Slog - Comments on Darcy Burner's Bailout Response

Comment by tomasyalba

tomasyalba — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:44:48 -0800

And keeps her well outside the corner the Dems have painted themselves into on this. One less arrow in Reichert's quiver.

Comment by rob

rob — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:52:05 -0800

I'm very concerned that this bailout will be used to smear Dems for decades to come, and used to counterbalance Bush's otherwise unforgivable fiscal outrages over his whole tenure. The Dems caved too fast.

I really wanna see a list of every single chunk of pork/tax credit that was larded onto this bill (now up to $150 billion), which Congress critter was responsible for tacking it on, and whom it benefits (in plain English), but I don't know where to look.

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:27:54 -0800

Right on, Darcy! Capitalism cannot be reformed.

Well, that's not what she said but I suspect it might be true.

Comment by doctiloquus

doctiloquus — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:10:47 -0800

Yay Darcy! We need more Democrats who can recognize a piece of shitty legislation when they see one.

Murray and, sadly, McDermott couldn't, in this case. :(

Comment by Stephen Wood

Stephen Wood — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:53:31 -0800

This means that Burner acquitted herself better than did either Jim McDermott or our senators -- late converts, I guess, to the sloppiest form of pork-laden corporate welfare.

Comment by Stephen Wood

Stephen Wood — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:54:55 -0800

I misspoke: Senator Cantwell voted against the bailout.

My error.

Comment by L

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:26:48 -0800

The thing is, Burner wrote this article for the PI before Reichert came out with his response which is almost identical to her ideas. GO Darcy!