Are you angry yet????

rockmom on February 9, 2009 at 12:20 PM

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Been there, done that. Angry turns to action in the wise. F’em all, and let the zombies know that they can suck rocks for chanting while the Dems stole the country (as in get in their faces and give them a blast for voting for the One and Co).

…and to offer ridiculous explanations of ignorance.

You doubt Dodd’s ignorance?!?

Surely you jest, sir.

Does that sound like Hope and Change to you?

Yep. HOPE they don’t take every penny I ever get for their “stimulus” packages and bailouts. CHANGE is the stuff they may leave jingling in our pockets when the raping of America is finished comrades.

There are some great honest Democrats in the Senate.

Then why is he a member of that party?

Sorry, but it’s like trying to find an honest broker in the Gambinos or in Illinois politics.

They don’t exist. All Democrat politicians are corrupt and incompetent. Otherwise, why would they be Democrats?

In fact, I’m trying to think of a Democrat leader who is not a crook, and I can’t come up with one.

Why waste your time? It’s like trying to find a virgin in a cathouse.

But, to give them credit, Democrat leaders are all stumblefoot incompetents as well being corrupt as hell.

So we have that going for us.

In fact, I’m trying to think of a Democrat leader who is not a crook, and I can’t come up with one.

As for a senate ethics probe….hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

Conservatives and truth-tellers are hereby reduced to non-personhood in the NYT’s world.

Akzed on February 9, 2009 at 10:49 AM

First, the NYT realizes that it speaks to only the liberal part of the country, so articles critical of the GOP simply go into the echo chamber and do little to change the minds of anyone. But after Daschle, I think the NYT now realizes how much damage that it can do to the Dem and Obama brands. I think it surprised them; don’t plan on seeing the NYT make that mistake again.

Second, and to Akzed’s point, this story goes NOWHERE unless and until some senators decide that they’ve had enough of this sh*t and go after Dodd with a meat cleaver. For starters, what do senators such as McCain and Voinovich have to lose? McCain probably has a lock on his seat, and he can look like a reformer. Voinovich (from here in Ohio) is leaving in two years. I say they should do something worthwhile and humiliate the hell out of Dodd. And I think Republican governors, who are now dealing with the effects of shoddy lending that Dodd’s friends supported, should join in the condemnation too.

I really don’t get how Dodd is allowed a speaking voice. This a**shole shouldn’t be allowed to run a lemonade stand, let alone chair the Senate Finance Committee.

And to the turd trolls, if you have a comparable example of current corruption by a GOP Senator, speak up. I’ll be the first to contact him or her and pronounce him or her a POS. Dodd’s conduct is disgraceful and absolutely indefensible and yet his colleagues look the other way.

Complain to your senators for crying out loud. We’re getting exactly who and what we deserve.

What caused the meltdown of the banking system? Was it Texas-Hold’em Poker? According to those new puritans at New York magazine it was–gasp!–television! Worse, horror-of-horrors, it was cable television, and they want this sort of smut and financia…

When we start making up new names for old crimes based on the relative power of the person who committed them, we have ended the rule of law and created an aristocracy kleptocracy.

MB4 on February 9, 2009 at 11:22 AM

I second that edit!

I didn’t like the implication that aristocracies are by definition corrupt. Dodd is corrupt, but he is not an aristocrat.

Originally the word aristocrat meant “rule of the best”, and that concept is at the root of our “representative democracy”:

The founders of American democracy turned back to the original, philosophical definition of aristocracy when they built American government. Very conscious of Plato’s and Aristotle’s criticisms of democracy, the founders of American government wanted to avoid putting the government into the hands of the worst members of society. They also, however, wanted to avoid the dangers of a hereditary aristocracy, for European history proven amply that the hereditary aristocracy is many things but it rarely consists of the “best” members of society either in moral or intellectual terms (look at the royal family in England, for instance). So the framers of American government created representative democracy, in which the people collectively decide who the “best” people are to run the government. In this way, a democracy (a limited democracy) is allowed to co-exist seamlessly with a government that is primarily ruled by the most qualified people morally and intellectually (well, sometimes).

Enron/WorldCom:

–Shareholders and employees lose approximately $3.5 billion.
–60 hearings held by Republican Congress.
–Sarbanes-Oxley legislation passed within 6 months.
–CEOs and CFOs prosecuted and jailed.

Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac:

–Shareholders lose approximately $22.5 billion, inclusing $15 billion held by community banks. Taxpayers lose at least $300 billion and counting.
–2 hearings held by Democratic Congress.
–No additional legislation even written yet.
–No prosecution of CEOs or CFOs.

Are you angry yet????

Can we please get some competent, responsible adults in charge. These guys are incompetent. Or else they are corrupt.

rbj on February 9, 2009 at 10:58 AM

OR?????