Senator Warns White House Will 'Create Crisis' and 'Panic' to Push Stimulus

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Business & Media Institute

Is the new Obama administration taking cues from the Bush administration to get Congress to act? It certainly seemed that way to, South Carolina’s junior Republican senator, Jim DeMint.

DeMint, speaking Jan. 27 at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., explained the Obama administration will “create crisis and widespread panic” just like its predecessor in order to get Congress to act expeditiously.

“I’ve been around long enough to know whenever someone tells me I have to make a decision right now, my response is no,” DeMint said. “That clears it up right away and I think more and more the Bush administration and now this administration knows that they’re not going to get a quick reaction out of Congress unless they create crisis and widespread panic. And that’s going to be their M.O. to get Congress to act.”

Another senator, James Inhofe, R-Okla., explained the Bush administration used a similar tactic, under the direction of former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, to get the $700-billion TARP bailout bill passed by Congress back on Oct. 4, 2008.

Read more: http://businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20090127165919.aspx

[NoQuarter]

1. Bite me.

[CoffeeCat]

2. I'm sure this asshole had no problem...

...when President Bush was creating his own little crisis with the Iraq war---and insisting that we'd all
be sitting in mushroom clouds or toxic clouds of biological weapons--if we didn't go along with his Iraq
war fantasies?

Is that the kind of crisis creation and panic, he's talking about?

Do Republicans EVER stop projecting?

[ecstatic]

4. It boggles the mind

:crazy:

[The Backlash Cometh]

33. Really.

When they took power, everything they accused Democrats of doing, they did. And now, that they're out of power, everything they did, they're accusing Democrats of doing.

[chill_wind]

10. Terrah! Terrah! Color-coded panic alerts! Nukes rainin' down on Texas

if we don't invade liberate Iraq. This just in-- new UBL video. Terrah!

[Duke Newcombe]

25. Right. No fear and panic used...

during the last eight years to literally "scare up" votes.

Mr. Pot, meet Ms. Kettle. Notice how black she is.

[babylonsister]

3. Create crisis and panic to push stimulus? How flipping stupid is DeMint?

Does he watch tv, or Congress? Does he read a paper, or log on to the internet? :scared:

[glitch]

37. He is speaking at the Heritage Foundation and they are lapping it up.

So he is as least as stupid as the Heritage Foundation, which means there is no limit, he is in fact infinitely stupid.

Or was your question rhetorical?

[TankLV]

44. Ahh - the Heritage Foundation - an organization set up around a false idea

and purpose to gather opinions masquerading as "facts" by dubious idealogues with absolutely NO acedemic credentials or scholarship to back up their opinions, leaving a trail of absolute FAILURES and being absolutely WRONG about EVERYTHING they ever wrote an opinion on...

[glitch]

46. Yeah, those guys.

Omnipresent, omnignorant and damn proud of it! Or was I thinking of the Federalist Society?

[Still Sensible]

5. Yeah and the failing companies that laid off

over 70,000 people on Monday are part of scam, huh... fuck off and die.

[Two Americas]

6. propaganda effort

We are beginning to see the outlines of a sophisticated propaganda campaign and behind the scenes political sabotage effort. It is going to get very ugly.

[Skink]

7. This is what we call disaster Socialism.

Disaster nationalization.

[azul]

23. This OP made me think the same term: Disaster Socialism.

That President Obama is maybe writing the book with this title and it is subtitled: Tazer a wealthy capitalist until he pays his fair share of taxes, or until he pleads, "Don't taz me bro!"

In secret. Like a CIA manual.

[alittlelark]

24. uh, .... yeah.

WTF?

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

8. Hipocracy........Table for two

[TankLV]

45. visions of dancing hippos...!!! AGGGGG - the HORROR!!!

I think you meant "hypocrisy"

[aquart]

9. Aw, he thinks Bush is still in the White House.

[ShadowLiberal]

11. Doing nothing will also create a crisis when wall street expects it to pass

[bluestateguy]

12. There must be no criticism of the president

That gives aid and comfort to the enemy.

[jwirr]

13. Sure and I really listen to what those two idiots have to say. nt

[Frank Booth]

14. This guy's quite the sharp tack.

All those companies failing, stock markets tanking, and people getting laid off are just a part of Obama's propaganda campaign.

[VPStoltz]

15. This guy is truly confused.

Doesn't he know he's not supposed to complain about the Bush bailout because it really was a payoff.
Yeah he created a crisis but it was intended as a way of robbing the treasury before the foxes fled the coup.

