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Warren Crocker Herrick says:

October 31, 2010 at 10:04 pm

The President is a sociopath and a liar. I can barely bring myself to respect him by calling him ‘President’.
Neo says:

November 1, 2010 at 7:11 am

Frankly, I believe that history does show that FDR’s actions during the Depression where about as equally useless as those of POTUS Obama.

It was WWII that ended the Depression.

While there are some who blame FDR for getting us into WWII, I don’t think they were doing it to give FDR credit for ending the Depression.
david foster says:

November 1, 2010 at 9:21 am

FDR did not project the kind of contempt for ordinary Americans, and for America itself, that has been such a constant feature of Obama’s presidency.

Also, the term “retained earnings” does not necessarily refer to cash. If a company makes $100MM in profit and invests it *all* in new plant & equipment, its retained earnings still go up by $100MM, just as they would if the money were kept in cash.

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Mike says:

November 1, 2010 at 11:50 am

Unfortunately, I think we are going from the frying pan to the fire. Fear, anger and name calling won’t solve our problems. I thought seriously about voting for Mark Kirk in Illinois, but I don’t want the Senate to be lead by Mitch McConnell.
Phineas says:

November 1, 2010 at 11:58 am

So, you’d vote for a Mafia banker, instead?
alanstorm says:

November 1, 2010 at 1:05 pm

The best thing the government could do would be to quit intervening in the marketplace and stop trying to engineer it. It’s simply much too complex to be controlled by a relatively small number of policy-makers.

Exactly. However, liberals are “Newtonians” – they are stuck in the belief, per Newton’s description of the universe, that if only they controlled everything about every piece of the economy, they could set it running like a clockwork mechanism, predictable in every detail.

Reality demonstrates this belief to be false, repeatedly and hard – it’s more of a quantum phenomenon, unpredictable in the details and stable only in the aggregate.
Carlos says:

November 1, 2010 at 2:32 pm

IF we can survive the lame duck session, and IF we succeed in getting full control of the House, then Duh-1 will go into full Marxist mode and the country will be run by executive order because, you know, he’s the president and all, and he can do whatever he wants to because he won, you know.

I fervently hope the first time he tries that he is challenged in court, and the court recognizes the inherent danger, and the court slaps him down so hard he’ll never forget it. AND that the court also addresses the question of the legitimacy of his “czars” as a means of avoiding senatorial confirmation.

We’re long past the time of subtle danger, folks.
Phineas says:

November 1, 2010 at 3:36 pm

Interesting you should mention the possibility of PBO bypassing Congress via executive orders, Carlos: Richard Fernandez at Pajamas Media yesterday had and interesting (and disturbing) piece about the potential for conflict between a Congress determined to pare back the regulatory state, on the one hand, and the President and the bureaucracy on the other: Aftermath.
Carlos says:

November 1, 2010 at 5:25 pm

It is not in their (academia, the elitists, the arrogancia) constitutional makeup, Phineus, to leave the economy (or anything else) alone. The world, in their inflated vision, is there for them to control at will, and they can’t understand why doofuses like us can’t see the wisdom in letting their superior intellects do that without question.

Hence, the Great Depression”, and now a recession that should have lasted maybe 8 mos., twelve max. Also, The U.S.S.R., China, North Korea, East Germany, Cuber, name any socialist state that has failed its people (which is all of them).

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