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yy4me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 03:51 PM
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Attn: Chris Dodd..Please, didn't you say last week that you
would stay up all weekend studying this gigantic government bail out to better understand what the heck Uncle Sam is doing. Slept yet? Let us know what you found because the whole country is one step away from disaster. This bail-out would seem to be that final step into total and absolute control of us by this crooked administration.

You are a good man, so I am told. I hope you and some other congressmen have the guts to save us from an American tragedy. We can not bail ourselves out, now the Fed wants to bail out other countries too.

Somebody, anybody, please start screaming.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 03:53 PM
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1. So you are told
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 03:54 PM
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2. I dunno; Dodd sounded like he was caving to me this a.m....
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Democratic leaders are demanding limits on pay for executives of financial firms that unload their bad debts on the government in what one Republican leader is calling "the mother of all bailouts.'' And they are renewing their push for a new job-creating economic stimulus package, with an added cost of $50 billion, as the White House presses Congress to approve a bailout before adjournment for elections at the end of this week.

Yet, despite the enormousness of the federal action which Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is pressing Congress to swiftly approve - possibly exceeding what Congress has spent on the war in Iraq, and pushing the federal deficit to new record highs - it is clear that he has convinced congressional leaders of the urgency of acting to avert a meltdown in credit for American consumers.

"We need to act quickly, and we will in my view,'' Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), Senate Banking Committee chairman, said today on ABC News' This Week. "We don't have any choice but to act,'' Dodd said. "I can tell you that (Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid and (House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi are prepared to act quickly and deliberatively.''

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/09/congress_ready_mother_of_all_b.html
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cosmicsheep Donating Member (131 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 03:57 PM
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3. Yep!
And how did they do it?

FEAR, FEAR, FEAR.

It was just grotesque to see both Dodd and Boehner decline to say what it is that Paulson told them at this meeting as they did not want to upset the delicate sensibilities of the American public on a Sunday morning.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?


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wundermaus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 04:05 PM
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4. Dead Nuts On!
You Nailed 'em to the wall!
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 04:10 PM
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5. IIRC, Cheney did that to Dick Armey recently and it turns out
he was full of shit. When will we/they learn?

John W. Dean: Vice President Dick Cheney's Incredible and Deadly Lie
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=4038587
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OwnedByFerrets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 04:22 PM
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6. They always cave....its what they seem to do best...
www.wearableartnow.com
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