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Very, Very Much the QOTD

7 Responses to “Very, Very Much the QOTD”

1. Comment by Monte Davis —
   September 25, 2008 @ 8:43 am

   Here we are, facing a crucial decision about how to allocate public resources, and those irrelevant paleos want to inject politics into it.

   Didn’t they get the memo? 9/15 changed everything.

2. Comment by diana —
   September 25, 2008 @ 10:25 am

   McCain suspends his campaign, Bush suspends the market.

3. Comment by IOZ —
   September 25, 2008 @ 11:05 am

   I mean, Jeez Mary Joe, “haste makes waste”? We’re spending a trillion dollars to prove a truism.

4. Comment by Thoreau —
   September 25, 2008 @ 11:29 am

   I’m quite sure that the leaders of the Congressional opposition party will see the dangers in haste and refrain from pushing through a bail-out in any sort of last minute procedural…..

   HA HA HA HA HA HA

   Sorry, almost made it to the end of that without laughing.

5. Comment by dhex —
   September 25, 2008 @ 12:34 pm

   now thoreau you’re just being mean you know the democrats often wear different colored ties than republicans, so it’s totally different.

6. Comment by mds —
   September 25, 2008 @ 2:00 pm

   Yeah, well, I know Mr. Larison’s heart is in the right place on this one, but his approving example is kinda weak:

   “I must tell you, there are those in the public debate who have said that we must act now. The last time I heard that, I was on a used-car lot,” said Rep. Mike Pence, R-Indiana.

   Since I suspect that Rep. Pence hasn’t actually shopped for a used car recently, it is far more likely that the last time he heard that was when he was squealing and stampeding to repeatedly vote for virtually unlimited powers to the (Republican) executive, such as his early eager embrace of immunity for those poor, poor telecom companies. And though I admire him for his new-found fiscal rectitude, it would have been nice if it had been more in evidence while his party was the one gobbling down fistfuls of taxpayer money in unprecedented amounts. At least something changed in November 2006: people like Pence could go back to criticizing Democratic eye motes.

7. Comment by mds —
   September 26, 2008 @ 8:38 am

   Continuing in the same vein, via Politico:

   President Bush’s lame duck status, and his heavy hand in dealing with lawmakers in his own party for the last seven-plus years, is also coming back to haunt the White House, as House Republicans grumble that Bush is “trying to tear up the Constitution” by committing the federal government to such a massive intervention in the U.S. financial markets.

   [Emphasis added]

   See, now he’s trying to tear up the Constitution. Thanks for the fucking vigilance, guys.

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