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hatchetman
06/17/09

In reply to Obama Set to Announce Wall Street Regulatory Overhaul
What we need is for Obama to take over everything. He's the next thing to Jesus. He's the only man in government to be trusted. Let's just simplify everything and make him dictator already. I suspect that 60% of the people would vote for it.
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gawkimo
06/17/09

@hatchetman: I think you are mistaking this president with the previous one. I mean, shit, Cheney's balls were so big he told Ameirca to go fuck itself when we simply wanted to know the contents of his Energy Task Force. I'm sure you were OUTRAGED! at Cheney when he did that! I'm sure you were livid when the Bush administration made one of the largest classifications of documents in US history. You see: that's the problem with the right-wingers; they're not against authoritarian leadership as long as it's THEIR authoritarian leadership. Every liberal I've spoken to is actually pissed off at Obama for some of his national security maneuvers. You know why? Because liberals aren't sheep. (Or elephants just following the tail in front of them.) They're stubborn, critical of even their own leaders and can't be herded single file into an abattoir.
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johnny_carsick
06/17/09

@gawkimo: which is, unfortunately, why they haven't been terribly efficient at winning general elections for the past fifty years.
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gawkimo
06/17/09

In reply to Obama Set to Announce Wall Street Regulatory Overhaul
"The plan is an attempt to overhaul an outdated system of financial regulations, according to senior administration officials."

You mean the outdated system IMPLEMENTED IN 2000 WHEN PHIL GRAMM WIPED HIS WRINKLY OLD ASS ON FDR-ERA CONTROLS aimed at preventing the dangerous consolidation of the financial services sector? The ones Bill Clinton signed into law?

They were calling those reforms a way of modernizing outdated modes, too. At this point whenever a politician says something needs to be reformed to modernize an "outdated" thing, I immediately look for the people giving money to that politician to find the true motive behind the call for an upgrade to a system.

There is a saying that goes like this: If it ain't broke don't fix it.
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hypocriteoath
06/17/09

@gawkimo: ok, but right now it is broke so can we go ahead and fix it? or should we just leave it be?
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gawkimo
06/17/09

@hypocriteoath: Yes, of course. The next three years will involve Obama trying to fix things that have been broken by "free market" Republicans and their Democratic enablers.
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ellagood
06/17/09

In reply to Obama Set to Announce Wall Street Regulatory Overhaul
oh, it's going to be a banner day at fox news for sure.
we are certainly entering an era of "communism/socialism" by having a government who finally tries to protect the lower and middle classes from getting FUCKED IN THE ASS (say it like you're in the big lebowski).
but all i ask is that the republican party offer up a counter tactic/solution rather than just attack. will they? NO. can they? NO.
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htotheomo
06/17/09

@ellagood: Have they? No.

That's the thing. They are bereft of ideas.
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ellagood
06/17/09

@htotheomo: exactly, but they will come out SWINGING tomorrow, accusing our President of being a socialist without ANY fucking better ideas. that's what sickens me - they don't debate, they condemn. And that is the complete opposite of what this country was founded upon.
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htotheomo
06/17/09

@ellagood: But Barry Hussein is a commonist. And his wife is the spawn of a gorilla.

Who's winning in the idea contest?
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ellagood
06/17/09

@htotheomo: bereft is a great word, btw.
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ellagood
06/17/09

@htotheomo: ann coulter, apparently.
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Lincolnsbeard33
06/17/09

@ellagood: if you hate it so much why do you watch it then?
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htotheomo
06/17/09

@ellagood: Thanks. I actually use it in the real life I live.
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htotheomo
06/17/09

@Lincolnsbeard33: Because some of us can bear to watch TV or radio or newspapers that we don't agree with. Because we're adults.

However, it doesn't mean we can't comment on it. Grow up.
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ellagood
07/01/09

@Lincolnsbeard33: i don't. other people do.
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ChillbearLatrigue
06/17/09

In reply to Obama Set to Announce Wall Street Regulatory Overhaul
Other than being philosophically opposed to the government controlling the likes of Goldman Sachs, who was taken down with the others despite the fact that they only reported losses for one quarter and were coerced to take the TARP money, I am annoyed by the creation of a new office about once a week in this Administration.

