Beck: Give Gen. Petraeus oversight of the $700 billion bailout.
Beck: Give Gen. Petraeus oversight of the $700 billion bailout.
While interviewing Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) on his CNN Headline News show last night, right-wing talker Glenn Beck declared that there’s “nobody in Washington that anybody trusts anymore.” Saying that he’d “like oversight” of the money Congress is allocating for the bailout of the financial system, Beck suggested Gen. David Petraeus would be the perfect person to provide the oversight:
BECK: thought of it, Senator. I’d like oversight, but here’s who I would like to provide the oversight for the people who are overseeing this mess, and that’s General Petraeus. I would like to see somebody bring General Petraeus in and have him sit there with all the stars on his shoulders and say, “Ok now, explain again how you didn’t create this mess?”
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Beckie is a fascist pig.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:50 pmDamn. Those wingnuts love them some daddy figures, don't they?
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:51 pmdavid betraeus.....are you kidding me....hahahahahah
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:54 pmBetrayUS? Before you grant the good general ovrsight responsibilities maybe he could tell us where all those missing billions of US taxpayer dollars went over in Iraq.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:54 pmJust put Bill Clinton back in thw White House until 01/20/09 and Barak won't have a problem in the world.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:55 pmso he can back door it to....ummm...halliburton, carlyle group, aei, pnac, heritage, and bomb iran and pakistan.
he would be following the nazis(bush) orders to replenish the o'l crooks coffers.
betraeus should be tried for treason along with the others.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:57 pmOMG! This moron's reprising the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Empire! What meds is he on and why is he still on the air??? Once again I'm forced to say, there is No bottom to this stupidity, none at all!
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:58 pmImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
Well, I guess if they think a small-town mayor is qualified to be Commander-in-Chief, it makes sense that they think a trained military man is qualified to oversee the administration of a massive bailout of complex interrelated financial institutions.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:00 pmGeneral Petraeus, he's a dessert topping AND a floor wax!!
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:00 pmBECK: thought of it, Senator. I`d like oversight, but here`s who I would like to provide the oversight for the people who are overseeing this mess, and that`s General Petraeus
*******Gen Petraeus ?The same general who lost track of 30,000 Guns in Iraq.It's clear that Repukes conveniently don't acknowledge their failures.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:00 pmOh, yes, the military is the perfect source to look for leadership on spending--NOT
I shudder to think of how much we would be spending for toilets and hammers then.
Heck, they can't even tell us where all the money we spent in Iraq went, and they've lost nuclear materials in transport. Shoulda used Fedex.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:00 pmWhy is Herr Beck still even on the air? Is he part of a "Special Needs" affirmative action program?
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:01 pmwhen Pataeus going to be declared a Saint anyway ? surely soon ? I mean just look at all those shiny things on his chest, and the surge which has saved the planet .
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:02 pmNot that I like agreeing with Beck, but actually, that's not a half-bad idea, although I certainly wouldn't use a Bush Yes-Man for it. It would have to be someone who actually understands the difference between an explanation and an excuse, which of course excludes all but one Republican and most Democrats.
I'd also knee-cap anyone who doesn't give me a good explanation.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:02 pmOh
My
God
Hey, if he can suggest Petreus to do the oversight, I hearby nominate Dennis Kucinich to handle the oversight. Now there's someone I trust!
'Rep. Dennis Kucinich:
Well, you know, the word "oversight" has new meaning here. You know, oversight could mean "I overlooked something." And frankly, the Securities and Exchange Commission looked the other way while all these-all this fast-paced trading was going in derivatives and derivatives of derivatives. We have about a four-$500 trillion, almost a half a quadrillion dollars of derivatives floating out there that no one really understands how that's going to affect the underlying economy when some of these things start imploding."'
Thanks to the Bush administration we are now using the word quadrillion!! They've desensitized us to the word 'trillions'! Billions are peanuts to them nowadays.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:03 pmWhy does CNN keep this know-nothing sh!t-4-brains on the air?? Beck's ratings are lower than a snake's scrotum sac and he hasn't uttered an intelligent word since the day he started spewing his brain-dead shtick.
Just asking . . .
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:04 pmOooo - I get it! Beck has a brilliant plan here.
Think about it - we can use Petraeus' counterinsurgency tactics to fix the mortgage crisis. Just like the Army is bribing Iraqi tribes to not shoot at us, we can bribe bankers not to foreclose on people.
