Comments on: Obama’s Budget: What the [String of Expletives Deleted]ing [Still More Deleted]

By: SPQR

SPQR — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:31:05 +0000

“Perhaps the “deregulation” he refers to is the unregulated market of credit-default swaps. This was a derivative security that banks and investors used to insure against credit defaults. He should know that former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, described by President Clinton as the greatest treasury secretary since Alexander Hamilton, pushed his Citigroup bank to pursue these instruments and aggressively invest in sub-prime mortgages. Today, Citigroup is on the verge of bankruptcy. Prior to Citigroup, Mr. Rubin was with Goldman Sachs. (Former Treasury Secretary Paulson was also with Goldman Sachs. Wonder if they knew each other.)“

By: Dmac

Dmac — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:19:13 +0000

Humungous Foppish Douchebagus.

By: Eric Blair

Eric Blair — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:54:32 +0000

Hey, daley: what is faux-Latin for “passive aggressive insulting hypocritical snob of a ponce”?

I’m just asking questions.

By: daleyrocks

daleyrocks — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:48:25 +0000

Hax, old boy, you’re making an ass out of yourself again. Plus, you know nothing about the economy except what you’ve read of lefty talking points, which means you know next to nothing and all of it is wrong.

Carry on.

By: Eric Blair

Eric Blair — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:31:06 +0000

AD: Brave Potatoes

http://www.tobyspeed.com/brave_potatoes_2160.htm

By: AD - RtR/OS

AD - RtR/OS — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:30:25 +0000

Boy, talk about being lost?

By: AD - RtR/OS

AD - RtR/OS — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:29:07 +0000

It’s those spuds, the eyes that cannot see.

By: Hax Vobiscum

Hax Vobiscum — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:28:56 +0000

And…I did have a small comment on the actual post.

I think I admire your courage, Pat, in taking on this subject.

It’s a good demonstration of the value of a concern in establishing facts, even at the risk of provoking hurricane-force emotions.

Child rape and the death penalty: so many people are going to dig in their heels on those issues and comfort themselves with the belief that their position is the moral high ground, facts or no facts.

I too have a lot of questions about the case and Balko’s write up on it. I’ll wait, though, for Reason’s next installment on it and then, perhaps, see if they’re answered…

By: AD - RtR/OS

AD - RtR/OS — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:28:10 +0000

Economic ignorance will be the downfall of the Republic.
Congratulations to the accomplishments of the public-education establishment.

By: Eric Blair

Eric Blair — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:26:51 +0000

Sniff. John, did you pass gas over on this thread, too?