Posted by
flagwaver on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:39:53 PM
Yesterday I watched with undisguised glee as the $700 billion bailout bill died an ignominious death in the House. Being the good conservative that I am, I watched the news coverage on Fox News and was actually surprised by something I heard there. One of the Fox news anchorettes was actually bemoaning the fact that this travishamockery of a bill had gone down in the flaming defeat it so richly deserved. She was saying that this was a time when the members of Congress had to lead the American people instead of listening to their constitutents...you know, "We the People." Then this morning on
Fox and Friends all purpose political expert Larry Sabato from the University of Virginia was on saying the the President had failed to sell the bill properly to the people, and that whoever was able to tag the bill a "bailout" had effectively killed any chance of it passing the House. His idea was that if it had been called a "rescue" or "recovery" that the people would have gone along with it, because it didn't sound as if the government was trying to fix the mistakes of private businesses.
What these people don't seem to understand are just a few small things, and I will quickly go over them here.
- The American people just forced the Congress to lead us (at least for the time being) away from the precipice of eternal government bailouts of private enterprises. The American people were not going to stand by and watch these entities get free oney for running their companies into the ground, all in the quest for ever rising profits. And for the second time in a couple of years We the People imposed out collective will on those elected to represent us.
- The system worked as designed on this bill, since the members of the House, including a sizeable number of the Democratic Party, refused to vote for a bill that they knew the people were opposed to...just like the way it went down with Harriet Meiers and immigration. The Congress responded to the people and did their business, instead of trying to advance their own agendas.
- The President was never going to get this passed, because he has no political capital left to get this done! George W. Bush could be the greatest salesman in the world, but the People were not going to buy this crock of crap, because we all saw it for what it was. And how could any of the Democrats in the House really be seen supporting this White House backed proposal, after spending the last 7 years telling anyone who would listen what an incompetent boob "Dubya" is? How good would it have looked to the constituents of those anti-Bush House members up for reelection to be out trumpeting the Bush Plan?
- Larry Sabato and others need to understand that We the People are not some group of dolts who can be easily fooled b calling something by a different name. They tried that with their immigration proposals, but we all knew that "comprehensive immigration reform" was just a fancy way of saying "amnesty". No one was fooled then, and to think that calling this a "rescue" would divert attention from the fact that this is just a bailout of poorly run corporations is foolish. You can put a dead possum on a plate and call it filet mignon, but that doesn't change the fact that it's roadkill!