YellowLinesandArmadillos

Most folks realize thought that their first deal to get out the situation they are in is to pay down their debts and they won't start spending given the economy until those debt have gotten manageable.... Chicken or egg thing. Kind like the banks and lending, it doesn't make economic sense.

Who really cares.... CNN must have a really slow news day!

And that is the conundrum we face ....do it and we perpetuate the bail out mentality, .....don't and the economy stays in the crapper for the next 10 years.... A choice we all have to make, but you can't eat sanctimoniousness, no matter how righteous.

Interestingly, Rush even commented the Democrats are more afraid of him then the Republicans in the House and Senate. His introspection was based on his view that the Republican Party was in disarray and had not yet found its voice following the election. Not sure they can do with John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, but I am sure over time they will find someone, but it is time for them to re-evaluate themselves.

I figured I would be one sided to get some discussion, but if I was going to criticize my side, I would have said the same thing. Agree completely, they both are infuriating.

Lets be concerned about the federal debt and not give money away to scoflaws.... oh, we already did to the banks and that didn't really help and they are refusing to reveal how they used the money. Can you say Madoff et al.. a growing list. Cali just hit 9.3%, this can't be good... What, this is 9.3% of what 32 million almost 3 million people and those are the ones you can count. I would be interested in know your state's unemployment numbers. http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stor...19/daily40.html Also Catepiller and Home Depot just announced large layoffs. Financial firms on Wall Street are laying folks off in droves, expect more in the next 6 months. http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2009...nterstitialskip What to do... this is flat out scary.

Your an idiot, nuff said.... when you decide to write something intelligent and not blah, blah, blah.... get back to me.

I like this idea, but I think that it will only buy some time on the economic front. If people are in mortgages they can't afford and with the unemployment front only getting worse, the only thing the government could do is pay down (forgive a portion of a mortgage in return for a bank lowering the month note.) If the government is going assume these mortgages anyway, doesn't it make sense to keep people in their homes? Then, whatever income they do have could be used for consumer goods which would actually stimulate the economy and then the banks would eventually get their money back. But it would have to be only for those going into foreclosure proceeding etc. I am not sure what the side effects of this are. Maybe that housing prices would not fall as far as they need to.... Obviously added debt to the government, which is not good.

And conservatives speak in circles to try and prove something.... yada, yada, blah, blah, blah... If we can get the velocity of this thing going fast enough, can we find a way to tap the alternative energy????? Dude! Bickering by the left and right is better than shooting each other.... although the seem to do that in Detroit very well.

Stay away from my dog, don't encourage him.... I think he got into my son's chili because lately he can clear a room... It is either that or the deer crap he has been eating. P.S. He is a Lab/Dalmatian mix.

I am not saying raise taxes on farmers, just cut their government welfare.... Read what I said and understand it before you go off half-cocked.

Good point on the first part... Once again cynically but probably true, it is about money, someway... somehow. On the second deal, it is not analogous, if you sell your car, you still have to turn in plates and the owner has to apply for a new title, so in fact there is registration on the other deal.

They have been wishy washy on it. They have said that a waiting period isn't necessary, as in when Virginia first implemented it, when VA check system wasn't fully integrated into the FBI or set up to work across the state and the database had not been fully updated. So yeh, they have supported it, but they haven't always acknowledged when a check system was adequately up an running, while claiming it was.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which supports the measure, explained [3] that although federally-licensed firearm dealers (FFLs) are required to conduct Brady criminal background checks when they sell guns at gun shows, flea markets and swap meets, as well as unlicensed individuals who set up next to FFLs, are not required to conduct background checks in most states. Terrorists, criminals and other people prohibited from buying or possessing guns seek out unlicensed sellers, because they can pay cash and walk away with deadly weapons. Additionally, because unlicensed sellers are not well-regulated and do not keep records, criminals exploit gun shows to sell firearms and law enforcement has difficulty tracing gun-show firearms that turn up at crime scenes.

Because they have the money... have you ever used the Canadian system. I have and it served my family well. Everyone gets served. If you wan't to get special treatment, you pay out of pocket and it doesn't cost the Canadian Government anywhere near what it costs the American public. That being said, not sure the Canadian system would work here. They have 30-40 million people, we have what 330 million. Big difference and one size does not fit all. But if a form of universal healthcare would lessen the average expense to working folks, then I am all for some form of it. When you take into account the cost we bear because of indigent and those without healthcare insurance using our system.... expenses that we end up paying in the form of higher bills charged to our insurance companies, the administrative costs of a well paid for profit middleman called insurance companies and higher premiums for us because our providers charge outrageous fees to pay for the care of these folks that the are going to serve... we already have universal healthcare... it is just administered ass backward and without any systematic way of controlling costs.

Include Palin in the mix and I agree with you, I mean modified to an opinion that sounds anything other than someone speaking in tongues.... And that goes for all three of the above mentioned. I am still thinking about Gilliland's stances, but she appears to understand very well how to handle herself and did very well with her response to McCarthy, even if McCarthy rejected her olive branch. Now there is a politician who understands how handle negative press and the opposition and isn't making excuses like ... the liberal media is at fault

What the hell are you talking about, the media made a mockery of her and she quit under the scrutiny... But you go tell yourself these lies. You skimming some of those pills you are selling to off the wagon Oxy boy?

