(2008-10-05) — According to the latest Rasmussen poll, in the wake of the financial-sector bailout bill passed last week, 59 percent of Americans would vote the entire Congress out of office. The other 41 percent would achieve the same result without the voting part through a variety of means, the most popular of which involves a coal or petroleum byproduct along with a poultry byproduct.
Wall Street May Skip Bailout Bucks
Meanwhile, concern grows in the mainstream media, and its Democrat party, that few financial firms will take advantage of the bailout, but will instead seek so-called private-sector solutions to their balance sheet woes.
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-MA, said it would “add insult to injury if Wall Street snubbed this generous offer from the American people after all we did to make it possible.”
Wachovia Tries to Reject Gracious Offer
Rep. Frank said he was also concerned that Wachovia has moved to accept a roughly $15 billion all-stock buyout offer from Wells Fargo rather than the $2.1 billion acquisition by Citicorp of Wachovia’s banking assets — a deal brokered and backed by the FDIC, which would have put U.S. taxpayers on the hook for $42 billion in Wachovia losses.
“Here we have another case of rude Wall Street fatcats essentially saying that taxpayer money is not good enough for them,” said Rep. Frank. “Its like when your grandma slaves over a hot stove all day, and then you don’t eat the turnips. It’s an insult.”
25 responses so far ↓
1 RepublicanAttackMachine // Oct 5, 2008 at 10:36 pm
I think the Nextel people have a GREAT idea in replacing these worthless human beings with firefighters!
Works for me!
2 mindknumbed kid // Oct 5, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Tarred and feathered? Our benevolent “brothers” that work so tirelessly for us? Say it isn’t so!!!
RAM_ My screen says 0 comments, but I can read one with your name on it….are you for real?
3 mindknumbed kid // Oct 5, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Oh, now your post counts. I feel better now!
4 RepublicanAttackMachine // Oct 5, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Blarney, (yes, Blarney), Frank, seems more suited for WalMart greeter, or “rounding up” shopping carts in the parking lot there. Although, I am not sure he has the intelligence for EITHER one of those jobs.
Still, if he did a lousey job at either, it wouldn’t cost anywhere near 700 billion bucks!
[Editor's Note: Scott Ott, editor in chief of ScrappleFace, has served as a People Greeter at Wal-Mart, an honorable post. The main responsibility is to make sure that folks aren't walking off with shoplifted items. Based on Rep. Frank's track record of financial-sector oversight, he might have a hard time securing such a position.]
5 RepublicanAttackMachine // Oct 5, 2008 at 10:46 pm
MKK:
I am the ghost of Christmas past!
And the ghost of Jimmy Carter!
I know Jimmy is not dead yet, but his brain has been dead for years!
6 mindknumbed kid // Oct 5, 2008 at 10:57 pm
If not dead, one of those Abby-normal ones like young Frankenstein used!
7 mindknumbed kid // Oct 5, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Another responsibility of a People Greeter is to actually greet people, but Barney probably would have difficulty not trying to “shake ‘em down” for a contribution. I guess that is why so many leftists are in government as they have no marketable job skills.
8 Fred Sinclair // Oct 5, 2008 at 11:21 pm
R.A.M. #5 - Personally I feel we owe a great debt of gratitude to Jimmy Carter. If God, in His wisdom had not given him to us, Ronald Reagan would not have managed a 49 state sweep and we might have been deprived of eight years of his leadership.
Perhaps we conservatives have become so complacent that we need someone even worse than Jimmy to slap some sense into us. Obama may very well be that slap that will propel Sarah into the White House.
Obama is and will, if elected, be a disaster but America will weather the effects as we have every other incompetent that has held that office. We survived Herbert Hoover and that grand Socialist Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Fortunately God gave us Harry Truman (the last true Democrat President - again, personal opinion) but even he had faults. The major one being Korea and his refusal to end it in 3 days with zero loss of American lives. Yes, I’ll vote for Sarah, and that guy she’s got for a running mate. Right now I’d vote for R.A.M. since your initials aren’t B.O.
Jimmy was a disaster but then H.S.T. is easily in the top ten list of best ever presidents.
Right now I believe B.O. should be in handcuffs and leg irons - not in the Oval Office.
9 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 5, 2008 at 11:53 pm
A greeting from Barney would be on a level with aggravated assault or something in its unspeakably heinous offensiveness and require a spontaneous defensive reflex maneuver, like projectile vomiting.
10 da Bunny // Oct 6, 2008 at 12:36 am
What…no percentage wanted to vote “present?”
