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.

$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?

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.

Contemplate the two, “so-called terrorists” and “folks”.

PC will kill us all.

Have a great day.

getalife on February 10, 2009 at 12:10 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.

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

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.

Didn’t think so.

Your ODS blocks reality.

Have a great day.

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.

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.

Obambi was slightly more intelligible using the subtitles on the screen. Most likely the captioning typist was editing out about 90 percent of Zero’s droning.

viking01 on February 10, 2009 at 12:11 AM

It’s just as effective to tape a post-it to the television with the comment “This man is a liar.”

Tarp crap sandwich indeed.

What a freaking mess.

getalife on February 10, 2009 at 11:48 AM

What’s this?
I thought you loved every little move by your Dear Leader.
Is light beginning to break even for you?

The market started tanking the day Zero was inaugurated and it’s been down, down, down we go ever since…

It was tanking before he spoke.

Paulson wasted your money but this is the biggest hail mary I have ever seen.

Tarp crap sandwich indeed.

What a freaking mess.

Ah, but they’ll blame it on a jobless number or something stupid.

Did it work during the great depression?

Johan Klaus on February 10, 2009 at 11:18 AM

It created the 1937-1938 depression within the Great Depression that was caused by Federal fiscal policy interventions “meant” to cure the economy from the 1929 Crash, but effected the same cure as venom from a rattle snake bite with no antidote.

Hence Obama will CREATE from the balancing market crash of 2008-2009 the GREAT-GREAT DEPRESSION. Certainly Obama’s will be the Greatest Depression ever, just what he’s custom ordering.

Even FDR and the New Dealers distrusted the Nazi socialism that Obama personally and professionally endorses.

And if the economy doesn’t get better and/or there have to be more “stimuli” packages after this one….???

Of course.

getalife on February 10, 2009 at 11:14 AM

As Rev. Jeremiah Wright would say, “Nah. Nah. Nah.”
That’s not what I asked.
And “Of course” what???
Zerobama is selling this Porkulus package as THE fix-it for the economy.
He doesn’t really have the option of asking for any more or proposing additional stimulus bills.
You stated that he would be lauded for it IF it fixes the economy and that it will win him a second term.
And I postulated “And if it does not, what then?”
Many great economic minds are now on the record stating the Porkulus bill won’t fix the economy at all.
Deal with that–of course you will!

How much money does it cost to deny health care on the basis that treatment is too expensive?

According to Obama, it costs more to deny health care than it costs to maintain our military budget spent by Bush.

And if the economy doesn’t get better and/or there have to be more “stimuli” packages after this one….???

Of course.

getalife on February 10, 2009 at 11:14 AM

Did it work during the great depression?

Of course, he wants to be above the law too.

getalife on February 9, 2009 at 10:56 PM

Which law?

Of course.

Who could have seen this coming?/