Republican Party presidential candidate John McCain had the most to say. On Monday, he said “the foundation of our economy” was “strong,” adding that he opposed a government-led bailout of US insurer AIG. But now he’s promising further government steps “to prevent the kind of wild speculation that can put our markets at risk.” McCain’s explanation for the current crisis: “unbridled corruption and greed.”
But Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama didn’t move past superficialities, either. “We’re Americans. We’ve met tough challenges before and we can again.”
What else are they supposed to say? After all, US presidents have very little influence on stockmarkets. (source)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, when asked Tuesday whether Democrats bear some of the responsibility regarding the current crisis on Wall Street, had a one-word answer: “No.” (source)
Then just WHO THE HELL is in charge of regulating the economy madam speaker?????
I’ll tell you who. It’s CONGRESS! This is the branch of the government that is tasked with oversight of writing regulating on our economy. This piece of sh!t economic FUBAR was done on YOUR watch MADAM PELOSI not the republican congress that was booted out with YOUR PERSONAL PROMISE to clean up these kinds of things!!! Nice clean up job. YOUR FIRED!
THIS KIND OF PARTISAN SH!T IS REALLY STARTING TO PISS ME OFF! We have a government that either wants to rob us blind to buy votes form moronic baby people who want the government to wipe their asses or they want to line their pockets like an Enron executive and hope they get away with it before the bottom drops out. Well guess what! The music has stopped and the DEMOCRATS are left without a chair to sit in!
NOW SHUT THE @#^% UP, STOP TRYING TO PASS THE BUCK AND WORK TO FIX THIS WITHOUT TURNING OUR GOVERNMENT INTO A SOCIALIST CESSPOOL!
AND what kind of BULLSH!T is this:
Lawmakers say they are unlikely to take action before, or to delay, their planned adjournments — Sept. 26 for the House of Representatives, a week later for the Senate. While they haven’t ruled out returning after the Nov. 4 elections, they would rather wait until next year unless Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, who are leading efforts to contain the crisis, call for help. (source)
I WISH I HAD THE ABILITY TO F#CK UP MY JOB AND THEN TAKE OFF FOR TWO MONTHS AND LEAVE IT FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO FIGURE IT OUT!
They did this same crap when the oil drilling issue came to bare a couple of months ago. They left Republican Congressmen and women to protest in a dark House because Queen Pelosi didn’t want to discuss drilling for oil in our own country which will ultimately make our economy MORE stable!!!!!!
I wonder how many of these scumbags are going to be manning their paper shredders to get rid of any evidence they were double dipping or taking kick backs form these banks during their time at the helm?!?
This wrinkled prune doesn’t even have the intestinal fortitude to pull Charlie Rangle off his post as chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee which is charge of making TAX CODE after it was discovered that he was at the WORST cooking his taxes on income he didn’t declare and at BEST he was incompetent to file proper tax returns!!!! (source) You or I would be in jail and would have lost all of our belongings by now, but not this upright citizen advocate politician!!!
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DEMOCRATS YOU ARE JUST AS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS AS ANYONE ELSE!!! STOP PLAYING POLITICS WITH OTHER PEOPLES FUTURES!