Rev. Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A., M.Div.

Say, I heard the White House on NPR say that they didn't want to take over these guys but the failure of Congress to act of the past few years (read: Democratic Congress)forced them to do it. Dear God they don't own any of their crimes do they.
In a related insanity Keith Olbermann has been relieved of election coverage on MSNBC in the main because of his on air comments about the appropriateness of the 9-11 spot at the Republican Convention (which by the way equated the Shia jihadist of Iran with the Sunni jihadist of Saudi Arabia). MSNBC has cut off their own dick because it was peeing.

By the way well before that Rep. 9-11 spot was over I felt like up-chucking. Can you imagine some dumb Oklahoma politician using the OKC bombing footage in a commercial or rally. We would hang the fool right then and there regardless of party.
 

Well, the housing thing has been waiting 70 years (Fannie) and almost 40 years (Freddie), for a down market to show the flaws inherent to both. Regular property value appreciation covered MULTITUDES of sins.

On the other thing: The Republican Party is despicable. What else is new?

On Olbermann: Don't yet know what to think about that. I do think that David Gregory is an amiable second-stringer.
 

Gov. Palin displayed a remarkable ignorance not only of the realities of the Fannie/Freddie business, but flipped it all around in the process. She claimed that the taxpayers were getting it in the but because of the failures of these two mortgage guarantors, so the government had to help them. Except, of course, they aren't government run, and only now will taxpayers be getting it in the gut.

As Barack Obama says, "They must think you're stupid."
 

(shudder)

GOD SAVE US.
 

That's the theme, Geoffrey. "John McCain thinks you're stupid."
 

To paraphrase Harry Truman, how many times do you have to be hit in the head before you figure out who is hitting you in the head?

The more I see of Palin and see people like Olbermann censured for being "liberal on the air" the more money I send to Obama. I'm now at 4 times what I donated last cycle. These Republicans and their fellow travelers are going to bankrupt me just by getting to donate against them.

Say if the Federal Highway Trust Fund is broke, does that mean we will have to stop the I-40 bypass?

I mean will I not be able to use the streets that are cut off for several years now?
 

Re, "Say if the Federal Highway Trust Fund is broke, does that mean we will have to stop the I-40 bypass?"

I think so.
 

Democrats control the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Barney Frank was the primary author of the bill.

227 Democrats voted for the housing bailout bill, and 45 Republicans.

Amateur hour indeed.

Go Nitally Lions!
 

Hey! You guys are being unfair! This bailout is definitely helping the American taxpayer. Well, two American taxpayers: the heads of Freddie and Fannie who are both getting golden parachutes out of the deal.
 

Hey, Uninformed Voter: I'm not saying the housing law is a bad law; I'm not. I'm saying that for a Republican presidential administration to take steps to nationalize ANYTHING is hypocritical on its face, and bound to be a screw-up, since Republicans hate government. Thje law gave the administration the authority to do many things; it did not order it to take the steps it took over the weekend. I trust neither the GOP's judgment nor its wsword in such matters.
 

Any matters, for that matter.
 

Mr/Ms illformed voter, if the Bush administrations regulatory structure had worked as laws and regulations required it to and not allowed the heavy profits and the purchase of weak loans made by the perpetrators Fred and Fannie then the Congress would not have had to worry about a law to bail them out of their own stupid behavior. The law was there to protect the economic structure of the home mortgage lending industry of which these two represent 40%, not to rescue the greedy behavior of unregulated dumb asses. And say, why didn't the rest of(other than the 47) the informed Republican Congress want to protect the mortgage lending industry against failure? Hell Republicans control 80% of it, but they left it up to the Democrats to save it?
Once again you are presenting an example of the actual perps not owning their own failures. I am afraid that indeed you do represent what passes for and "Informed" voter these days.
"Informed", like "Change", it seems is simply another word hijacked by the Republican word mongers.

So ER if we can't build the I-40 bypass, does that mean that the pork Inhoff is touting in his commercials is actually nothing more than a rubber check?
 

Hoo hoo! Could be!
 

Well it looks like the rePublicans have copyrighted "lipstick" along with "informed" and "change" so now when any Democrat says "lipstick" it is an insult to Sarah Palin.

Sounds like a new chant to me; Lipstick! Lipstick! Lipstick!

Actually, I have always found the "lipstick on the pig" analogy to be sexist no matter who used it (and the rePublicans are very fond of using it). Maybe this will kill the use of the phrase in public life.
 

I had no idea the lipstick on a pig comment was sexist, until the Republicans, those stalwart defenders of women's rights told me! I am SO glad we have the McCain camp around to point out glaring insensitivity and sexism.

Unfortunately it seems they're not above using time-worn cliches to make racist comments themselves. For example, today Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the McCain-Palin campaign, referring to the "lipstick" comment said, “Apparently, the buck never stops with Barack Obama.”

Prior to this tempest in a teapot (oops, is teapot a reference to women staying in the kitchen?), like most people, I would have believed that was simply a reference to another time-worn cliche. But now, after sensitivity training from the Republicans and the McCain campaign, I now realize that Rogers was using "buck" in another way: as an offensive term for a black man.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/buck

So I guess we get the same insensitive comments from McCain. Well, I guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Oh...wait...um...

I didn't mean to imply that John McCain is an old dog. Boy do I feel foolish. Sorry, I guess there's no fool like an old fool. ;)
 

Better:

Dipstick! Dipstick! Dipstick!
 

People should be more tolerant, and less niggardly, with others' choice of words.