Quote of the day
posted at 10:40 pm on September 24, 2008 by Allahpundit
“It’s especially disconcerting to see the very people who pilloried me during the Presidential campaign for being a ‘populist’ and not ‘understanding Wall Street’ to now line up like thirsty dogs at the Washington, D. C. water dish, otherwise known as Congress, and plead for help. I thought these guys were the smartest people in America! I thought that taxpayers like you and I were similar to the people at the U. N. who have no translator speaking into their headset – that we just needed to trust those that I called the power bunch in the ‘Wall Street to Washington axis of power.’
The idea of a government bailout in which we’d entrust $700 billion to one man without Congressional oversight or accountability is absurd. My party or not, that is insanity and I believe unconstitutional.”
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The Huckster is right.
digitalintrigue on September 24, 2008 at 10:41 PM
You don’t say.
bloggless on September 24, 2008 at 10:42 PM
Sounds a lot like what Ron Paul said earlier today.
VinnyL on September 24, 2008 at 10:43 PM
For once, I agree with Huckahu Akbar.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on September 24, 2008 at 10:43 PM
The BO couldn’t even speak from the heart today. He actually had to read his speech from notes!!!! If that doesn’t speak volumes, I don’t what does!!! I hope Americans can see him for what he is. And anytime he deviated from his written word, he ummmed and uhhhhhed like a cow pissing on a flat rock.
bloggless on September 24, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Heh. Well, we didn’t like your populism in the primaries, and we don’t really like McCain’s populism now. But unlike the primaries, the other option now is socialism. So… yeah.
BadgerHawk on September 24, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Bitter? Naw, not Huckabee.
Dorvillian on September 24, 2008 at 10:44 PM
The world has gone crazy when I find myself agreeing with Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee.
JPK on September 24, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Second Look at
/nah
RushBaby on September 24, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Huckleberry Hound is blaming the wrong crowd. It’s Barney Frank, Dodd, Schumer and co. that should take ownership of this.
bloggless on September 24, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Huckabee, thank you for that. This is a ridiculous amount of money for one man to control without oversight. Let the markets fix it on their own. Capitalism works!
jencab on September 24, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Well I agree with Huck.
Paulson said today in testimony that he didn’t want that power exclusively, which I too think is unconstitutional. That raises the question – then why was that the language then?
Spirit of 1776 on September 24, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Well, I’ll give him credit for not fallling into full-scale Mitt-bashing this time.
fiatboomer on September 24, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Gotta hand it to Huck.
Well played.
Purple Fury on September 24, 2008 at 10:46 PM
I hate to say it sure seems like he was right.
DVPTexFla on September 24, 2008 at 10:47 PM
I still think Huck would have made a lousy president.
Getting one right puts him about even with Ron Paul.
MrScribbler on September 24, 2008 at 10:47 PM
Someones stomping their heels at home and it aint Mrs. Huckabee…
Cardiganfox on September 24, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Everyone is going to be against this..
Everyone will be trying to raise money from this..
This deal is a loser, The Democrats Caused it THAT NEEDS TO BE POINTED OUT!
The Democrats Stopped S. 190 [109th]: Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, Co-Sponsored by John McCain Voted on By All Republicans and Voted AGAINST by ALL DEMOCRATS!
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109-190
Chakra Hammer on September 24, 2008 at 10:49 PM
I dunno … still seems to be all about Mike. Easy to armchair quarterback — harder to come up with real methods of providing short- and long-term solutions that will keep our economy from totally destructing. Funny, I don’t see Mitt out there whining about being pilloried, on his pac – nope, just supporting conservatives over there, so we can try to prevent an Obama presidency, and the economic ruin that promises to come with it.
eucher on September 24, 2008 at 10:51 PM
His name is Henry Paulson.
His name is Henry Paulson.
His name is Henry Paulson.
His name is Henry Paulson.
His name is Henry Paulson.
V15J on September 24, 2008 at 10:52 PM
It’s all about the Huckster. Just ask him.
Lynn2008 on September 24, 2008 at 10:52 PM
I thought that taxpayers like you and I were similar to the people at the U.N. who have no translator speaking into their headset …
Don’t wait for the translation Mr. Johnson, answer the question!
