Comments on: Obama: Triangulating Between the Banksters and the Pitchforks http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:11:51 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: dirac http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872556 dirac Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:12:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872556 <p>Your hyperbole is pretty annoying. Yes, we know the Bush Crime Family was involved in a lot of bad stuff. No dispute there. But open your eyes and realize that Clinton paved the way for some of these abuses–not to mention the depletion of the social safety nets that help people in this time (e.g. welfare reform). Hell, in order for political survival after ‘94 Clinton co-opted the Republican agenda! I just don’t understand how people revere him so much when he’s just slightly left Republicrat.</p> Your hyperbole is pretty annoying. Yes, we know the Bush Crime Family was involved in a lot of bad stuff. No dispute there. But open your eyes and realize that Clinton paved the way for some of these abuses–not to mention the depletion of the social safety nets that help people in this time (e.g. welfare reform). Hell, in order for political survival after ‘94 Clinton co-opted the Republican agenda! I just don’t understand how people revere him so much when he’s just slightly left Republicrat.

]]> By: Eureka Springs http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872550 Eureka Springs Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:54:53 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872550 <p>g’ nite selise.</p> g’ nite selise.

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872548 selise Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:50:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872548 <p>rattling? yikes!!!</p> <p>v glad to hear that you are healing, even if it’s slow.</p> <p>don’t typically watch moyers either - usually listen to the podcast sometime during the weekend.</p> <p>i’m beat. gonna crash. good night…</p> rattling? yikes!!!

v glad to hear that you are healing, even if it’s slow.

don’t typically watch moyers either – usually listen to the podcast sometime during the weekend.

i’m beat. gonna crash. good night…

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872547 selise Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:46:45 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872547 <p>is there anything about gramm sneaking the cfma into the conference report?</p> <p>p.s. thanks for that link, i didn’t have it.</p> is there anything about gramm sneaking the cfma into the conference report?

p.s. thanks for that link, i didn’t have it.

]]> By: Eureka Springs http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872546 Eureka Springs Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:43:39 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872546 <p>Getting better slowly but surely… in just the last 36/48 hours the breaks quit rattling when I walk. Thank goddess!</p> <p>I always tivo Moyers, hope she’s on.</p> Getting better slowly but surely… in just the last 36/48 hours the breaks quit rattling when I walk. Thank goddess!

I always tivo Moyers, hope she’s on.

]]> By: klynn http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872545 klynn Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:39:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872545 <p>The quoted <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/business/17grammside.html" rel="nofollow">Enron emails</a> state a great deal. I can bring the exact emails up on the Enron email data base when I get time.</p> <p>Eureka @ 38. Thanks for the link.</p> The quoted Enron emails state a great deal. I can bring the exact emails up on the Enron email data base when I get time.

Eureka @ 38. Thanks for the link.

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872544 selise Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:39:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872544 <p>wow. well, i’m glad to know it even if it pisses me off too. haven’t had cspan on much this week, and i did miss a lot. but i’ve been trying to read more (mostly background economics-type stuff) in order to have some idea how to put what’s happening in some kind of context.</p> <p>how is your arm doing? i didn’t know you didn’t have insurance (((ES))). </p> <p>p.s. i don’t know if this is so, but i think i saw that amy goodman was scheduled to be on bill moyers tonight.</p> wow. well, i’m glad to know it even if it pisses me off too. haven’t had cspan on much this week, and i did miss a lot. but i’ve been trying to read more (mostly background economics-type stuff) in order to have some idea how to put what’s happening in some kind of context.

how is your arm doing? i didn’t know you didn’t have insurance (((ES))).

p.s. i don’t know if this is so, but i think i saw that amy goodman was scheduled to be on bill moyers tonight.

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872543 selise Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:33:26 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872543 <p>no. i <em>think</em> the clinton administration played a key role, along with gramm and others (actually most of both the Rs and the Ds).</p> no. i think the clinton administration played a key role, along with gramm and others (actually most of both the Rs and the Ds).

]]> By: Eureka Springs http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872541 Eureka Springs Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:25:46 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872541 <p>I don’t know. Just happened to turn on cspan late last night.. Senate voted on a couple final amendments and the budget, which prompted me to check the vote page and blow a gasket. /s</p> I don’t know. Just happened to turn on cspan late last night.. Senate voted on a couple final amendments and the budget, which prompted me to check the vote page and blow a gasket. /s

]]> By: KayInMaine http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872540 KayInMaine Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:19:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/03/obama-triangulating-between-the-banksters-and-the-pitchforks/#comment-1872540 <p>Okay. You believe Clinton is to blame while his out of control right wing Congress is not and you have the primary sources to prove it. </p> <p>No way would Phil Gramm slip in a 262-page amendment in conference before Bill Clinton signed it into law. Of course, the White House was in limbo and getting ready for the new president, so why would he take advantage of that? </p> <p>I’m sure Bill Clinton was behind Chris Dodd taking out the amendment about the executive bonuses too recently. In fact, I’m busy right now blaming Bill Clinton for everything that I don’t have time to talk about this anymore, Selise, so if you would please excuse me. I’m at the part in history where Bill Clinton employed John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abe Lincoln. I’ve got a long night ahead of me as you can see. LOL</p> Okay. You believe Clinton is to blame while his out of control right wing Congress is not and you have the primary sources to prove it.

No way would Phil Gramm slip in a 262-page amendment in conference before Bill Clinton signed it into law. Of course, the White House was in limbo and getting ready for the new president, so why would he take advantage of that?

I’m sure Bill Clinton was behind Chris Dodd taking out the amendment about the executive bonuses too recently. In fact, I’m busy right now blaming Bill Clinton for everything that I don’t have time to talk about this anymore, Selise, so if you would please excuse me. I’m at the part in history where Bill Clinton employed John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abe Lincoln. I’ve got a long night ahead of me as you can see. LOL

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