They said that if you voted for McCain, dissenters would be targeted by the White House – and they were right!
“A group of investment firms and hedge funds decided to hold out for the prospect of an unjustified taxpayer-funded bailout. They were hoping that everybody else would make sacrifices and they would have to make none,” Obama said.
“I don’t stand with them,” Obama said. “I stand with Chrysler’s employees and their families and communities. I stand with Chrysler’s management, its dealers and its suppliers. I stand with the millions of Americans who own and want to buy Chrysler cars.”
I heard this over the car radio yesterday, so didn’t blog about it then, but my thoughts were similar to Stephen Spruiell’s;
Does that mean he doesn’t stand with the thousands of Americans who have retirement plans with Oppenheimer Funds? […] Not everyone showed this kind of backbone. I don’t know about you, but knowing that Oppenheimer’s managers were willing to stand up to immense political pressure on behalf of their investors kind of makes me want to open an account there.
Politico – “It’s clear that the White House thinks the politics of battling unnamed “speculators” works in its favor.”
Last month he sparked the Great National Rile-Up over AIG bonuses, now this.
The hopey-changy agenda becomes clearer by the day – what Bush did for terrorism, Obama will do for witches.
Question:
How are Alfonso Cashbagliano loan repayments coming along on his winery and will a future Liberal government mean another lawsuit by a former President of the Federal Business Development Bank?
ps Enjoy the veal.
“I stand with the millions of Americans who own and want to buy Chrysler cars.”
Those people were called P.O.D.S. by Lee Iacocca and Chrysler many years ago — the company that thought its own customers were rubes if they were dumb enough to buy their products.
Obama can pry the steering wheel of my Honda out of my cold, dead hands.
I’m confused. Wouldn’t a bankruptcy in the auto industry be GREAT for the environment and carbon emmissions? Less cars, less pollution, less drive by shootings?
Have you driven a horde lately?
Fiat:
Etymology: Latin, let it be done, 3d singular present subjunctive of fieri to become, be done —
Date: circa 1631
1 : a command or act of will that creates something without or as if without further effort
2 : an authoritative determination : dictate (a fiat of conscience)
3 : an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree (government by fiat)
Sounds about right.
“Next up: Frank and Belinda Stronach….”
Obama needs to bake a bigger economic pie.
Why is it better to loan farmers a billion dollars of taxpayers money over the next five years than it is to get rid of the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly, which would in turn generate over a billion dollars every year in extra revenue from the marketplace?
Norm,
Great point of the CDS….if true then the government might want to rethink its position.
Once again though, the government might very get its way in front of the bankruptcy judge based on the majority of creditors signing off on the deal.
Its a no lose bet for Oppenheimer, if your supposition is corrcet.
Anyway, it is in a court. The law will prevail.
Now as for the matter about threats to unleash the White Press Corps………..
There’s MUCH MORE to this story which has not yet been mentioned. Please do yourself a favour and download this podcast. Then tune to 54:00 and listen.
What you’ll hear is Mark Levin replay a segment from a Detroit radio station where a lawyer working on behalf of the financial lenders to Chrysler describes the Backroom Thugocracy that is the Obama Administration.
Just imagine that you lent, in good faith, a bunch of money to a company. And part of the terms of your loan were that you would be paid back first. Then one day the government comes along and threatens to attack you via the media, which they have de facto control over.
Do you think that’s legal? Do you think it’s remotely ethical?
Tell Stephen to get back on the Conservative agenda. Gut the Gun Registry and talk to the people. We need a Friday night fireside chat on TV paid for by taxpayers. The Media filter is not helping the CPC and no one knows what is being done or the wrong things to do.
I would ask the Prime Minister how far is Canada as the primary trading partner with the USA willing to go in the form of trade retaliations for the numerous changes coming in trade policy from the USA, for example the carbon tariffs the DOE is considering, the thickening of the border for commerce from DHS and in response to the implications regarding Canada that have now become policy based on a plank in the US Democratic Party Platform surrounding trade and security?
I am going to be in Ottawa this coming week. I will attend a meeting where the prime minister will take questions in an open forum. There are no media in the room. What question would you ask if you had the chance? Discuss
Posted by: Brian Mallard at May 1, 2009 4:33 PM
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Mr. Mallard. Please ask Mr. Harper whether he has read Ezra Levant’s book “Shakedown”, and how he feels about the proposal of the Liberal party to expand the jurisdiction of the HRCs to “include discrimination based on citizenship status and socio-economic class.” (as per their current platform)
This question is in response to Brian Mallard’s request.
I would like to ask Mr Harper ” What are the shared core principles and ideas of the Conservative Party of Canada?”
Mr Mallard. Please ask Mr Harper “What are the shared core principles and ideas of the Conservative Party of Canada?”