On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I am the eternal wrote: > I am lumping all of the Republican together because by and large suddenly they are a single congressional voting block, all voting to save our Constitution from "big government" and Governor Perry, from Federalism. Where the Hell were all of these folks while GWBush enlarged the government with the Patriot Act, torture, extraordinary extradition and spend, spend, spend? Indeed where was Governor Perry's voice when GWBush was doing this? How come he suddenly found his voice and his soap box (well, it has to do with upcoming elections where of all things, he hopes to sell himself to the people of Texas as a conservative savior of our federal constitution and the soverign Republic ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H State of Texas). Suddenly the Republicans have found their voice. It is to save the Republic from federalism or worse, socialism. I don't listen to the talk shows. I watch Rachel Maddow on TV half because she's cute and half because she's funny. Outside of that, I only watch snippets of CSPAN and I read the bills, see who votes for and against them, then carefully read the laws. What I see on CSPAN is very, very funny. The Republicans are born again with, I suspect, a self-defeating agenda. I don't think down the road that saying they voted against this or that stimulus or budget is going to get them anywhere. Already real estate on the west coast is starting to show signs of life, with houses at fire sales of 41% off. Real Estate agents on the west coast are busy as they've ever been. Investors are going back into real estate and they're looking at either big bargains or prices of the new reality in housing. I don't see once we're out of this mess that saying you voted against this is going to get you points. OTOH, if the Federal Reserve doesn't quickly suck liquidity out of the economy around the end of the year, we could face hyperinflation of the scale of Germany or Italy before WWII and have a double dip recession as we saw in the 1980s. Now if the Federal Reserve could manage to control the period of hyperinflation, we'd have it made: we could minimize our national debt by inflating the dollar as we have several times before.
