Rove: bu$h absent on bailout - NOT "the decider", according to Rover-It's all Obama's Fault!

[Triana]

WHY isn't this psychopathic jackass in PRISON? They COULD SHUT HIM UP by locking him up where he belongs with the rest of the criminals.
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On Fox News this afternoon, Karl Rove insisted that “this crew” in the White House has caused the collapse of the market, faulting the Obama administration for the economic crisis. He blamed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in particular, saying Geithner could not point fingers at the previous administration because he was one of the three people who made the decision to bail out the banks in the first place, with last fall’s TARP.

In fact, Rove declared that only three people made the decision about the bank bailout — and none of them were then-President Bush:

Look, Geithner was sitting in the room, last year. Three people made the decision about the bank rescue package: Geithner, Ben Bernanke, and Hank Paulson, the Treasury Secretary.

Rove added that those three “unanimously made those decisions about the bank rescue.” Apparently they simply informed then-President Bush of their decision to give $700 billion to banks after the fact.

Ironically, during the same interview, Rove declared that the Obama administration has “got to start accepting responsibility for the outcome of their decisions” — seconds before suggesting that Bush didn’t even play a role in one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency.

Apparently Bush wasn’t really “the decider” after all.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/09/rove-bush-absent-on-bailout/

[spanone]

1. it astounds me that criminals are allowed to roam free

[RandomThoughts]

3. If that is true it means

society has made the conscious decision to have no justice, and so all laws become void.

buckle up boys and girls...

[ixion]

2. well, gee, considering the crash happened BEFORE the election

I don't really see how that is even possible.

Here is a great example of BS being allowed to pass as a 'factual' account from a 'pundit'.

The statement should have been rebutted with extreme prejudice when it was first made. Now, it's become yet another fissure in reality.

[Patsy Stone]

8. It's from FOX -- America's "Fissure in Reality" Channel.

But you're right on all accounts. Also, as someone posted below, he basically said that Bush was AWOL, again, and marginally paying attention to the economy while he was decorating the new digs in Dallas, so a bunch of underlings came out with a plan and he signed it.

And... why isn't Karl in jail?

[rfranklin]

4. He's saying that Bush was such a negligent lazy fuck that...

he just let his subordinates do whatever they wanted...which makes him responsbile, Rove, you stupid fucking asshole.

[Triana]

5. Exactly. n/t

[jimshoes]

6. Dear karl

Go fuck yourself.

[county worker]

7. Clinton was responsible for Bush's first 7 years and Obama is responsible for the last one.

I guess Bush took too many vacations to be responsible for anything.

:sarcasm:

[Triana]

9. Bwah. W stands for Weasel. Weasel has never been responsible for anything. n/t