"We're Afraid You'll Be Afraid If We Say What Paulson Said"

[wundermaus]

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On This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Senator Chris Dodd and Representative John Boehner sweat it out on camera, trying to sell a $700 BILLION bailout that includes saving foreign banks, no oversight or administration of the Bush administration, gives complete autonomy and authority to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and nothing for the U.S. taxpayers and homeowners going bankrupt and losing their homes. 9/21/08

[BlooInBloo]

1. Taxation without representation. FUCK THEM!

[bjobotts]

22. They won't even listen to what we have to say.Let me talk to Paulson

I bet I could get a better deal for the people than these bought and sold congressmen who take their orders from the lobbyists.

[bjobotts]

23. 8yrs to wreck our nation. I would get rid of them all.Most of us had nothing to do with Wall street.

[barbtries]

2. fuck them

any republican saying "rise above partisan politics" can eat shit. and as far as i'm concerned they may as well let the bill die before giving the kind of power to one republican the way it's designed. it stinks to high heaven, no fucking way.

[DrDan]

3. I saw that on George this morning

these bastards!!!!

They are ALL complicit.

They do not want the truth to come out.

The whole group of felons - on both sides - needs to go.

[trthnd4jstc]

4. I like Sen. Dodd much better than Rep. Boehner.

Rep. Boehner has hurt my feelings by his repeated attacks against liberals. He is an anti-American. Being Liberal, is the ability to believe that government should not tell you how to live your life or thank A$$hole Boehner. I am a liberal. I am an American. Your attacks against liberals in the past, has ruined any esteem that I am capable of having for you. I hope that when you meet your judgement you can receive mercy for your attacks against your fellow Americans.

[IndyOp]

5. GROW UP CHRIS DODD AND JOHN BOEHNER. We can't say "IT" aloud - it will scare the children

We are well past sick of you and the way you use fear to control us and the way you patronize us to keep right on going down the wrong track - you believed the fearmongers who talked you into the Iraq War and a million Iraqis are dead.

Grow up. Now. Speak the truth. And don't do a damn thing about a bailout until the mud settles and the water is clear.

How about a little courage, eh?

[shadowknows69]

7. We have a fucking right to know what he said!

[Mojorabbit]

6. George tried to pry info out of them

but only got vague answers. I want it all laid out.

[avaistheone1]

36. I am not a big Stephanopoulos fan, but I think he did a good job not only with his questions, but

his followup questions.

[Naturalist]

8. Bull you know what!

Look if this is truly about Businesses and Future Homeowners being able to get loans then Start a new agency that will loan the money to those who need it if they qualify instead of giving it to Businesses that have managed poorly. Since we now own Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac why not make Fannie Mae for homes and Freddie Mac for businesses and those two use the TRILLION DOLLARS for loans. No BAILOUTS for Businesses. Loans Yes Bailouts NO if they qualify!!!!!!!. BAILOUT HOMEOWNERS that need the help if they qualify ONLY. You got to think faster than these crooks people!!!!

[Naturalist]

9. DO DEMOCRATS GET IT?

I would like to point out first, that the Republican Mantra has always been privatizing social security. Investing in the Stock Market is a Gamble, always has been, and some people lost everything in 1929. This is why I never invest in the Stock Market and why I have opposed privatizing Social Security. What is happening right now, is their plans have failed miserably. They are scrambling to get money to help keep it propped up so it doesn't fall. Another Mantra they have is Ownership Society, which is another way of saying your on your own. They don't like Social Security and Welfare becuase it helps people not Corporations. If your a Democrat that has invested in the Stock Market you should be ashamed of yourself. I know a lot of you have. You have been proping up the only thing that backs all their Mantras. Without it they have nothing. I for one, aggresively oppose helping out the Stock Market. I don't have any pity what so ever for Gamblers. You loose your money too bad. I however, do have pity for Corporations that I am working for, provided that they have listened to at least some of my suggestions. If they have not listened at all, well, then why should I have pitty for them? I have worked for many Companies that I warned them about what they were doing. They are no longer in business. Same goes for any neighbor that doesn't seem to get it. If it's a neighbor that him or his wife has gone through some medical problems or have lost a job but are aggresively looking for another and have taken that minimun wage job while looking for something better then YES I do have pity for them and would like to help. That is Democrat!

[UK populist]

10. This is only a worldwide problem because the US banks lied

They rated high risk loans as AAA credit rated securities.
Foreign institutions only bought them on that condition so basically they have been playing the biggest worldwide scam for the best part of a decade and now it is blowing up in the faces of everyone after most of them have taken their money and run.
The US government has watched and let this happen so unfortunately you US citizens are going to have to foot the price for the actions of your gov't and banks if you want to even think about any other countries bank wanting to deal with you again. That means that any bailout will have to cover all the Foreign investors before you even thinks about yourselves. I know you might find this hard to take but you helped make it by electing a bunch of crooks.