We now have an Energy Czar, a Car Czar, a Pay Czar and now a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which will probably have a Czar like figure running it. This has all come about in the past four months. I understand that every header in front of Czar represents a real problem in this country, but don't some of these issues fall under the purview of existing agencies?
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contains_hot_liquid
06/17/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: Homeland Security, perhaps.

Anyway. No, who knows. The problem needs specific people to work on it; if money can be allocated specifically to said agency and the programs therein, this should be more expedient than dividing it within a bigger agency.
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onebadclam
06/17/09

In reply to Obama Set to Announce Wall Street Regulatory Overhaul
Increasing regulation makes Glenn Beck cry.
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Pope John Peeps II
06/17/09

@onebadclam: Whatever. Glenn Beck has a permanent yeast infection in the fold of that flap of fat jowl under his giant manbaby face. THAT'S what makes him cry.
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forwardmotion
11/23/08

In reply to The Fun, Sexy Guys Who Would Save The Economy
I think" FUCK" is exactly what should be any normal person's reaction to the current economic situation should be.

It shouldn't be, for example, "Puppy dogs, moonbeams and unicorns". Or, "I'm gonna clear brush from the ranch that Daddy bought for me".
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Artur Van Asinine
11/23/08

In reply to The Fun, Sexy Guys Who Would Save The Economy
Geithner is an excellent choice. smart guy. good person. old pal o' mine works(ed) directly for him at the ny fed. been hearing good thins about him for a long while...fucking right.
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BookishLookish
11/23/08

@Artur Van Asinine: "Good thins" gave me a Ricky Ricardo feeling for you, AVA.
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Kid Twist
11/23/08

In reply to The Fun, Sexy Guys Who Would Save The Economy
Is Larry Summers the fun one or the sexy one?
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
11/23/08

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fucking cool fucking fucking smart people running the fucking country for a fucking change?

fucking a
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NinaHagen
11/23/08

In reply to The Fun, Sexy Guys Who Would Save The Economy
I swear like a sailor - I can haz cabinet position?
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BookishLookish
11/23/08

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Summers can begin by taxing women at a higher rate since we're too dumb to do math and stuff. As we are slightly more than the male population, and women tend to live longer, that should get the money up right soon. Problems solved!
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
11/23/08

@BookishLookish: Like OH MY GOD that is just BRILL (ianf--not Emily)!! I was wondering how to make this all work in my favor and you just hit on a way!! Can we call it a gender adjustment tax? Or maybe a foreskin rebate?
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
11/23/08

@oyvehisyou: iant
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BookishLookish
11/23/08

@oyvehisyou: Totes. GAT all the way! Wooh!

OK, gonna go put on some pink lipstick now!
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NinaHagen
11/23/08

@BookishLookish: Do you really want a screed about male fascism in academia? I can arrange it...
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NinaHagen
11/23/08

@BookishLookish: Tampons hinder my mathematical abilities.
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MosseyCade
11/23/08

@BookishLookish: Honey, that's why we don't pay you as much--you'd only have to pay more in taxes. See?
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BookishLookish
11/23/08

@NinaHagen: Are there, like, equations and statistics in it? 'Cause if so, count (hah! pun!) out!
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BookishLookish
11/23/08

@MosseyCade: Yes, I think that makes sense. Sorry, gotta go, I have to rearrange my glass figurines. I think there are eight, but really, I'm not so sure.
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
12/07/08

@BookishLatkeish: Isn't that already how your healthcare plans work in America?
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Minsley Tortimer
12/07/08

@Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: since I'm not able to PM anymore, I'm just going to spread this thru gawker and hope you stumble over it.

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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
12/08/08

@Minsley Tortimer: Why can no one PM at the moment, do you know? It's frustrating as hell!
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MosseyCade
11/23/08

In reply to The Fun, Sexy Guys Who Would Save The Economy
Geithner only took the job for the huge amount of tail he'll get after he saves capitalism.

Rather, "if" he saves capitalism.
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Multiphasic
11/23/08

@MosseyCade: He will, in his own parlance, way fuck.
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WackoJacko
11/23/08

In reply to The Fun, Sexy Guys Who Would Save The Economy
Way cute. In a wonkish hipster way.
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