The federal government, which has amassed large ownership interests in private companies, would be forced to sell those interests by July 1, 2010, under a bill introduced Thursday by Sen. John Thune.
Thune said Thursday that the government’s equity stakes have made President Obama a “de facto CEO” and Congress a “board of directors.” The relationship between government and private industry, he said, has “created a dangerous conflict of interest.”
Blah, Blah, Blah, Fart, Fart Fart.
John, when are you going to start talking like an adult instead of a HS Cheerleader? Let’s talk ‘dangerous’ conflicts of interest. Like when we let Enron and the energy companies have a private meeting with Dick-Dick Cheney and right the Bush energy policy. Or when we let Haliburton and Blackwater run operations in Iraq. You are worried about ‘dangerous’ conflicts of interest now?
Thune voted for the $700 billion TARP program last fall, but he said the purpose of that program was to remove troubled assets from bank balance sheets, not to buy equity stakes in private companies.
Yeah, just like authorizing the President to go to war in Iraq, wouldn’t mean he would go to war in Iraq. How did that turn out?
Thune’s bill will be popular with the Republican Party base, said Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. But with their depleted numbers in the Senate, Sabato thinks the bill has little chance of passing.
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“The Democrats aren’t going to permit Thune and the Republicans to tie Obama’s hands in that way,”
Thune. Go do something constructive, like retire.
So he votes for the bill that “bought” these companies with TARP money, but now he wants to force the government to sell out – and when you force them to sell out it menas you are expecting a buyer. Does Thune care to explain where he is going to find a buyer for an asspile of AIG stock that nobody seems to want?
Does this guy ever keep a position for more than 48 hours? You know, people keep suggesting that Thune should run for national office, but his track record would make that nearly impossible. He has more experience with flip-flops than Old Navy.
Yeah, but I heard this morning he is on Facebook and Twitter, that’s all that matters. I’m gonna friend him this afternoon.
BTW, did you come up with the flip-flop line? LOL.
That fish looks delicious.
Now where’s my smoker?
More proof that John is qualified to be president, busy fishing instead of working.
Yea the flip-flop line is all me. I was going to go with the name of a professional surfer, but then I realized the only name I could remember was Kelly Slater, and I always think of Saved By The Bell anytime I hear that name, so Old Navy it was.
If I ever find a cellphone like Zack had at a rummage sale, I am totally buying it. I’m going to walk around Hobby Lobby with a pale yellow Members Only jacket on talking loudly on it about my new CARS album.
Jimmy Fallon is a DB, but this is pretty damn funny.. and relelvant to the topic.
OH!
I finally get it…
I’ve been having trouble figuring out how these Republicans can be such IDIOTS. Limbaugh, Cantor, McConnell, BONER, Palin, BACHMANN!!!
But now I finally get it!
They aren’t REALLY that clueless, that bone-headed, that ignorant…
All their ass-hattery is a very clever ruse to make John Thune look SMART!
How could I have missed it this long?
Fallon is slowly growing on me. Perhaps Jimmy himself isn’t all that funny, but the writers know what they are doing and the bits they have on that show are actaully pretty good, plus The Roots are probably the best late night band out there.
The SBTB stuff was awesome though. There are only two more people needed to get the full reunion, but something tells me the last holdout is going to be the weasel screech.
With a name like Dustin Diamond, what do you expect?
Ever play the SBTB drinking game. Talk about getting smashed.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/39555/saved_by_the_bell_drinking_game.html
There was so much crap going on we couldn’t keep up. It was worse then playing Tippy Cup.
“All their ass-hattery is a very clever ruse to make John Thune look SMART!”
Oh, I think Thune is smart, like a fox. But the guy needs to have a staffer keep track of what he has said in the past. I still laugh about his comment concerning ethanol subsidies.
Fishing instead of working…
Having a Date Night on the taxpayer dime on the eve of GM bankruptcy?
At least Thune paid his own way on the fishing trip.
Well at least Obama works past 5 PM everyday. He deserves a ‘date night’ once in awhile.
I’ve been having trouble figuring out how these Democrats can be such IDIOTS. Blago, Burris, Fwank, DODDering, the entire Chicago machine (which spawned Obama).
Yeah, what a bunch of losers . . . wait, they kicked ass and took names in the past to national elections, while Thune and his ilk just pout around DC and cry and say NO.