Tony737 on September 24, 2008 at 10:53 PM
We should have went with Huck… Rollins > Schmidt/Davis and Palin would have done better with Huck too… there’s no way Huck would have made a mess of the campaign like Team McCain has done thus far… he would have done a much better job with Palin and probably wouldn’t have surrounded her with Team Bush people..
ninjapirate on September 24, 2008 at 10:53 PM
That’s Doctor McCoy isn’t it?
From Star Trek: Undiscovered Country
(Which was, BTW the second best star trek movie :P)
lorien1973 on September 24, 2008 at 10:54 PM
JPK on September 24, 2008 at 10:45 PM
I second that.
tee866 on September 24, 2008 at 10:56 PM
The Huckster nails it. Too much power with one dude. No bail – just no capital gains tax for 2 years and let the party begin.
Mojave Mark on September 24, 2008 at 10:57 PM
I like this quote better:
eucher on September 24, 2008 at 10:57 PM
Huck is correct.
carbon_footprint on September 24, 2008 at 10:58 PM
Huckster should’ve ran for Senate seat in Arkansas
jp on September 24, 2008 at 10:58 PM
That’s Doctor McCoy isn’t it? – Lorien
I was going for the Adalai (sp?) Stevenson U.N. fight with the Soviets during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Tony737 on September 24, 2008 at 11:00 PM
I would take Biden over Huck. What an opportunistic jackass and fool.
How come you dont see Romney find a microphone saying “you know, I told you during the election that I knew how these things work”.
Answer: Because unlike Huck, Romney isnt an a$$hole.
Roger Waters on September 24, 2008 at 11:00 PM
I do like the Fair Tax.
jimmy the notable on September 24, 2008 at 11:01 PM
I’m for…
1. limit the Bail out $700B is to Much (make it at least 1/2)
2. Slash Corporate Tax, Capital Gains tax this would increase investments from home and abroad creating more jobs and more businesses, and increase revenues
3. all in energy policy, this would increase jobs at home, both from actual workers doing the exploration and drilling, all the way to the people building the oil rigs, windmills, to the people mining the Taconite, to the people in the steel mills creating the steel, to the people on the stock market investing in all these markets.
4. The American people can turn this bad news into a a great recovery and a huge job, and economic boom IF we can get the Congress to work together.
Chakra Hammer on September 24, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Insanity is what seems to run the country. From political correctness to open borders to bailing out all the crooks on wall street. Unlike the people on Wall Street I can live within my means and live up to all my obligations. It is a little bit ironic that the very people who look down on me for being a little guy, not want my money to bail out their criminal excesses and lifestyles. Who’s the little guy now. I say “not one penny to these guys”. Also there needs to be some serious criminal inditments.
Tommy_G on September 24, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Even Elizabeth Dole said this isn’t constitutional.
SouthernGent on September 24, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Broken clock is right twice a day. Just like Ron Paul.
MadisonConservative on September 24, 2008 at 11:07 PM
eucher on September 24, 2008 at 10:57 PM
Great link thanks,I’ve been saying that for years.
tee866 on September 24, 2008 at 11:07 PM
I put a lot of faith in Mark Levin’s opinion and he is deeply against it.
carbon_footprint on September 24, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Boy Bush and McCain could run a major hustle on Obama, before he leaves town. Bush could call a joint press conference with the three of them, and when a tough question on the economy comes along he could say, “Barry, you went to Yale. Why don’t you take that one.” “Uuuuuhhhh.” “Ok John, go ahead, help him out.” McCain could surely fake it better than the Obamensch. Sucker!!!
smellthecoffee on September 24, 2008 at 11:08 PM
Maybe the world really is coming to an end…
The media have gone from bias to voluntary, KGB-like representatives, one of the most corrupt, most worthless pieces of crap to every breathe Washington air is leading polls in a Presidential race and, in the same week, both Huck and Ron Paul have legitimate “I told ya so”‘s about the economy.
Would someone more familiar with the Book of Revelations or Nostradamus tell me how many minutes we have left to the Apocalypse?
