I just smell a setup here.  I grew up in Republican politics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  My maternal grandfather was a ward leader there for decades.  I have siblings still heavily involved in GOP politics there.

I took my politics from my father’s family. My paternal grandfather had been an alderman in Pottsville, PA for awhile and that side of the family was heavily Democratic, of the FDR type.  They have very different approaches to politics.

I am involved in Democratic Party politics here in Alexandria, VA and have been since I retired from the Coast Guard in 1999.  It is an eye opening experience.

In short, Democrats kill flies by using a slip of paper and a dab of honey.  Republicans kill flies by using a sledge hammer.  They both kill flies but one is overkill and the other does everything it can to make the death surge look like a feast.  It is more style than substance.

I see Obama as possibly  luring in the GOP, getting them either to sit at the table or to refuse to sit at the table and then saying to the American people, "See!  I told you!  I asked them to help me govern and they refuse.  Now I will govern my way because I have no other choice."

Is Obama a whore?  Sure he is.  Do you any politician that is not? But whether or not he is dumb and clueless or dumb like a fox is not apparent yet.  It is too early.

I hope I am right. If I am wrong, we should know by about the middle of January.  It takes about a year to figure out a President’s course and heading.  If he is off course and this is not politics but a real hole in his administration’s strategy to govern, we should know by then.

Follow the money and its obvious Mr. Obama is a Corporate whore just like nearly every politician in D.C., perhaps the Country as a whole.

We get our version of the purple finger election charade every four years, whereby we get to choose between two people put forward by the monied elite, and both have been carefully vetted to ensure loyalty to the Ruling class.

The fact our Country elected its first Black President is nothing more than a testament to the horrific job Bush did. Our ruling class knew that they had to present something more than another rich white guy or risk losing their heads to the proverbial “guilotine”.

You make mention of real sources what are yours?
Mr. Keerigan actually make a pretty accurate statement, also if you looked into who are amjor shareholders of some of these bank that got the bailouts I am sure you might be enlightened as to where the dollars flowed. You do have Chairs of Comittees, that are the ones that shoudl be investigated, it is easy to shread when you are on top. Also, for your facts check you can go back tot eh Clinton administration as to when the commerical lenders were allowed to apply derivative trades towards saving in loans institution it was this decoupling of leniding institutions that led to the crack supply of funds and the ability to back based on margin. Funny How this admisinstartion makes mention on how they are going to give everything back except hmmm AIG the gloabal insurance giant, it seems MR. Higgins you have much more research to do.

In order for the Obamites to go their own way during this Administration and the next one, he has to make it a matter of public record that he tried to bring the GOP along.  He has to be able to say to the American people "I tried to get GOP ideas for a common front against our problems.  They would not cooperate.  I tried and I failed.  Now we will do it my way."  I am fairly sure that is what he is doing here.

So far, the GOP has paid a very small price for being completely obstructionist.  That will not go on forever.  Within months, the American people will sorely tire of that "no-government" approach to government. They are tiring of it now.  The backlash will come and the GOP will suffer it. I am fairly certain.  I am not sure, but I suspect this is a setup.

This is exactly what Pelosi and Reid would do in Congress.  Ask for help, have the GOP go down on record as providing nothing but ridicule and derision of the Democratic Party’s efforts, and then "wham!" they get slammed for being obstructionist.

Maybe I am wrong.  Maybe Obama is an idiot.

I strongly doubt that.  I think he is setting the GOP up for an embarrassing and very public fall.

You have ignored the real sources of the financial fiasco in order to launch another false and gratuitous attack on Clinton and the "liberals."

Again bull, that’s all, argument won’t work with you as you exist in a fact free dimension.

In fact they cooked the books, and basically got away with it. Now if they had been Republicans the Mainstream Media would have told us. Well, Fannie Mae and ACORD pressured banks under threat to give loans to purchase homes they could not afford.

Fannie Mae then purchased those bad loans and wrapped them up and sold them to Wall Street investors. They assumed they these loans were backed by the federal government.

What I fail to understand is that certain democratic senators and congessman including the now sitting president prevented President Bush from trying to reform things. Just to think this could have been prevented.

I get a kick out of hearing these same crooks in Congress holding hearings over problems that they created. Especially with Bernie Madoff. I bet they took a few dollars from him. Then they made phone calls or sent memo’s to the SEC to not bother Bernie.