Dennis Kucinich: 'Racketeering On A Scale This Country Has Never Seen Before!'

[Wetzelbill]

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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Truth to power!

[Wetzelbill]

3. Always!

:toast:

[Idealism]

2. RICO anyone?

[Wetzelbill]

4. I feel that this sort of thing should fall under

that yes. In some way. Golden parachutes, all of that stuff should be examined for being put on the RICO chopping block.

[jeff30997]

26. I totally agree.

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations.Yep,they fit the definition of the RICO acronym.

[Popol Vuh]

35. Sorry, but, ain't going to happen

And don't expect Obama to lay any smack down on these folks. Obama will only be status quo. Status quo with a democrat flavor, but, status quo nonetheless. The powers at be have an agenda and Obama, like all others after Kennedy, will follow his orders.

Sorry but that is the reality of the world we live in. I am just saying so that you don't hold your breath.

[Waiting For Everyman]

43. That's like "there's nowhere else to go" in the movie THX1138.

Futilism is a defense of the guilty.

[Popol Vuh]

68. No, its more like understanding reality.

Accusations of futilism about an inconvenient truth is a defense for the delusional.

[99th_Monkey]

5. Self delete .. it finally works now. nt

[louis-t]

6. He was killing on C-SPAN today.

Couldn't stop watching. Even the repugs were smacking Cash and Carry down pretty hard.

[happydreams]

7. K&R! "This deal get's worse all the time" --Lando Calrissian mumbles....

"This deal get's worse all the time" --Lando Calrissian mumbles when he realizes Darth Vader isn't going to abide by their agreement. When he pushes the matter Vader replies:
"I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it further".

We all remember the scene sequence.
Darth Vader: You may take Captain Solo to Jabba the Hutt after I have Skywalker.
Boba Fett: He's no good to me dead.
Darth Vader: He will not be permanently damaged.
Lando Calrissian: Lord Vader, what about Leia and the Wookiee?
Darth Vader: They must never again leave this city.
Lando Calrissian: That was never a condition of our agreement, nor was giving Han to this bounty hunter!
Darth Vader: Perhaps you think you're being treated unfairly?
Lando Calrissian: No.
Darth Vader: Good. It would be unfortunate if I have to leave a garrison here.
Lando Calrissian: This deal is getting worse all the time.

Let's see, Kucinich's house is paint-balled...hmmmmm. What does this have to do with his recent move to investigate Treasury and associated banks for failure to hold up their end of the bargain in this ever so recently agreed upon bailout?

Coincidence theorists exit here.


Lets' face it. The bailout was a rip-off and a power grab by Bush. Bush and bankers went to Congress and told them Martial Law would be declared if they didn't sign it. Martial Law would be a hammerblow to Congressional power. Isn't there something in the law about nullifying a signature if it was made under duress? Of course Congress could reverse its decisions if the contract is breached. The inadvertant effects of the economic downturn before the elections was the sudden shift in support for Obama. Similar to the "Foley effect" in 2006 elections. The thugs couldn't get up to speed to rig the elections.

Now Kucinich is spearheading an effort to bring these thugs before Congress and the threats start.

Plain and simple: The banks want the bailout without the oversight, not just because regulation will crimp the all powerful "invisible hand of the market", :eyes: but because it will lead to following the money to all of the offshore accounts--could be trillions out there--which would lead to the anniliation of these dirty, fucking, slimey, sleazy, thieving, murdering, fascist pigs once and for all.

Maybe the US government could contract out to one of these tax havens to house the bastards in a GTMO type prison (they already approve of such things so they can't complain) and use such non-torture techniques as water boarding to find out where ALL the loot is. Sweet justice.

[madrchsod]

8. no one listened to dennis......

and i doubt barack will listen too

[Just-plain-Kathy]

55. I hope Obama listens, but I'm with you, I doubt he will. ...nt

[Phred42]

9. Thanks Dennis - Keep it UP!

[sabrina 1]

10. One of the few voices in Congress

that can be trusted.

Go Dennis! He is so ahead of his time.

Maybe some day, he will not be the unique voice he is today, but the norm where stupidity, greed and corruption are no longer considered to be 'cool' as they have been for far too long.

