The republicans are trying to.....

[Tristan]

Because Bush tried to sneak this by us:

Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

Dirty Secret Of The Bailout: Thirty-Two Words That None Dare Utter

And you forget that before Bush asked for $700 billion, the Federal Reserve, ON THEIR OWN, bailed out AIG with $85 billion. You forgot about that money, didn't you?

Then Bush gave $350 billion to other banks. What happened to that money?

So I understand your fear. Because Bush ripped us off, you think Obama will too.

When Hank Paulson scared Congress into passing the Troubled Asset Relief Plan (TARP) last fall, he said that it would be used to buy toxic waste from banks. That never happened. All we know is that $350 billion of our taxpayer money is gone and that most of it went to banks and a bit to the auto industry. What are they doing with our money? How is the government measuring the success of TARP? Is it helping? Until we get those answers, we should not allow more good money to be thrown after bad.

Before releasing the next $350 billion, what happened to the first? - BloggingStocks

They didn't do what they said they would do with the money Bern. Now if Obama makes the same mistake, I'll start to wonder about him too. You, however, never wondered about Bush but immediately doubt Prez O?

Quick lesson in basic civics bobo. The LEGISLATIVE branch of government authors and passes bills. The PRESIDENT signs them. And the congress that pass that legislation, both houses of which were controled by..........? Go ahead, you can do it........ everyone knows already.

Well said Bern...

I'd only add that the point to which the idiot is referring was NOT SNUCK BY 'US'... Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, Ingraham, Beck and Levin ALL screamed about the fact that the Money had no oversight... it was just ONE of their points contesting Tarp 1... Each one pointed out that that Bill effectively established the Sec'-Tres as the US Economic Czar... and this was a point being made LONG BEFORE THE ELECTION...

It's good to see that the left is finally catching up... not that this will in ANY WAY change their minds, as you've pointed out, they're ignorant of Legislative process; thus are incapable of realizing that the DEMOCRAT CONGRESS WROTE THE BILL AND IN PARTICULAR THAT THE SAME DEMOCRATS PREVENTED THE REPUBLICANS IN THE LEGISLATURE FROM HAVING ANY INPUT.

Now what this little exercise provides is a look at how the next four years will play out. Every single leftist policy failure will be blamed on (you know who...) and the GOP in Congress... They'll run to claim that "...Bush policy had made things 'worse than they realized;' and the GOP prevented them from spending enough..."

And that my friend, you can take to the bank... The ideological left survives despite its chronic failure by misdirecting blame for it's failures. One great place to witness a micro-example of this is Ag-what'shername... the Anarcho-communist. She's the one who has determined that the Soviets weren't Communists, because the 'ruling class' was corrupt... don't you SEE? True Communists are not currupt... nor are they corruptible. So what ya had THERE was 'State Capitalism' and EVERYONE KNOWS that CAPITALISM is just WRrrooong!

"State Capitalism" There is no such thing, except to say that conceptually it's the same as saying "Athiest Theocracy" or "Biggie Smalls". That really cracked me up.

You right leaning folks are doing a fine job on the argument so I'll leave it to ya'll with just the following small contribution about Bush's vetoes...

G.W. Bush had 12 vetoes in 8 years. (the fewest in modern history)

Billy Jeff had 37, Reagan had 78 and Roosevelt had 635.
Presidential Vetoes - Modern U.S. Presidential Vetoes - History and Statistics

 

[frazzledgear]

just like you "zombies" supported Bush for 8 long painful years no matter how much he fucked over this country??

So you figure because Bush was President for 8 years with dismal approval ratings for how many of his last years -that justifies mindlessly worshipping the ObamaOne? Wow, clearly you are a deep and independent thinker, huh? LOL

Sure you will go for anything Obama buried in this bill -maybe until its your mother who is denied medical treatment that would cure or improve her quality of life because some government bureaucracy decided she was too old to have any treatment "wasted" on her.

 

[frazzledgear]

Poll numbers reflected many republican conservatives who took issue with Bush...

And yet the majority of you still voted for him instead of someone else such as a 3rd party candidate. Funny how that goes eh?

Then maybe the next time you find the Republican candidate so objectionable -you Democrats won't be so stupid as to put up a known traitor and somehow magically expect him to be rewarded for that, huh? That didn't leave a lot of choice for most voters. No way I'd waste my vote on a third party candidate who couldn't possibly win - and end up giving the win to the traitor by dividing the Republican vote. After all -most voters in this country are NOT under 30 and ignorant of historical fact or dumb enough to think treason really doesn't matter. It does -and it did. That election wasn't even close as a result, was it? I have no regrets about my vote that election. Bush was always preferable to someone who already sold out his country to the enemy in the past.

 

[Shadow]

Poll numbers reflected many republican conservatives who took issue with Bush...

And yet the majority of you still voted for him instead of someone else such as a 3rd party candidate. Funny how that goes eh?

You are funny...why should Republican's HAVE to support a 3rd party candidate just because the Dems don't like Bush and want to beat that drum. Do Democrats when their candidate sucks ass? See Obama for proof...no they don't.

 

[Shadow]

just like you "zombies" supported Bush for 8 long painful years no matter how much he fucked over this country??

Wrong, fuck Bush.......

But again, no matter how bad Obama fucks up, you clowns will happily support and enable him......

don't project... dems eat their own. being in lockstep is a rightie thing.

on the other hand, he's better than anything the repubs offered.

because of course, mccain was so onto it and palin would have been so effective....

you betcha. *wink*

When do Dems "eat their own"?

 

[garyd]

Yeah Bush just wore out that veto pin with those 12 vetos. Most of them duplictive and having to do with stem cell research or over the long drawn out battle over iraq war funding. Or the expansion of government health care coverage for people making up to 80k a year.