Ooo - AND we can reduce the ethnic and racial disparities in home foreclosures the same way Petraeus reduced violence in Baghdad - by ethnically cleansing our neighborhoods! I mean, this whole mortgage crisis happened because minorities bought too many houses, right? So if we make sure that white people and black people and Hispanics stick to their own neighborhoods - preferably, separated from each other by fifteen-foot concrete blast walls - people will feel safe from foreclosure!
It's WIN-WIN!
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:05 pmWhy don't we just get Vin Diesel to come in and kick some ass?
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:09 pmOr Tony Stark?
Does anyone think Beck has any credibility on anything?
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:11 pmWhy oh why must we be subjected to the Glenn Becks of the world?
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:11 pmBeck is employing the Failin' Palin strategy here --> (1) take two totally unrelated concepts; (2) marry them together in a unique and incomprehensible way; (3) stand back and admire your work in the same way that a two-year-old marvels at "making a poopy". Remarkably enough, this strategy seems to work for a not-insignificant portion of the U.S. population . . . the same ones who think that GDumbya has been a good president.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:11 pmWhy don't they just get down on their knees and pray to their new god, General David Petraeus. While they're kneeling I'm sure some of them would love to pay their respects to the republican's new idol.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:12 pmHow 'bout giving the selection job to those who saw this coming? Dr. Roubini, for one. That lets out all the mainstream commentators, though. Sorta the opposite of what we did with the Iraq War seers.
This has been an announcement by the Why Does Little Billy Kristol Have a Job? Committee.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:13 pmTell me, has the good general gotten around to officially changing his name to "Petraeus The Great"?
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:13 pmHow about giving the fascist pig, Beck, to Gitmo and allow Betrayus to oversee the torture and imprisonment.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:13 pmWell if we're going to go the military route, for oversight on this, I nominate Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore of Hurricane Katrina fame... Think what you will, that guy kicked some @ss when it was necessary.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:14 pmMcCain = Collapse
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:21 pm666lattes-oh, yeah, that guy came there, saw the problem and what needed to be done and did it. And he was po'ed at what he saw. That'd be cool-I'd like to see him drill these proposals for the bailout into the ground.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:21 pm" I would like to see somebody bring General Petraeus in and have him sit there with all the stars on his shoulders and say..."
All the stars on his shoulders would distract from him allocating the money right where it doesn't need to go, and the simple minded morons would be distrac.... ooooh, look at the shiny stars!!.... I hear noises like words.... I like shiny stars.... and ice cream.... daddy, can I have ice cream?....
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:22 pmPutting a career soldier who gets everything he asks for from Congress and who has no experience with the economy sounds like a plan someone with Beck's low IQ would be expected to come up with. Earth to Glenn: I trust a lot of people in Washington. They just won't be in charge for another few months. Meanwhile, thanks for admitting that nobody trusts this pathetic, corrupt administration anymore.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:24 pmWell of course General Petraeus should oversee the disbursement of 700 billion of tax-payers dollars. After all he did a bang-up when he headed the Multi National Forces-Iraq project distributing 700,000 weapons! 700,OOO weapons versus 700 billion dollars? What's the diff?--just a bunch of zeroes, really!
Here's a little background on Gen. Petraeus past fiscal and managerial abilities, from days gone by:
http://at5thestate.blogspot.com/2007/08/guns-and-money.html
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:25 pm700 Billion will probably buy alot of "success" in iraq if betrayus puts it into the hands of terrorists and killers like he has so much of our other taxpayer money..
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:29 pmanyone taking bets on whose family is more inbred: Palins or Becks?
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:29 pmExactly. It's the authoritarian need for a Daddy figure.
"General Petreaus will fix everything when he gets home".
The fact that this yearning for such a savior is rooted in a military man who achieved his position because he was the only guy who would tell Bush what he wanted to hear is immaterial to people like Beck. They just see what they want to see, and what they want to see is someone to Make It All Better.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:29 pmBTW to save everyone some time, the upshot of my old blog-post link is that Petraeus lost at least $150 million and anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 weapons. And was then promoted.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:31 pmBeck obviously longs for a military junta form of government. Perhaps we should all chip in to buy him a one-way ticket to Myanmar...