Damiano on September 24, 2008 at 11:08 PM
So make it a committee, add Congressional oversight and non-governmental accountability and voila!
stonemeister on September 24, 2008 at 11:08 PM
eeewwww dude! And what sense does that make???
Fortunata on September 24, 2008 at 11:10 PM
The (deleted) unmitigated gall of this man. He refuses to do his job, the one Illinois elected him to do (yes, even the dead voters), so he can continue to campaign.
Politics before Leadership. Barack Obama. This is the “Change” you are about to get. This is the new Mantra of the Obamanation. Politics before Leadership.
(Pimping alert: I posted this over at my site as well in an unexpurgated version.)
(Can I mention Barack and pimp in the same post? I wonder…..)
john1schn on September 24, 2008 at 11:12 PM
Nobody cares whether he is a populist or not. Huckabee is an idiot and the fact that he thinks this is some kind of pay back for him just show this man will do anything to get glory. We sure dodged a bullet when he was sent packing. Now can we get him a one-way ticket to the moon?
What an egotistical jerk.
petunia on September 24, 2008 at 11:15 PM
Fire and brimstone should start any moment and Huck is the first one to burn.
petunia on September 24, 2008 at 11:16 PM
Ditto
Queen0fCups on September 24, 2008 at 11:17 PM
No, he’s not right. He’s just taking another cheap shot at Romney because the man is obsessed with him, just like Andi Sullivan is obsessed with the Palin baby.
Huckabee = Andrew Sullivan
Blake on September 24, 2008 at 11:17 PM
“I put a lot of faith in Mark Levin’s opinion and he is deeply against it.
carbon_footprint on September 24, 2008 at 11:07 PM”
I put a lot of faith in Jack Welch and he is for it.
Roger Waters on September 24, 2008 at 11:17 PM
Alright guys, your anti-bailout allies are now dailykos and huckabee. Time to catch bailout fever! It’s better than great depression 2.0. Really. Please, if “let it burn” we get great depression 2.0 followed by new deal 2.0.
phronesis on September 24, 2008 at 11:19 PM
I think the Huckster is right. This means there is a very good chance I am wrong.
Valiant on September 24, 2008 at 11:21 PM
lulz
Purple Fury on September 24, 2008 at 11:22 PM
The Executive and The Congress is about to ask The American Taxpayer to pony up our tax dollars to bail [rescue] out the credit industry.
OK, let’s do what the credit industry does to us.
I want 20% interest in return.
I want minimum payments due.
I want late payments penalties assessed.
I want the interest rate to increase on late payments.
I want to raise the interest rate for no particular reason.
After that’s all in place I want the capitol gains tax abolished and
I want estate tax abolished.
Kini on September 24, 2008 at 11:22 PM
They will say you are racist…*yawn*
I’m having a hard time caring if an imbecile calls me that for not supporting Obambi…
CCRWM on September 24, 2008 at 11:22 PM
5. Obviously, fix what went wrong that needs to happen, the Ninja loans etc..
6. CUT WASTEFUL SPENDING AND NO MORE PORK BARREL EARMARKS, If it’s NOT an an Appropriations Bill NO DEAL.
Chakra Hammer on September 24, 2008 at 11:23 PM
THis new deal is the same old deal. Get govt. out of capital.
Mojave Mark on September 24, 2008 at 11:23 PM
LOL!!!
How do I get to be a Huckabee “Ranger”
I really want the badge, really really.
Is that what all those “points” are for?
VolMagic on September 24, 2008 at 11:31 PM
How about jail time for those responsible……. starting with Dodd and Frank?
……………………. 700 Billion years each should be a good start.
Seven Percent Solution on September 24, 2008 at 11:36 PM
BTW, thats the 6 point Chakra Hammer plan.
I’m not sure what Huck is selling.. >:D
Chakra Hammer on September 24, 2008 at 11:37 PM
If we are to loan our tax dollars, then we should get something back in return.
It’s our money.
Kini on September 24, 2008 at 11:37 PM
I dunno… after reading Dafydd’s post and understanding this stuff a bit better, I think the plan sounds pretty reasonable.
