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Frank Booth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:15 PM Original message |
G.O.P. Senators Say Some Big Banks Can Be Allowed to Fail |
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FreakinDJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
1. as long as it is under a Dem President |
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scytherius (576 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 10:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. EXACTLY! |
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PM Martin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 12:00 AM Response to Reply #1 |
22. And watch another depression occur |
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FreakinDJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 12:48 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. That is what they are hopeing for |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 01:38 AM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Excellent point, FreakinDJ |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 05:38 AM Response to Reply #1 |
30. That and it's not their cronies banks |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
2. If Mccain had gotten in I shudder to think what he would do. |
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Frank Booth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. I don't think he would have allowed them to fail. |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
3. Good. (nt) |
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rollingrock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
4. Why naturally |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
5. Isn't that what President Obama's stress tests are all about? |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:31 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Republicans are pissed off because the stress tests might uncover something bad. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 01:41 AM Response to Reply #9 |
29. And the extent to which the Republican mafia and gambling |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
6. GOP; the party that says it's okay to be a failure n/t |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
7. No, because these banks have too far reaching effects not only in this country but world wide |
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Lucky Luciano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Yes, the Herbert Hoover approach was shown to be ineffective. nt |
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rollingrock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:36 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. These banks are nothing but giant parasites sucking up the public treasury |
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Sen. Walter Sobchak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
12. Letting the banks fry should have been the policy from the start |
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Frank Booth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 10:06 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. That's a great plan, Walter. That's fucking ingenious, if I understand it correctly. |
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Sen. Walter Sobchak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 10:14 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Fuck it, Dude, let's go bowling. |
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Kablooie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 12:54 AM Response to Reply #15 |
26. Ooh. I want one of those. A Swiss Fucking Watch. |
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Tex-Slim (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 07:12 AM Response to Reply #12 |
33. Ah, so someone else here "gets it" |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 09:15 AM Response to Reply #33 |
35. You've done the stress test analysis? If not, on what are you basing your statement? |
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Tex-Slim (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 11:38 AM Response to Reply #35 |
38. ON one simple fact |
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On the Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
13. Oh, Yes, by All Means |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 09:57 PM Response to Original message |
14. rethug lip-flapping is just that. |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
18. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 revoked the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 09:29 AM Response to Reply #18 |
37. Yep, and Gramm was the McCain campaign's top financial advisor, openly at first, then |
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regnaD kciN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
19. I guess we'll soon learn which big banks... |
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Endangered Specie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
20. hah I wonder how many checks from Bank CEOs they will lose over this! |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-08-09 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
21. Oh, yeah. That's just what we need: a megabank failure. That'll do wonders |
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Mr. Hyde (314 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 12:49 AM Response to Original message |
24. I guess it looks better if you can say you made the choice but |
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Kablooie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
25. I thought so too but since some repubs think so, it must not be a good idea. |
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wellst0nev0ter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 12:57 AM Response to Original message |
27. All Right, Nationalize Them Already |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 06:37 AM Response to Original message |
31. As more corruption is exposed in these institutions... |
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Tex-Slim (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 07:11 AM Response to Original message |
32. Too Bad |
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Myrina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
34. John McCain? Mr. Keating Five? |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-09-09 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
36. If the media were not such lap dogs, they would insist on names of banks and specific |
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