Harry Reid Tries To Sell Optimism

I think the problem is that nobody trusts these people anymore. Having Reid tell us "Things are getting better" is like a doctor telling us "This will not hurt" before they jab that foot long needle into you.

We need leaders we can trust and believe in. What we have now are career politicians who can not lead, and are in this more for the power than for us.

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D,

What "Bush boom"? By the time he left office, the market was below the level it was at when he started.

Harry Reid ???

Give me a break. Let me see hmmmm.

Was it yesterday Bill Clinton advises stop the gloom and doom and here comes Harry Reid to the rescue!!

Let me get this straight.

Convince the American people we are headed for an economic meltdown so we can pass our PORK LADEN BILL before the American people can see what is in it.

Now we must back track and tell them we are going to be fine because Bill Clinton tells him to do this. So now we all be happy and secure..


This is a Washington Circus Nightmare !!! I think Chucky could do a better job. This is the "Change you can depend on" Obama promised ?????

Recall Congress NOW.

David Knowles,
I am not a Bush devotee by any means, but why is it that every left winger seems to forget that Bush took over a declining stock market after the unrealistic returns from the dot com craze and the corporate scandals were exposed. Then the loses were further compounded by 9/11. His administration did manage to stave off a recession , and actually brought the markets back to new highs until they fell apart again, this time due to the sub prime and real estate mess. I wonder how Bush's market success would be viewed had he been able to hold the explosion off for just a few more months. Would he still get all the blame or would the new administration be blamed like Bush was when Clinton handed his pending bomb off to him.

I'd be optimistic too, if I had just been given 8 billion dollars to play with..

Promises, Promises - Soaring expectations collide with harsh political realities.

Joseph Epstein - NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Feb 23, 2009

...Obama's promise of a new bipartisanship hit heavy water as soon as his stimulus-package debate was set adrift. For one thing, only the idea for a stimulus package—but not the package itself—ever felt as if it were really his. From the outset it was instead the work of that fun couple, maestros Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, the Frick and Frack of heavy federal spending. And those two are as interested in bipartisan participation as Lord Byron was in marriage counseling. When the going on the package got rough, Obama said, in effect: "Well, I won the damned election, so we'll do things my way, though of course I still invite bipartisan participation."

...It is in the nature of politicians to make promises; it is what they do. Some do so without the least intention of delivering on their promises. Some fully intend to deliver, but find the world obdurate, unwilling to go along with their fine intentions. Barack Obama now finds himself among the latter. With loony jihadists threatening from without, a crumbling economy terrorizing its citizens from within, Obama knew he needed straightaway to demonstrate utmost competence to stem fear and instill confidence. The reason for his wanting to assemble an able cabinet more quickly than any other administration in recent history was to show that, though the nation had major problems, they were under study and would soon be attacked by the most capable minds of our time. He needed to calm the country down, and show, in a measured but forceful way, that a strong hand was at the wheel.

This he has thus far failed abysmally to do. Very disappointing, to the country at large, and not least, I have no doubt, to Barack Obama himself...

URL: http://www.newsweek.com/id/184774

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