Most hated American politician: Got yours?

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Here's a chance for everyone to nominate the person they hate the most in American politics. Judge, legislator, executive, or bureaucrat are all acceptable. Since an overwhelming number of you will probably pick GW or Dick "Wad" Cheney, let's try to be creative.


My #1 villain at the moment is Barney "Buttboy" Frank. Idiotic federal elitist wants to bail out every powerful financial institution on the taxpayer's dime, and turn this once-great country into communism. Go to hell Barney.*

* Plus, he banged dudes... on federal government premises.
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I am absolutely honored to have a man like George Bush for my president. I only wish we were in a declared war, because that way, he could suspend the re-election process until it was won. Unfortunately, TWOT is only classified as a military action, not a war.

I will take some consolation that Mr. McCain and Mrs. Palin will carry his torch, and I am fully behind the both of them as well.
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FA your statement is a bit confusing; liberals are the ones with the most socialist policies. Perhaps you misunderstood, I said I was Libertarian; freedom and very limited govt are key philosophies.

I say democracy as it relates to our rule of law; the Constitution. I understand the reference to a Republic, but one might just cut to the chase and call it a plutocracy.
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Congress passed the "Bankruptcy Reform Act" in 2005 while the Democrats offered only token resistance. Should really be called the Debt Enslavement Act.

If you go bankrupt, Uncle Sam makes it much harder for you to get out of your bad debts.

If banks go bankrupt, well we just have to guarantee all their bad debts so they can start over!

Wake up you utterly stupid people.
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And now the icing on the cake; the SEC has just put a stop to short selling. So now companies that are not profitable and make terrible decisions don't get weeded out and eliminated as they should.

All they had to do was enforce the existing rule against naked short selling and much of the current disaster would have been severely curtailed. But as usual if one component isn't working our government bans the whole thing.

Market will be up huge again in the morning, shorts will be getting squeezed.
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"What we have above isn't the "free market" at work. Rather, it is a gross socialistic distortion of the free market via aggressive government intervention, both in terms of financial backing and policymaking."

The lies the government continues to propose about "stronger regulations" are an utter joke. There is no stronger regulation than market failure.

The hypocrisy of Republicans to decry government intervention and then approve unlimited funds for a Fannie bailout is a smokescreen, much like McCain's flip-flop on AIG.

The bottom-line is the government controls the financial system, which in turn, controls the government. They are both parasites.



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Control's control --- but I guess extreme control's borderline dictatorship - with the global economic mess, there's a case for more government intervention.

No matter what Govt is selected - there's going to be aspects of extreme control in various areas...like all governments 😢
It's whether the right area has been adequately regulated that makes the difference.

So...who to choose— - all signs point to 'don't choose' 😛