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:31 pmWhat really really bothers me is how much evil idiots like Glenn Beck are getting paid.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 pmTalking about the IQ of Beck-talk about his viewers. That's why they don't have his show compete in the same time slot as Friday Night Smackdown.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:33 pmOh, I see. Now the fascists are joking about the potential squandering of $700 billion. Feigned concerns about
socialism have now subsided, thanks to the Senate-passed fascistic version of the bailout leaned to their liking.
I'd support the call for a revolution if this galactic tax cut passes. Every 1%-er who happily redistributed wealth from middle class should be targeted.
As an American, I am extremely angry.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:40 pmBeck shows true colors - advocates Military Dictatorship for USA.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:47 pmA hero has to sell the swill foisted on the American people. It doesn't matter what he knows, as long as people trust him.
That's similar to the crap Wall Street packaged and sold. It doesn't matter what it was, as long as people trust it.
The week of September 15th, the big money boys quit trusting each other. Within days, they crafted a plan to make us pay for their past credit sins.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:59 pmLISTEN TO BIG BROTHER!
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:04 pmThe Dogfather Says:
"Beck obviously longs for a military junta form of government. Perhaps we should all chip in to buy him a one-way ticket to Myanmar…"
Or send Jeff Gannon over to his house wearing a general's uniform.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:20 pmBen Glech really wants him some security blanket fascism, don't he?
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:21 pmhttp://www.quoteworld.org/categories/stupidity/3/
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Glenn Beck is quite possibly the 'dumbest talking head' on cable or talk radio, and he has some very stiff competition in this category.
It's appalling that anyone would entertain such a foolish idea: imagine taking the individual responsible for overseeing the 'distribution' of weapons and ammunition 'off the books' in Iraq—a step necessitated, he claims, by the exigent circumstances over-tasked troops faced in the combat zone—and putting him in charge of the largest single wealth redistribution scheme ever hatched.
Oh, yeah - we call all see how that movie will end, now can't we?
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:31 pmBeck is back to taking drugs. Petraeus follows the White House's orders and would give the 700 billion to Republicans and Iraq pay offs. Right now the US Military is giving the Leaders of Iraq money to stop killings. Yes the problems continue but we're paying for them to hold off so McCain will look good. Ask any soldier in Iraq who isn't getting a bonus to lie from the WH and you'll know the truth. Petraeus is reporting what his bosses tell him but the emails from the soldiers to family back home tell a different story. All the Military families knew about Walter Reed but it took years and an honest reporter who read her email to get the truth out. When a new President takes office the American people will finally know that Petraeus was a tool and did as he was told by the Commander-in-Chief. But most Americans would rather believe the lie because the truth would blow them away.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:32 pmDumnb Questions:
Since when has Petraus claimed special credentials in managing an economy besides being a General?
If he has, what has he done with that experience in Iraq ?
How are those no-bid contracts working out ?
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:53 pmMilitary Accountant?
Beck you are a complete and total a$$.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm"Beck: Give Gen. Petraeus oversight of the $700 billion bailout."
Beck took the wrong pill yesterday. Petraeus the oversighter for the 700 billion? lol Beck is an idiot and asswipe. You might as well give Supreme Leader Dick Cheney oversight of the money. Man, the idiot commentators are crawling out of the woodwork.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:04 pmwell, general dave did manage to lose those planeloads of cash and wepons in iraq, so he could probably make the 700 billion disappear pretty quickly too - if that's what we're shooting for here with the bailout thingy.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:39 pmHasn't the military always, always, always been the least accountable part of our government? I believe the figure was $8.8 billion (of the Iraqis money flown from US banks) on pallets in Baghdad that went missing without a single cent accounted for. And they had lots of stars and birds and shiny things on their shoulders, Glenn.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:48 pmYes, the military is so good with money...
'Just last week President Bush announced, "my 2003 budget calls for more than $48 billion in new defense spending."
More money for the Pentagon, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends.
"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.'
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:56 pmWhat is it about these wingnuts and Petraueus? If I were him, I'd be insulted by the notion that he should do anything but serve his country. Like when McCain was responding to Obama's point about negotiating with Iran by demanding to know why he wouldn't "sit down with Petraeus one on one" - like a military officer is someone the Commander in Chief should negotiate with.
It's like they're trying to turn him into the next Smedley Butler or something.
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:07 pmyep i love beck.
you guys heard of jonah goldberg?
December 5th, 2008 at 12:36 am