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To: calgal who wrote (29598)	9/22/2008 11:15:29 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 71588

Before D.C. Gets Our Money, It Owes Us Some Answers [Newt Gingrich] Watching Washington rush to throw taxpayer money at Wall Street has been sobering and a little frightening. We are being told Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has a plan which will shift $700 billion in obligations from private companies to the taxpayer. We are being warned that this $700 billion bailout is the only answer to a crisis. We are being reassured that we can trust Secretary Paulson "because he knows what he is doing". Congress had better ask a lot of questions before it shifts this much burden to the taxpayer and shifts this much power to a Washington bureaucracy. Imagine that the political balance of power in Washington were different. If this were a Democratic administration the Republicans in the House and Senate would be demanding answers and would be organizing for a “no” vote. If a Democratic administration were proposing this plan, Republicans would realize that having Connecticut Democratic senator Chris Dodd (the largest recipient of political funds from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) as chairman of the Banking Committee guarantees that the Obama-Reid-Pelosi-Paulson plan that will emerge will be much worse as legislation than it started out as the Paulson proposal. If this were a Democratic proposal, Republicans would remember that the Democrats wrote a grotesque housing bailout bill this summer that paid off their left-wing allies with taxpayer money, which despite its price tag of $300 billion has apparently failed as of last week, and could expect even more damage in this bill. But because this gigantic power shift to Washington and this avalanche of taxpayer money is being proposed by a Republican administration, the normal conservative voices have been silent or confused. It’s time to end the silence and clear up the confusion. Congress has an obligation to protect the taxpayer. Congress has an obligation to limit the executive branch to the rule of law. Congress has an obligation to perform oversight. Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess. There are four major questions that have to be answered before Congress adopts a new $700 billion burden for the American taxpayer. On each of these questions, I believe Congress’s answer will be “no” if it slows down long enough to examine the facts... corner.nationalreview.com

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