Fournier for Congress

My opponent Congressman John Larson and a panel of influential local Democrats gave ten good reasons yesterday not to bail out bankrupt bankers and then pleaded for public support to do just that.

They held the floor for over an hour and left the public a half-hour to ask questions. It was clear from their talk that:

There is no panic except among bankers
The bailout (Larson prefers “rescue) isn’t paid for
The people are against it
It regulates nothing
The political process of enacting it is corrupt
It might not work, and, even if does, we’ll have to cough up more later
It’s still a blank check for Bush
It was arranged in haste and poorly thought-out
Huge amounts of money will flow out of this country
Congress is incompetent to handle economic issues, and this is probably not the best solution

The reasons for enacting the bailout—Larson believes that it didn’t pass because we called it a bailout instead of a rescue—are one: we’re scared. It’s a crisis, and we must act, says John Larson. Do something! Anything! Throw money!

When Larson was challenged to explain why he let this happen, he had, as always, “blame to go around.” His defense is based on his own weakness and the utter corruption of the body—the greatest government on earth, by consensus of opinion—in which he serves.

Larson’s argument is that it’s impossible to act in the public interest because members of the other party oppose it. He’s saying, first, that the positions of his adversaries are fixed and immutable and that he hasn’t the strength of character to persuade any of them of anything. He’s acknowledging that as a leader, with the power to sway public opinion and public policy, he is an utter failure. And as he confesses the weakness of his own advocacy, he maligns the House of Representatives as incapable, without supermajorities, of doing the right thing. Crap!

John Larson fails to carry out the will of the people because it conflicts with the will of his owners, expressed through the leaders of his elite club, Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, Barney Frank, and company, along with their cronies in the other party and in the Senate and White House. It’s Larson and Bush against us on this issue.

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 at 11:29 am and is filed under Public Opinion, Debt, Banking, Democrats.