carter, nancy pelosi

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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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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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Now, I don’t believe that to be necessarily true, I just can’t find one I think is terribly smart.  Today’s example is Thom Hartmann.  In 2005, he tried convincing people that Jimmy Carter tried to prevent the Bush Energy Disasters - 28 years ago.  Now, the reason he states this is because Jimmy gave a [...]

Tags: 1979, 1980, acid rain, coal, deregulation, energy, gas, global warming, inflation, jimmy carter, liberal, Oil Policy, oil price, thom hartmann, truck strike, unemployment, windfall tax

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“We’ve been down this road before. It’s the road that George Bush has taken for the last eight years,” Obama said.
And:
“The Bush economy is like a trap door — Too many people are one pink slip away, one missed mortgage payment away, one medical diagnosis away from falling through and losing everything,” Clinton said Thursday [...]

Tags: 1979, barack obama, boogeyman, bush, change, congress, democrat, economic, economy, failed, hillary clinton, inflation, jimmy carter, john-mccain, liberal, lie, nancy pelosi, policy, recesson, republican

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Jimmy Carter is reportedly going to Syria to meet with Hamas leaders.  Now, just a thought here.  If Hamas is designated a terrorist organization, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are part of the overall War on Terror, wouldn’t that make JImmy Carter a traitor?   Can’t we shoot traitors?  Last I recall, we can.  [...]

Tags: hamas, jimmy carter, palestine, syria, terrorism

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I watched MSNBC this weekend for no other reason than my wife really wasn’t able to watch Bill O’Reilly. I’m not sure how she came to the conclusion MSNBC was less offensive, but we wound up there anyway. Anyways, they were harping incessantly on the latest presidential approval rating which had Bush at [...]

Tags: bias, dwight-eisenhower, franklin-roosevelt, george-bush, george-hw-bush, harry-truman, jimmy carter, john-f-kennedy, lyndon-johnson, msnbc, Polls, presidential-approval, richard-nixon, ronald-reagan, The Media

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Now, before I get going, I have always respected David Bernstein a LOT. I have quoted him here before. That’s why his post baffles me. You can read the whole thing here. Now, the part that loses me is this:
Given these poll numbers, I would think that there is room for [...]

Tags: david-bernstein, hamas, International Issues, jimmy carter

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