[Naturalist]

12. HOLY CRAP

THAT IS ALL I CAN SAY AT THE MOMENT.

[leftchick]

14. but we didn't elect them!

they fucking stole the elections! :argh:

[davidwparker]

20. but where was the protest of the American people after the elections were

stolen. (I'm not talking about on this board.)

[UK populist]

29. spot on. Westerners do not give their lives for their convictions

Just to start I am the same here in the UK. When you look the at the Ecuadoreans and Venezuelans or the polish or even many egyptians, Saudis and Chinese they actually put there life on the line day after day to protect or fight for their right to freedom. You in the US more than any other nation have given up everything your nation is meant to stand for because you think you still have a democratic process even though you know deep down you don't. We have become soft living in our lovely little future bubbles and trapped in the financial debt bubbles. The so called ownership society is as much about owning your own house as it is about being controlled through fear of loosing that very house you have your family in. If Obama wins do you think he going to take on the Military industrial complex, I don't because he will end up dead and I imagine some of you can relate to that thought.
Do you think he is going to take on Wall street while he needs them for the money to run again and the fact that he has Rubin as his main financial adviser who pushed just as hard for the end of the very regulations that have caused your current financial mess.

[Mithreal]

31. We know we have problems.

Are you hear to satisfy some desire of pointing it out to those of us who know or to rub salt in our wounds? Maybe you mean well, but damn.

[leftchick]

32. oh yes indeed there were protests

In DC on the faux inauguration day 2001, NEVER shown on TV networks. So it apparently never happened.

:(

[Mithreal]

28. The US is no longer a democracy? We didn't elect them, those were coupes.

The American people are to blame for not doing everything they could to fight this menace, sure, and we did not elect Bush either time. The elections are being stolen pure and simple. Never mind the middle class here gave everything to our allies in the past and now our allies either cheer us on in an illegal war or sit quietly on the sidelines. Or, am I wrong?

Foreign investors be damned. But you will be bailed out.

[liberal N proud]

11. Why is it that every time the republican screw the American people

We need to put partisan politics aside?

[Naturalist]

13. Not this time

Any and all who are part of this mess needs to be in jail. The world will expect that.

[Pete2069]

15. Looks like Bush and the republicans accomplish what Bin Laden

could not or any other terrorist.  No wonder Bush did not
would to capture Bin Laden while he was screwing Americans.  

Where is the share of help from the people that stole our
money and ran ,,,, like Bush Sr. --- Halliburton --- Exxon ---
 War contractors  --- Blackwater --- Cheney --- Rumsfeld --
and the entire Bush friends in the administration.....

Destroy our economy , democracy , freedom , jobs ,
infrastructure and our military..

Great Job Brownie..

[bjobotts]

16. If Boehner is for it(he'd sale his mother ) then something is wrong with it.

[bjobotts]

17. Act fast before anyone can question what we're doing????

[bjobotts]

19. It can all wait 40 days. Put interest payments on hold...pause and reflect

[bjobotts]

21. We are being sold a bill of goods...down the river. They are congress people not experts.

[avaistheone1]

35. This problem wasn't created overnight. The Senate should not rush to a solution in a matter of days

[davidwparker]

18. and what boondoggle did Chris Dodd get on his mortgage?

[davidwparker]

24. let's see what is part of the bi-partisan plan to screw us over. let it all come

down. and, get out the guillotine. start with the Democratic leadership before going after the 'cons.

[Tutonic]

25. Somebody get Chris Dodd a bag to breath into--he sounds like

he isgoing to pass out if Paulson doesn't get to screw the public. Get a backbone Dems. This is our children's future that you're giving over to wallstreet. P.S. Check out Paulson's background. Understand it now?

[lilyannerose]

26. They Want $700 Billion Dollars

And don't want to explain the ifs, ands and wheres? Bull shit!

[iconicgnom]

27. Sounds familiar. Some people get suckered ALL the time.

[debbierlus]

30. You think we AREN'T ALREADY scared shitless, why then hell have we been screaming for impeachment

?!

Man, what a fucking moronic comment.

[whistle]

33. Boehner sleaze-balling the taxpayer I can understand, but Chris Dodd

...a democrat bending over and taking it up the Hershey trail for these slime mold republicans and Wall Street investment bankers who won't take responsibility for their gambling bets while average Americans are thrown under the financial bus, that makes me want to throw up :puke:

[Plucketeer]

34. Fuck these epicurian asses

If I fuck up my finances, which of them will come to my rescue? This is buffoonery.

[specialed]

37. Bull Crap!

I hate boogie man politics.

[CJCRANE]

38. Did he say

we need to prevent "a smoking gun in the shape of a mushroom cloud"?

:shrug:

Oh I forgot, that was the so-called imminent threat from Saddam's WMD. Snap out of it Dodd.