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Quote by: RickSp  LOL. You continue to ignore the facts. The whining is just silly. Anyone who claims that the House Republicans are so thinned skinned that they should go cry in the corner over a short and largely innoffensive speech obviously ignores the tactics that the Republican House members themeselves use, which are right out of Karl Rove's playbook.
Even Rush Limbaugh made fun of the idea that it was Pelosi's speech that caused the House Republicans not to support the package.
If you want to come up with an excuse for why the Republican's didn't keep their word to their own House leadership, you and Boehner need to try harder. That one is simply stupid. |
"Karl Rove's playbook," eh?
There's an original thought. I forgot that the Evil Mastermind was behind all this. Duplicitous politics didn't even
exist until he came around, eh? L. O. L.
I didn't say it was her speech that inspired them to oppose it, I said that it probably didn't help. Why should they support something their constituents didn't want,
especially after having Queen Nancy go off on them like that? I am glad they didn't, reasons why notwithstanding. I would have been fine with it if they opposed it because they had hair appointments, the bailout is such a frightening move. I do agree that something needs to be done (and should have been done back when Bush wanted to and the Dems refused, or back when Clinton tried and the Dems obstructed). Should we invest nearly a trillion dollars into failed businesses? Um, no. This is a free market---those businesses that are viable will succeed, those that are not will fail. That's how it works.
If/when it goes through, I guess I will just start waiting for the check, because if the government is going to bail out people who make bad decisions, why not those of us who make
good decisions? I mean, I have a mortgage. Why don't I just default on it and wait for the Gubmint to bail me out? I have credit card debt, the result of poor financial decisions on my part; why should I have to worry about paying it?
I think the biggest problem here is that the gov't got involved in the first place, mandating that
unemployment benefits and
welfare checks are sufficient criteria in considering loan applications. How many people even know that?