Thank you Congressional Conservative Republicans ... for at least delaying the decision to sign off on the Big Bail Out of Our Capitalist System. See, any time Bush has tried to get Congress to do something quickly it has been a bad idea ... you saved us from your guy ... at least for a while. I actually appreciate your standing up for principal (and principle) on this issue.
There has always been this subset of the political arena that wants the Free Market System to be completely free from government control. Of course, that would also mean it would be free of government help. The notion of things like tax breaks and the like is splitting hairs about government intervention. We have government intervention, the only issues have been about which kinds of intervention and how much we have. It is not whether the government is involved.
Free Market System ideology has supposedly been the cornerstone of Bush doctrine. Now, we see he ultimately is just a politician and not as strong an ideologue as we thought.
The Democrats suddenly were on board a Bush Plan that the Conservative Wing of the party stood against. Pelosi NEVER should have brought it up for a vote in the House the first time. She made her first two mistakes as Speaker in a matter of moments by simultaneously chastising the man whose plan she was supporting and calling for a vote she did not have the votes to win. For two years she had shown restraint in not sending Liberal Legislation to the Senate to die in the hands of the weakest Senate Majority Leader ever. She really screwed up. Then the Senate went and did it for her and a few more Republicans signed on (after seeing the bizarre mixture of public outcry and relief one would expect votes to stay the same).
So ...
How about bailing out our farmers?
How about bailing out everyone with student loans?
Since we have given up once and for all the pretense that we have a fully Capitalist System where do we draw the line?
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