Oops! But what can you do. Not my problem is what I always say. For some reason, Dick Cheney sat down with CNBC’s Larry Kudlow earlier for a good bitch sesh.* Hopefully we’ll get the full interview soon, but so far we just have a tease from The Call. According to Kudlow, he led the witness with, “You started all this government interference, did you not?” To which the former VP conceded, “Yes, we did.” Kudlow, really nailing the guy to the wall, pressed on. “Did you realize you were going to exert this kind of control and having the government end up owning GM?” The answer: “Yeah, we didn’t really think that through.”
Earlier: NBC Cracking Down On CNBC Obama Bashing?
*Most likely as a prelude to holding each other in this time of need.
Dick Cheney Didn’t Anticipate Government Interference He Started Going This Far, Mostly Because He (Et Al) Didn’t Really Think This Thing Through
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“Yeah, we didn’t really think that through.” That seems like the whole Bush presidency.
political ass-pounding by republican DB readers in 3 2 1 …
1 Get with the program. Don’t you know its all Clinton’s fault.
cheney looked just like the big lewbowski at the inaguration
@3- combo of big lebowski and the penguin.
@2:
YOU get with the program!
It is white people’s fault! With your cancerous ways of living; maximizing profits without “thinking through” the environmental and social impact.
America brought this on on itself.
Like Rev. Wright said, “Goddamn America!!!!”
Your time is coming-the oligarchs have bankrupted the nation. It’s only a matter of time before it hits the fan.
-TGFHouston
1 Please allow me to get serious here for a moment. There certainly is a case for small govt, fiscal responsibility. Problem is that the Bush admin never seemed interested in making such things happen. Laziness to the extreme, in the form of cut taxes and go to sleep early. A belief not in small government but rather no government. And look where it got us and their entire party.
Both parties are to blame: Bush Admin for opening up this can of worms of govt. intervention and Barney&Co. for insisting that everyone earning $30k a year needed to be able to buy a house worth 10x that in order to obtain their rightful share of the American Dream.
Both sides fucked up, big time.
-Smug Libertarian
“Did you realize you were going to exert this kind of control and having the government end up owning GM?” The answer: “Yeah, we didn’t really think that through.”
Think back a little bit, remember when bush issued the first loans, as I recall it was in consultation with Obama. That’s why they were smaller than what was asked for and just enough to get them through Jan/Feb.
Sorry Bush haters go back and check your facts, a lot of things where his fault, this not being one of them.
@8- why so smug? you still have to live with the consequences, no matter how you identify yourself.
@9- obama wasn’t president, bush was. he was, in his words, the decider. case closed.
@10-so Bush, Cheney et al screwed up. Now Obama, Geithner (is Biden still around?) have basically dwarfed what Bush did. So if you have to pick sides, my thought is that you either disagree with both or agree with both because they essentially did the same thing.
@10- I don’t disagree with that. I was disagreeing with 9′s (moronic) comment that thing done during the bush presidency were at the behest of obama.
-10
@ sugardaddy
Thank you!!
The only thing that has changed is the packaging. Obama (whom i voted for and whom i will not vote for again) is not the agent of change. He is the agent for changing perceptions.
Rally on!!!
didn’t see the govt. owning coming?
Based on ’08 analyst reports, it seemed to happen right on schedule.
@3
Trade of the Week: long white russians, short the Eagles
@10, 8 here- Thanks, not actually smug just getting over the whole pointless D/R he-said-she-said that, while fun to engage in, is probably dishonest and unproductive.
While all the Dems are bashing Bush/ Cheney for starting an unwinnable, poorly planned and costly war in Iraq (although it did keep the terrorist bastards preoccupied so as not to pull some 9/11 shit here again, and our apologies to all you maimed Iraqi kids and Allied soldiers) the Hug It Out Bitch President is looking like a stupid pussy whose naive attempts at diplomacy (think Reagan/Bush1/Clinton/Bush2 hadn’t already tried that?) now have North Korea, China, all the Stans and Iran laughing at him and us.
What’s that got to do with the financial mess? Bush Administration was too busy/lost too much political clout with their unpopular war to mind the store until it was on fire. And then they overreached.
So, big mess and Obama wants to spend his way out of it, but I ask you or any Democrats here, where is the stimulus working? Any jobs in the private sector being created or only hiring more govt. penpushers? In New York/Michigan/California/New Jersey/Ohio? How did Pelosi’s viable car company look at the end of March? This week? How’s that mortgage bailout going for the po’ folk? Last time I looked many of the fools who received govt. help refinancing houses they should never have been able to afford in the first place were defaulting.
OK, it takes time. Fine. Let’s give it another year. But do any of you seriously think having more govt. is the answer? Where does the govt. operate more efficiently than the private markets? I can’t think of a single example.
Moot point anyway, as we’re China’s bitch now.
@smug
I agree fully except one thing. After looking at California, people do want more government, they just don’t want to pay for it.
17 Shoots and scores. Everyone wants to go to heavan, nobody’s willing to die first.
More Pay Less Work, More Pay Less Work!