DaveS on September 24, 2008 at 11:37 PM
You do. No depression. It’s good for everyone except barry obama.
phronesis on September 24, 2008 at 11:40 PM
We don’t need no steenking badges!
The Monster on September 24, 2008 at 11:42 PM
Huck!
We messed up big time by not picking Huck for president!
If we had, the polls would look something like this right now…
Huck 70%
Obama 30%
I’m looking forward to 2012 Huck! You will assuredly win the nomination next time…and you will defeat Hillary Clinton for the presidency (who by then will still be blamed for helping Mccain defeat Obama in 2008)!
SaintOlaf on September 24, 2008 at 11:42 PM
I had the temptation to take a second look at him myself, but it also passed quickly when I remembered all his past activities. He got himself in a hole about ten feet deep and well it’s still about nine feet deep.
MB4 on September 24, 2008 at 11:44 PM
Dude. Come on, we even agreed today. You know the deflationary whirlwind that will consume us all and all that jazz. Now Huck disagrees with us. But you know who agrees with us? Mitt Romney. Just sayin.
phronesis on September 24, 2008 at 11:46 PM
What you have to do the Humane Society would not approve of at all.
MB4 on September 24, 2008 at 11:46 PM
Come on Olaf, the lake of fire has got nothing on what is to come. You know it!
phronesis on September 24, 2008 at 11:52 PM
Well no kidding! Huck finally got something right!
I guess even a blind squirrel will find a nut now and then.
Hawthorne on September 24, 2008 at 11:52 PM
I want more that that.
I want jail time for those that got us here…. Dodd, et al
I want reimbursement in lower taxes or elimination of taxes.
Kini on September 24, 2008 at 11:53 PM
I’m all for that if we can get it.
phronesis on September 24, 2008 at 11:56 PM
Huckabee,
Take your umbrellas while they’re free.
You will never be forgiven for suppressing the press in your home town, or for saying that any tax increase is fine with you, or for calling real conservatives Shiite Republicans, or, for the stupid gun joke about Obama.
So enjoy the shade while it’s free, since I know you really like freebies and making shadowy Parkways accessible to the children (otherwise known as toll roads).
So you just continue subtly taking jabs at your nemesis in the primary, because you are hopelessly bitter for losing after stating so emphatically that you’re convinced you are going to win all the way to the White House and for the fact that John McCain didn’t even invite you over for a barbecue.
After taking time out of my day to remind you one more time, that you Sir are a loser, I sure do hope that you are happy.
Oh. And for trying to weasel out of your conniving in West Virginia by blaming it on the Ron Paul people (thereby telling a lie)… live on the Rush Limbaugh program. Screw you!
Do you fell better now, Huckabee, for getting attention?
Mcguyver on September 24, 2008 at 11:57 PM
The Huckster is wrong about why we “pilloried” him. We loathed him because he played a shameless class warfare game, pitting rich (Mitt Romney!) against poor (Mike “no spoons” Huckabee).
Buy Danish on September 24, 2008 at 11:58 PM
Yes the bailout is necessary now…but it is not ideal!
The point is the neocon “republican” media and the smear merchant Mitt Romney, who slandered and demogogued Mike Huckabee out of the nomination, were wrong…they screwed us all and screwed us out of the best presidential candidate since Reagan and have to admit it now.
SaintOlaf on September 24, 2008 at 11:59 PM
How about a seventh point…
A person only gets the percentage of profit from a home sale that he/she owns. You own 5% when you want to sell and the house has appreciated $50K, you get $2500 of the profit and the bank gets the rest. That would discourage amateur, undercapitalized “investment” in RE and encourage significant down payments in bubbly markets and long-term ownership. It would also discourage the bank from selling the mortgage in a bubbly market, so the tranchers would never get their filthy hands on it.
shuzilla on September 25, 2008 at 12:02 AM
My daughter’s at some lefty college and her comparative government (Political Science) professor had that to say. (Emphasis mine).
