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2009-09-23 Home Front: Politix

Palin emphasizes the need for a grassroots rebirth of the Republican Party

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-09-23 13:12|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 All Palin would have to do is make a plausible case for the prosecution and imprisonment of a few thousand banksters and she would have a tsunami of support. The mantle of Teddy Roosevelt and trust-busting is hanging on a coat hook in the party's waiting room.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-09-23 13:27|| 2009-09-23 13:27|| Front Page Top

#2 If even people here fall for that sad spin that "it's the bankers" that caused the credit crunch then it's sad.

Simply put.

There was FAR too much and regulators decide on the volume of credit in the economy, bankers allocate it.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-09-23 13:43|| 2009-09-23 13:43|| Front Page Top

#3 BP I'm afraid that you're over-simplifying. The Bankers in question (the big boys) were rent seeking their brains out trying to leverage the government into acting for their benefit.

The fact that so much of the gov't. was totally of the same mind made the result what you would expect of a Super Bowl where the Steelers offense was opposed by the Steelers defense. Who do you think would win?

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2009-09-23 13:57|| 2009-09-23 13:57|| Front Page Top

#4 The Pig Men -- Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, AIG, et. al. -- had been and continue to be engaged in massive rent-seeking, control fraud, and gambling with other people's money. Laws & regulations already in place have been ignored. There are many factors in the current disaster. Yes, the federal government over-expanded credit. But that wasn't all. This is not a partisan issue, unless you get your jollies out of making it one.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-09-23 14:11|| 2009-09-23 14:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Teddy Roosevelt said: I grew into manhood thoroughly imbued with the feeling that a man must be respected for what he made of himself. But I had also, consciously or unconsciously, been taught that socially and industrially pretty much the whole duty of the man lay in thus making the best of himself; that he should be honest in his dealings with others and charitable in the old-fashioned way to the unfortunate; but that it was no part of his business to join with others in trying to make things better for the many by curbing the abnormal and excessive development of individualism in a few. Now I do not mean that this training was by any means all bad. On the contrary, the insistence upon individual responsibility was, and is, and always will be, a prime necessity.... But such teaching, if not corrected by other teaching, means acquiescence in a riot of lawless business individualism which would be quite as destructive to real civilization as the lawless military individualism of the Dark Ages.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-09-23 14:15|| 2009-09-23 14:15|| Front Page Top

#6 What's wrong with Washington is not a partisan issue. Unless the Republican Party fundamentally changes and stops trying to look like the Democratic Party we are going to get more of the same. B. Obama got elected because of what's wrong with Washington; not anything that's particularly wrong with the country. Unfortunately, many of the people who elected him went for the glitter and surrounding claptrap. They believed the soaring rhetoric of a Pied Piper. There was a lot of pre-election deceptiveness--empty promises, deceit, and yes [at the risk of being labeled a racist] lies too. The MSM looked the other way and really didn't do a service to America by providing honest to God reporting. They were too busy slamming George Bush about one thing or another or demonizing Sara Palin in the most petty of ways. They were pushing a leftist agenda. The voters were a little in attitude like the people who elected Carter after the Watergate debacle and Nixon's pardon by Ford. These voters were fed up with the corruptness of Washington and they elected a guy who didn't have a clue about the Presidency or leadership; someone who was different and new. And so now we are stuck in a similar situation. We have a guy who ran as a centrist but turns out to be the most leftist President we have ever had--a President who wants to change the very nature of America to one created in his image. BO has little use for capitalistic free markets. He wants to re-distribute the wealth in the country. I'm wonder if he and the peoplw who surround him even love [or like] America. He seems to be have a one-world view which favors some body like the UN over the USA. Despite all this the country will survive. It has survived a long time. Without a USA, the rest of the world would suffer. America has been a shining beacon for two centuries or so to many around the world. It will continue to be.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-09-23 17:41|| 2009-09-23 17:41|| Front Page Top

#7 correction: I wonder if he and the people..

Posted by JohnQC 2009-09-23 17:44|| 2009-09-23 17:44|| Front Page Top

#8 JohnQC, it is quite clear that Obama intensely dislikes America as it is currently constituted. Perhaps the only state he despises more is Israel. His own words and deeds leave no doubt.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2009-09-23 19:02|| 2009-09-23 19:02|| Front Page Top

#9 GUAM PDN > seems SARAH has been critiqued as "WHOM DOES SHE THINK SHE IS - THE GOVERNOR OF GUAM"!

***cough*** ***cough **** .........

But, once again, I digress.....

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-09-23 19:31|| 2009-09-23 19:31|| Front Page Top

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