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2009-07-06 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve White 2009-07-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 This is a crock: "The truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy," Leave out me and many other people, some with actual qualifications, from Joe's "everyone else." Plenty of people read the economy correctly, and were either ridiculed or ignored until it was too late. Even now there is no fact-finding operation going on at the executive or legislative level to determine what went wrong and how it might be fixed. Instead they are trotting out the same discredited "experts" who had a hand in causing the crisis, to fix it. Joe, your people are still misreading the economy.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-07-06 00:18|| 2009-07-06 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Not everyone, Joe, just you, your boss and your pals in Congress ...

Not to mention those who actively participated in obstructing real oversight and regulatory action. "Misread" is not a defense when the evidence clearly shows gross negligence and dereliction of duty by your beltway buddies up to the time the 'crisis' finally unfolded. Put this up there with "I didn't know the gun was loaded" even when you were repeatedly warned.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-07-06 07:22|| 2009-07-06 07:22|| Front Page Top

#3 So, what makes you think you have gotten it right this time?

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-07-06 07:57|| 2009-07-06 07:57|| Front Page Top

#4 AH they don't WANT to fix it. At least not as you or I would define "fix".

What they want are excuses and crises that can be used to grab more and more power over the economy (see also Oogo) and continue to implement their fascist / communist / socialist ideals.

Look up "corporatism" just for chuckles.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2009-07-06 10:49|| 2009-07-06 10:49|| Front Page Top

#5 I seem to remember the stimulus being necessary because we were in "the worst economy since the Great Depression". Now Biden says he underestimated how bad it was? The Party needs to do a whole lot of airbrushing.

Posted by DoDo 2009-07-06 11:37|| 2009-07-06 11:37|| Front Page Top

#6 This statement is self-serving. Rather than take credit for all their efforts to further damage the economy, they take blame merely for not immediately understanding how bad Bush left it for them. Gawd how I hate these people. Only thing worse is the idiots who listen to them.

Posted by Iblis 2009-07-06 12:32|| 2009-07-06 12:32|| Front Page Top

#7 "Biden: we misread economy"

No, Joe - you're just f*cking IDIOTS.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-07-06 17:59|| 2009-07-06 17:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Any different from the upper echelons of the old Soviet Union who actually believe the reports of their minions who were lying through their teeth telling their bosses what they wanted to hear? It wasn't till it was too late that the boys at the top discovered [along with the CIA who also believed the reporting] that they'd based their decisions on fiction. Then again, when you insist on running a corrupt political machine, what more can you expect.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-07-06 20:55|| 2009-07-06 20:55|| Front Page Top

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