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It really doesn’t make sense to me people are talking highly of Obama’s fiscal policy yet they are completely against how their party voted on this bailout. I noticed the ratio with Repubs was much higher voting against the bill.[/quote]

ding ding….

That’s why I’m perplexed by folks who say they want a fiscal conservatism, and think having a Democrat Pres and Democrat Congress is going is a good thing or a Rep Pres + Rep Congress is a good thing.

If anything should have taught us recently is that

1) most politicians are pretty much the same when it comes to managing money. Default, they all suck at spending money they don’t have.

2) the only hope we have for politicians to not spend our money (taxpayer’s money) recklessly is by virtue is that if there are enough politicians that disagree on how to spend the money over ideological/philosophical reasons, regardless of how dumb/irrelevant those reasons are.

3) sometimes one needs to vote with your pocketbook in mind versus some theoretical ideology or because you belong to a party. Those lines are pretty much blurred these days anyway.

We realized during the first 4 years that a rep pres and rep congress was a terrible thing…. Would a democrat pres + democrat congress really be good thing?

If we all vote to throw out all the incumbents out of congress such that we had a rep controlled house or senate, I’d be perfectly happy supporting Obama for instance.

Unfortunately, it looks like Obama is gonna win along with a Democrat congress. Bookmark this thread, and look back 4 years from now. Me thinks things are gonna get a lot worse.