Bailout Watch 234: "In your heart, you know he is right…. I hope you will post this… Please?"

ronnie schreiber - this would go a lot faster if you would stick to the actual talking points instead of making assumptions. but, i'll try and muddle through your mess of a response. "Mock all you want" okay. "McCotter is pretty consistent in sticking to a conservative ideology" except for this one, very important, time. "it’s his opinion that this is a crisis and not a time for ideological orthodoxy" right, i got that, he said so in the video. "You know, the way the guy you voted for says he’s not going to repeal Bush’s tax cuts" big swing and a miss, ronnie schreiber. beware your assumptions and stick to the points of the arguments. "I know that it’s hard for a “progressive” like you" ooo, strike two. "but some folks in Washington actually serve their districts" foul tip! i agree, he is trying to serve his ditrict. doesn't mean he's not wrong, though. "assy plant" ha! you said assy plant. "Perhaps you’d be willing to tell them to their faces how you think they are lazy and greedy." strike three! never said this. i think they are neither lazy nor greedy. "Apologize for imputing racist motives to me." ask nicely, you cur. (where's my slapping glove and dueling pistol?) actually, i was the one being racist here, not you. "You’re eliding past my point that CAFE gives structural advantages to the imports, who for the most part don’t make large cars and light trucks" i'm not eliding past anything. no one had an advantage, the CAFE standards were there for all. if the big 3 decided to keep making trucks and suvs then fine, but they knew the price of that. it was a level playing field. "Does a large segment of American consumers find that domestic cars don’t meet their needs? Sure" thanks for agreeing with me. "Apple computers are “largely unneeded” because they only have 10% of the personal computer market" i would include the generally higher price, too, but yes, they are largely unneeded. "Maybe we’ll start hearing about how “nobody” wants an Apple computer" there is a difference between want and need you seem to be missing here. "Yep, another one of those mean, nasty, greedy American corporations." you're not even trying to throw strikes anymore, just aiming for the batter. it is a fact that some american corporations get large subsidies. for good or bad, it's what happens. "Toyota is run by living saints" i think you have to be dead to be a saint, no? "but that’s a side issue to the indisputable fact that Japan keeps out US agricultural products" yes, and agribusiness has a strong lobby and if they wanted to push the point of better trade with japan i am sure they could manage it. "Why do you want Toyota and Honda to be able to sell products here but have no problem with Japan restricting imports of those things that we can produce competitively?" i never said this. bad assumption. "So, do you approve of giving healthy banks billions in giveaways?" no.

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