I’m sorry, but any time I read or hear the name “Barney Frank,” I am reminded of Dick Armey’s verbal “gaffe” from a few years back. Dick Armey had it right, btw.
11 camojack // Oct 6, 2008 at 1:24 am
I have to wonder then, if 59% of Americans would vote the entire Congress out of office…why don’t they?!
12 gafisher // Oct 6, 2008 at 6:15 am
Camo Re#11, it’s the “My Scoundrel” Principle — they’re all scoundrels but so-and-so is MY scoundrel. Besides, the 59% figure is a skewed poll as it doesn’t include Dracucrats, the loyal Dem voters who only leave their coffins on Election Day.
As for unpatriotic¹ Wachovia-style “honest” deals, you may be sure the bailout money will still go to some deserving
donorer, recipient. As the saying goes, “Even a blind squirrel finds an ACORN once in a while.”¹ - if paying higher taxes is patriotic, then providing the fertile soil upon which to spread that rich fertilizer of serfdom must be considered downright heroic.
13 gafisher // Oct 6, 2008 at 6:22 am
JL3 Re#9: If Barney Frank had been the greeter at our local Wal*Mart you may be sure we’d have taken our kids elsewhere to shop for school supplies. Especially our boys …
14 Darthmeister // Oct 6, 2008 at 7:33 am
Naw, the 41% who wouldn’t vote Congress out would be the left-wing Donks who would keep every Democrat seated in Congress since they’re doing such a wonderful job with the economy … especially Maxine Waters and Barney Frank.
Oblahblah is attacking McCain by throwing the Keating 5 back in is face. Apparently messiah doesn’t understand what the word E-X-O-N-E-R-A-T-E-D means. I guess this is the Donks’ new guilt-by-cognitive-disassociation tactic, which proves no Republican or conservative is ever innocent in the eyes of the fingerpointing left.
15 gafisher // Oct 6, 2008 at 8:34 am
Darth, “Exonerated” means the lie has to be repeated more loudly and more often.
Look here for your morning chill.
16 danimal // Oct 6, 2008 at 8:56 am
If McCain wins, angry Democrats will take to the streets in protest. If Obama wins, angry Democrats will take to the government…
17 danimal // Oct 6, 2008 at 9:03 am
gafisher-
It helps if you take your shoe off and whack the podium with it a few times, too…
18 Fred Sinclair // Oct 6, 2008 at 9:11 am
Hi Scott! what’s with this itsy bitsy, teeny weensy, print size? I’m wearing my strongest reading glasses with my face about 6 inches from the screen - “Text size” in the lower right is cranked up to 2em (as far as it will go) and either it’s not working or I’m going blind. What happened? Did some liberal troll stick a virus in the blog to try and kill it? Can you do anything about it?
19 gafisher // Oct 6, 2008 at 9:55 am
danimal Re#17: Ah, yes, “Great Moments in Diplomacy.” The good old days; I almost miss the constant threat of nuclear annihilation.
20 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 6, 2008 at 11:22 am
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21 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 6, 2008 at 11:26 am
I can’t see Scott’s new post. Anyone else stymied?
Fred, I always have to hit the text size button above the coffee cup. Even when things are in the right place on the page.
22 ep29030 // Oct 6, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I heard Barney Frank is getting an honorary degree from M.I.T. for Social Engineering. The quote said,” anyone who is this successful at engineering bad loans deserves our deepest praise. Barney has shown the world how potent social change can be, when accompanied by huge sums of involuntary taxpayer funding. Our hat is off to him!”
23 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 6, 2008 at 2:21 pm
If you hold down the Control (Cntrl) Button and hit the Plus (+) Sign, the Text Size will increase and vice versa; I assume this works across all browsers—if not, I hereby proffer my preemptive mea culpi.
There are Settings within the Browser’s “Preferences” or “Options” panel to control min/max Font Size, among other things.
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24 gafisher // Oct 6, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Ms RW Re “I can’t see Scott’s new post. Anyone else stymied?”
The new layout apparently doesn’t include the “recent stories” links which used to appear at the top of each page. If you scoot all the way up and click on the Scrappleface Logo at the top of the page you’ll get to the main page, which (as of this moment) includes links to the current and recent stories. It’s a little awkward, but perhaps it’s only temporary, like the current financial meltdown or the one at Chernobyl.
25 vittles scooper // Oct 6, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Fred, Regarding the tiny print, go to the coffee icon to the right - and just about the picture of the coffee is the text fonts, which default to the smaller letters. Just go into the drop down and find a more convenient letter size and presto ! Scrappleface Magic ensues !
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