What Republicans Have Planned on the Bailout

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What they did in July on the housing mess -- avoid responsibility, throw meat to their base.

http://loomisnews.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/what-republicans-have-planned-on-the-bailout/">Odd Reversal as House G.O.P. Splits With Bush (from The Hill, an industry newspaper for Capitol Hill):

House Republicans have been waiting for just the right moment to make a pre-election break from President Bush, eager to get out from under the shadow of an unpopular administration they have steadfastly backed.

In opposing the major bipartisan housing initiative soon to become law, most House Republicans also disregarded the official Bush administration stance that immediate enactment of the measure was needed to protect the stability of “our Nation’s housing market, financial system and the broader economy.”..


“It is just amazing that someone would roll the dice on the economy for an ideological concept,” said Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

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1. k&r

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2. again

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3. whut, no1 cares about this?