"Thirty-Two Words That None Dare Utter"

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/22/dirty-secret-of-the-bailo_n_128294.html


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


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Share Print CommentsA critical - and radical - component of the bailout package proposed by the Bush administration has thus far failed to garner the serious attention of anyone in the press. Section 8 (which ironically reminds one of the popular name of the portion of the 1937 Housing Act that paved the way for subsidized affordable housing ) of this legislation is just a single sentence of thirty-two words, but it represents a significant consolidation of power and an abdication of oversight authority that's so flat-out astounding that it ought to set one's hair on fire. It reads, in its entirety:

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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.
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[wtmusic]

1. "may not be reviewed by any court of law" is so unconstitutional

it's laughable.

Not that that matters anymore. :crazy:

[pinto]

2. Right to the point. That is really disturbing.

[Warpy]

3. Anyone who votes for this dog the way it is worded

should be taken out and shot for treason.

That's how bad it is.

We do need the bailout. We also need to fund it by a surtax on the highest incomes.

[Ian David]

4. It's the same law that Hitler passed to enrich HIS chronies. n/t

[TNOE]

10. Details please?

[Ian David]

11. Bill Press was talking about it this morning.

It's probably in the show archive by now.

[opihimoimoi]

5. Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Moussolini, Idi Amin, King Louis, etc etc all said basically the same

We don't Learn much do we?

[dhpgetsit]

6. As they put it in the old Pace Salsa commercial...

"Get a rope."

The Bush administration needs to face some kind of justice.

[Beregond2]

7. Uh, both Rachel and Keith read it in full last night on their shows.

And I have read numerous editorials on the topic. It's getting LOTS of attention.

[nichomachus]

8. We have had eight years

of a president who signs every law with a statement that it doesn't apply to him.

And impeachment is still off the table.

[dipsydoodle]

9. I dare

"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.

Anybody who agrees to that is a mug."