"The Party of Hoover"

That sucks.

Damn you, Snarky. Pulled the rug right out from under me.

Wait a minute--Obama hasn't even taken office yet!

The quick and the dead.

I'm your huckleberry...

Lessee- GM announces shutting down plants in January.

Hmm.

Yeah, I'd say the GOP is framing themselves nicely.

Bush is willing to spend $15 billion, so that GM goes finally, mercifully bankrupt on Obama's watch, rather than his.

"Compassionate conservatism". Hmmm. Well, I'll know better next time.

Yeah, that's a tough one though- If he was a democrat, could you imagine being a young Senator being told that or you'd be known as the party of Clinton, Carter, or Johnson ? ...man, screw that.

Dems will never let go of straw man Bush or they would have to accomplish something on their own.

FWTHOM-
re: Dems will never let go of straw man Bush...

Dude, "straw man Bush" is the head of the Republican Party, and he's still President.

FWTHOM-
See, here's the deal. A "straw man" is an artificial or fictional device used in rhetoric or debate. Bush actually exists, and is a person.

I'm sure you must be confused by the word "man" in "straw man", but that's really no excuse. Maybe you should have Googled the phrase before you posted. Better yet, maybe you shouldn't have voted for Bush (twice?).

The concept of straw man Bush will outlive straw man Hoover who dems still blame even though he has been dead for half a century.

"Hoover who dems still blame even though he has been dead for half a century."
#12 | Posted by fwthom at 2008-12-12

YEAH!

"Fifty Years To Judge" IS the sayin'!

Oops!

Paulson has repeated Hoover's moves, making the financial sector whole, using $855 billion for bailouts before asking Congress for another $700 billion.

His perspective is one of a demented elitist who promised to make good on rampant fraud in the financial sector at taxpayer expense. The purpose was to prevent civil suits into bankruptcy for Goldman-Sachs, Morgan-Stanley, Merril-Lynch and on and on..... the effect of which would have been to isolate a bankrupt country from foriegn lenders.

Some of these actions are probably necessary, but not without prosecuting the criminals in charge first.

Paulson's plan is parked inside Greenspan's plan to create wealth from nothing by growing debt. These two treasonous bastards have shifted Corporate profits out of manufacturing into paper shuffling. Every currency needs real production to sustain itself. Pretending compound interest collection, flipping assets or outsourcing is the economic equivalent of real production is a BIG LIE. But that is what the Chicago School of economics, Friedman, Geithner, Paulson, Rubin, Summers... profess. If we follow these Pied Pipers we are in real trouble.

BushCo has brought us to the gates of hell. If there was any merit to their positions where are the confirming results?

BushCo has not committed their crimes alone. They have had almost complete co-operation from the Democrats. The illusion of choice and/or change is but a mechanism for buying domestic tranquility while elite insiders rob our system blind. Both parties are so deeply corrupted they dare not change the official version of events. Follow the money? No, the flow of money must remain under wraps.

okay so wait a minute..

tell me if I am wrong....(AS IF I HAVE TO TELL YOU LIBERAL FUCKS THAT>>>LOL>).....but didnt hoover throw a lot of money at the problem...you know like we are doing now??
I am sure that I read that somewhere.

But that is what the Chicago School of economics, Friedman, Geithner, Paulson, Rubin, Summers... profess

I thought Keynes was the proponent of debt spending?

I know what you are going to say ... "the Chicago school abhors all government regulation" Yes but does anyone seriously think we had an unregulated free market? Regulation is important, to ensure that there is competition ... that's the underlying principal of Adam Smith's capitalist system ... competition produces a better product than central planning.

What we have now is a perversion of this system. Corporate Fascism. The government has fixed the system. Those that play along get to profit.

Personally if we are going to have a planned economy I don't want it half-assed. The nazi or chinese model works very well, that is until someone decides to invade the world.

The nazi or chinese model works very well, that is until someone decides to invade the world.

The japanese model works even better.

Do you me the current japanese model or the 1930's model?

Actually we could all have free health care if we let someone else be our military. I think we should disband our armed forces and rely on the Canadians and Mexicans. Although if we just treated every nation equally and with respect they would just sit down with us at dinner and be best friends?

In all seriousness we should tell the Europeans to fend for themselves when Putin decides to take over the French wine and cheese production

Perhaps someone should tell Cheney the Republican Party has been the Party of Hoover since.....er.....Hoover. No, the new fear is that they will be known as the Party of Reagan/Bush.

The concept of straw man Bush will outlive straw man Hoover who dems still blame even though he has been dead for half a century.

Gee, Thom, when it comes to blatant idiocy, you and Rusty excel at such.

Hoover presided as prosperity turned into The Great Depression. Was it his fault? To an extent, yes. He also inherited baggage from Silent Cal, just as Bushwhack inherited Raygunomics from Wooden Actor.

Thus, such, a comparison is then denoted. Goddamn! Didn't they larn you more than just listening to Rush Pigboy?

Obviously not. QED.

The concept of straw man Bush will outlive straw man Hoover who dems still blame even though he has been dead for half a century.

Just like the jews with the straw man Hitler who's been dead more than half a century, right feeble wit thom?.

In fairness to Hoover, he didn't lose two wars while creating the Great Depression. And he didn't run record deficits throughout his term either. Add in 9-11 and George W Bush wins the trifecta of FAIL.