Comments on: Barnes: Just change ‘bailout’ to ‘rescue’ and people will support it.

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:15:31 +0000

Since hunger is gone, replace by food insecurity, meetings must be held on food security:

President Bush Attends Meeting on Food Security Millennium U.N. Plaza Hotel
New York, New York

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/09/20080923-10.html

By: Hawkeye

Hawkeye — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:02:21 +0000

OK after hearing that nonsense I will no longer ever trust anything Fred Barnes say’s about anything on any topic. What a friggin tool.

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:52:56 +0000

Hunger is gone, replaced by food insecurity.

I guess Cheney and Bolten didn’t use the magic “rescue” word today in their meeting with House Republicans. Cheney has a long memory of those who don’t toe the line. I’d watch my back if I was a Repug opposing the handout, I mean bailout.

By: greenpagan

greenpagan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:32:19 +0000

Freddie ‘Barnyard’ Barnes has to be one of the biggest insufferable asses in all of Screaming-Headdom.

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By: sacopenapa

sacopenapa — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:12:14 +0000

Yeah… just change invasion and occupation to ‘democracy promotion’. Change torture to ‘enhaced interrogation’. Change major finacial break down to ‘finacial hick up’, war criminals to ‘heroes’…

By: Cal Malenky

Cal Malenky — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:11:10 +0000

So their only mistake was to not consult with Frank Luntz first on how best to catapult the propaganda.
Lipstick meet pig.

By: Xisithrus

Xisithrus — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:39:15 +0000

Securitizing the market -Frank Luntz

By: Xisithrus

Xisithrus — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:36:06 +0000

If they would have turned over social security to these guys and it went bust they wouldnt be asking for rescue

By: Art

Art — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:12:59 +0000

and…
We don’t have homeless people…
they are campers!

By: octamethyl

octamethyl — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:47:25 +0000

These guys think we (the public) are little more than drooling mongoloids. First we are expected to believe that McCain is an agent of change, and now this.
If ‘angry’ is the word most used to describe us on the left, it is only because ignorance is bliss on the right.

By: Progressive Veteran

Progressive Veteran — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:46:40 +0000

NO BAILOUT

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=303340

Sign this, help out!

By: DwH

DwH — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:36:17 +0000

Who do these people think they are telling us what we think? These hypothetical, straw men answers to questions infuriate me.

By: pbg

pbg — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:31:04 +0000

‘Change Depends on McCain” is a request, not a statement.

By: paleolib

paleolib — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:21:30 +0000

Earth to Fred, even the comatose trailer trash watching Fox “News” can understand that a “rescue” of billionaire bankers is still a transfer of wealth from the taxpayers to the judgment-impaired rich. So much for the fake populism upon which the Republican master class has thrived since Reagan came along.

By: shoeless

shoeless — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:16:34 +0000

mary Says:
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Elitist pr icks like Barnes think we’re all stoopid.

No, he just thinks 51% of us are stoopid.

The GOP
Because at least half
of you are stoopid.

By: misshusseinmolly

misshusseinmolly — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:10:25 +0000

Call it whatever you want, but it still amounts to handing over an unprecedented amount of cash with no strings attached to reward greedheads whose avarice got us into this mess.

Not exactly the same as taking care of people in flooded areas or in the line of wildfires.

But I admit that some people will be sucked in by a semantic makeover. After all, constantly attaching words like “freedom” and “patriot” to concepts that should be unacceptable to every American worked pretty well, didn’t it?

By: Robt

Robt — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:09:54 +0000

So going by Fred Barnes, Social Security should be OK until it needs a rescue. We might as well begin with raising the monthly benefit to retired folks. You know, like executive pay. Then the coporations can bail Social Security out. Oops, excuse me, I mean RESCUE.

It is not what you call it, Fred. It is expecting Americans to pay for the RESCUE. There wealthy of this nation sure don’t care to help Americans out to much now do they?

If Fred or Wall St doesn’t like any terms for recieving the bailout. They don’t have to take it. Maybe the Walton family should step in and bail out their wealthy buddies?

Fred proves God has absolutely nothing to do with people becoming wealthy. WEll besides Pat Robertson, Falwell and the like.

Fred and Brit really need to get out more. No I don’t mean their country club.

By: Leftside Annie

Leftside Annie — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:09:00 +0000

Hmmm. That old saw about ‘polishing a turd’ comes to mind – only in this case, instead of a turd “bailout” — it’s a turd “rescue”…

And it *still* stinks.

By: stateofthedivision

stateofthedivision — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:08:50 +0000

The reaction from the German, French and EU leaders points to Wall Street and American companies as the perpetrators of these super deadbeat instruments.

If they didn’t play the “innovative financing” game, there’s little to no clean-up. Yes, they may hold the investments in their coffers, but Uncle Sam is promising to “rescue” them.

By: mary

mary — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:08:01 +0000

Paulson, the guy who thinks we should hand him $700 BILLION:

“The worst of the credit crisis may have passed, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday”

That was on May 7, 2008.

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