BAILOUT: Yes or No?

[Spino]

Certainly explains McCain, and Bush too for that matter. Spino, is there any political opinion you have that doesn't boil down to, some half-baked psychological deconstruction which seems exclusively reserved for people not on your side of the aisle? Someone listens to too much Michael Savage.

Or Franks, or Obama, or Biden, or Stevens, and so on and so on and so on. Pelosi is like Bush, she's far too easy to pick on but you do it anyway because you can't help yourself. You're reading waaaay too much into my comedic drive-by. Feel free to let one loose at a Republican congressmen/senator of your choosing.

Savage? Bah. I don't listen to talk radio, there's far better things I can do with my time... like playing computer games or flaming in my favorite forums.

You see Idaho has shown me the light. I'm all about the drive-bys now. I've decided to cash in my partisan bickering wheels for a dee-lux pimped out gangsta coach with phat rims and a Tec-9 stashed under the seat. I offered to ride shotgun for Idaho but he said no way, I might ruin his custom Corinthian leather upholstery...

[Koga No Goshi]

You see Idaho has shown me the light. I'm all about the drive-bys now. I've decided to cash in my partisan bickering wheels for a dee-lux pimped out gangsta coach with phat rims and a Tec-9 stashed under the seat.

I wasn't aware you ever did much more than that in political discussions anyway, but suit yourself.

[Mangudai]

Shrub probably didn't understand the problems with Fannie and Freddie. Most of the public and the politicians didn't understand it either. That's OK, not everybody is expected to be an expert on these issues. Only the Senators and Congressmen on particular committees are expected to understand details like banking regulation.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_c...eature=related

It's pretty clear that a group of Republicans wanting reform would have to persuade the rest of their party who didn't understand the issues, at a time when the war of terror was everybody's focus. Then they would have to force a purely partisan bill through both houses. The democrats would be screaming that these measures discriminate against the poor and racial minorities.

Spread the blame, that's fine with me. But, lets be honest about who had the right ideas, and whose ideas were wrong.