“Just because God created the world in seven days doesn’t mean we have to pass this bill in seven days,” said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas.

In fact, we could have used a few more of you in Ohio.

Boy was I wrong. Needless to say, Bush-Cheney did not get my vote in 2003. (With the Electoral College being what it is, and with California being what it is, I can say that my Bush-Cheney vote in 1999 was negated by my fellow Californians, which has consoled me to a certain extent.)

However, it definitely makes me wonder if I am capable of identifying the “grownups” in any given election.

“First: throughout all this, I’ve been torn between believing in market discipline and wanting to avoid moral hazard on the one hand, and thinking that of course that commitment flies out the window if we’re seriously threatened with economic collapse, on the other. But it’s worth remembering that we could have avoided having to choose between these unfortunate options. All we needed to do was have people in government who believed in good regulation.

“Second: if anyone ever tells me that Republicans are the party of fiscal discipline ever again, I will either dissolve in laughter or bite their heads off. I don’t know which. You have been warned.

“Third: in particular, if any Republican ever tells me that a hundred million or so is just too much to pay to make sure that kids have health insurance, I will definitely bite his or her head off.

“Fourth: I do not want to hear people tell me that regulation cripples the economy, unless they are willing to admit that a lack of regulation can also cripple the economy. Not ever. I don’t understand why anyone is so much as tempted to think that “regulation” is good or bad, as a whole: to me, that’s like being for or against “things” or “people”. Some regulations are good, some are bad; obviously, we want people in government who can tell the difference, and implement regulatory systems that work well. However, altogether too many of my fellow citizens were willing to listen to ideologues, and now we all get to pay for their mistakes.

“Fifth: if Obama wins, he and the Democrats will, in all probability, have to be the grownups once again. Reagan spent us blind; Clinton got us out of debt again. Now Bush has spent us even blinder, and we will be tempted, yet again, to put our ideas and aspirations on hold for the sake of the country.

I would like to hear one Republican, just once, acknowledge this fact.”

You said that it would be worse if AIG were to default on its obligations. IT HAS BEEN DEFAULTING ON ITS OBLIGATIONS FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS ALREADY. It is time to stop the rapine, because it will only get worse if we continue to allow the Republican AND Democrat shysters in government to bail out their friends. This bailout will not help the average you and me. It only further lines the pockets of those who are in the know.

Can I have part of AIG’s bailout money to replace the $9,000 my retirement account has lost in the last 3 days?

Religion != Conservatism.

Besides, the epithet “conservative” has been so misused as to be rendered void of any inherent meaning. The same applies to “liberal”, which has been neutered of its original definition and applicability.

President Benson told us the conditions of the Nephites would mimick our own day before the Second Coming.

Samuel told them of the main curse to come, that their treasures and money would become “slippery” to them. They would bury up their treasures, but they would be gone the next day.

I believe that is exactly what is happening before our eyes. People will bury up their riches in Lehmann or AIG, and the next day they’re gone.

Samuel told the Nephites how to avoid this slipperyness. They should bury up their riches unto the Lord who gave them the riches, instead of burying them up to serve their own vanity.

Are the current economic failures directly related to our own wickedness and failure to bury up our riches unto the Lord, which thereby activates the blessing/curse of the B of M upon the land?

But are you saying our good host Connor isn’t a real conservative because he’s pushing for laws against gay marriage?! Now I’m confused.

Let’s go to the horse’s mouth. Now where can we find some religious right people? Maybe right here!

Hey, religious right folks! Adrien here says you’re not real conservatives. Are you?

Communism really has never been tried.

And Communists say that pure Communism has never been tried.

It’s a nice song, but you get none of my spare change.

That is, they’re against the government regulation that might have prevented this catastrophe in the first place.

How’s that working?