Reply #8: I think this is part of the appeal of Obama

[RainDog]

because he's trying to make peace across the aisle with sane (i.e. fiscal) republicans in order to create a coalition to fix this huge mess.

These problems will not be solved with the idiots in power now. But, yeah, some democrats have helped this deregulation crisis along too. If even Paulson has said deregulation went too far - the "idea" of it is something out of Dickens - except Scrooge was the good guy for "trickling down."

I have never understood why non-millionaire republicans never understood this. It's now been shown demos are good for the economy 3 out of 4 years over 50 years of presidencies. accounting for the lie republicans claim about demos benefiting from repuke policies.. just another lie.

I don't understand why the U.S. can't seize the assets of KBR and Halliburton and have a trial to see how much money they've stolen from the govt while in Iraq.

Part of this is b/c of deregulation, and part of it is because Lil Bush had a tax cut for the FIRST TIME EVER in a war. because he asked no sacrifice of anyone except for the soldiers and their families... and then paid them so little army families in San Diego were getting food assistance! support the troops, you republican fuckwads. The callousness with which the Bush regime has destroyed this nation across the spectrum is astonishing.

Surely Poppy knows, but cannot force himself to admit, that his family legacy will be the one about his son ruining the U.S.' standing in the world, starting a war that turned the entire world against us, brought on a recession and then a depression (never in my life have I heard so many fears about this from financial writers and economists) while lying that everything was great... AND fucking over the constitution and aggressively torturing and raping innocent people (the int'l red cross noted that at least 75% of the people in Abu Graib, where women and children were raped, were innocent of any crime.

excuse me, Ms Pelosi... how can you walk around upright knowing you took "impeachment off the table" for these fucking war criminals and petty thieves?

I saw a guy on Charlie Rose last night from the NYTimes and he was talking about us being in uncharted waters.. that no American alive has experienced a situation like this and no one knows where it's going (good or badly) -- and I thought... you know, ppl have demonstrated these are bad policies over and over... we have to have a fucking depression for ppl to get it?

what a bunch of dumbasses on Wall Street. Maybe they should return some of their million-plus dollar bonuses since it was that work, fucking over the financial well being of this nation, that got them the big bucks anyway.

how many times do we have to go through this before ppl say.. okay, republicans suck about the economy, as well as just about everything else... I can't even think of something they don't suck at while doing it.