Leadership
Now is the time for to show his vision for the future of the middle class, and for the that voted for this abomination to get a spine. Obama needs to take a leadership role in rewriting the by redirecting those funds to the middle class. Worthless mortgage paper? Fine, pay off those mortgages and the banks don’t lose and neither does main street. Put the money into massive job creation a la FDR’s CCC and the people can then pay those mortgages. Almost any other way than the one proposed would be better.
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Watching C-Span yesterday morning was one of the best comedy shows I’d seen in ages. There they were, one Republican after another who had backed the war and sunk the country into record debt, who had voted to kill every regulation that would have kept Wall Street in check — there they were, now crying foul and standing up for the little guy! One after another, they stood at the microphone on the House floor and threw Bush under the bus, under the train (even though they had voted to kill off our nation’s trains, too), heck, they would’ve thrown him under the rising waters of the Lower Ninth Ward if they could’ve conjured up another hurricane. You know how your dog acts when sprayed by a skunk? He howls and runs around trying to shake it off, rubbing and rolling himself on every piece of your carpet, trying to get rid of the stench. That’s what it looked like on the Republican side of the aisle yesterday, and it was a sight to behold.
The 95 brave Dems who broke with and were the real heroes, just like those few who stood up and voted against the war in October of 2002. Watch the remarks from yesterday of Reps. , , and . They spoke the truth.
The backlash from Main street against this plan scared the shit out of those up for re-election. Keep up the pressure.
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