Unless Schumer, Dodd, et al want to tell us what apocalyptic shit Paulson told them

[shadowknows69]

We shouldn't even consider this bailout until there is a new President and Congress. Fuck em. Or there better be some water tight oversight on this shit. Grow a spine Congress!

[Fran Kubelik]

1. Yeah, that part keeps bothering me.

[Oceansaway]

2. it's all theater...they enjoy this....n/t

[shadowknows69]

3. Then they should "enjoy" the theater of being retired by their constituents

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. It's been a pattern since 9/11.

It worked so well against the Congress to sound off apocalyptic fears of terrorist attacks, now they're doing it with economic gloom and doom.

[blm]

4. In 1993 we heard behind the scenes story that Greenspan warned Clinton that

if BCCI was pursued and further exposed the world's economy would collapse. Well, now I believe that was just a cover story for Clinton's people, since it is obvious now that Clinton never intended for BCCI matters to be further scrutinized - Jackson Stephens and Poppy Bush needed protection at all cost to this nation and to the Dem party.

[Algorem]

5. apocalyptic loss of campaign fundage?

[mopinko]

6. apocalypse me ass

for them, maybe.
more like financial weapons of mass distraction.

[babylonsister]

8. Apparently, it has something to do with buying groceries with gold-

yes, that would scare everyone.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4057340

[gratuitous]

9. You want my money? Tell me why

And tell me what you're going to do differently, and whose head is rolling down the steps for this colossal fuck-up.

[TexasObserver]

10. True. I recall another time 9-11 when they were stampeded 9-11 into acting foolishly.

And let's not IWR forget the other time IWR they were stampeded IWR similarly.

Time for Democrats to stop being so easily misled by the Bush administration. Since Bush has fucked up everything he's done, why in the world would we trust him and his lame appointments to fix the problem? The Bushies are trying to force Democrats to bail out all the GOP problems. Don't do it.

Let them fail!

Sooner or later, someone will have the guts to say what I will say now: We cannot get past this problem without letting the air out of the markets. They are artificially inflated, and have been for some time. Without all the machinations of the Bush administration the past 13 months, all the economic slight of hands, the DOW would be below 10,000, as it should be. We are not growing, we are shrinking, as an economy, and inflating the dollars inflated doesn't result in true value. It only kids us into thinking the markets are still performing. They are not.

It's like a tire that is losing air. You can keep filling it with more air as the tire gets flat, but you have to add more and more air, and do so more frequently to get the tire properly inflated. But even so, you've still got a badly leaking tire that is eventually going flat if not actually fixed.

[stillcool]

11. Schumer led the charge on this one..

He sold us out big time.