Bottom line: Our government leaders & the administration are liars.

[SoCalDem]

They told us for years that "everything was hunkydory".."just peachy".."strong"...

and suddenly the whole place has burned to the ground and we need EMERGENCY help..

When were they lying? and why should we believe them?

If they were lying all along..(see Greenspan, Bernanke, Paulson, Bush,), why should we believe them NOW??

If things were shaky and they did not take pro-active measures THEN, why should be believe that they even know what to do now?

This is the same crowd who has used the "throwing money at a problem" mantra when criticizing liberals, and somehow, now that is their only solution..

Were they lying, then?? or Now?? or both?

[Pale Blue Dot]

1. This is the point.

This has been coming for a long time, many here saw it coming, yet no one wanted to do anything about it. The situation had become so perilous that our leaders, Democrats and Republicans, thought that even suggesting there might be a problem would cause a crash.

On the Democratic side, what happened was either an extreme case of cognitive dissonance or a total lack of political courage. Based on our track record, I know which one I believe.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Cog dissonance & political chickenshittery are nort mutually exclusive states.

I'm betting on both.

[PsN2Wind]

2. The one thing that we should have learned from recent history is

Every time the administration rushs to get a bill through congress the Dems get rolled and the common citizen gets hosed.

[KarenS]

3. AND the M$M is their greatest enabler.

unbelievable and scary stuff to me.

[stillcool]

4. It's the long con, and the short con....

and today I definitely feel like I've been conned. I was not fooled by the Iraq war. That was too simple to figure out. This one is like getting kicked in the head. I am dazed and confused and my head hurts.