[Shardik]

16. Actually, he's Deminted.

:)

[VPStoltz]

48. Ba dump bump!

[givemebackmycountry]

17. Nice....

DeMint, speaking Jan. 27 at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.
At what, a Mensa meeting?

These people, I tell you... they never let up, not for ONE FUCKING MINUTE.

[YvonneCa]

18. DeMint and Inhofe? ZERO credibility. Flat earthers...

...both. Not to mention a little nutty. :7

[FrenchieCat]

19. Sure....Obama fired those 2.6 million folks last year, and the 85,000 yesterday!

Sure. He also made all those banks go under. :eyes:

[LynnTheDem]

20. The projection (and ironic hypocrisy) is astounding.

Absolutely stunningly astounding.

[lenegal]

21. I am sick to death of these small dick Republicans. Just because they are in the

minority, there is no excuse to act like assholes. This makes me furious.

[truthisfreedom]

22. So basically, never mind the fact that there IS a crisis and widespread panic.

That's not the issue, is it, Jim? It's the fact that Obama's going to create a crisis.

Let me tell you something, Jim. Your goddamned party created this crisis.

[Trajan]

26. After 8 years of sucking Neocon/Bushian/Rumsfeldian CHENEY ASS ...

Demint seems to have spun about so much he is confused who caused the 'crisis' and 'panic' ....

I say; hang the last 8 years on HIS sorry ass, like the proverbial albatross, and kick their asses to the curb ...

FUCK them ....

Discard them, Mr. President, and move forward with the PEOPLE's business ...

[AllyCat]

27. I'm sure my friend's husband losing his job yesterday was just creating "panic"

After all, they now have no health insurance, no way to make their house payment, two little kids, and car payments (they live in the country). But we wouldn't want to create panic, now would we?

[orleans]

28. jim demint is and always has been a major ASSHOLE. fuck him. n/t

[No Elephants]

29. Paulson did attempt to create panic before the first bailout vote. He went on all

the Sunday morning talk shows saying he had to have an unconditional vote within a day or two. He did such a bad acting job, trying to convey dire consequences, I would have thought I was watching a silent movie.

[Festivito]

30. CIA playbook is alive and well. They complain about what THEY did.

THEY, Republicans, created crises and then pushed to act quickly.

So, now they accuse US of doing what they did.

It stops US. It moves blame for what they did to US.

It's still the so-called LW media. LW media my left butt cheek.

[auburngrad82]

31. The White House did create the crisis

From 2000 until January 2009 the Bush White House created the mess that requires the bailout. With DeMint's and Inhofe's help.

[BadgerKid]

32. Inhofe voted for the war.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237

[Odin2005]

34. DeMint the Demented.

He probably thinks that this is just a "mental recession". :banghead:

[bamacrat]

35. But there is a crisis, the time of panic is nearing.

The big O isnt lying and is nothing like the Bouches. telling people they should be aware and concerned about a real economoc disaster is not trying to incite fear, its as if were being talked to lile we are adults. feels weird

[harun]

36. It is ok to yell wolf when there is a wolf.

[hadrons]

38. There needs to be lay-offs at the Heritage Foundation

[classysassy]

39. "where do we get such men?"

I remember Fredic March,asking that question in a ww2 film,in this case we get our republicans from the looney bin.

[Rabrrrrrr]

40. He only thinks that because that's what Republicans do, and he can't imagine any other way.

[BattyDem]

41. Well, if anyone knows about "creating crisis and panic" ...

it's a Republican. Talk about projection! :eyes: :puke:

[onager]

42. Jim DeMented, yet another embarassment from my home state.

To join a long list of embarassments: Lindsey Graham, Strom Thurmond...all the way back to the illustrious "Cotton Ed" Smith. Of whom one newspaper wrote: "If you removed the word 'nigger' from his vocabulary, he'd be speechless."

All of which helps explain why I moved to California about a hundred years ago. I've spent the last 3.5 years living in Egypt, which is sort of like South Carolina, only with mosques.

[jumptheshadow]

43. The situation is very serious

The people in the financial industry in NYC know just how threatening it is, and, big news, Rep. DeMint probably does as well, but is playing politics. President Obama is moving swiftly and has done more in a week to set this country on the right track then Bush did in eight years.

And, by the way, our banks need to be nationalized, at least temporarily, in order to keep our economy healthy and to ensure compliance and a return on investment for most Americans.

[glitch]

47. Nationalized and made their books transparent, otherwise no one will ever trust

our economy again. Nor should they.