Nation can’t wait till January

Enough with the lipstick already. Stop slinging mud. The country is in rough shape, and all you two can do is hurl insults at each other.

Make like men. Shake hands. Cross over the aisle. And try something constructive.

Why not, right now, convene a nonpartisan economic summit? Get the best minds in the country working on how to stabilize our fragile economy. Pledge your administration to implement the findings.

Don’t wait until Jan. 21, 2009, to start. Start now. Work together.

Your country needs you.

Thank you for your attention.

Craig Ligibel
Kansas City

Comments

[Engineer]

TinyAlice
Just quoting the link you offered as a solution. Sometimes I get the feeling that you haven't read the links you offer. You are long on comments and jibes and very short on answers. How those poor souls in your classes (if there really were such classes) must have suffered.

[TinyAlice]

Oh, let's decrease taxes on U.S. corporations and abolish the capital gains tax. THAT'S the problem, too much regulation and too few profits. You have it, Engineer. Why didn't we listen to George Bush and the Republican Congress who told us for six years to reverse course?

And of course you pass on the opportunity to agree or disagree with Newt (The Creeping Slime) Gingrich.

I'm bored with this nonsense, and the Cowboys-Packers game is heating up.

[Engineer]

TinyAlice
Your plan, which could not be carried out under any existing laws, might provide you with personal satisfaction and a chance to gloat, but it would do nothing to solve the problem. The proposals that have been made seem to have "stopped the bleeding". Your link seems to recommend doing nothing at the present. If quick action had not been taken a real crash might have occurred. There are ideas in your link with which Obama would never agree. As I understand you, you don't agree with them either. Are you for a zero capital gains tax and for decreasing taxes on US corporations? I didn't think either you or Obama were in favor of either of these ideas.

[TinyAlice]

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZGE5MmE0YmRiODA3YTRiNzFlN2FmNDU5N2I0ZDc3YTE=

This is getting really tedious.

My plan is to fine and jail senior corporate officers whose firms require public funds to continue their existence. All the poor suffering masses for whom you weep crocodile tears get saved, the pigs get, not golden parachutes, but cellmates named Turk.

[Engineer]

TinyAlice
As the current plan post dates anything published , don't see how Newt could have commented on it. Are you opposed to the present plan? What is your alternative?

[TinyAlice]

Newt...Newt...Isn't he the guy who just flamed the bailout plan in the National Review?

One more radical liberal criticizing the Bush-McCain administration, joining, in the last two weeks, the Wall Street Journal, Carly Fiorina, and Alan Greenspan.

[Engineer]

JayhawkinMO
" But, I will forgive them if they stick it to the Reeps..." Don't worry, that's what they did for 40 years before '94 and have been doing since '06. The "Contract With America" simple promised to bring things to the House floor. Which Newt did get done. What is your problem with that?

[JayhawkinMO]

Noble words, Craig, and legitimate requests... Unfortunately, it's not the nature of politics in this country. The eye-for-an-eye stuff stuff (dirty tricks) started with Nixon, CREEP, and the Plumbers. The real upsurge, though, started in '92 with the so-called "Contract with America." Newt and the boys decided they could ride roughshod over the Dem minority in the Congress acting like they had a God-given right to rule as they saw fit. Karl Rove was born... But,everything comes full-circle. I hope that a President Obama and a Dem controlled Congress are magnanimous and work for bi-partisan solutions to this country's big problems. But, I will forgive them if they stick it to the Reeps...