[lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Sun Nov 7 09:01:40 PST 2010


On Nov 7, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Wojtek S wrote:


> Chuck: "In fact the Obama administration wanted to save the monied
> interest
> and block any liberal or progressive pressure to change the system.
> Obama,
> Reid, and Pelosi conspired to frustrate any movement from the
> Progressive
> Caucus or outside liberal constituencies by pretending to be chained
> to a
> 2/3 majority on changing anything."
>
> [WS:] And what is the source of this information?

Its public knowledge--we've been hearing the 2/3 alibi for nigh on 22 months now. And of course the save-the-monied interest started much earlier--with the Dumbos headed by Obama lining up behind the Bush- Paulson bailout and the FISB "mark to whatever you want" swindle that has kept the insolvent banks afloat on their sea of fraudulent (aka "toxic") assets.


> Is it how you interpret this administration's actions, or is there
> a reliable record that these are
> the stated purposes of this administration's policies?

One must be (or pretend to be) incredibly credulous to believe that any President's *stated* policies have any correspondence to his real ones. "Honest" Abe Lincoln stated that his policy was *not* to end slavery. In November 1860 did anyone in the (incipiently) Confederate South believe him? By 1862 did anybody in the world?

Shane Mage

This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it

always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,

kindling in measures and going out in measures."

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