[wandathewitch]

59. Dennis Kucinich

I like him and hope that he will have the power to do something about this world that we are in. He is so strong. Mrs. Moose

[BootinUp]

11. I always listen to Dennis

because I think he has the right priorities.

[Joe Chi Minh]

12. Wow! Thank you again, Dennis.

The interviewer was quite courteous and cordial at the end of the interview, but I thought his introduction of Dennis quite peremptory, not even addressing him by his title as a Congressman, nor was it even on the legend identifying him that was shown straight afterwards. Inevitably, no reference was made to his membership of the Democratic congressional party, either.

I know the journalists' jobs are on the line and they essentially have to do what they're told, but the senior management will deserve everything waiting in the poliical pipeline for them. You expect Fox to try to margnalise Dennis in their transmissions, but CNN seem to have become more brutish of late. They were always as bent as a nine-bob watch, but kind of more subtle; incredible production values were more or less matched by a level of patrician urbanity. No longer, it seems.

[90-percent]

13. Like Keith says

"Mark my words, this news will be used to explain why daddy had to go to jail"

Not exactly as originally spoken, but that's Keith's intro to, usually, bail out related news.

-90% Jimmy

[fascisthunter]

14. The Wealthy Elite Have Orchestrated a Massive Rip-off

to those who actually believe these people do not know what they are doing, WAKE THE FUCK UP! Follow the money.... then tell me they didn't know what they were doing. Money doesn't just vanish into thin air...

[Golden Raisin]

36. Unless it's billions of dollars

weighing hundreds of tons, shrink-wrapped on pallets, during the Bremer Consulship in Iraq. Billions and billions just vanished into thin air. And shipped by us to a war zone! I'd say the current "bailout" has a lot of the same markings only it's more out in the open.

[Turborama]

45. Cosign. $23 billion! Have you seen these documentaries, yet?

Daylight Robbery - What Happened to the $23billion?
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=789547337385191959

Iraq for Sale - The War Profiteers
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7914117733846316477&hl=en

[ihavenobias]

15. K & R

[Eyerish]

16. K & R

[rms013]

17. Kucinich for Atty General

[Peggy Day]

32. yea I like that!! nt

[Myrina]

42. Is he a lawyer? I'd prefer him as Sec'y of LABOR

:hi:


:patriot: GO DK!! :patriot:

[RoccoR5955]

18. Kucinich/Sanders '12 Take Back America! n/t

[LatteLibertine]

19. I like Dennis a lot

I'd love to see him run again next time. I doubt the powers that be would make him the party candidate though. He'd offend too many of the corporate flunkies and the puppets of the lobbyists.

[barbtries]

40. you never can tell

history is full of improbabilities. in his upright authoritive way, always touching back on his constituents, mindful of the rule of law, well spoken and obviously intelligent. you just never know. dennis kucinich is a true american hero in my estimation, and with time and the story of what's going on with paulson and the banks and the markets...i mean i personally feel as if i am actually starting to "get it" with respect to the economic story playing out. people might wake up. they might. nothing is written in stone.

having said that, and i don't know how old kucinich is, i would think that he would not have any kind of shot at the presidency for at least 8 years. hopefully obama will do well enough to earn reelection.

[lib2DaBone]

20. Dennis is the real thing... he has been a fighter all his life....

This Neel Kashkari guy is a major CREEP! Bald Headed MF. Dennis is not going to let the Neocons pee on his leg and tell him it's raining....

[tclambert]

21. Once again, Bush put the money in at the wrong end.

Giving money directly to the big banks wasn't the right way to go. It should have gone to the little people, the ones struggling to make payments on predatory loans. If they can pay the loans, the loans are no longer bad, and the banks don't have to write them off as bad assets. In essence, it would rehabilitate the bad loans that started this whole sorry situation. The banks stay in business and people can stay in their homes. At the same time, laws should be put in place, not just regulations, to criminalize this type of loan-sharking. A federal limit on credit interest rates might be nice, too, while we're talking about loan-sharking.

If you give money to the banks, why would you expect them to pass it on to their customers? They're still going to foreclose on unpaid mortgages, throw people out of their homes, lose money trying to sell the foreclosed homes due to the glut on the housing market, and thereby further depress house prices. The bailout means the banks can survive those losses because they have a new source of revenue, the U.S. Treasury.

