Jesus vs. Sarah Palin wrote on September 29, 2008 10:52 PM: Tortured, Roman style, like any common criminal, when the Roman guards reportedly jabbed him in the flank with their long spears Jesus is reported to have said: "forgive them, they don't know what they're doing."

Then we have Sarah Palin, who the RNC has told her to wear her fundamentalism on her sleeve, supposedly to emulate Christ consciousness, yet, trying to financially ruin the her ex-brother-in-law and his dependents.

What would Jesus do?

Jade is Stupid wrote on September 29, 2008 10:51 PM: Wynn, Binion, Boyd, Hilton, Webb. What a hole.

Hey idiot. Get an education.

Jade wrote on September 29, 2008 07:54 PM: If the economy gets real bad there will only be two families in Nevada with money.

Reid and Ensign.

How did that happen?

Dems and GOP = Americans wrote on September 29, 2008 07:51 PM: Americans should be worried about America. This partisan BS is just the ticket to keep your eyes off all the back door deals on both sides.

Stop bickering among yourselves and Put your efforts into having your respective party nominate competent candidates with Americas future first.

While the average person is feuding over party politics these scum suckers on both sides are getting rich while the general public suffers.

Wasilla AK, Half the Population of Boulder City wrote on September 29, 2008 07:21 PM: Sarah Palin has provided the reason, perhaps the excuse, for buying two issues of the National Enquirer that did such a good job on John Edwards’s lies that I felt I could rely on their crack investigative staff to get the straight poop on Palin.

In the small town of Wasilla, Sarah’s home, there appears little to do other than drink, use drugs, fornicate and go to church.  Pretty much the same thing happens, almost in plain view, across the Bering Strait.  Iit is not surprising that Palin and family got involved in drugs, booze and fornication.  At this point the Enquirer is especially interested in Palin’s own affair with hubby’s business partner some years back. 

Palin would be a rotten president, as evidenced by the fact that she is a rotten mom which was evident right off the bat. She apparently limits her kids’ sex education to “abstinence only.”  Pregnant daughter Bristol is a tribute to the efficacy of that curriculum.   Now 17 year old Bristol and her lover, Levi, another teenager, must wed, the time-honored term for which is a shotgun wedding.

Palin’s oldest son is now being packed off to the war on Iraq, a killing mission without justification.  How can she send him to a war that is so obviously a war of aggression at this point?  What is the mindset here?  So Palin, the conservative Evangelical, is willing to sacrifice one child to Venus and another to Mars, because Jesus has so commanded.

Now if Palin’s fundamentalist ideology is so extreme that she is willing to sacrifice her own children to it, then can we not be certain she will be willing to do so to the rest of us and our children?

Teddy T wrote on September 29, 2008 03:51 PM: They both need to go;

Reid didn't vote for reversing solid seventy year old legilsation, i.e. the Glass-Steagall Act: Ensign and the Republic Congress did.

Too, take a guess who voted in 2000 in favor of The Commodities Futures Modernization Act which "defined financial commodities such as “interest rates, currency prices, and stock indexes” as “excluded commodities.” They could trade off the futures exchanges, with minimal oversight by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission, nor the Federal Reserve, nor any state insurance regulators had the ability to supervise or regulate the writing of credit-default swaps by hedge funds, investment banks or insurance companies."
(Barry Ritholtz:Barrons)
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If by "partisan" you mean one economic model versus another, I have to ask you, how is the repulic party economic model working for USA? Bush II took a $5 trillion surplus and turned it into a $10 trillion deficit.

Fiscal conservative? Give me a liberal! They seem to pay their way. Don't agree? What was the deficit under Bush I? Reagan? Clinton? See?!

They both need to go wrote on September 29, 2008 03:17 PM: Ensign and Reid both need the boot.

The partisan thing is just a smoke screen to divert your attention from the fact that they play a little too well together.

Sean Ripley wrote on September 29, 2008 01:24 PM: Chris says:
"I want some of what Harry is smoking... Democrats didn't create this? Who the h*** has controlled the Congress? What a moron. They had their hand in this just as much as Republicans."

Chris, it was the Republicans (including Ensign but not Reid), who in 1999 overturned Great Depression era enacted legislation that kept investment banks and commercial banks from playing in each other's sand box. Phil Gramm and Ensign voted "yeah" for S.900 in November 1999 to let this current financial crisis to begin.

2. In 2004 the (Republican) SEC Chairman allowed leveraging to increase from 12-1 to 40-1. This allowed financial institutes to borrow $40 for every dollar they had.

3. In 2005 the SEC chairman allowed the big 5 investment banks to stop their voluntary reporting requirements(current Treasurer Hank Paulson then CEO of Goldman Sacs lobbied for this!).

4. In 2005 republican led HUD introduced zero (0) down home loans!

This economic tsunami is like a real tsunami in that it starts way off shore and travels for quite some time before it crashes on-shore.

As for Buffett, he bought Goldman-Sacs equity with a gauranteed 10% return. Goldman does not have the exposure to bad loans as the others do or did. The other firms got bought AFTER they went banckrupt or wrote of billions of dollars as losses. These firms went under and in doing so wiped out all the money of the stock holders and bond holders-then and only then are they getting taken over.

Seriously, Harry needs medical attention wrote on September 29, 2008 01:07 PM: Seriously folks, Harry Reid is acting like he's had a stroke. I watch C-SPAN regularly, his behavior last week, and C-SPAN this morning; regarding transportation legislation (including train from L.V. to Los Angeles) but something about him just isn't right, beyond, his politics, that I don't agreed with.

Reid is just saying really stupid things, and appearing goofy. His family should get him some medical attention. He might become another Key Pittman situation.

I'm convinced, he'll stay right where he is, whether competent or not, just because. Hopefully the voters will get a clue, this loooong term politician needs to retire.

Jerry wrote on September 29, 2008 12:55 PM: If only this clown had spend as much time running the business of the senate as his pet shops, the country wouldn't be in such a mess. Too bad you're not up for re-election this time, Johnny boy. You would be in line for unemployment checks just like the nearly eight percent of Nevadans, except that there's no more money for unemployment benefit. You clown sent all the money to your pet project in Iraq.

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