When someone who is supposed to be President makes statements like these, they do not deserve respect. If you are not a Democrat, the President just called you a mindless, unthinking zombie who just does what you are told.
If some company is too big to fail, then it's too big to exist. Break it up.
They see a government in Washington that cannot balance its books, win our wars or protect our borders. The government shovels out trillions to Fortune 500 corporations and banks to rescue the country from a crisis created by the government and Fortune 500 corporations and banks.
Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday turned back a Republican amendment to wait 72 hours and require a full cost estimate before the final committee vote on the health care reform bill.
You have to love the hypocrisy of Pelosi and the left. How quickly their tune changes when people are against what they are doing.
Obama in 2004 discusses the problems with rushing items through Congress and why its wrong and problem. Yet he no longer seems to believe his own words.
For all the venom that media spreads about Cheney, Pelosi is still disliked more. From her feckless leadership of the Senate under Bush and to her continued ineptitude, it seems many on both sides see her for what she is.
After the seemingly worthless diatribe of the women of view about who walked over to whom, BreitBart.com did some actual investigation into the incident and found that Glenn Beck did not lie and it was actually Whoopi and Walters who did the lying.
Geithner unveils his new investment plan for the toxic assets. How do you view his plan? Some called the plan 'shockingly good' and it almost appears too good to be true.
The details of how government officials spend taxpayer money for their personal gain was recently revealed in the UK. I think it is far past time that we did something similar here. All of Congress, every individual, needs a yearly review of the how they use taxpayer money.
Author Jonathan Weil talks about how Bernake, Paulson, and Geithner knowlingly broke the law in an 'ends justify the means' method for getting the Bank of America deal done. This puts you and I, the American Tax payer more at risk than they were willing to admit.
A collection of 10 economists review the economic stimulus and answer some of the questions that should have been taken into consideration before it was passed into law.
Article from the NY Times back in 99 about changing these the laws that helped bring about our financial problems. Notice those who were for it and who were against it.
I have recently started reading George Will and have come to appreciate his point of view. He eloquently and plainly brings to light many issues that those of us with common sense and independent streak have voiced about Obama and his policies.
Finally, some voices from the middle are also starting to speak out against Obama and his policies. This is not a case of just right wingers who are bitter about the election.
It seems even some Democrats are actually reading the legislation and considering the consequences before taking action. Perhaps if those in Congress read bills and discussed/considered the consequences of their actions, we wouldnt be in the mess we are in.
This article lays out valid reasons why several Republican governors are considering refusing federal funds.
The stimulus was so needed to be passed so urgently that memebers of Congress werent even allowed to read it. However, apparently its not important enough that Obama should sign it into law immediately when he can take 3 days off instead.
The Senate and House are trying to pass a bill, with that straight face, that would back mortgages deemed already too risky for regular government backing. This plan is set to help about 400,000 homeowners which comes out to $750,000 per home.
So this would beg the question, what is the appropriate penalty for doing such a heinous act to a child?
The debate about offshore drilling continues along party lines but where is the truth and the critical questions that need asking?
Here is more context for atleast one of Reverend Wright's controversial speech. Please view, make up your own mind, and start demanding that the MSM be more responsible and accountable and in their reporting.
Unfortunately, these days, it seems Bush and Congress has the same goal as Bin Laden.
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox admits during an interview that he and President Bush have been working towards creatued a North American Union (NAU) with a unified currency, the amero.
As myself and others have argued on here previously, there is plenty of evidence that human beings and our doings are not the necessarily the primary cause of 'global warming'. While our actions are contributory, they are the necessarily the dominant factor.
Dissatisfaction with capitalism is widespread around the globe 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall that heralded the demise of European communism, a poll released Monday showed.
"Many college-aged conservatives are turned off by the Bible-thumping intolerance of much of the Republican Party. "
The US House of Representatives has passed the historic “Affordable Health Care for America Act.” Despite nearly unanimous Republican opposition, a majority voted for H.R. 3962, the biggest expansion of health care coverage since the creation of Medicare in 1964.
A first-term Republican Congressman from New Orleans, Joseph Cao, had the guts to vote for today's health reform bill. He was the only Republican to do so, and for that he will probably be ostracized by his own party leadership, who stood universally against the President's plan.
With One Republican vote. That makes it bipartisan
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