CT 02: Courtney "Stood up" ad highlights votes against "taxpayer-funded bailouts of Wall Street"

Yeah, well I kind of throws Murphy (0.00 / 0)

And Himes under the proverbial bus, seeing as they did the right thing in voting with the President, whereas Courtney chickened out.

I imagine Healy will be sending out a press release o. He next 24hours.

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by: AndersonScooper @ Mon Sep 27, 2010 at 17:11:19 PM UTC

Sorry for the typos, still haven't got the iPhone (0.00 / 0)

Touch-typing to a better level.

Just watched the ad, and "ouch!" I guess Murphy and Himes voted for "Washington and Wall Street" instead of your and my best interests?

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by: AndersonScooper @ Mon Sep 27, 2010 at 17:15:30 PM UTC

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In hindsight... (0.00 / 0)

I believe Courtney cast the right vote. So are you saying that because Joe voted different from Murphy and Himes he can't talk about it? That seems a little too "lock step" for me. Why do you say Murphy and Himes did the right thing?... because Obama, Dodd, Geitner and Summers were for the bailouts?  Hardly a convincing argument.

But let justice roll down like waters...Amos 5:24a

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by: Jake Blount @ Tue Sep 28, 2010 at 04:20:09 AM UTC

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the Murphy / Himes thing is real, but... (0.00 / 0)

IMO, TARP and Dodd / Frank were the two biggest votes of the past two years... bigger than HCR and stimulus.  If I were Joe, I'd be touting this vote bigtime regardless of the votes cast by Murphy or Himes.

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by: Tim White @ Tue Sep 28, 2010 at 05:22:59 AM UTC

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Joe makes me proud (4.00 / 2)

I have never had more pride in my Congressman than I do for Joe Courtney - and that includes Congressmen who represented me and for whom I have worked.

This vote was and is a big reason why.

I was completely against the bailout and remain so. I personally think it the single biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American public by our government.   I debated voting for President at all in 2008 because of Obama's vote (I did vote for him).

Instead of the bailouts, we should have started prosecuting. So instead of sailing on megayachts, they should be behind bars - mortgage originators, mortgage bond industry, executives of big banks, AIG, appraisers, credit rating agencies, government agency heads and more. Hey, since corporations are now "people" under the law, they should be help criminally responsible for criminal acts

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by: famillionaire @ Tue Sep 28, 2010 at 17:36:29 PM UTC

I agree with you (0.00 / 0)

and Obama should have followed FDR's lead by taking over the banks, and bringing in new management and regulations to restore fiscal soundness to these institutions.

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by: Larkspur @ Thu Sep 30, 2010 at 05:28:27 AM UTC

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