Hmmmm…
Jaibones on September 25, 2008 at 12:02 AM
Huck is spot on…..let me have the 700 billion I’ll fix
the problem!…..well mine anyway.
nineveh on September 25, 2008 at 12:04 AM
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battleoflepanto1571 on September 25, 2008 at 12:07 AM
SWEET!
You should mail that to Michelle Malkin. :-D
SouthernGent on September 25, 2008 at 12:11 AM
Our government borrowed ever more money from foreign creditors, because it was a collective reflection of our own profligate financial habits. Of course, we should reform Wall Street and Washington — and punish severely the crooks in both places. But Americans should remember that Frankenstein was not the name of the monster but of its creator.
MB4 on September 25, 2008 at 12:16 AM
Huck is wrong about the bailout, but one of his posters has the right idea about where the money should be targeted.. What would happen if, instead of trying to bail out the mortgage industry and wall street biggies, the $700 Billion went to all American taxpayers instead, and was made taxable. So 30% goes right back to the government right away, and the other 70% goes right back into the banks, but through the American consumer first.
Now, that’s an economic stimulus package I could get behind!
unclesmrgol on September 25, 2008 at 12:18 AM
O/T a tad:Alex Jones attack of Michelle Malkin.
In the last episode, of idiot Alex ‘The Nut’ Jones,
he will be on CoastoCoast tonite about his action’s
and attack on Michelle Malkin!
George Noory has said Michelle Malkin is a decent,
and good person,I’m expecting a dam(n) good answer,
and if not,I sincerely hope Alex, gets his #ss booted
off Art Bell’s original show!!
Broadcast begins at 1:00AM,in my area, Lake Superior!
canopfor on September 25, 2008 at 12:28 AM
The Huckster is being a huckster here. He’s pretending that what Paulson brought to the Congress was meant to be the final product. It was not. Paulson isn’t so conceited that he presumed to tell Congress how it was going to oversee his own work. And the proposed protections for Paulson (or whoever becomes Secretary of the Treasury) was to keep the Secretary from fighting lawsuits for the rest of his or her natural life.
RBMN on September 25, 2008 at 12:39 AM
Too bad more people didn’t like the Fair Tax….sigh…
nazo311 on September 25, 2008 at 12:40 AM
SCOTUS said it’s OK in the Kelo decision, right?
funky chicken on September 25, 2008 at 12:53 AM
battleoflepanto1571 on September 25, 2008 at 12:07 AM
I question the timing LOL but I hope the Lance Corporal becomes very wealthy.
funky chicken on September 25, 2008 at 12:58 AM
Probably correct but also classless and unhelpful.
Not how a statesman should be acting today.
Please go away unless you are prepared with a solution.
Mike D. on September 25, 2008 at 1:05 AM
Apparently Huckley wasn’t pilloried hard enough, cause he’s still speaking through his hat and out of his ass. 12 more months of pillory, pillory, pillory, I say.
Go to Wall Street and fix it, or to Capitol Hill and fix it, you lazy sideline walker. No other pol-i-tish-un on earth boils my bile like Huckley von WeisKracker.
trailboss on September 25, 2008 at 1:22 AM
Great, now I have to second-guess my opposition to the proposed bailout. Wait, he probably only opposes it on the basis that he hates people richer than himself, so I can still be against it and not feel dirty.
thecountofincognito on September 25, 2008 at 2:19 AM
When can you be certain that Barrack Obama is lying again?
….. His lips and tongue will be moving! …..
Listening to, and watching smarmy, snobbish, arrogant, underwhelming, over rated Barrack Obama speak has become an extremely painstaking task. Not only is his voice extremely unpleasant, somewhat like hearing metal scrapping together, or someone scraping a chalk board with their finger nails, his face is most unpleasant to see, as he has the most deeply furrowed brow, the most offensive, off putting skowl as if he were mad at the world, or even an extra for Satan in a Satanic horror movie, with the most demonic looking eyes, and the most self righteous indignation and arrogance spewing out of his face.
Add to that his dishonesty on many issues, such as his lies and distortions regarding his clear activism against babies who survive after being born during or after an abortion, his relating to becoming pregnant as “punishment,” and his promise to weaken our military and our weaponry, thus shrinking our ability to defend ourselves.
