re: #145 LudwigVanQuixote

Because after all, we needed to bail out the banks and the auto execs, but bailing out ordinary Americans would be un American… After all, only people who burn through billions need to be given a free ride?

What is so insulting about the notion of letting people save their homes after they got screwed in an economic downturn?

Why is it that the OP types care about supporting the wealthy and have no problem handing them even more billions to waste, but helping real hard working Americans is some sort of sin?

I’m not sure we’re watching the same political process, the GOP has been losing seats since 2006 because they couldn’t keep their wallets in their pants and those GOP members who voted for TARP are having a hard time getting re-elected:

cleveland.com

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - Some of Congress’ staunchest conservatives voted two years ago to prop up the nation’s banking industry. At the time, they saw a threat to American business. Now the emergency is their own political survival.

In dozens of races around the country, challengers are hammering away at the bank bailout and deriding Republican lawmakers they claim spent billions to rescue Wall Street, not Main Street.

Rep. John Boozman of Arkansas is facing seven opponents for the Republican nomination for Senate. All are talking about his bailout vote, and one brings a blue plastic tarp to his events to symbolize the TARP, or Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Somehow Dems look at all this and come to the conclusion that the real problem is they just aren’t spending enough. Incredible.