Open thread: The “If we don’t spend a trillion dollars then the terrorists have already won” presser
posted at 7:40 pm on February 9, 2009 by Allahpundit
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8 p.m. ET around the dial. Skip the first 10 minutes if you have to; the fun won’t start until the Q&A. Watch for (a) whether The One has the stones to claim the Senate bill was bipartisan, (b) how soon and hard he’s pressed about the fact that TARP II is likely to be “far bigger” than the stimulus, and (c) whether the health-care provisions being buzzed about at the boss’s blog have trickled up onto the media’s radar yet. With Netanyahu and Likud on the verge of returning to power in Israel, we’re bound to see a question about Israeli hawkishness affecting negotiations with Iran, too. I wonder if he’ll offer even a pro forma statement about Iranian nukes being “unacceptable.”
A lot of minds are going to change tonight. I can feel it.
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Jenfidel on February 10, 2009 at 11:56 AM
Of course you ignore the fact that Paulson wasted billions and w started the tarp crap sandwich.
A little intellectual honesty would be nice.
Just admit our President inherited this mess if you can.
getalife on February 10, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Nope. Not going to do it.
Obama voted for it and could have stood against as part of his campaign.
Now he’s saying he wants to double down and repeat the “Bush mistake” many times over!
Also, I’m not convinced that the economy’s in that much trouble and this is largely due to both American productivity and the stimulation of the Bush tax cuts.
But if we pass this porkulus bill, all bets are off!
The stock market is tanking as we speak on the news of these disastrous “fixes” to our economy.
Jenfidel on February 10, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Jenfidel on February 10, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Didn’t think so.
Your ODS blocks reality.
Have a great day.
getalife on February 10, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Oh, and one of the things NObama didn’t inherit from President Bush was a Dow Jones at 14,000, a record high.
Jenfidel on February 10, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Perhaps you’re unaware that the liberals that have run our legislative branch since Jan 2006 are the ones that have created and passed the bills that allowed and forced Paulson to waste billions.
Perhaps you’re also unaware that the same liberals scuffed and neutered the OFHEO inspector that caught Franklin Raines cooking books for the event that started the recession in the first place. Perhaps you’re unaware that the Housing regulations that Jimmy Carter forced on to the country (modified and upgraded for a bigger screw over by Bill Clinton) which forced banks to lend to people that couldn’t afford it, started this recession in the first place.
I’ll getalife when you getabrain. Dumbass.
leetpriest on February 10, 2009 at 12:20 PM
You, too–hope you don’t have any investments in your 401-K.
You probably don’t and are one of those welfare state losers who are counting on Comrade Urkel to pay all your bills and make you rich.
Jenfidel on February 10, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Might have been observed already. Kini, our HA commenter who lives in HI, noted that Obama, in response to Helen Thomas’ question on the “so called terrorists” answered by calling them “folks who’d kill us”.
Contemplate the two, “so-called terrorists” and “folks”.
PC will kill us all.
Entelechy on February 10, 2009 at 1:34 PM
getalife:
Oh please, Democrats have been in control of Congress for two years and thus far they have done nothing to avert this. Add to that the fact that they managed to block any meaningful reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for years…even when Republicans like McCain and Bush tried to make it happen. At best they were asleep at the switch. You could just as easily say that Bush inherited the mess because it was the Clinton administration that allowed the changes in lending in the first place.
In fact when Democrats took control of Congress, unemployment was 4.5%, the deficit was 153 billion and the Dow was about 12,000.
Terrye on February 10, 2009 at 3:09 PM
The overall national commitment of this “stiumulus” crime is composed of about $1 billion in stimulus packages, about $3 trillion in lending and spending, and $5.7 trillion in agreements to provide aid, according to the NYT.
$10 Trillion!
And yet, all the while, it is being touted as being a mere $780 billion to $820 billion…
The devil is in the details, and the devil resides on Capitol Hill and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and in the homes of all those who supported this “stimulus.”
If the total value of ALL mortgages across the country is about $10 trillion…what has actually been accomplished to address and solve the original problem that led us to the debacle we face today?
coldwarrior on February 10, 2009 at 7:04 PM
“Of course you ignore the fact that Paulson wasted billions and w started the tarp crap sandwich.
A little intellectual honesty would be nice.
Just admit our President inherited this mess if you can.
Getalife”
“A little intellectual honesty would be nice” I agree!
Question was Obama a member of Congress 2004 to present after the people of Illinois elected him to the Senate?
If yes then he has been a part of creating this mess as we all know Congress controls the purse strings.
Did Obama vote for Tarp 1?
Yes .
Did Obama ask Bush to release 350 Billion BEFORE he left office?
Is this $700 billion part of what Obama says he “inherited”?
If yes then he got what HE ASKED FOR!
Obama, Bush team up behind another $350 billion for the banks
14 January 2009
First things first. Even before President Bush makes his farewell address on Thursday and Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president next Tuesday, the outgoing and incoming administrations are engaged in a concerted drive to release the second $350 billion installment of taxpayer funds to bail out the banks.
Obama telephoned Bush Monday morning and asked that he formally request the second half of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) windfall for Wall Street approved by Congress on October 3.
DSchoen on February 11, 2009 at 5:12 AM
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