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Reject the Paulson Bailout; It Sounds Like the WMD Story All Over Again
By Rob Kall/North Star Writers Group
Have you seen the reports of the shocked faces of the leaders of Congress when George W. Bush's economic czars, Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke, informed them of the deadly threat of financial meltdown that the United States and even the world economy faced if something dramatic was not done immediately?
So they come out, shaking in their boots, telling the nation how awful things were, how close to the abyss we've come.
Sounds too much like a WMD story to me.
This sounds far too similar to Bush's surrogates Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell warning us – at the United Nations and in Congress in 2003 – that Iraq and its WMDs were an imminent threat to the nation and the world. Back then, Senators Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards and most of the rest of the Democrats spinelessly assented to accept the story they were told, failed to challenge the data or demand other options. Now they all apologize to us.
Comments (2)
Ya, WMD, that's good....except, of course, that if people really understood how close we are to a financial collapse it wouldn't be nearly as funny.
September 22, 2008 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
glad to hear that clinton finally apologized for that one. is there some video you can recomend?
September 22, 2008 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
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