Then he won’t even roll his sleeves up and do his job as a Senator and go back to Washington, D.C. and work out some solution for the Wall Street debacle! If he is not going to work as a Senator because he is running for office of the Presidency of the United States, then he should resign and allow someone else to assume his roll as Illinois’ Senator!
How did a guy like this ever make it this far as a presidential candidate?
Are the rest of the US citizenry that gullible, and that hungry to follow an empty suit?
It appears to be so.
In contrast, how did Sarah Palin become the target of such hate, misogyny, and rabid, foaming at the mouth psychotic militancy, even when people did not even know the second thing about her, after the fact that she was Governor of Alaska?
The woman was just introduced and she was condemned as not being a woman, as being evil and worth of disdain for being too stupid to abort her baby, too much worthy of hate because she is a life choicer and lives it, and too worthy of disdain because she has a loving husband and family.
The lunacy is like something from the Twilight Zone!
William2006 on September 25, 2008 at 2:29 AM
Huck holds a grudge the way Clinton held Lewinsky ( long and with too much enthusiasm, and without charm )
Holding a Grudge is not a good quality for a politician: doing so makes them sour, then obsessed, then maybe crazy
Nixon held grudges; he made lists of who he despised
Hillary Rodham Pantsuit is the Queen of grudge-holding……
Janos Hunyadi on September 25, 2008 at 2:32 AM
That settles it for me. If Gov. “Brother of Satan” Huckabee is against it, I’m for it.
dead bowie on September 25, 2008 at 2:45 AM
What would constitute a “bubbly market”?
And what would then say that IF a stock when up 250% that then you couldn’t sell it?
See what you proposed doesn’t make sense, the problem is the BAD LOANS from the start that was given out by the lenders. i.e. Ninja Loans(No Income No Asset loans) and Fannie and Freddy was buying up those loans knowing that that the govt. would bail their A** out.
Chakra Hammer on September 25, 2008 at 3:47 AM
We’re doooomed.
soundingboard on September 25, 2008 at 4:01 AM
Credit where credit is due…he is right…but forgive me if I think he is safe now and can test the winds of conservative thought on key issues without losing a vote. Interesting.
Show of hands: who thinks Romney would have been a great pick NOW? sigh…
Mommypundit on September 25, 2008 at 4:51 AM
The BO also had to have a presidential candidate AND a president grab him by the [big] ears for him to stop acting as self-centered politician and a partisan democrat.
Clearly he thought his campaign was more important than his “leadership” in the senate.
Right_of_Attila on September 25, 2008 at 5:08 AM
The Huckster can have the satisfaction of knowing that his fingerprints are not on this debacle. But, he is inclined toward the sentimentality of social engineering and social “justice” that doles out credit to those without a proven income stream. Given power and opportunity, Huck would have been in the thick of this and loving it. Yes, the Huckster is safe in the knowledge that it was not his time.
exdeadhead on September 25, 2008 at 5:22 AM
Leadership? Hell, even the senate libtards don’t know the guy, they just want the next President to rubber stamp more of their insanity.
David in ATL on September 25, 2008 at 6:09 AM
when you soundbite ron paul he sounds like a total loon. when you actually listen to the whole point he is making, you start to realize that he knows the constitution and stands up for it’s principals. He just isn’t so great at scripting a message w/o stepping on his crank in the process.
(P.S. I’ve never supported or voted for Ron Paul)
BadBrad on September 25, 2008 at 6:19 AM
I think Huck is wrong. For one thing this is not unconstitutional, for another one man is not going to have control over it. Paulson may not even be there in 3 months.
And you know what? If this thing crashed down Huckabee would be the first one to complain that government did nothing to stop it.
Terrye on September 25, 2008 at 7:02 AM
To give 700 billion to anybody or any group is lunacy. The democrats/socialists will jump through their rears to have this kind of control over our economy. We could lose our way of life with the stroke of a pen. “A great civilization cannot be conquered from without until it destroys itself from within”~~~Ariel Durant. She was so right.
volsense on September 25, 2008 at 7:30 AM
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