If you want to fix the mess Bush made of the economy you need to inject money at the bottom. It will find its way into the hands of the megacorporations and the rich, never fear. It will do a lot more good percolating through the system, though, than just going straight to the rich. And this is where the Bushites have been getting it wrong all along when they talk about stimulating the economy. They expect money to circulate if they inject it at the top. But it doesn't. It just pools there.

[Jim Sagle]

56. Pssttt...they know all that. (And I'm sure you know they know.)

That's why they did it...just one more swing of the club against the face of democracy. It was armed robbery plain and simple.

They know better than to expect money to percolate downward. They basically just said, "Congress, give us all the people's money or we'll kill you."

[Muttocracy]

22. K&R - I'm a little behind on all this news, but what I heard made me say "bait and switch" too. nt

[BlueJac]

23. Bush and his master plan

to ruin America and the middle class. These people are absolute criminals and need serious jail time. That would be being kind to these economic terrorists. Bin Laden has nothing on Bush and his terrorist clan. Fuck them all!!! Time for justice!!!

[NikolaC]

24. Typical Dennis

Right again! Even though he has had a trying year personally, he did not let it slow him down. He, just like some of us here, saw TARP for the scam that it is (racketeering anyone?). I hope that something is done about it soon.

[Sunnyshine]

25. K&R this truth all day and night.

Thank you Rep. Dennis Kucinich!

[jeff30997]

27. K&R

What a great man.One of the few politicians that I truly respect and trust.

[gtar100]

28. K&R

[AnOhioan]

29. K&R

[orleans]

30. thank you dennis. help us dennis! k&r n/t

[Peggy Day]

31. Does anyone else think that Cash and Carry looks crazy?

His eyes are scary. Dennis really let him have it. \
I love c-span. Forget the spin.

[Granny M]

34. Just said the same thing to my DH.

The guy looks like a thug.

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[jeanmarc]

37. disgusting

I am disgusted that even at the end, with a real crisis, these assholes continue to behave in either a partisan way, or a money greed way.

And I will be disgusted with our own leaders if they continue to let this happen. I've seen the video quips, but I really want to see results. Something I can sink my teeth into.

And what I mean by that, is bringing people up on charges. Depleting their funds under the RICO act. Make an example of these assholes. This is really disgusting conduct. Hell, I'd love to be a possible recipient of such funds.

[april]

38. you said it ! could not agree w/ u more!

[barbtries]

39. this is a crucial issue

but let's go to commercial and cut you short.

on a more upbeat note, i love dennis kucinich. the whole hearing is online at cspan, i recommend it. an entire nation of 300 million people being robbed. amazing times these.

[kcass1954]

41. K & R for Dennis - speaking the truth as always!

[L0oniX]

44. Kucinich 2012

We may end up being very sorry we didn't elect him!

[wundermaus]

46. I sure do hope Obama finds a powerful place for Dennis...

Talk about a pitbull for justice... now that's a pitbull!

[Kaleko]

48. Seconded.

[OwnedByFerrets]

49. Unfortunately, it will never happen....DK speaks truth to power too much

for it to be comfortable for the Washington elite....of which our man BO is now one of. Sad, but true.

[wandathewitch]

60. I want Dennis to have a chance....

I also hope Obama will find a place of power for Dennis. He is a smart and strong man. Mrs. Moose

[SlowDownFast]

47. Kick and Rec'd.

:grr:

This bailout shit, and congress' lack of oversight and spine has me fuming. How could they not know/surmise that:

1.) The financial institutions were the ones who created this mess in the first place.

2.) A bailout of financial institutions wouldn't work anyway.

3.) The same dishonest financial institutions who created this problem would just launder/hoard any taxpayer money given to them.

Makes me seriously wonder if even our Democratic leaders are complicit.

edit:

Thanks for speaking the truth Dennis. Too bad no one else in congress will listen or do anything about it, as many of them are on Wall Street's payroll.

