The Note

It's about time somebody challenged this march of lemmings to the sea of bankruptcy for our nation.

The economy is cyclical and will right itself in short order. We got into this problem by keeping interest rates too low and allowing unqualified people to buy houses.

Let's not complicate it anymore by continuing to spend money we do not have and bankrupting our future to make Wall Street go higher.

Did anyone ever really believe this would work? Money down the tube and in many cases, probably straight into the offshore accounts of the rich. Paulson is the worst treasury secretary that could have possibly been in charge of this. I KNEW IT!

Not sure what this resolution would accomplish other than saying "we told you so," but the bailout has definitely been a shameful waste: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/CompanyFocus/the-10-worst-bailout-boondoggles-slides.aspx?slide-number=6

Bush a wonderful president...

What planet has this nut been visiting?

Jim 234 is right! Bears and bulls are cyclical and therefore should allow this to correct itself. What a wasted worth of effort and taxpayers money.

Why must financial institutions and car companies be given highest priority and allow to survive by bailout? Nevertheless, these are corporations and shld adopt the same style to be efficient and then profitable.

The Govts have dug themselves so deep that when (not if!) these bailout fails, even the Govt is a pauper and have to increase taxes

More Monday morning quarterbacking from people who aren't fit to be water boys. They have no idea of what a good or bad idea is. Ample evidence can be found in the quote "Bush has been a fabulous president." For all they know, TARP could indeed be working, they're just too stupid to know the difference. Thank goodness the smart people take over on January 20th. They'll either use TARP, adjust it or ditch it. But they'll do it after intelligent analysis. All these cretins can do is whine and apologize for their fallen monkey king. What a bunch of losers, they make me sick.

Finally reengaging their minds. How come we elect teenagers to office?

Republican economic policies since Reagan have caused the crises we're in today. Listening to anything this same group offers by way of criticism or suggestion is for amusement purposes only. Where were these whiners when Bush was flushing hundreds of billions down the toilet he called the central front of the war on terror? And as for expressing opinions, it would be nice if they could say something constructive, but they can't!

Republican hypocrites.

You have not seen anything yet. Your party is finished.

You voted to give money to the super rich Wall Street CEOs who ran down the economy and now you are pretending to hate the stimulus package because President Obama intends to extend it to help Main Street.

Damn hypocrites. You will be crushed in the 2010 elections.

Republicans should do America a favor and just leave.They could all go to Irag and screw that up some more.

Ron Paul's on the phone again. He's calling to say "I told you so..."

Too Funny, The republican party is done. I agree with this comment posted by Butch Dillon: Republican economic policies since Reagan have caused the crises we're in today. Listening to anything this same group offers by way of criticism or suggestion is for amusement purposes only. Where were these whiners when Bush was flushing hundreds of billions down the toilet he called the central front of the war on terror? And as for expressing opinions, it would be nice if they could say something constructive, but they can't!

The blind leading the blind!!!!

The GOP led us down to the path of financial meltdown. Markets require confidence to work. We all invested, people bougtht and sold securities based on some confidence that the financial regulations in place were being enforced. Under Bush and a GOP Congress they were not and let things slide.

McCain lost the election for a number of reasons, the principal one is that he forgot the nation was center right and he made a hard right to keep the GOP base happy.

We all know that the GOP BASE is never and will never be happy. McCain and the GOp were clueless for years on their spend thrift, look the other way governing. McCain and the GOP lost on putting personal financial gain ahead of the nation or trying to impose thier reglion upon the country. The should see that over half of the nation does not idendify as being Christian and have not desire to live a Christian theocracy.

If these Republicans truly mean what they're saying, they will support a bill requiring these financial institutions to lend $$$ now or pay it all back under threat of jail time for the CEOs of these banks. AND support a bill limiting/eliminating the golden parachutes. Otherwise, it's all just political posturing.

God how out of touch can you get. Condemn it after the fact.

Good job GOPers. Thank god you didn't win.

Where were the GOP budget hawks during Bush's years of squandering on the War in Iraq? And during his handing the keys to the kingdom to his Wall Street buddies with the help of Congressional Republicans, as well as the, at the time, minority Democrats?

I agree with their condemnation, but it's a little late now. If Bush and Congress hadn't run up this huge deficit with the tax cuts for the rich and with the Iraq War, then we'd be able to handle a stimulus now for the average citizen when it is so badly needed but all the money has already been blown by the Bush Administration. It's a little late to grouse about the size of Obama's stimulus package. That is only a relatively small part of our whole national debt picture run up since the Repubicans had control of both houses of Congress and the White House.

The people who are blaming Republicans today for deficit spending will be blaming Democrats in another six months. Obama is proposing a trillion dollar stimulus plan. On top of this the US automakers will be back to ask for another 200-300 billion dollars. The steel industry is asking for another trillion and Democrat governors are asking for yet another trillion. There is even talk of the newspapers wanting several hundred billion to bail their sorry rears out.

The Democrats are simply not going to tell these people no. I don't have any faith that Obama will be willing to take on his own party to stop this insanity. If he does not then we are in for a very long and very painful depression. The federal government is out of control with each pary trying to outspend the other in promising giveaways to their supporters.

Ron Paul fan Grover Nordquist was the moderator. The RNC might be getting their act together after all. Maybe they realize Dr. Paul was correct on the bailout. Yeah!

republican "trickle down economics" and a hands off attitude by an 8 year republican administration is what led us to this point. Its just a wonder they didn't rename that theory "Patriot Economics" so the simple minded could wave flags while the country went down.The republicans put us in the crapper-and want to complain when the rest of us have to go to work to figure out how to get us out. The republican party is dead and dying and for good reason. Their ideas are old-they haven't worked even in the regan days-and they cling to their old ideas like a deflated life preserver-I am from Oregon and never heard of the moron who proposed this-but then oregon is the wilderness for a republican..ship them all to Alaska-then if we get invaded by Russia-they can be the first responders-or put them on the frount lines in Afganistan..If you like war so much-go fight one...