Found this great article on the Huffington Post...Looks like the Dems are all finally getting on message and hammering McShame at the same time
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
You gotta love this quote from Harry Reid:
One Senator -- John McCain -- woke up yesterday morning, surveyed the state of the U.S. economy, summoned the ghost of his fellow Republican, Herbert Hoover, and declared, 'The fundamentals of our economy are strong,'" said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, before laying responsibility for the current woes in part on McCain's economic adviser Phil Gramm.
"I served with Phil Gramm here in the Senate," he said. "The same Phil Gramm who, as a Senator, was responsible for the deregulation of the financial services industry that paved the way for much of this crisis to occur. I like Phil Gramm, I don't like his economics. A respected economist at the University of Texas -- now that's where Phil Gramm taught, in Texas -- a respected economist at the University of Texas, James Galver said that Gramm was, and I quote, 'the most aggressive advocate of every predatory and rapacious element that the financial sector has,' and went on to say he is a 'sorcerer's apprentice of instability and disaster in the financial system.'"
And then there is this from Sen. Bernie Sanders
"The truth is," Sanders continued, "that the fundamentals of our economy are strong if you are within the top 1 percent of our country. If you're a million or billionaire, you know what, Senator McCain is right. For those people, the fundamentals of the economy are strong. If you are one of the 400 wealthiest people in our country, you collectively own $1.4 trillion of America. 400 families, and your wealth has exploded in the last eight years. In fact, in America today, the top 1/10th of 1 percent earn more income than do the bottom 50 percent. So within that context, certainly, if you're among the top 1/10th of 1 percent, we can understand why Senator McCain would suggest that the fundamentals of our economy are strong."
All I can say..it FINALLY!!!! They need to keep hammering and hammering at McShame 24-7 with this.
The ironic thing is I have been in an economic debate with my 16 year old neo con neice. It started on Sunday evening, before the markets went down yesterday. One of the points I made was the deregulation of the finance industry and how it has led to our economy suffering especially in regards to sub prime lending. I haven't heard back from her since..