Some are noticing.....

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During the campaign there were predictions that this stuff would begin to occur and already (much sooner than I personally thought) there are beginning to be raised eyebrows l....just add this editorial to those that are beginning to appear about ACORN, etc.....

"Tincture of Lawlessness
Obama's Overreaching Economic Policies"

"The Obama administration is bold. It also is careless regarding constitutional values and is acquiring a tincture of lawlessness"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/13/AR2009051303014_pf.html

I always figured it would take longer for this to start to trickle, but seems it is already begining !

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I am not surprised.:cus:

Yoda

A member of the loyal opposition

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I don't know, Bucco. I think George Will is being extremely polite in describing the situation as only a "tincture". I always thought that that word meant a slight cast or taint. Trampling on the rights of lenders and forcing them with threats to abandon their claims before proper adjudication under the rule of law is a whole lot more than a tincture methinks.

I'm glad that at least one well-known, nationally syndicated columnist has addressed this issue. Other than Will's article, the only other that I've read is the one in last week's Economist.

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13610871

There will be more and more troubled companies and threatened employees who will look to Washington for a bailout, based on the terrible precedents already set. Here's another one from this week's Hartmarx bankruptcy...

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/workers-pressure-bank-to-keep-clothiers-us-plants-open/?scp=2&sq=hartmarx&st=cse

No single elected official, from either party, will ever do everything that I agree with. What did President Reagan say, something like 80% is a good thing? But in this case, the administration's trampling of lender's legal rights and forcing them to abandon their claims before proper adjudication is a pretty serious transgression.

I like a lot of the things that President Obama has done thus far. But the precedents that have been set which have trashed the legal rights of lenders under our well-established rule of law to gain the political favor of unions has caused my to declare...STRIKE ONE!

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I don't know, Bucco. I think George Will is being extremely polite in describing the situation as only a "tincture". I always thought that that word meant a slight cast or taint. Trampling on the rights of lenders and forcing them with threats to abandon their claims before proper adjudication under the rule of law is a whole lot more than a tincture methinks.

I'm glad that at least one well-known, nationally syndicated columnist has addressed this issue. Other than Will's article, the only other that I've read is the one in last week's Economist.



There will be more and more troubled companies and threatened employees who will look to Washington for a bailout, based on the terrible precedents already set. Here's another one from this week's Hartmarx bankruptcy...

http://socialistworker.org/2009/05/13/hartmarx-workers-threaten-occu

No single elected official, from either party, will ever do everything that I agree with. What did President Reagan say, something like 80% is a good thing? But in this case, the administration's trampling of lender's legal rights and forcing them to abandon their claims before proper adjudication is a pretty serious transgression.

I like a lot of the things that President Obama has done thus far. But the precedents that have been set with regard to the banks and their legal rights has caused my to declare...STRIKE ONE!


I promise to keep track of the strikes for you !!!!

I recall during the campaign, you were honest in your saying something to the effect that if he didn't do what he said, OR was as bad as I said, we could get rid of him after 4 years. I am in fear that so much damage can be done by that time.......

Anyway, there are a lot of "pitches" that seem to be just off the corner :)

Keep your eye on things surrounding campaign finances and groups, and some of the "strings" attached to the so called stimulus for just two !!!