I'd rather Rather didn't use blather.

Just saying. 

What Rather is pissed about is 180 degrees out from what we as conservatives are pissed about.  What he wants is even further forays into socialism and hurry up about it!

As usual Rather could not be more wrong.  This president and his majority congress is moving head long into socialism.  The short view is that it will greatly prolong this economic downturn.  Note, the reaction the markets have had of late.  

Meanwhile, Geitner just now received his first long pants!  Yes, it is true, the boy "wonder", Geitner aka Treasury Secretary, aka Timmy Turbo Tax, has yet to come up with a plan to sort out the bad assets on our banks books.  But, he does have long pants now.  So, a plan should not be far off! 

Hot off the presses is this mop, Senator Gregg.  He pulls out of being nominated as Commerce Secretary because he disagrees with the president on the stimulus bill among other things, but only AFTER the stimulus vote goes through.   Perhaps, if just one dimocrat senator had voted no on this porkulus bill it might have given some backbone to our RHINOs.   

He may very well be right, but I hardly see how detonating a massive charge that is pressed against the hull, and well below the water line, is going to prevent the good ship America from ultimately sliding beneath the waves.

It might, however, cause us to head for the bottom at a much faster rate.

-Dave

Our clueless political leaders are about to drive us all over a cliff. The time to HITM is now-before we go over.

Obiwan is performing up to the same performance standards you "journalists" set while you were getting him elected.....

EDIT Sterling, we posted at the same time. I see we had similar thoughts.

"I need more cowbell!" SNL

Obama is present isn't he? That's what you wanted. Just wait until the whole steaming pile is finished and we can all whine together about how little was done to really solve the immediate issues with the economy. All that this package does is pander to Democrat constituencies.

 Well, Dan, maybe if you and your fellow so-called journalists would
have asked presidential candidate Obama some tough questions about his
economic plans last year instead of aiding and abetting his election we
wouldn't be in this mess and you wouldn't be so outraged.

Oooooh, burn!  In your face, Mr. Rather!  You rock, Mr. Sheppard, and I mean that.  Bravo.

"Liberate tutume ex inferis, liberal puppets."  Me.

Someone tell Dan that Fascism has to be fed into the system s l o w l y , lest someone scare the sheep.

Well, Dan, maybe if you and your fellow so-called journalists would have asked presidential candidate Obama some tough questions about his economic plans last year instead of aiding and abetting his election we wouldn't be in this mess and you wouldn't be so outraged.

I had already copied it for my posting before I read where many others felt the same as I ;-)  

What  a piece of work this guy is!  He, along with many, many others in public life need to just quietly walk away into the sunset!  Their day has passed!!!!

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue. ~ Sam Adams

  Because I certainly don't. I thought we had a good old fasioned panic. Yea, they have changed the name - bust, depression, recession, slowdown, decline, downturn, meltdown, slump, crash. But they are all the same thing. Government just wants us to think it is different this time so they have an excuse to take some kind of action.

 But they are all alike. People quit lending because they don't trust the lendee to be able to actually pay back the money. Poorly performing businesses go under and leave behind stronger businesses. After a while, people are no longer worried so much about lending money to those stronger businesses. And pretty soon things start to return to normal.

  Silly me. I thought the best thing the government could do was GET OUT OF THE WAY. Stop taking so much money out of the system so that when trust does come back, people will HAVE money to lend again.

  Oh, another stupid thought I have. The government most definitely should not say or do stuff that does not instill confidence that lending will resume. Like fer example, say they are coming in to save big financial institutions, then save a few, and inexplicably let one fail. Or maybe the TOP GUY in the government telling us it will get worse and worse for YEARS to come. Or the TOP GUY says only this one tax cheater can fix it and then the tax cheater steps in front of Congress and says, gee, we have to think about this, maybe try some new stuff, don't know, we will get back to you.

  Thank the lord above we have Dan instilling confidence in the future!

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

Remember in an eleventh hour talk session, Tom Brokaw called Obama "creepy"?  That was very prophetic.  I think this whole thing is so creepy and disturbing, I'm starting to become afraid.  Canada is looking better and better at this point...what the heck is going on????

Where is the outrage from We The People? And where is the outrage—or sense of outrage—from the Treasury Department, from Congress, and, yes, from the White House and the new president himself?

You would think more of us would be upset that we don't have our new kitchens and cars, cars that always have full gas tanks from being refilled after each drive we take. 

We are in a downward economic spiral and the worst is probably yet to come. The situation threatens our own and future generations. Yet there is no transparency, no accountability, and no clearly-stated plan to pull us out.

Yeah, you haven't made all those greedy CEOs give up their executive jets so we can have our new kitchens, cars and full gas tanks.

Outrage is seldom justified and rarely wise, but in this fix it is both. Nevertheless, what we have gotten and are getting still is blather. [...]

Because we voted for Obama because he was going to give us new kitchens and cars and full gas tanks.

Our huge economy is comprised of a vast collection of families, and the health of our markets and our financial institutions revolves around those families. [...]

And, our families need those new kitchens and cars and full gas tanks NOW!

Again and again, they are told, “Help is on the way.” Where is it? And while those in power in Washington dither over these people’s problems while prioritizing the problems of financial institutions, where’s the transparency and accountability?

Yeah, just seize those executive jets, sell them to Iran so Ahmadinejad will like us and then give us our new kitchens and cars and full gas tanks!

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In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price. - Ronald Reagan from his first inaugural address