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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 (61556)	3/20/2009 2:23:08 PM
From: DizzyG	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224750

You really need to step outside of your little bubble, Kenneth... Clinging to one poll number whilst ignoring all the other ones makes you look kind of myopic. There are several other reliable sources for polling data that are indeed showing a downward trend with respect to the Dalibama's approval ratings. Alas, your precious Gallup is so heavily weighted towards Democrats, I am not surprised that this trend is missing from their polls. Rest assured, there is a momentum building against your boy and his approval ratings are heading south. But I know you have a real cognitive dissonance problem. So relax and take another swig of the DNC Koolaid. LOL! Diz-

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (61556)	3/20/2009 2:41:00 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224750

where are the markets kennyboy ???

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (61556)	3/20/2009 2:41:58 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224750

By MarketWatch Last update: 2:01 p.m. EDT March 19, 2009 Comments: 194 LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Timothy Geithner could be forgiven for wishing he'd used the excuse of his tax failings to get out of the Treasury job. After all, the onetime golden boy and youthful former head of the all-important Federal Reserve Bank of New York is clearly is being set up as the fall guy for the bonus debacle at American International Group (AIG: American International Group Inc AIG 1.19, -0.43, -26.5%) . You know your days in Washington are numbered when the president declares he has confidence in you. If he really were confident, he wouldn't have to say it, now, would he? Geithner's getting the blame, even though Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., specifically inserted language into the must-pass "stimulus" bill last month protecting the AIG bonuses. Dodd admits to doing the deed but says it was at the behest of the White House, which in turn is adroitly shifting attention, and blame, onto Geithner. In all likelihood, Geithner did argue that the bonuses needed to be honored if the mess at AIG was going to be wound down. Urging that contracts be honored probably didn't seem like a big deal at the time. Of course, the whole affair raises a number of other questions, such as the following: If the bonus clause was so bad, where were all the other senators? Where was the House? Why didn't the president use a "signing statement" to prevent the now-hated provision from being implemented? See related Market Pulse item on passage of a bill to heavily tax AIG bonus payments. But inconvenient truths in Washington are, well, inconvenient. It's much easier to find the target and give him the shove. And it's easy to fob the blame off on Geithner. The guy's a tax cheat, after all. Why, he's hardly better than Bernie Madoff. Notwithstanding Obama's proclamations that he'll take responsibility for the mess if everybody can just move on, it's perfectly clear that he won't pay. Instead, sometime soon, in the middle of the night, as Geithner burns the midnight oil alone over at Treasury, the call will come. "Hi, Tim? It's Rahm. ... Listen, we're going to have to make some changes. ..." -- Tom Bemis, assistant managing editor End of Story