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Sunday
Jun142009

Obama and Democrats Try To Sneak $100 Billion Stealth Bailout To European Banks

There is an update.  Details are inside at the bottom of the original story.

Surreptitious and sneaky is the plan.  Before the left attacks me, read what liberal blogger Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake thinks about the Democratic ploy to attach a $100 billion debate-free IMF credit line to a war supplemental funding bill for Iraq and Afghanistan.  Take a minute to check out the citizen whip count tool they constructed to help defeat the bill.  Nice work.

Apparently the $35 billion in AIG payouts to over-leveraged Euro banks wasn't enough for Obama who has championed borrowing the $100 billion from your kids and the Chinese in order to give it to the IMF, so that they will rescue European banks who invested unwisely in Eastern Europe.  Even Iran and North Korea could potentially be eligible for IMF funds.  Luckily, the Republicans are out in force against the amendment, and at least 35 Democrats have broken from leadership and now oppose the bill.

Think Latvia, the Ukraine and Poland, cuz that's where many of these leveraged bets were made.  Obama calls it supporting a global stimulus.  We call it bullshit.  The IMF does not stimulate anything.  When they show up, it's all about austerity: spending cuts and interest rate hikes.  These funds will go directly to ailing European, over-leveraged financial institutions to buttress their im-balance sheets against future writedowns.  Put Societe General, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank into your mind's eye, and you have a good idea where your borrowed money is headed.

These are strange times indeed.  I am unable to articulate the frothy menagerie of nonsense that would lead the Democratic leadership to actually conclude that this is a smart decision.  The American taxpayer and our Treasury are completely tapped.  There is no more money.  This decision to borrow an additional $100 billion to buttress European mistakes should not be confused with intelligence.

The final keelhaul was the calculated choice to attach the IMF largesse to the war funding supplemental, which by rule allows for no debate of amendments.  Convenient for Pelosi and Reid, cuz there isn't a chance in hell it would pass on its own.

 

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Reader Comments (14)

Jun 12, 2009 at 8:49 AM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
Is anyone surprised....I mean really? When does policy actually meet accountability? Sad state of affairs we are in all because of the abandonment of morality and common sense.
Jun 12, 2009 at 9:45 AM | Unregistered CommenterAin't Bullshittin'
Larry Summers was speaking this morning and cleared up the administrations back door economic "socialism". He said it was done to protect the market from itself and was not a wanted act but one that was mandatory. He professed that Keynes was the true economic policy or theory and that a true unabated free market would lend itself to violent swings and corrections. At least they came out and admitted it.....debate over.
Jun 12, 2009 at 11:31 AM | Unregistered CommenterAin't Bullshittin'
Ha, ha. This morning my wife and I wrote our checks to Turbo for this quarter and the wife (no political animal she) was practically contemplating tax revolt. She's sounding more and more like a Daily Bailer every day -- and she won't even let me say the words "Goldman Sachs" or "Deutsche Bank" out loud anymore, so it's not from any prodding on my part. That's why I'm very optimistic in the medium term about the Tea Parties and the potential for tax revolts as a conduit for anti-bailout sentiment. I mean come on, we pay these taxes for..... WHAT?

If the Republican party knew what they were doing (they don't) they'd be talking bailouts and taxes all the damn time. Their attempt at this so far has been pathetic. If I understand it correctly, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) won his election this fall mainly because he opposed the bailouts and his opponent voted for them. Forget abortion and gay marriage, any politician that takes up our cause will win if they play their cards right.
Jun 12, 2009 at 11:46 AM | Unregistered CommenterJames H
James

You are absolutely, without a mf-ing doubt correct. As Clinton and Carville would have said, "It's the Bailouts, stupid!"
Jun 12, 2009 at 12:48 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
"It's the Bailouts, stupid!"

