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Newt ultimately has to endorse it because he has to be liked by “conservatives” and he’s decided that most “conservatives” agree that something has to be done.  Newt’s instinct is to oppose it with everything he’s got, but of course then he might be labeled as some sort of Ron Paul-kook.  That’s the last thing Newt wants.  If he was intellectually honest with himself he’d understand that Ron Paul is right on this issue and that he (Newt) agrees with it.

I don’t think opposing the bailout makes one a “Ron Paul kook.” I think being Ron Paul makes you a kook.

Mike Pence is opposing the bailout.  He’s no kook.

But I’ll agree that Newt tends to have his finger in the wind a bit more than he should.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Love this line from Maureen Dowd:

It was quite a memorable moment in history for the M.B.A. president and the nominee of the party of business. Who would have dreamed that when socialism finally came to the U.S.A. it would be brought not by Bolsheviks in blue jeans but Wall Street bankers in Gucci loafers?

(NY Times, today)

Let me take this chance to say ‘f*ck you’ to 2hotel9 for this comment.

Ha ha. I was right!

Neener neener neener.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

In fact, that linked post is funny b/c I was like Ms. Cleo…

Prescient about the Maoism.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Love this line from Maureen Dowd…

Ah… the clucking of aging poultry.  Both of ‘em!  Tiresome. (Thanks, Fred!)

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Newt flip-flops on the endorsement....because...um...he is a man of principle, as are the joke that was once the Republican party.

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Love this line from Maureen Dowd:

Wall Street is demanding a bailout because this is the government’s fault. The beaurocrats said “how dare you not make these loans because these people are poor...that’s redlining!” And now that they made the loans, the same fools are screaming “why did you make these loans to these people when’s it’s obvious they couldn’t afford them?” They can’t win.

It’s wall street vs main street sure. But it’s main street screwing wall street...not the other way around.

As usual, Dowd is too stupid to see the forest...for the forest.

For the first time in my adult life, I am ashamed of my country.

Love this line from Maureen Dowd…

Ah… the clucking of aging poultry.  Both of ‘em!  Tiresome. (Thanks, Fred!)

Bat One on September 28, 2008 at 07:45 pm

Aren’t yo an aging rooster? Seems to me dementia has set in and you crow at the wrong time.