yabits said...

yabits at 09:42 AM JST - 16th September

Former Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, until recently one of the McCain campaign’s top economic advisers, was a chief writer of that law.

Gramm may be gone as a top adviser to McCain, but as the most astute pundits point out, McCain's economic plans have not changed one iota since…

Posted in Obama, McCain blame economic woes on greed, policy at 09:42 AM JST - 16th September
yabits at 09:40 AM JST - 16th September

But the reality is that another four years of GOP leadership may ruin us all. We need a new perspective.

The reality is the same as the total GOP-business leadership that guided the USA to ruin at the end of the "roaring 20s."

"Just untie the hands of business…

Posted in Obama, McCain blame economic woes on greed, policy at 09:40 AM JST - 16th September
yabits at 09:35 AM JST - 16th September

I think here is the guy you blame, his administration created the loop holes that caused the subprime issue.

No question about it, Clinton deserves a share of the blame too.

But people need to understand that the ONLY opposition to the removal of the Depression-era barriers in the…

Posted in Obama, McCain blame economic woes on greed, policy at 09:35 AM JST - 16th September
yabits at 09:29 AM JST - 16th September

And lets the atrociously bad company management off scot-free.

Putting blame on Bush's poor performance as a manager does not let bad company management off scot-free.

We the people have an interest and stake in seeing that financial giants are being run properly. Bush and his Republican crowd did…

Posted in Obama, McCain blame economic woes on greed, policy at 09:29 AM JST - 16th September
yabits at 09:25 AM JST - 16th September

All the tax cuts in the world aren't going to help badly managed companies like the Lehman Brothers.

They're not? According to Bush, tax cuts are the solution for everthing. He has never made any caveats, just like he said we could have tax cuts and maintain a budget…

Posted in Lehman declares bankruptcy; Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch at 09:25 AM JST - 16th September
yabits at 06:27 AM JST - 16th September

goodDonkey:

B-b-b-b-but weren't Bush's tax cuts and deregulation supposed to bring us unlimited prosperity?

"Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much…

Posted in Lehman declares bankruptcy; Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch at 06:27 AM JST - 16th September
yabits at 02:52 AM JST - 16th September

I think that this would have happened even if GWB was not in the White House.

Alphaape, I sense you are loathe to answer questions since you have conveniently avoided every one I've asked you, but here's another:

Are you implying that a president and his cabinet could have…

Posted in Lehman declares bankruptcy; Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch at 02:52 AM JST - 16th September
yabits at 02:43 AM JST - 16th September

To Alf Garnett who writes: "I reckon she would do better than dumbo Bush and trouserse round the ankles Bill clinton, nutter."

A nice example of damnation by faint praise.

Posted in Palin says she's ready to step in as president at 02:43 AM JST - 16th September
yabits at 02:41 AM JST - 16th September

goodDonkey: thank you for your kind words to me. But, like most Americans, I am proud and indebted to see how the finest of our journalists are still able to pursue the highest calling of their profession. All praise goes to them and to their editors.

Secondly, secrecy in a…

Posted in Both U.S. presidential campaigns faulted for negative ads at 02:41 AM JST - 16th September
yabits at 01:11 AM JST - 16th September

Sarge - "I would say just about the opposite of that is true."

You would.

Posted in Palin says she's ready to step in as president at 01:11 AM JST - 16th September