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Archive for March, 2009

I think that Congress screwed it up, and it sure would be nice to have somebody stand up and say ‘You know what? I screwed up and supported sending tax dollars to a company to bail them out and didn’t put more stipulations in there

Congress is ripping all the lenders for screwing the country up — guess what they are? They’re a lender that screwed that up. So how are they any different?

So it sure would be nice to see one of them stand up and say ‘We should have done something different rather than just point the finger at each other

Later in the afternoon, the President and the First Lady will attend a reception with the National Newspaper Publisher Association in the State Dining Room, where they will be presented the Newsmaker of the Year award. This event is closed press

He was an intellectual trapped in an actor’s body

Luckily for him, he now faces a Maker who rewards bravery, but despises “bravery.”

My first video quote. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) puts Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-OH) in her place by asking a simple question. If you are angry about the AIG bonuses, you MUST watch this video.

Is this America — when you do what your government asks you to do and then retroactively you also have additional conditions?

If we were not forced to take the TARP money, we would have been able to raise private capital at that time

I worry a lot that they’re using the current set of economic difficulties to try to justify a massive expansion in the government, and much more authority for the government over the private sector

I don’t think that’s good. I don’t think that’s going to solve the problem

Gimme a f*&$#ing break

I don’t think things are ever as good as they say, or ever as bad as they say

Things two years ago were not as good as we thought because there were a lot of underlying weaknesses in the economy

They’re not as bad as we think they are now

A smidgen of good news and suddenly everything is doing great

A little bit of bad news and ooohh , we’re down on the dumps

And I am obviously an object of this constantly varying assessment. I am the object in chief of this varying assessment

I actually think the next six months is going to be, in a positive way, a gut-wrenching time

We’re going to start seeing signs of improvement and, at some point, you have to pull the trigger on that investment or that expansion