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Second, the McCain\/House GOP gambit blew up in both their faces<\/strong><\/font> over the weekend. The package that Weepy John Boehner just endorsed at the Capitol bears no resemblance to what the House Republicans threw on the table last Thursday night to sidetrack the talks. McCain and Boehner got nothing out of the deal: there are no regulatory or capital gains tax mortatoriums in the final package. It’s an total smackdown of McCain’s claim that he added leadership here, because he has no fingerprints on this deal and yet the House GOP leadership has now signed on.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Third, all the House GOP and McCain accomplished was to make it easier for congressional Democrats to insist that Wall Street will be collared after five years by Congress to pay up if the taxpayers are out any money. The final package is far better than what Paulson originally proposed, and yet the House GOP and McCain ended up soiling themselves without being part of the solution.<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\nSteve Soto of the leftcoaster<\/strong><\/font> puts this well. We had no choice, and the final compromise was far better than the original proposal by Bush and Paulson – that essentially let Wall Street perpetrators off the hook. What comes next is a comprehensive restructuring [re-regulation<\/strong><\/font>] of the financial industry. "Un<\/strong><\/font>" is the new word of the day – "Un-Reagan<\/strong><\/font>," "Un-Phil Gramm<\/strong><\/font>," "Un-deregulation<\/strong><\/font>," "Un-Bush<\/strong><\/font>." I just want to add that it’s not a Liberal<\/strong><\/font> thing. There is nothing more Conservative<\/strong><\/font> than fiscal, financial responsibility.<\/div>\n![\"Lewis](\"http:\/\/img.timeinc.net\/time\/magazine\/archive\/covers\/1939\/1101390403_400.jpg\" "\\"Lewis")
From my perspective, the thing that has been called Neo-Conservatism<\/strong><\/font> arose in the bowels of The American Enterprise Institute<\/strong><\/font>. This powerful right wing lobbyist organization was founded in 1943 by Lewis H. Brown<\/strong><\/font><\/a> specifically to represent the interests of business and industry in government. Lewis H. Brown<\/strong><\/font><\/a> was the C.E.O. of the Johns Manville-Company<\/strong><\/font>, the major supplier of asbestos. He shepherded keeping the health risks of asbestos hidden for 40 years, resulting in countless deaths from Mesothelioma. The point is that A.E.I.<\/strong><\/font> was founded to counter government regulation of business and F.D.R.’s New Deal. It’s not a conservative ideological center as it claims, it’s a well financed, massively pro-industry\/business force that has had its way with us during the Reagan<\/strong>, Bush I<\/strong>, and Bush II<\/strong> years. These have been years of rampant government spending, calculated corruption, and out of control concentrations of wealth and power. There’s nothing<\/strong><\/u> Conservative<\/strong><\/font> about that. They demonize us as Liberals<\/strong><\/font> meaning the Franklin Roosevelt Democrats that saved the country from them the last time [in the 1930’s].<\/p>\nAnd there’s nothing Liberal<\/strong><\/font> about opposing them and their pseudo-think-tanks! These people are nothing more than ugly, greedy, capitalists pretending to have an ideology<\/strong><\/font>. There was nothing ideological about Paulson’s initial proposal. It was just nepotism and greed. And this crisis is ultimately their fault for systematically infiltrating government over the years and making it possible with their deregulation and inattentiveness. I call bullshit on them all…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blowing Up In Their Faces There are many among the center-left blog community that are severely disappointed at the news that the leadership of both parties endorsed the bailout plan late this afternoon. I understand the frustration, and think it is warranted given that the problem was dumped upon the Democratic congressional leadership by an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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