On Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:00 PM Vince Teachout wrote: <snipped> >The argument of those in favor of it, are that it would give a noble, visionary, powerful, righteous leader, such as our >current President, the power to overcome an obstinate and short-sighted congress, for the betterment of the U.S. <snipped>
>From http://www.dubyaspeak.com: And so I'm looking forward to working with them [Congress] to come up with a good bill. But they need to fund these troops, and they don't need to be putting artificial timetable for withdrawal on the money that we're asking to make sure the men and women who courageously serve the United States of America have what it takes to do the job they've been asked to do. If the Congress can't get the job done - in other words, those jet fumes will start to be moving out pretty soon here, later on this week - if they can't get the job done, then I've got a suggestion for them. Just pass a one-year continuing resolution. That's all they got to do. I don't get where Dubya is going with the jet fumes, but I suspect he may be inhaling them. North Fredericksburg, Virginia, Dec. 17, 2007 I can remember the first home I bought in Midland, Texas. I remember going down to the savings and loan and sitting down with the savings and loan officer and negotiating with the savings and loan officer. Well, this day and age you're going to use - mortgages have been bundled, so the savings and loan doesn't own the mortgage anymore, or the bank doesn't loan the mortgage anymore, the local lending institute doesn't loan the mortgage anymore. It's owned by some international group, perhaps, or it's been bundled into an asset. And so there's hardly anybody to negotiate with. And so some lenders aren't sure where to turn. They have credit-worthiness, they may get pinched as their interest rates reset. Ironically, Dubya's brother Neil Bush was the director of Silverado Savings and Loan when it collapsed in 1988, costing taxpayers $1.6 billion. Perhaps Dubya's apparent inability to master that industry's terminology is an attempt to distance himself from the association? North Fredericksburg, Virginia, Dec. 17, 2007 I'm going to tell you something. We have fabulous health care in America, just so you know. I think it's very important - before people start griping about the health care system here - and of course there's always grounds for complaint - just to compare it with other systems around the world. And one of the reasons our system is expensive is because some of the new technologies that are coming online, they happen to be saving lives. If you looked up "oblivious" in a hundred dictionaries, you'd be hard pressed to find a truer definition of it than this. North Fredericksburg, Virginia, Dec. 17, 2007 I wasn't a knee-walking drunk. It's a difficult thing to do, which is to kick an addiction. Even when he's talking about his own past, presumably a subject he knows well, he can't help the odd phrasing. Interview with ABC News' Martha Raddatz, Dec. 11, 2007 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
