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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (49532)	9/30/2008 2:07:54 PM
From: Carolyn	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224735

Pelosi will because her constituency are all communists like she is.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (49532)	9/30/2008 2:28:11 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224735

Pelosi's 'unique' constituency consider her a political Bette Middler. But more 'rational' Americans have noticed the lack of character and integrity of their Democrat politicians. Their numbers will revert to pre-2006 numbers due to the Dems two-yr comedy of errors in control of congress.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (49532)	9/30/2008 4:01:05 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224735

The supporter of hate spewing messiah and all other can do no wrong demoscum elect and vote for the scum. That is Kenneth E. Phillipps .

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (49532)	9/30/2008 5:59:23 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224735

Joseph Stiglitz, who won the 2001 Nobel prize for economics, said on Tuesday that the United States faces a long recession and predicted that Democrat Barack Obama will win November's presidential elections. "The next president of the United States will be Barack Obama," Stiglitz told the Italian daily La Stampa in an interview. "In a situation like this, there's no way the Americans will return the party of the outgoing president to the White House." He added: "In the markets, we'll see the Dow Jones index fall more steeply than we can imagine today. We will have other dramatic failures of financial institutions. The American economy is headed into a long recession." In such an economic situation, "I think there is little doubt how the November elections will turn out," said Stiglitz, a former vice president of the World Bank and adviser to ex-US president Bill Clinton. "We are in the midst of the worst crisis of the last century, and until we've reached the bottom we cannot climb back up," he said.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (49532)	9/30/2008 10:39:01 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224735

Maybe not: Washington Prowler - Democrat Leaders Played to Lose By The Prowler, The American Spectator, 9/30/2008 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered her Majority Whip, Jim Clyburn, to essentially not do his job in the runup to the vote on Monday for the negotiated Wall Street bailout plan, according to House Democrat leadership aides. "Clyburn was not whipping the votes you would have expected him to, in part because he was uncomfortable doing it, in part because we didn't want the push for votes to be successful," says one leadership aide. "All we needed was enough to potentially get us over the finish line, but we wanted the Republicans to be the ones to do it. This was not going to be a Democrat-passed bill if the Speaker had anything to say about it." During the floor vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and House Democrat Conference chair Rahm Emanuel could be seen monitoring the vote on the floor, and gauging whether or not more Democrat votes were needed. Clyburn had expressed concerns, says the leadership aide, of being asked to press members of the Black and Hispanic caucuses on a bill he was certain those constituencies would not want passed. "It worked out, because we didn't have a dog in this fight. We negotiated. We gave the White House a bill. It was up to the Republicans to get the 100 plus votes they needed and they couldn't do it," said another Democrat leadership aide. Emanuel, who served as a board member for Freddie Mac, one of the agencies that precipitated the economic crisis the nation now finds itself in, had no misgivings about taking a leadership role in tanking the bill. "He was cheerleading us along, mothering the votes," says the aide. "We wanted enough to put the pressure on the Republicans and Congressman Emanuel was charged with making it close enough. He did a great job." Pelosi and her aides have made it clear they were not going to "whip" or twist the arms of members who did not want to vote, but they also made no effort to rally any support for a bill they attempted to hijack over the weekend. Further, according to House Oversight Committee staff, Emanuel has received assurances from Pelosi that she will not allow what he termed a "witch hunt" to take place during the next Congressional session over the role Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac played in the economic crisis. Emanuel apparently is concerned the roles former Clinton Administration members may have played in the mortgage industry collapse could be politically -- or worse, if the Department of Justice had its way, legally -- treacherous for many. spectator.org