Cheney, Paulson Head to Hill to Soothe Lawmakers on Bailout

[maddezmom]

Source: Fox News

Cheney, Paulson Head to Hill to Soothe Lawmakers on Bailout
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

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WASHINGTON — The White House is dispatching Vice President Dick Cheney to Capitol Hill Tuesday morning to help shore up support for the financial bailout of Wall Street.

Elsewhere in Congress, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, the architects of the bailout, will testify before the Senate Banking Committee about the rescue and its cost to taxpayers.

House conservatives are seething about the "big government" approach that they say President Bush is taking in the financial crisis. They don't like how much power it cedes to the Treasury or the price tag.

"(Cheney) is going to walk into a firing squad. I hope he brought his hunting rifle," an aide to one House conservative told FOX News.

Meanwhile, the Republican Study Committee has crafted some possible "fixes" to the plan drawn up over the weekend by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,426232,00.html

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A headline only for FOX...Cheney and soothe in the same headline. :eyes:

[Solly Mack]

1. strong-arm time

Cheney's going to shoot Congress in the face and make them apologize for it.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. Aka the Whittington Gambit.

[Solly Mack]

10. Yep. Please, Sir. Can I have another?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. -

[Solly Mack]

15. Oh my. Teach'em young to just take it and ask for more.

(love it)

[midnight]

39. That's what I was thinking too.

[liberal N proud]

2. Time to roll out the threats

Watch Congress roll over like puppies

[ixion]

3. Darth Cheney's presence should be a red flag the size of the Great North Woods

but will, no doubt, be overlooked by the lapdog congress. :grr:

[stubtoe]

27. Kiss of death - he only comes around when his interests are at stake.

Darth makes me very, very nervous.

[gblady]

4. other than writing our congress peoples

is there anything we can do???
I feel like a huge steamroller is comin' down the pike...
and I feel helpless to stop it...

[Karenina]

26. Several million with torches and pitchforks

swarming the grounds just might do the trick!

[Voice for Peace]

30. I like this suggestion. I will bring a torch.

[Roland99]

5. Paulson/Bernanke before the Senate - 9:30am - C-SPAN 3

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN3_wm.aspx

[angstlessk]

6. cheney alone knows where ALL the bodies are burried and he is going

to cajole and threaten to unearth the bodies if the congress does not go along with his plan to steal the balance of the treasury. :grr:

[RedLetterRev]

29. Y'know? Seems to me that's a two-way street

and there's bound to be more than a few who know where his bodies are buried, too. Y'eat enough shit-sandwiches and after a while y'know what? they start to taste like shit. Congress has had a bellyful; there's no more re-electing either li'l boots or Darth. If they don't get this bill through, they're toast and they know it. It might cost a few senators their careers, but if it were me, seeing the neoKKKons' nuts in a vise, it would be mighty, mighty, mighty tempting to nail a life-long tormenter just because I could, even at a price.

I know something about being tormented and bullied. I'm not a vindictive person... but there are plenty of republics in Congress who are.

Just thinkin' out loud. Maybe wishful, but odds are there are probably a few who are thinking, "Darth, you sumbitch, your profiteering is costing me reelection because my constituents are pissed. See how you like the stink of what's coming..."

[shadowknows69]

7. Cheney and soothe are two words that never belong together

It's time for the old Luka Brazzi "soothing" for Congress.

[shanti]

28. exactly!

[Barrett808]

33. By "soothe," they mean "waterboard." n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Is there a better way to alienate legislators than dragging Cheney along?

Isn't one of the key stumbling blocks the threat of unaccountable government? Why bring in the poster boy for unaccountable government? Jeez. It's like they want the package to fall apart.

[rateyes]

11. I know how Cheney is going to soothe the conservatives in Congress...

He's going to spread Preparation-H on those hemorrhoids.

[radfringe]

12. is cheney packing today? BLAM! BLAM!

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! Sign off on it or you all get it!!!!

[eowyn_of_rohan]

18. he should turn it on himself

oops, just kidding :hide:

[radfringe]

21. get mccain in there with him

"READY FIRE AIM"

[eowyn_of_rohan]

22. & Phil Gramm, and James Baker, and Paulson, and etc., and

the li'l Caligula himself

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

13. "This will go much smoother if we let Halliburton handle the disbursements..."

[madmom]

16. Cheney to brow beat congress.....

[CitizenPatriot]

17. do you ever feel like maybe

you've seen this movie before?

I don't see a whole lot of difference, save scale, between the abuses and power tricks Bush/cheney/rove et al use and the ones used on a macro level relationship (abusive partner, for example). In fact, I used to volunteer at a shelter and we passed out a pamphlet to women about the many pieces of the abuse pie. In order to maintain control, an abusive partner might dominate her physically, threaten her financially, cut her off from allies and support emotionally...You can see where I'm going here.

As horrible as all of this is, every once in a while I see one of these losers as one of those losers. Big roar, lots of threats and the intent to follow through if they don't get what they want. Dangerous, but not smart.

I don't know why I felt like making this observation; except that the feeling of powerlessness I hear often and feel myself reminds me of those women in the shelter. But one day, if they took their power back in time, there would be a shift and even though they knew the monster was dangerous, they were free because they saw his actions for what they were. Deliberate attempts at gaining and maintaining control.

