Don’t give the criminals another cent. We’re only a month away from getting rid of their sorry asses for good.

Give Paulson five bucks for car fare.

Congress should assume that it’s 15 business days. Even if they release the money of the 19th, it will be gone to the Bush cronies.

I hardly call it a victory when the Democrats will genuflect before Bush (again) and give Paulson everything he wants and needs. The real goal for the Bush Brigade is getting their hands on that $350 billion in free money.
They could care less about the UAW, The Big 3, “restructuring” or the country in general.
These guys are nothing more than world class looters.

What I wrote from a couple of threads down:

BooRadley has an oxdown diary that says Obama is planning a $675-$775 billion stimulus over 2 years, call it $340-$390 billion a year. This will be just enough to keep us skating on the edge of depression without lifting us out of recession. Nothing on getting the banking system working again, nothing on helping distressed homeowners, nothing on re-regulation. I have to say this is very disappointing.

Paulson is also now asking for the other $350 billion from the TARP. I wouldn’t trust that f*cker with 50 cents let alone those billions. This is more bad news.

And then there is the bad kind of sort of temporary bailout of the auto industry.

Again what I am seeing from both Bush and Obama is too little and a failure to seriously address the fundamental problems of the financial meltdown.

I agree. They are going to loot and loot and loot until they are pried out the door on January 20.

Paulson Must provide congress with all his notes on where the first $350B went and that means both pages!

Kudlow is on teevee railing that the demand to crush the UAW is not “binding” and that there is no “car czar” to oversee the whole thing.

In theory a car czar isn’t an awful idea, but if it’s someone appointed by Bush it’s pretty much guaranteed to be some thief. And most of what they’re asking for is the result of political considerations, not practical ones, so I have little faith that a “car czar” would work the way it should.

Hi everyone - sorry I’ve been gone lately - I’ve been putting together pictures for posters. Some here:

http://www.freewayblogger.com/visitorsgallery.htm

thanks to all who helped me out on this.

If Bush vetos the disapproval, Congress must re-diapprove within a 15 day time period, or Bush gets the money.

That puts us right into Obama territory.

Yeah I’m thinking this isn’t looking too probable.

What a display! Thanks for all you do.

To freeway at 9

surreal how crooked they all are, including reid,frank pelosi and the rest of the good folks in washington

Please not another cent. Wasn’t there a long post here last night to the effect that the bailout wasn’t needed and has had no effect?

Sounds about right with these clowns. Get these people away from our governement.

Great Photo!

If Bush is going to ask for it is he waiting so that the 111 congress could vote on it? That would mean he would ask for it Mon or Tuesday.

Kudlow is the mouthpiece of the Administration - what a bloodsucking pig he is.

“Anyone who would be comforted by the gang that couldn’t shoot straight being anywhere near that pile of cash deserves what they get.”

Yes maybe they do deserve what they get but the rest of us don’t.

love it, fwb! you are amazing.

Thanks Jane.

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no one can really be that stupid as to give Bu$hCo another red cent, can they? Really?????
i think it’s not stupidity. i think it’s a joint heist. complicity. every pro voter in congress can NOT be that flippin’ dumb!
this whole bail out TARP thing has gone step by step exactly as I thought it would when we first were threatened with death and total collapse and martial law and Armageddon, back last September.
Honest. And I’m not that poli savvy and know very little about economics.
that was just common sense and logic and an acute awareness of the goings on of the last 8 years.
just eyes and ears and the USE OF a little bit of gray matter.

Kudlow is the among the worst- and the most often wrong- of the gooper apologist…

A CD of his greatest hit “God loves tax cuts for the rich” is available at his website.

wow.
awesome job, fwb!!!
just wow!
wish we could get that to the top of any google page on a “dumba legacy” search!

from Gettelfinger and the GOP stock channel is complaining abt this statement.

