Pelosi, Pearls, and (near) Kisses for Bush: or,
"The Plutocrats celebrate their stranglehold on American government."
Uber "tax cuts are Heaven!" Bush-lovers Merrill, Goldman-Sachs roll out the "R" word, "recession."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hale-stewart/2008-begins-with-an-econo_b_81213.html
Nancy, the Republicans and "conservatives" hate you, and despise the Democratic Party which you nominally "lead." (Just read the first dozen comments on this Baltimore Sun article, "Pelosi, Reid Ask Bush to Meet on Economy.")
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/01/pelosi_reid_ask_bush_to_meet_o.html
If you were too smug and arrogant in your position to figure it out, they (Repubs and 'conservatives') have been planning on blaming the Bush2 Recession on Democrats for years now, as these current comments so nicely illustrate.
Which of course is nothing new. When Timmy McVeigh was involuntarily discharged from the US Army after Gulf War1, he was unable to find decent employment in upstate New York, due to tough economic times from the Bush1 (1990-1993) Recession. Driven to desperation by an Army bill demanding repayment of $1,000 that the Army claimed he had been "overpaid", McVeigh went over the edge... and planned and carried out his murderous attack on the Murrah federal building, symbol of the hated government then led by President Bill Clinton that had fired him, conducted the siege of David Korsh's child-using cult at Waco, and was the object of fear and loathing by right-wing Hate-government militias. . In 1995 at the time of McVeigh's Oklahoma City bombing, Bill Clinton was in the process of turning the Bush recession into the Clinton economic boom... but Democrats, "liberals," and the US government were still despised by the Right-Wing for Reagan and Bush's economic policies, the Right-Wing blaming Democrats for the Bush1 recession, brought on by the looting of Savings & Loans that cost taxpayers an estimated one TRILLION dollars.
(We don't know if that one trilion dollars in S&L losses was the actual cash amount, or the sum taxpayers paid out over the course of installments to pay down the huge losses. Being American citizens with lame "democratic" representation, and a weak financial media, we are not entitled to know how much the Bush1 Recession/Savings&Loan debacle cost us.)
WELL, SPEAKER PELOSI, CONGRATULATIONS!
YOU HAVE ALLOWED the Republicans, their corporate backers, and the up-dated (not to say "modern") Savings-and-Loan sharks to DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN - ROB American taxpayers of BILLIONS of dollars, while SADDLING YOUR OWN PARTY with the blame!
Of course, much of the Democratic "leadership" was complicit in the Savings and Loand scandal (even astronaut hero Senator John Glen was one of the Keating Seven) just as today the Kerrys, Reids, Rockefellers, Clintons, Feinsteins, and Liebermans (et al) have little to say about the new Bush (Jr.) deficits, and will happily look the other way to GROSS, IN-YOUR-FACE CORRUPTION in Iraq war, New Orleans reconstruction, and other major budget-busting items of the Bush agenda.
Speaker Pelosi, you have had a full year to PIN THE RESPONSIBILITY for Bush's TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICTS on his administration, on his policies, on his White House and on his Republican Party. This you have REFUSED to do for the past year, since you prefer to be ACCOMODATING to Bush, over standing up for the American voters and taxpayers paying for his reckless spending, corrupt conduct of the war, and constitution-gutting police state powers.
While Republicans stoke "hate Democrats" rhetoric, you sell out the working-class, the middle-class, and those who have truly paid for the one-trillion dollars Mr. Bush has squandered since becoming president. by spouting empty platitudes about "BIPARTISANSHIP."
The Democrats made a farce out of the 9-11 Commission - millions spent on an "investigation" that produced not one reprimand, much less firing, much less admission of responsibility from the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Rice "national security" team about the gross failures of security that led to the 9-11 attacks - and we have the disgrace of 9-11 Commission co-Chairs Keane and Lee Hamilton crying "The CIA (i.e. White House) WITHHELD DOCUMENTS from us that we requested!"
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/washington/22intel.html
You got that, Speaker Pelosi? American citizens ENTRUST their Congress to SPEND MILLIONS of dollars investigating the root causes and failures that led to the horrendous loss of life and property on 9-11... and your Democratic Party commission co-Chair is reduced to crying "We didn't get all the documents we requested."
Speaker Pelosi, Lee Hamilton's lame protestation is the perfect metaphor for your 110th Congress: pearls for you, pleasant smiles for the president, while taxpayers are forced to bear the burden, like oxen hitched to a wagon, of paying of those millions, billions, and trillions of Bush deficts, no, make that PELOSI DEFICITS - and now THE PELOSI RECESSION. Congratulations, Madam Speaker! You have BOUGHT YOURSELF A RECESSION!
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Pelosi, Reid ask Bush to meet on economy
by Matthew Hay Brown
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/01/pelosi_reid_ask_bush_to_meet_o.html
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are asking President Bush for a bipartisan meeting on a stimulus package to bolster the economy after he returns from the Middle East next week – and before anyone starts announcing proposals unilaterally.
“Prominent economists associated with Republican and Democratic Administrations have called on us to supplement monetary policy with an immediate fiscal stimulus,” the Democratic leaders wrote today in a letter to Bush. “These same economists have stated that the most effective and responsible stimulus policies adhere to three simple principles: they must be timely, targeted and temporary.
“We want to work with you and the Republican leadership of the Congress to immediately develop a legislative plan based upon these principles so it can be passed and implemented into law without delay.”
With market indexes continuing to drop, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday signaled further interest rate cuts. White House officials say they are watching conditions, and Bush is considering a stimulus package that he could announce in his State of the Union address later this month.
In a letter absent of the criticism with which they regularly address the president, Pelosi and Reid wrote that they “would strongly urge” a bipartisan meeting with Bush and congressiojnal Republicans “before any economic packages are announced by either the Administration or Congressional leaders.
“We look forward to working together to develop a sound plan that injects demand into the economy, restores consumer confidence and purchasing power, and addresses the severe strains being felt by millions of our fellow Americans,” they wrote.
White House Press Seretary Dana Perino said this week it was “too early to tell” where Bush and congressional Democrats might find agreement on a package.
“One thing this President won't do is increase taxes in order to concede to anything that the Democrats might put out,” Perino told reporters. “Now I don't know what the Democrats would propose, or if they would propose anything. … Obviously there are different ideas and different approaches to lots of different problems in Washington.”
