Resist the rush to legislate corporate welfare!

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Tuesday September 23, 2008 · 6:05 AM PDT

2008/09/23 · 06:05

Let's see. Elitist Phil "Americans are whiners" Gramm helped write the deregulation legislation that helped get us into this catastrophic mess. McCain has mentioned Gramm as a strong possibility to head up Treasury, should McCain take office. And now the Bush plan to save the exploding failure of the Reaganomics experiment includes a provision giving one person at Treasury (picture Phil Gramm here) the legal ability to spend nearly a trillion dollars in taxpayer money on corporate welfare with no oversight, not even by a court?

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Saturday September 20, 2008 · 5:08 AM PDT

2008/09/20 · 05:08

The Democrats have done it again. How clueless care they? Their reaction to being bullied into bailing out the catastrophic failures of Reaganomics after the pyramid scheme collapsed and most of the treasure has been looted by thieves who still get rewarded for their theft with golden parachutes is to tack additional spending (generational borrowing, since we don't actually have the money) onto the plan to give a quick shot in the arm of the middle class (to pick up a few votes presumably).

I have not heard one use of the word "oversight" yet in all the interviews with Dodd and the others. How can this be happening? There will never be a better time to leverage reforms as we go - to make attacking the root causes of this problem part of the conditions of a bailout. Yet not one word in that direction!

Here are some ideas that must be done immediately and tied to any bailout:

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Wednesday February 13, 2008 · 5:56 AM PST

2008/02/13 · 05:56

Apparently, military law was quietly changed to allow executions to be done offshore and by other means if the President so desires (rather than by lethal injection at Fort Leavenworth, which has been military law for a long time). The idea here is that in addition to functioning as an offshore torture center, Gitmo could also be used as an offshore execution site to avoid the constraining US legal system that might get in the way if the executions were done at Fort Leavenworth.

While i fully support the death penalty for any who were directly involved with the 9-11 attacks (provided they have a real trial using the United States criminal code and not a Bush kangaroo court), there is a bit of irony in the way the Bush administration is attempting to proactively sell this offshore execution idea to the international community, knowing this will cause a huge outcry:

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Sunday August 05, 2007 · 11:01 AM PDT

2007/08/05 · 11:01

Of course there are the obvious painful backdrops to last night's cave-in by the Dems on domestic spying, such as the White House officials currently in contempt of Congress for refusing to even show up for subpoenas, the House passing an energy bill yesterday (minus CAFE standards) hours before the cave-in that Bush already says he'll veto, and a Justice Department actively obstructing investigations into the clearly illegal NSA spying that has already occurred, but the two back to back late night bills last night seem to say it all right now ...

navboy

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Tuesday May 22, 2007 · 4:29 PM PDT

2007/05/22 · 16:29

Based on where the Iraq funding bill seems to be heading, the Democrats in this session of Congress appear to be just as spineless as in the previous one, even with their increased numbers and power. What no one in Congress or the media seems willing to tackle or even allude to at all is that the Founding Fathers gave the Dems the perfect tool for this situation.

Our system was designed so that if the executive branch attempts to claim more power than it has and insists on doing what it wants despite the wishes of Congress and the American people, then the legislative branch of government has the so-called Power of the Purse to stop the executive branch dead in its tracks. And it's so much easier to leverage than all the convoluted analysis and the feeble spin by the Dems:

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Thursday August 03, 2006 · 7:29 PM PDT

2006/08/03 · 19:29

Tonight i watched General Pace, Secr. of Defense Rumsfeld, and Sen. Warner all lie their asses off concerning whether the sectarian violence and possible looming civil war we are now faced with in Iraq was envisioned early on. All three said that no one from the President on down could have predicted this.

That's funny, i was one of millions who warned about several likely consequences of invading Iraq, including ethnic and religious violence and possible civil war. I didn't just make it up - i got it from all the experts who were screaming at the top of their lungs, but then many had been purged from the Pentagon by Rumsfeld or purged from the administration in favor of less-qualified ass-kissers who said what those that wanted to invade Iraq wanted to hear from them. Funny how top generals, the administration, and GOP senators with top-secret clearance amazingly couldn't predict what normal Americans that work all week at normal jobs and lead busy, normal lives with no special access to information were able to predict with ease. Read More

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