Fool me thrice, put you in jail.
So, just like Iraq, the current "administration" has been planning "for months" to hand over a Trillion dollars to the financial markets. Clearly, since they couldn't get people to let them put Social Security on 13 black and spin the wheel, they decided to just go the 9.11 route.
Like they allowed 9.11 to happen, then demanded they be given the power to gut the Constitution, like they insinuated and blew smoke about Iraq and Saddam, then demanded to be given unilateral authority to do whatever the hell they wanted to do, now they come and say the would economies will collapse if we don't just write them a check for 1 Trillion dollars and stop asking questions.
And just like in the first two situations, they have been planning it for months..
For your consideration:
http://www.rollcall.com/news/28599-1.html?type=printer_friendlyThe White House today is drumming up extraordinary pressure on Congress to approve its plan to enact a $700 billion mortgage bailout fund, suggesting the markets cannot wait much longer and dispatching Vice President Cheney and other top officials up Pennsylvania Avenue to jawbone lawmakers.
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[White House Deputy Press Secretary Tony] Fratto said it would be "unthinkable" for Congress not to pass legislation this week, asserting the result would be a "very, very serious situation" for the U.S. economy.
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Fratto insisted that the plan was not slapped together and had been drawn up as a contingency over previous months and weeks by administration officials. He acknowledged lawmakers were getting only days to peruse it, but he said this should be enough. And so now, the Democrats are considering reverting back to their battered wife syndrome again. They are feverishly thinking to themselves, "He says that I should just trust him, that he won't hurt me again. Should I do it? He's only got our interests at heart, surely, right?" "I shouldn't even look at all these signs that he's lying, should I?"
