tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862751130582500985.post7829123754380825201..comments2023-05-20T02:59:34.668-05:00Comments on No, You're Hyperbolic: You had to know this was coming . . .jumcohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15753433888238396781noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862751130582500985.post-57473835226357639672009-03-23T22:47:00.000-05:002009-03-23T22:47:00.000-05:00Odd that I can't find the item about the resignati...Odd that I can't find the item about the resignation of the Commerce Secretary. Or even about his confirmation. I thought Gary Locke was still "in waiting."<BR/><BR/>But you are correct, Peri: I construed your original comment (about Dodd paving the way for the bonuses) to be a criticism of allowing the bonuses to be paid in the first place, and aimed at Obama, notwithstanding that you were Tony Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03883880092140808832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862751130582500985.post-20439532978616324582009-03-23T00:24:00.000-05:002009-03-23T00:24:00.000-05:00Did I mention his commerce secretary just resigned...Did I mention his commerce secretary just resigned over concern that Obama's policies will brankrupt the nation?Pericleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06945738688567266186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862751130582500985.post-39017063730200568472009-03-22T23:35:00.000-05:002009-03-22T23:35:00.000-05:00I never complained substantively about the bonuses...I never complained substantively about the bonuses, just their confiscation. Consequently, I am not being inconsistent.<BR/><BR/>As for ineptness, I mean, from his first meeting with Brown (which caused the Brits to complain about ineptness) to his YouTube moment with the Mullahs to his inability to staff the Treasury Dept. to his other failed administrative appointments to Hillary's idiotic Pericleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06945738688567266186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862751130582500985.post-53819356603386093092009-03-22T23:15:00.000-05:002009-03-22T23:15:00.000-05:00You are avoiding the issue. Here is what you said:...You are avoiding the issue. Here is what you said:<BR/><BR/>"Obama's (and the Left's) sanctimoniousness is what makes me puke over this. His apparent ineptness is what makes me sad for the nation. I warned of youthful utopianism and that's what we're getting. Always leads to either ineptness or tyranny."<BR/><BR/>I asked, please provide examples. You are specifically referring to Obama, here; so Tony Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03883880092140808832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862751130582500985.post-62828869656792900212009-03-22T12:02:00.000-05:002009-03-22T12:02:00.000-05:00Really? You don't think it's possible, even likel...Really? You don't think it's possible, even likely, nay, certain, that the inconsistency is with the Democrats? Dodd greases the wheel for the bonuses, gets caught, then expressed outrage and confiscates them? C'mon. That's EXACTLY what happened. If there is inconsistency, it is in the policy, not my view of it.Pericleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06945738688567266186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862751130582500985.post-67554445264010214652009-03-21T23:03:00.000-05:002009-03-21T23:03:00.000-05:00I feel compelled to emphasize: you are ascribing t...I feel compelled to emphasize: you are ascribing to Obama the "confiscation of property and the goading of angry mobs by our own leaders." You are also castigating Obama, or at least his administration, implicitly as responsible for the fact that public money was used to pay bonuses. Surely you realize that these are inconsistent positions: either the administration is corrupt in greasing the Tony Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03883880092140808832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862751130582500985.post-934401932659294312009-03-21T22:53:00.000-05:002009-03-21T22:53:00.000-05:00I am having a little trouble recalling what Hillar...I am having a little trouble recalling what Hillary, Rahm Emanuel, or Barney Frank has done to turn a public crisis into personal political gain, at least on the scale of the previous administration, which invented an entire war on the back of 9/11, meanwhile essentially abandoning another war that might have, at the margin, made sense.<BR/><BR/>I am delighted that Laura Bush supported the Tony Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03883880092140808832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862751130582500985.post-25274711830669259652009-03-21T21:29:00.000-05:002009-03-21T21:29:00.000-05:00Tony, the part that bothers me is not so much the ...Tony, the part that bothers me is not so much the merits of the corruption, the irresponsibility, the use of a public crisis for political gain (you cite Rove, I site Hillary, Emmanuel, Frank, etc.), and the disregard for the constitution. The part that kills me is to see this so early and often by the same people who won elections by shouting their righteous indignation at the Bush Pericleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06945738688567266186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-862751130582500985.post-39725095214564447172009-03-20T21:41:00.000-05:002009-03-20T21:41:00.000-05:00Where's the Outrage?Oh, there it is! We are outrag...Where's the Outrage?<BR/><BR/>Oh, there it is! <BR/><BR/>We are outraged (1) that our money, well, one-tenth of one percent of it anyway, is going to pay bonuses to fat cats; (2) that there were, shudder, earmarks and waste in the $800 billion stimulus package bill,and (3) that goo-gobs of our money that we gave to bail out AIG is being paid to foreign banks! <BR/><BR/>Proposed remedies range Tony Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03883880092140808832noreply@blogger.com