Procrustes Stretched
Dante's Manifesto
- Dec 1, 2008
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BO also helped to cause that meltdown. Sen. McCain co-sponsored S.109 a bill that would have created a new regulator to replace ineffective and powerless OFHEO. We could have reined in the GSEs in 2006 had this bill not been met with a threatened Democrat filibuster. Maybe if BO were not in bed with JP Morgan and Goldman-Sachs he might have been more willing to support regulation of Clinton's unregulated CDOs.
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Do you really believe the Democrats "forgot" to limit executive bonuses when they passed the bailout?
Obama was a fresh face, a junior Senator. He had very little power in the US Senate. In fact, a fair criticism would be that Obama, being the politician he is, only used the US Senate as a seat warmer.
You can speak about the donors to Obama's campaign all you want, that is a red herring if ever one swam by.
are you that naive or just stupid? Donors after the fact...by the time Obama had a campaign, the economy was on it's way to a full melt down.
and yes McCain co-sponsored legislation that did not pass.
This bill never became law.This bill was proposed in a previous session of Congress. Sessions of Congress last two years, and at the end of each session all proposed bills and resolutions that haven't passed are cleared from the books. Members often reintroduce bills that did not come up for debate under a new number in the next session.
S. 190 [109th]: Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 (GovTrack.us)
do you even know what the talking point you are using says?
In 2003 and 2005, who was in control of the Congress? Who was President? Who supported the bill? Who supported it and who didn't?
Did Obama kill the bill?
Hey Professor Einstein, do you know what a filibuster is?
How much time were they supposed to spend debating a bill they couldn't get passed because Democrats were going to filibuster?
Here's some more Kool-Aid from mix master Pelosi...
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I think you're confused. The Democrats filibustered a bill or were going to (which means they did not)?
How much time did the GOP spend on bills they deemed important? You mention the House. Was Obama in the House? You link to Pelosi. Was Pelosi in charge?
all part of the run of the Red Herring
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Didn't you claim President Barack Hussein Obama, "also helped to cause that meltdown." of the economy? Yet you offer no evidence to back that claim up. You do link to campaign contributions and stuff about McCain sponsoring bills when the GOP ran the show.
You may not like Obama, and you may point out he received money from people in teh financial industry, but you ignore who those people are, and how those people are no socialists, and how they are part of the conservative agenda to keep corporate America strong.
None of that would support the claim you make.