Daily Bail,

I don't know if you plan on doing t-shirts and coffee mugs and whatnot, but this^ would make one hell of a slogan.
Jun 12, 2009 at 1:09 PM | Unregistered CommenterJames H
So how's that change thing working for YOU?
Jun 12, 2009 at 9:25 PM | Unregistered Commenterdowninfl
The story is simple: Your banks and financial institution have stollen from everywhere in order to give you guys HOME EQUITY LOANS (so you can enjoy a better life) money which you spent without having the resources to pay back. If your Government does not step in to remedy somehow the US sponsored fraud, the world would turn the back on you, stop using the dollar which you print like toilet paper and your country will colapse. Your country became an irresponsible rogue state.
Wake up and start working and do not expect other people to pay for your misdoings. For a very long time US has enjoyed a better living standard through the fraud of printing dollars (when 80% of the paper is outside the US), devaluating without feeling the bite, because the rest of the world is paying your bills. Stop crying and change your fraudulent system, before it will be too late. Read what your founding fathers wanted for your country and how you managed to screw it up.
Jun 13, 2009 at 3:09 PM | Unregistered CommenterCatalunyan
It looks like the 30 years I spent in the Military protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States against foriegn enemies, should have been spent protecting it against domestic (elected and appointed) enemies. It looks like the Student's for Democratic Society (SDS) are now well entrenched and doing their thing in both the public and private sector. Infact one of their children in in the White House. Canada is sounding like the ticket, should have gone in the 60s instead of joining up to fight Johnson's war. God Save the Republic.
Jun 14, 2009 at 7:52 PM | Unregistered Commenterchiefrodey
Divided We Stand

What would California look like broken in three? Or a Republic of New England? With the federal government reaching for ever more power, redrawing the map is enticing, says Paul Starobin.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204482304574219813708759806.html
Jun 15, 2009 at 11:31 AM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
@Catalunyan:

"If your Government does not step in to remedy somehow the US sponsored fraud, the world would turn the back on you, stop using the dollar which you print like toilet paper and your country will colapse."

Uh, like you said later in your post, the rest of the world also holds U.S. treasuries, and in greater quantity than they hold American bank and mortgage paper. If the U.S. government insists on stepping in and spending zillions of dollars to prop up this shady paper, treasuries will tank in value, the countries who hold them will turn their back on us, and stop using the dollar, which we print like toilet paper, and our country will collapse.

Other nations need to pick their poison already. Either you can have your bank/mortgage bonds propped up, OR you can have your treasuries' value preserved. Not both. If a nation holds X in bank or mortgage paper, and Y in U.S. treasuries, where Y > X, then their preference should be obvious.

Now, if by "your Government does not step in to remedy somehow the US sponsored fraud,", you mean that we should craft and/or enforce regulations to stop the fraud from happening in the future, I totally agree. But so far, the bulk of government intervention has been to throw money -- money it doesn't even have -- at the problem.
Jun 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM | Unregistered CommenterAssassin
@catalunyan
"Wake up and start working and do not expect other people to pay for your misdoings."
Maybe something is being lost in the translation here, but I am not asking for anybody to pay for my misdoings. I am willing to take my medicine, I do not want a bailout nor do I want to bailout a bunch of morally corrupt banker/politician/broker/dealer/insertwhoever. I say let them all fail, they made the bets not me,and let the chips fall where they may.
I work my ass off to provide a better future for my family. What is taking place right in front of our eye's is bulls@#$. From what I have seen, everyone on this site is trying to do something, so get off of the soap box, I dont come here to be preached to.
Jun 15, 2009 at 8:20 PM | Unregistered Commenterfrankd
Whether bonds fake or real the Italian police have still not officialy said. Still Too many conflicting reports in media about the identity of smugglers, when detained, how long, when released, did detainees request attorney and does attorney have a name??? This site http://slyryder.com/bondgate.html seems to be focusing on the timeline surrounding the detainees and what the Italian police knew about the passports and when they knew. Good site, good resources with good photo and videos and commentary on the police investigations thus far. The Italian police not very cooperative. Maybe they bungled everything! Really, for all we know, the Italian police might have actually released the detainees to someone pretending to be an attorney.
Jun 26, 2009 at 6:58 PM | Unregistered CommenterGrav

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