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Maybe the Charlie Brown Democrats should play a new game besides Blame the Republicans?
Cool!
re 1: You poor victim!
Here’s another funny cartoon for someone to draw up:
Darcy Burner sleeping on top of a dog house and dreaming that she’s a progressive because she’s wearing a ‘cool’ t-shirt.
3..Just my point. One of the reasons people despise the Dems is that they are always playing the victim. If the are in the minority in the Senate, they can’t get anything done because they refuse to filibuster, if the are in the majority they can’t get anything done because they don’t have enough votes to stop the Republicans filibustering.
George Bush lamest of lame ducks writes up a bill that’s a blank check to his ‘base’ the richest 1% of the country and BEG the Dems to pass it. Do the Dems add anything meaningful to it that might benefit the rest of the country and (oh by the way) actually make a difference in the economy? Hell NO.
And yet the ‘reasonable, mainstream’ Dems that run this site keep telling us we must vote for these spineless fools.
re 4: What’s your point? Vote Republican! At least when they fuck you in the ass, they do it with hysterical determination.
The ‘weakness’ of the current run of Democrats is that they are functioning human beings, whereas Republicans are consciencless sociopaths.
But watchout, Boo. The new Democrat is more like Dexter than Spiderman.
Speaking of getting fucked in the ass…
“WASHINGTON —
Unqualified home buyers were not the only ones who benefitted from Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank’s efforts to deregulate Fannie Mae throughout the 1990s.
So did Frank’s partner, a Fannie Mae executive at the forefront of the agency’s push to relax lending restrictions.”
And if you can’t guess Frank has a (D) after his name when the news is so damning.
Cut and pasted from Kiplinger.com:
“It all began with cheap money. To prop up ailing economies early in this decade, central banks in the U.S. and Japan kept interest rates unusually low, which encouraged speculation. In the U.S., the Federal Reserve lowered the federal funds rate — the rate that banks charge each other for overnight loans and a barometer for the cost of borrowing money on a short-term basis — from 6.5% in 2000 to 1% by mid 2003. Cheap money quickly ignited a sharp rise in home values in virtually every corner of the country.”
Which party had control of the legislative and executive branches from 2000 to 2003? I’m pretty sure it was NOT the Democrats.
The ‘deregulation’ that started under the Reagan administration has largely undone the controls (regulations) on the banking industry instituted under the FDR administrations.
“Deregulation”…. Think about what that means. Regulations are laws.
Do you want to ‘deregulate’ armed robbery?
5. My point is don’t keep voting for the same people and expect different results. Send money to Sheehan, and support folks running against entrenched scum like Norm Dicks or ineffective wimps like McDermott.
Meanwhile we should work on creating a viable third party in WA. The top two primary could allow races with real choices.
Also why do you not realize that the Dems have been ‘fucking us in the ass’ also?
#6
Which political party’s Presidential campaign chairman was paid by Fannie Mae to be a lobbyist for, and is still being paid to this day? That would be McSame’s.
Which party did Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the fed, belong to? Which party’s President cut estate taxes, while borrowing vast sums for a needless war? Which parties President let Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora so he could live to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan?
You Republicans are so fucking done. Fuck you, you fucking fucks. Clinton left you guys with a budget surplus, and this is how you economic “conservatives” behave?
Fuh-uh-uh-kah you!
Hey Merkle Boner in The Brain@8, not thinking about what you read in other threads huh?
Don Joe’s economic hero Barry Ritholtz said on his blog deregulation had almost nothing to do with it.
Don Joe thinks like you Merkle Boner. So who’s right? Don Joe’s economist or Merkle Boner?
Wow Merkle Boner@7 is really stupid like rhp6033.
Since history and memory are not your strong suits: Remember Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords?
Look up who controlled the Senate from June 2001 through January 2003.
Hint – It wasn’t Republicans
Pusdrivendyke@10: Yep, Alan Greenspan has publicly said he won’t vote for Obama.
Maybe he knows the real deal about Obama’s economic plan.
