Gothamist: Bush Presses for Action on Bailout Package

ma bell

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:18:53 -0500

we are already starting to see the free market fix itself. the strong players buy the weak players. citi buys wachovia. jp morgan buys wamu. it has always fixed itself and it will this time as well. these cronies need to leave our tax dollars out of it

Spiritof76

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:13:32 -0500

If I never see that crooked smirk again, I can die happy.

BaxterJ

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:38:43 -0500

Bush understands the economy about as well as I do, which is to say, hardly at all.

gossipgirl

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:27:11 -0500

And yet--the media claims that the market is up becuase of the "promise" that bailout talks will continue.

drewo

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:02:52 -0500

#7 wrote: Every day the market rebounds without a bail out, the more the politicians who are pushing this bill are exposed as the frauds and scare mongers they really are. No wonder they're in such a hurry to jam this down the country's throat. Funny how that works - somehow the market was up today. Politicians like to pretend they are needed and doing something important (on the taxpayers dollar naturally). It is rare that they are either.

Jesq

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:23:59 -0500

"We will get the job done. We will get it done this week. Hopefully, that will reassure the American people that Congress can rise to the occasion, act like grown-ups, if you will, and get the job done for all of our people.” WTF? What job? This is not a job for the Federal Government to do. Last time I checked, we weren't a socialist state. This is an issue that the douchbags on the hill need to butt-out of. You may be tricking some people into thinking that the economy can be patched up with a piece of legislature so that you can bury your earmarked garbage under a $700B pile, but the people who have any vague understanding of the issues here, have already voiced their opinion 10 to 1 that no plan should be passed. If the federal government were a bank, it would have already failed. Look at their track record for handling finances. Also, when in the history of world has a capitalist market slump ever been ended, or even shortened with a quick fix? Never. Why don't you take that $700B and pay down the Federal debt to China, instead.

ANGRYGOD11

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:15:56 -0500

For years this administration claimed danger and demanded your money, your freedom, your liberties, the blood of too many of our brave troops, your privacy and them refused to be held accountable for their actions and failures nor to present any alternative plans as WW3 is almost here. The chickens are coming home to roost.

ab_bklyn

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:59:41 -0500

Wow, what a picture. The years have not been kind to Dubya.

gossipgirl

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:41:01 -0500

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=186052&title=clusterf#@k-to-the-poor-house

contro

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:37:08 -0500

The people have spoken.

ides_of_march

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:34:43 -0500

Bi-partisanship in action: both parties are trying to rob you blind, Bush, Pelosi etc... My hat is off to the democrat and republican congress members who had the guts to vote down that ridiculous bail out. Every day the market rebounds without a bail out, the more the politicians who are pushing this bill are exposed as the frauds and scare mongers they really are. No wonder they're in such a hurry to jam this down the country's throat.

fakenewyorker

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:20:34 -0500

portrait of a man in way over his head.

blablanyc

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:20:15 -0500

There's this here movie coming out. http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=sg7vwicPx98&feature=related

drewo

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:15:07 -0500

He also added that the "nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the Office of Management and Budget expect that the legislation considered would ultimately cost the taxpayer far less than the $700 billion," because many assets the government would take over would recover and could be sold. This is the same guy who told us a few years ago about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the dire need to invade that country. What's the term? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...

Jen Chung

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:12:55 -0500

@matty--he was smiling (maybe about the market?).

matty

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:10:16 -0500

I think jen posted that picture of the trader on his looks alone.

PathToWisdom

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:06:09 -0500

Pass something ? Pass some poisonous gas like he always does. If a package will be agreed upon, it should not continue to hurt our future, and our descendent's future. Pass something is B.S. talk by a C+ president.