Reply #38: I know that President Obama has publicly apologized for his vote [View All]

I do not know that Reid has. The circumstances then were entirely different, as far as the degree of the severity in the condition of our economy. Additionally, there was no attempt to install fear because it was pretty well known the vote would pass. It is not uncommon when the outcome of a vote is pretty much already realized because of the head-count taken by the leadership. So sometimes a vote contrary to passage is a protest vote on principle only. This is not one of those times.

Yes, people do throw the word around too loosely, along with other words. I have been at this site since 2000, and I do not start incendiary threads or throw provocative words around casually. People who have been here a long time know this about me; perhaps you do not.

I asked a question to encourage people to post their response. It was a sincere question, truly. And after all of the input acquired so far on this thread, I still have received no legitimate reason that differentiates what makes it unacceptable, perhaps even a threat of war, for an enemy of this Country to threaten our economy, but it is totally okay for an elected politician to do so. In my opinion, one's citizenship does not authorize him or her to act in a way that could have a calamitous impact on our recovery from what the late Osama bin Laden started, and the banks and Wall Street later exasperated. To imply legislators' actions are simply political acts doesn't work for me at this particular moment in time. So if the word itself truly bothers you, let me substitute another phrase: apparent depraved indifference to the well-being of our Country. What do you think other people in other countries think when our domestic politicians stand up and publicly say, "We are going broke." At the very least, many have to be thinking, thanks for warning me, I am not investing anything there.

Thank you for your response.

Sam