Another reason I was thinking about this was the negotiations going on right now. One of the key signs of an abuser was right after the abuse, they abuser would say let's figure this out. e.g., "I blew up because I'm so stressed over lack of money." Woman pitches in to "help" him not get angry anymore, by spending less and working more. The result of his temper outburst and bad behavior? He gets more things his way.

Kind of like when you deregulate Wall Street and then tell everyone you need more power to make it right.

The power and control wheel they used to show how the abuser uses all of those things (money, physical power, intimidation, alienation) to maintain control. They taught us that abuse is much like the same techniques used with POWs and other large militaristic attempts at control, so it makes sense that I'm recognizing many of these techniques.

[llmart]

35. I see the correlation also....

and there is no doubt about it that people like Cheney are narcissistic abusers. They just operate on a bigger playing field than a marriage. Narcissistic people rise to the top in organizations because of their cunning and controlling ways.

[ShortnFiery]

43. Four words: Right Wing Corporate Duopoly

:grr: :nuke:

[formercia]

19. Soothe as in foreplay

just before they fuck us.

[Voice for Peace]

31. well said.

[formercia]

32. Greta Garbo said it well:

"I want to be alone...."

That's her in the pic.

[Hugin]

20. Is 'soothe' the new 'blast them in the face with bird shot'?

Why didn't I get the Memo? Damnit... I'm so out-of-the-loop. Oh, you kids and your slang. :eyes:

[smiley_glad_hands]

23. If cheney is throwing his weight behind this plan, now I know i don't like it. n/t

[Virginia Dare]

34. Dispatched by the corporate oligarchs to protect their golden parachutes..

there is as much at stake here as there ever has been in this country.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

24. fucking cheney comes out of his bunker.....we're screwed if they pass this

[Odin2005]

25. Pelosi to Cheney: "Take this gavel and shove it up your ass" n/t

[ryanmuegge]

37. Yeah, right. That would take courage.

[ShortnFiery]

41. Just like "Impeachment is off of the table" she'll sigh and promise oversight, then

I fear, fold like a cheap pantsuit. :(

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

46. Is that her way of telling Cheney

to go fuck himself?

[Supersedeas]

36. rubbing....twisting elbows of any wayward Repigs....Liddy Dole and Richard Burr shape up

[maddezmom]

38. UPDATE:Cheney Tries To Sway House Republicans On Treasury Plan

(Updates with quotes from Rep. Hensarling)

By Patrick Yoest

Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials Tuesday tried to convince skeptical House Republicans a growing financial crisis would reverberate beyond Wall Street if a $700 billion Treasury Department proposal to buy up troubled mortgage-based assets isn't adopted.

Cheney didn't comment as he left the meeting with House Republicans, but members said his focus was on presenting the administration's plan as an attempt to keep growing unrest in the markets from affecting their constituents.

"The main purpose, the political purpose, was to show Republicans that it's not just Wall Street, it's Main Street," said Rep. Peter T. King, R-N.Y., a member of the House Financial Services Committee. King said representatives from the Federal Reserve and the White House Council of Economic Advisers also attended the meeting.

House Republican leaders, several of whom expressed displeasure with the administration's bailout of American International Group Inc. (AIG), now are faced with the task of convincing rank-and-file members to get behind the Treasury proposal.

more:http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20080923%5cACQDJON200809231357DOWJONESDJONLINE000551.htm&&mypage=newsheadlines&title=UPDATE:Cheney%20Tries%20To%20Sway%20House%20Republicans%20On%20Treasury%20Plan

[ShortnFiery]

40. NO HURRY Congress. Dammit, don't you rush giving OUR MONEY away.

:grr:

[FVZA_Colonel]

42. Oh Good, Dick Cheney is on the Case!

I can rest easy now!

[maddezmom]

44. looks like he got shot down

House GOP rises up against Cheney
There was a time when Dick Cheney could turn back a Republican revolt on Capitol Hill.
That time is gone.

~snip~

Some Republicans at Tuesday’s meeting suggested Cheney, White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and economic policy adviser Keith Hennessey didn’t help their case.

“They were in worse shape when they left than when they came in,” said one lawmaker who was there. “These were the wrong guys…The problem is that they’ve used up a lot of good will.”

Cheney and the White House team made policy arguments for the proposal instead of political arguments that would help lawmakers explain a vote for the plan to voters in their districts. The meeting was almost an hour old when the vice president told the anxious Republicans, in response to a question, that failure to pass this would result in more foreclosures and cause grave hardship for their constituents.

Hennesey and Bolten – who shares a Goldman Sachs pedigree with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson –faced a number of tough questions about why the $700 billion bailout was necessary, how it would actually work and why this particular plan was the best response to the current crisis, according to notes circulated from the meeting.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4068765&mesg_id=4068765

[struggle4progress]

45. “... in worse shape when they left ... the wrong guys ... used up a lot of good will ...&#8221...

I suppose it would just be rude to say that any halfwit could have predicted that outcome

:rofl:

[FVZA_Colonel]

47. Things like that only make me fear this Repug opposition is some sort of new October Surprise.

But given the Democrat's opposition to the Bush/Paulson plan, and Obama's increasing anger over it (as witnessed by previous statement's and his impropto "presser" today), I think they can handle this.