Originally Posted By oc_dean Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post has a column up. He had a mouth full. So much, that I could see the back hairs of Joe Scarborough raise as if he stuck his hands into a light socket! - >>The banking meltdown is a genuine emergency, to put it mildly. But the worst thing Obama could do would be to allow the baying titans of Wall Street, the conservative commentariat and the overcaffeinated infotainers who "cover" the financial world on cable television to stampede him into premature, half-baked action.<< hmmm, Joe .... shoe fits .. doesn't it?! <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/12/AR2009031202766.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/...766.html</a>
Originally Posted By oc_dean ^^^^ Forgot to say .... Another show host on Morning Joe this morning brought it up. Joe's reaction was subtle. But I picked up on it!
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt >>So the loudest complainers -- Republicans who claim to stand for fiscal prudence, business leaders who claim to be able to read a balance sheet -- ought to be the biggest cheerleaders for Obama's decision to make a 10-year, $634 billion "down payment" on reform. But they don't like the fact that Obama wants to fund that down payment, in part, by returning tax rates for the wealthy to the reasonable levels that were in place during the boom years of the Clinton administration. << Exactly. The conservatives' kicking and screaming is only meant to divert rest of us from the fact that Obama's plan simply reverts taxation on the rich to the pre-Bush days with the wealthiest Americans still paying less taxes than under Reagan or Nixon. A picture (or chart) is worth a thousand words: <a href="http://pol.moveon.org/budget10/chart/?rc=homepage" target="_blank">http://pol.moveon.org/budget10...homepage</a>
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