First off the "Bill," H.R. 40 is to study slave reparations...not actually appropriate money for that purpose. Not saying I support it because I don't. Also, it appears to have widespread opposition and Conyers himself is under an ethics investigation, so my guess is, even as a study... which would be a colossal waste of money, it won't happen. So if Conyers wants to bark at the wind, let him... he does it regularly. Yes, watch the language in the approps bills, but I doubt it is going anywhere. Even if a study makes it through the House, the Senate will kill it. P.S. Learn how the legislative system works before you go shooting your mouth off about inane possibilities.

Not so, This is not about differing of opinion on ideology. This is about how you handle the press, not a matter what side you are on. Reagan had it, Clinton had it, Nixon learned till his paranoia screwed him up. Carter has never gotten it. Obama appears to have it... Both Gore and McCain appear to have it at times, but not when their own political lives are at stake. Gore is a funny witty, sarcastic man until a TV camera shows up and all the sudden wooden petrification sets in (part of growing up as a son of a Senator's Son, that is what he practiced. McCain seems to waffle back and forth from witty friendliness, with behind the scenes and some small public examples of being an angry young man and wanting to and everyone else around him to do things only the way he says, if not, he gets bitter. Not a Vietnam trait, these antics were documented even at the West Point, where he almost got kicked out because of it. Typical of some military brats I knew growing up, I am surprise he made it this far and has had this much self-control. But this doesn't have anything to do with the ideology of the press, this has to do with a candidates abilities and understanding of the way the press works. Palin failed miserably, face it and quit the tired old liberal media crap.

Hey, I am honest about it. I took a shot at you, not apologizing for it because this pandering to blame the press for your candidates ills is not honest. Sure the press takes illegitimate and sometimes flat out wrong shots at candidates (Heck CNN's Blitzer has to be the most ill informed anchor I have ever seen). That being said, Obama went on O'Reilly and while O'Reilly gave him hell, he stood up to him and was credible... You may have disagreed with him and he wasn't perfect, but he didn't break down the way Palin did and sound like an idiot. McCain went on Letterman after Letterman villified him for not showing up and held his own and was honest.... Biden admitted immediately after he made that one of many stupid remarks that he wish he could have had that one back.... But Palin has insisted on blaming the press for her ills and that only asks for more trouble. He learned that lesson the hard way back in 88 and was forced out after challenging the Press' intelligence. She could have self deprecatingly said I wasn't ready for the intensity of the press questioning, how everything, her winces and looks would be scrutinized and I froze up a couple of times and I have learned from it. That would have been understandable, but she didn't and that just tells me she wasn't ready for prime time, no matter her ideology and for that matter neither is Carolyn Kennedy... The only difference between the two, Palin and Kennedy with some fits and starts Kennedy realized that she wasn't ready either. Either that or her advisers did and despite her disappointment, bowed out relatively gracefully. Blaming the press for ones ills in DC rarely works unless is it done tongue in cheek and with some humor. Otherwise, the press won't care which side you are on, it will eat you if your own party doesn't do it for them... I wonder how much of Palin's missteps were drivin by competing factions within the Republican party.

Farmers have so many exemptions from taxes and so many government giveaways, I suggest we just cut Ag programs and we make up the same amount in Tax dollars anyway, either that or go back to the same staff levels at USDA that was there at the end of the Clinton Administration.... somewhere around 90,000.... I hear now it is over 130,000 since Bush took office, same with Department of Commerce.

Not arrogance, just dismissive of your idiotic arguments, how else do you explain your lack of introspection and bitterness towards something your own candidate brought on herself... To use a blunt NY verbiage, "You need to get Honest"

You arrogant camels with your heads in the sand like to dismiss climate change as not happening. The trends say differently and even if we can't change the warming to reverse the trend, saying it is not happening because you some campaign by the carbon polluters claim differently in the PR efforts to preserve their cash cow doesn't mean it isn't. The reasons and sources of it may be varied, but is undeniable it is happening... From the ponds in the NY area that used to be frozen all winter long when I was a kid to the geese spending the winter further and further North. I have heard but can't at the moment substantiate the earths axis has moved some 5 plus degrees, the northern polar ice cap is shrinking, but I have also heard that the southern ice cap is growing. Whether it is solar flares combined with man's carbon and greenhouse gas admissions, saying it isn't happening is just patently wrong. A good report by the congressional research service lays out the information and debate well. I suggest all should read before continuing this debate. http://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs...meta-crs-8752:1

He is just drinking a bitter pill after losing an election... Many Dems sounded the same after 2000, just say I feel your pain and this too shall pass and be done with him.

You know, I don't necessarily disagree with you that some of the press would have been bent against Palin because of her views, but even Bush in his fumbling ways was able to stand up to it, make fun of himself and the Press and the Press could only do so much with because people saw his other side, despite my opposition to him. He is a respectful and nice guy. Palin on other hand came across as not being able to handle herself in front of the press. The right wing press comes after Dems and left wing press comes after Republicans. Okay, but the politicians success or failure depends on how that politician handles the opposition. Both Palin and Kennedy failed miserably.... Palin just hung on for a longer period of time, opening up her up to even more redicule. So blame the press (left or right) if you want, the candidate exposed herself as a fraud.