[pretzel4gore]

50. amerika gets what it wants; needs..

lookit. reagan was a front for conmen who hated the liberal democracy known as the USA, yet regan is hero to millions of stalwart citizens, ex marine/army toughs, who fear/hate communism, socialism etc and who believe regan (bush1, junyer, mccain etc) represent the good ole USA! USA! USA! can-do philosophy, but that was a CON! A fraud! Nixon was FIRED 11 years after JFK was murdered! Yet only 6 years after nixon, Reagan somehow got paid for 8 years in office SHITTING like a cow in the field? And oldbush gets 4 years and now junyer bush shits on us for another 8! (clinton actually tried to run the thing well, though he compromised with the fraudsters; and lettem prosper mightily, thank you big dawg) ....john mccain and sarah palin wanted to go to white house so they could SHIT, just like junyer bush has been doing for 8 long years. That's what rightwingers do. They SHIT on the world and wipe themselves with the flag. That's ALL they do. That's all they capable of. And meanwhile thieves rifle the cash register. And despite that, the righties are applauded for it by so called patriots like too many vets who cannot see the trees for the forest of their own prejudice and ignorance....
It all adds up, in a nasty, brutish and short sorta way....

[Wizard777]

51. We've seen rackteering on this level before. We call it the insurance industry.

That's basically a legalized Ponzi Scheme. If Payouts exceed income. Their only way out of the hole is to sell more shares (insurance policies) of the pyramid scheme. At the end of the fiscal year. They guy at the top of the pyramid (CEO)takes the money and runs.

[antimatter98]

52. We as a nation do not grasp this looting going on

under Paulson and BushCo.

This is the most serious theft ever, and the problem is, the
public is clueless as to what it means, today and in the future.

Paulson and the banks and Wall Street are raping the United States
of America.

This is typically what happens when a Third World Country is looted
by its rulers on their way out of power, or in the case of
Zimbabwe or Nigera, it happens while they are in power. We are
a hybird.

Obama cannot stop this, BUT: Congress could have--but Pelosi and Reid
laid back and enabled it to happen.

It will be a generation before most people realize the significance
of what Bush/Paulson have done, with the help of Pelosi and Reid.

The key is: those of us who witnessed this financial rape, will be either dead
or living in cardboard boxes and the youth will not realize or know what
happened. Generations die out and this is what Bush, Paulson's friends,
and our alleged Democratic Congress are counting on--- the ones who died
in Rwanda's genocide could not protest, could they?

I don't believe I'm overstating this-- the United States is being looted.

[Greyhound]

53. We must never negotiate with terrorists, it only results in more terrorism.

That is what we are seeing (as predicted by more than a couple of us during the great DU panic) nothing less than an industry blackmailing our nation.

Where do you stand?
:kick: & R

[pberq]

54. Kick & Nominated

Will Obama listen to Kucinich?

[suzie]

63. Hopefully not.

[hangman86]

57. can we get a couple hundred other Congressmen like him?

[suzie]

64. Hopefully not.

Unless it'd be a good thing to have a couple hundred congressmen who spent their time playing at running for president during half their time in Congress.

[hangman86]

65. I was referring to his ability to stand up to powerful individuals

and speak the truth when many others in Congress are afraid to out of fear of angering their lobbyist friends. If you wish I'll change my statement to "can we get a couple hundred other Congressmen, who won't run for President,like him.

Still, I think we're getting off track. Even with his time running for President I think he's stood up for what's right numerous more times than a majority of the bought politicians in Congress.

[jellen]

58. racketeering

I have always agreed with Kucinich on everything. I just wonder how he gets elected all the time when democrats have to fight so hard for votes in ohio.

[sandyd921]

61. Dennis is a real hero!

:loveya:

[lovuian]

62. Kucinich knows that this country has had its peoples

future stolen from it

[politicoFOsho]

66. DK is my favorite elf ever!

Give 'em hell, Dennis.

[JoaquinD]

67. BUT WHAT WILL COME OF THIS?

Dennis and the others skewered Paulson and his aids...but what will happen as a result? Is this all talk or a good verbal spanking? Or will there be a watchdog committee auditing those bastards like AIG and reporting back the results? If this is just a congressional tongue lashing then it's useless. AIG and other greedy corporate fucks are still going to get money and don't tell me they are not going to use their junkets or live extravagantly. I want to know: WILL SOMETHING CONCRETE COME OUT OF THIS!