Comments on: Obama To Bush: Get Off The Pot http://themoderatevoice.com/24546/obama-to-bush-get-off-the-pot/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:43:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: SmoothJazz http://themoderatevoice.com/24546/obama-to-bush-get-off-the-pot/comment-page-1/#comment-165192 SmoothJazz Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:12:58 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/24546/obama-to-bush-get-off-the-pot/#comment-165192 I think Obama should just take over now. Bush should step down right now and let Obama take over. The fact that Paulson is just punting on half the bailout is an absolute disgrace and is almost treasonous. If it were legal, then I think Bush should just step down now and let Obama take over. Or maybe just make Geitner Sec of Treasury. Bush should just get out of the way right now. I think Obama should just take over now. Bush should step down right now and let Obama take over. The fact that Paulson is just punting on half the bailout is an absolute disgrace and is almost treasonous. If it were legal, then I think Bush should just step down now and let Obama take over. Or maybe just make Geitner Sec of Treasury. Bush should just get out of the way right now.

]]> By: JSpencer http://themoderatevoice.com/24546/obama-to-bush-get-off-the-pot/comment-page-1/#comment-165136 JSpencer Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:54:44 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/24546/obama-to-bush-get-off-the-pot/#comment-165136 I suppose the silver lining in Bush's ABSENCE of leadership is that it is preferable to his greater claim to fame, namely BAD leadership. I suppose the silver lining in Bush's ABSENCE of leadership is that it is preferable to his greater claim to fame, namely BAD leadership.

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/24546/obama-to-bush-get-off-the-pot/comment-page-1/#comment-165113 DLS Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:22:04 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/24546/obama-to-bush-get-off-the-pot/#comment-165113 Cowboy? [shaking head, buried in hands] Turning his back on all his problems and handing them to Obama? Sorry, no.<br><br>Bush is not being a President Buchanan or even a President Hoover. He's just being a lame duck. What can the Republicans do in Congress now, anyway, and do they even support what Bush may suggest after the foolishness with the AIG-crony fiasco? Are you aware that other institutions are also unlikely to engage in new lending? They are not morally obliged to do it, particularly to bad risks. Bush is doing what he can. Even the Dem Congress is unwilling to engage in blind, stupid "stimulus" spending of any and all kinds as well as be reckless about, for example, bailing a failed Detroit. (One would have to be particularly lowly to accuse Bush of making Detroit fail. Bush has done nothing to Detroit, much less for more than thirty years.)<br><br>It wouldn't surprise me if, once Obama has chosen his team members (which he has yet to do, you realize), and has a plan, that he can work with the Bush people at facilitating a transition. Cowboy? [shaking head, buried in hands] Turning his back on all his problems and handing them to Obama? Sorry, no.

Bush is not being a President Buchanan or even a President Hoover. He's just being a lame duck. What can the Republicans do in Congress now, anyway, and do they even support what Bush may suggest after the foolishness with the AIG-crony fiasco? Are you aware that other institutions are also unlikely to engage in new lending? They are not morally obliged to do it, particularly to bad risks. Bush is doing what he can. Even the Dem Congress is unwilling to engage in blind, stupid “stimulus” spending of any and all kinds as well as be reckless about, for example, bailing a failed Detroit. (One would have to be particularly lowly to accuse Bush of making Detroit fail. Bush has done nothing to Detroit, much less for more than thirty years.)

It wouldn't surprise me if, once Obama has chosen his team members (which he has yet to do, you realize), and has a plan, that he can work with the Bush people at facilitating a transition.

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