“We’re pleased that the Bush administration has acted today to provide urgently needed emergency bridge loans to America’s auto companies and to pursue a process for restructuring outside of bankruptcy. This will keep the doors of America’s factories open, keep Americans working and prevent the devastating economic consequences for millions of Americans and thousands of businesses that would have resulted from a liquidation of operations by one or more auto companies.”

“All stakeholders - management, directors, bondholders, suppliers, dealers, workers - will have to participate in shared sacrifices to help the industry move forward.”

“While we appreciate that President Bush has taken the emergency action needed to help America’s auto companies weather the current financial crisis, we are disappointed that he has added unfair conditions singling out workers. These conditions were not included in the bipartisan legislation endorsed by the White House, which passed the House of Representatives and which won support from a majority of senators.”

“We will work with the Obama administration and the new Congress to ensure that these unfair conditions are removed, as we join in the coming months with all stakeholders to create a viable future for the U.S. auto industry.”

http://www.wxyz.com/news/story.....AByIg.cspx

Is that the same God that told Bush it was OK to invade Iraq?

i was just listening to NPR (yeah, i know, but i was in the car - out stocking up for the pending storm) and the report was that the loan conditions were so odious that ford doesn’t want anything to do with this. is there an official/legal statement on the loan conditions/contract somewhere to check?

if this has already been covered a link to the relevant thread would be appreciated.

Is that the same God that told Bush it was OK to invade Iraq?

and told sarah to run for vp

The guy has an amazing ability to curse government while he’s demanding bigger bailouts from government. I’m in awe of his ability to occupy two mutually contradictory positions at the same time.

I find him a bloody bore. “TAX CUTS TAX CUTS”

Good on the Obama team for that statement: I was wishing they could remove ”unfair conditions” and am pleased they are saying so right off the top. What a game. The closer we get to January 20th, the sterner Obama sounds. That’s good. Still there’s only so much he can say: if he starts ranting he’ll lose credibility and frankly that’s all I’m being carried on at this point. When Liz Warren says Paulsen et. al. have *no* idea and I see all that is written here on what could/should/would be done, I am encouraged that there is a whole new approach coming.

I highly doubt BushCo will provide the paperwork they cite: they have *never* yet provided *any* of the legally proscribed paperwork for any activity to date as far as I can tell including intelligence, war, or finance.

And the clock looks really against them on this.

Oh, and I guess Bush is taking his orders from the Plantation Caucus now. Curiouser and curiouser.

Congratulations, freewayblogger! Beautiful montage.

If Reagan can negotiate with the Iranians behind Carter’s back during an election, I sure to goddess hope there is a backchannel between Obama and the big 3. I would EXPECT it. The time is just too short not to be giving them a heads up and assurances of what will really be the plan after January 20th.

IIRC, Ford wasn’t asking for money. They just wanted a line of credit available.

So Paulson would have to ask for the 350b before Jan 5 to be able to get it? When does Congress reconvene?

that’s what i remember also (from the hearings).

So if we hear doom and gloom the next couple of weeks from the GOP channels then we’ll know they will come knocking on Congress’ door.

Looks like they may not even ask for the second half of the money, given how few days they have left…

http://online.wsj.com/article/.....21629.html

That’s right: that’s their next trademarked move. They’ll ooga booga us during Christmas. Nice, really nice.

Unfortunately, the gang that couldn’t shoot straight can loot straight.

“… Anyone who would be comforted by the gang that couldn’t shoot straight being anywhere near that pile of cash deserves what they get.”

LOL Exactly!

The old gang’s last chance to break the bank, er rob the kitty, er . . . whatever.

These people may be incompetent by most standards, but I think we’ll see that they’re remarkably competent at drawing down $350 billion . . . and in record-breaking time.

Harry Reid did not win this in any sense of the word. He capitulated to the GOP at every turn, and it was only that somehow Bush realized how disastrous letting the auto companies fail would be that saved the day. Of course, now the GOP can brag that they “stood firm” against the horrible unions and were fiscally responsible, so they win too. Reid is utterly useless as a leader, and I wonder how he rationalizes it to himself.