"Our Economy Is Fundamentally Strong"

yay! (0.00 / 0)

Like the music.

Not a bad ad. Simple but effective for the most part.

Are those transporter beams dropping Bush, McCain, and Shays into the frame. Someone with the DCCC's media team is a major Trekkie.

Cheers mates

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by: scarcity @ Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 19:27:41 PM UTC

Troll? (0.00 / 0)

We shall see.

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by: Scarce @ Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 20:02:12 PM UTC

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Someone must really admire you Scarce... (0.00 / 0)

Either that, or you're really getting under the Shays campaign's skin.

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by: AndersonScooper @ Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 20:37:46 PM UTC

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"The fundamentals of our economy are strong" (0.00 / 0)

That in and of itself should be the rallying cry for all Democrats running for any office this election cycle. Thank you, John McCain. If Barack Obama becomes President Barack Obama, then that single quote by John McCain would perhaps be the single most galvanizing utterance by a politician of the incumbent party--to throw that said party out of office.

When people in CT's 4th CD open up their 401K's quarterly report, I wonder how fundamentally strong they think the economy is.

Speaking of the incumbent party, this is in the 2008 Republican Party Platform.

"We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself."

The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

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by: connecticutyankee @ Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 22:21:16 PM UTC

Hoisted on their own petards (0.00 / 0)

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by: saramerica @ Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 00:20:14 AM UTC

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Good to hear from you, Saramerica!!! (0.00 / 0)

So sorry that Greenwich Time/Stamford Advocate purged you from their pages.  BTW, have you seen the new line-up of pundits there?  About eight right-wingers and two- yep, two- progressives.  Dunster sure did do what he said he was going to do- pull his papers' editorial pages even further to the right (didn't think that was possble!).  I wonder if he's noticed that for the first time, registered Republicans have fallen below 40% of all registered voters?  Can GT editors spell c-l-u-e-l-e-s-s?

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by: thomashooker @ Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 13:34:15 PM UTC

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Himes and Paulson sitting in a tree... (0.00 / 0)

He and Bush's guy Paulson both come from Goldman (Himes mail says it took him 12 years to become a Vice President there), they are both looking for ways to help bailout their friends on the street.  Himes was part of the Wall Street problem he made his money and ran.  He was part of the problem he can't solve it.

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by: nategreen @ Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 16:25:02 PM UTC

LOL (0.00 / 0)

The trolls are getting funnier ...

Jim Himes, while a VP at Goldman Sachs a decade ago, told Paulson to go screw over the American Banking System and Paulson did it?!

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!

Nate, Republicans in Washington, with Chris Shays votes and vocal support, have caused the biggest collapse in the American banking industry since the Depression.

John McCain's campaign manager is a lobbyist for Fannie Mae.

Chris Shays says the economy is "fundamentally strong," and so he has no plans to change anything about it.

Himes has already called for legislative reforms and increased oversight to address the problem:

The subprime crisis was not an accident," Mr. Himes said. "You had a corner of the financial sector running amok while our overseers, and in theory Chris Shays is one of our overseers, stayed silent. We will restore oversight. We will put in place smart regulation to keep this from happening again."

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by: CaptCT @ Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 16:59:11 PM UTC

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