Maybe he and Andrea are like James Carville and his wife Mary Matalin just in reverse. Also Alan is much more palatable than the Rajun Cajun
6 delbert
Fannie Mae in the 1990s? Oh, I somehow didn’t realize that it’s what happened fifteen years ago that is the problem. Of course it is. It started in 1994 when the Republicans took conrol of Congress.
But I have to say that the transparency of current Republican attempts to do anything and everything to try to push responsibility back to before the last eight years of criminal Republican malfeasance is hysterical. It’s as though in their world the Bush administration, Jack Abramoff, Tom Delay, and Phil Gramm never existed. The funnniest part is that you don’t realize that you’re fooling ONLY yourselves.
That’s why independent voters have deserted McCain for Obama and have deserted the Republicans for the Democrats, and they’ll be staying there until you guys pull your heads out. Which I don’t foresee happening anytime soon.
Puddingdick @10
I guess Ayn Rand’s sidekick, Alan “I will print more money” Greenspan is just making another boneheaded Republican decision.
What else is new? I remember when USA today read:
“Posted 2/23/2004 11:39 AM Updated 2/24/2004 2:13 AM
USATODAY.com
Greenspan says ARMs might be better deal
By Sue Kirchhoff and Barbara Hagenbaugh, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Monday that Americans’ preference for long-term, fixed-rate mortgages means many are paying more than necessary for their homes and suggested consumers would benefit if lenders offered more alternatives.
In a standing-room-only speech to the Credit Union National Association meeting here, Greenspan also said U.S. household finances appeared generally sound, despite rising debt levels and bankruptcy filings. Low interest rates and surging home prices have given consumers flexibility to manage debt, he said.
“Overall, the household sector seems to be in good shape,” Greenspan said.
Alan Greenspan, seer of seers, the fucking maestro of doom.
Your party is so fucking done Puddingdick!
Puddy @ 11
Barry Ritholtz said on his blog deregulation had almost nothing to do with it.
Apparently you don’t understand that “regulatory exemption” is a form of “deregulation”. Oh, well. You do insist on continuing to be an inveterate fool. Don’t let me stop you.
Puddy @ 12
Look up who controlled the Senate from June 2001 through January 2003.
Look up the word “bicameral” in the dictionary.
But hey Puddingdick, don’t let polls or facts stand in the way of your party’s full bore sprint to its’ doom.
I hear the Maverick just quit Michigan. They are down four in Nevada. Four…four… You understand the number four, don’t ya, Puddingdick?
I told you all this election was going to be fun, fun, fun.
http://www.pollster.com/polls/.....ge-mvo.php
The Republicans are so fucked!
Puddy, busdrivermike
Puddy
Have you evidence for this? Seems like such a thing would be in Google and maybe even in the shaky quiver of the Palanista.
Mike
Never trust what a cat says unless he s you personal familiar.
re 12: Where do bills originate? Who controlled the house and senate in the 90’s.
Take some personal resposibility. You are quick enough to advise welfare clients (except those on Wall Street) to do so.
re 12: You don’t know history. All you know is neo-con ideology. When someone contradicts one of your BELIEFS (for they are not facts), you go looking on the internet for any crumb that will shore up your failing world view.
Do you ever find information that contradicts your beliefs? You’ll find precious little of it if you phrase your questions in such a way that Google only brings up links that support your argument. I know when you can’t find what you are looking for. There is complete silence untill you decide to revive another one of your sock-puppets.
You are a fanatic.
Anyone who knows anything about the sociology of leadership knows that no one follows a ‘maverick’.
A leader determines in which direction the herd is going and bends their path in the direction he/she wants it to go.
For good or ill, that’s leadership. A politician who is a self-described ‘maverick’ is a politician who is trying lead a herd of sheep of which each one fancies itself an independent thinker.
That’s not a ‘maverick’: That’s a Judas Goat.
Obama’s up by 6 nationally and up by 10 in Washington.
Last on the News Hour David Brooks said it’s looking like a win for Obama.
http://www.realclearpolitics.c.....index.html
It looks like Tom Udall (D-NM) will be moving up from the house to the senate in about a month, he’s smashing Tom Pierce by 14 points.
Al Franken is up by 9 in MN.
We’re picking up seats!