The Hill - The bailed out-bankers’ boys: Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Chris Christie and friends

[badger4RP]

hx xp://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/184763-the-bailed-out-bankers-boys-ron-paul-rick-perry-chris-christie-and-friends

Baffling. How has Ron Paul ever supported the banks?

[D.A.S.]

This is libel!

Did Budowsky fall off the wagon? It was supposed to be ROMNEY, not Paul. He must be going senile to write something like this.

How do we contact him?

[phill4paul]

LOL. Uninformed hit pieces are uninformed.

[sailingaway]

He just needs to adjust his meds. His stuff seems glandular, over the top pro or con, and obviously, Ron doesn't 'get big money from banks' and doesn't carry their water, he simply disagrees with this author as do most people, apparently.

[Maximus]

Glad every comment destroys him

[specsaregood]

Glad every comment destroys him

Yes, well Ron Paul supporters are easily trolled.

[tremendoustie]

Actually, unlike other candidates, Paul repeatedly spoke out and voted against the bailouts. He also gave a 100% clear answer that we should voluntarily help people who need it, who don't have insurance. His philosophy is not similar at all to Rand's Objectivism. Paul loves charity and opposes war.

It's the reckless policies of the Fed, as well as to a lesser extent, Fannie and Freddie, that have crashed the economy — a crash which Ron predicted in detail years before, by the way.

This post is so full of blatently dishonest smears and total ignorance, it's shocking. The pathetic excuse for a journalist who wrote this should be fired.

:D

[jasonxe]

shame, shame, shame!

*points my shame finger*

This has to be the easiest job ever. Don't need to do research and make up stuff.

I'm going to write a story about the Pope being a atheist and pass it on as fact.

[tribute_13]

Break this link. Don't promote such slander with traffic.

[tremendoustie]

Break this link. Don't promote such slander with traffic.

Truth -- OP, thanks for breaking.

[sailingaway]

This guy has another story up now about us whining. I suggest we ignore him.

[RonPaul101.com]

Break this link. Don't promote such slander with traffic.

Better yet, here it is in its entirety for those who insist on reading it and don't want to visit their site:
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The bailed out-bankers’ boys: Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Chris Christie and friends
By Brent Budowsky - 09/30/11 11:08 AM ET

Bank of America's latest attack on the American economic recovery through big bank fees may well elect Elizabeth Warren to the Kennedy Senate seat in Massachusetts. The very bad news for Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Chris Christie and those Republicans who take big money from big bailed-out banks as donations, and then carry their water in Washington, is that they will be exposed again.

Bank of America, which might soon be called Bank of un-America, is the embodiment of what happens if Ron Paul or Rick Perry is elected. It has done consistent damage to the America economy from the birth of the mortgage fraud to the mega-bailout, from the massive layoffs to this latest fee on debit cards.

I dare Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Chris Christie, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Sarah Palin to denounce the latest Bank of America attack on American consumers and call for the fee to be withdrawn. They won't.

At least Ron Paul sincerely believes his views, which would crash the economy. Paul is a devotee of the great advocate of Darwinian cruelty against everyone but the rich, Ayn Rand, who was also the favorite proud atheist of many conservative Republicans.

Ron Paul, who cannot give a straight answer about whether our mothers should die if they can't get health insurance, believes in a weird version of "responsibility" in which those with money and power prosper while everyone else suffers.

Rick Perry is different. Perry is the polyester Ron Paul impersonator, most recently on CNBC saying the Federal Reserve should never help the economy with monetary policy during a depression or recession. Pay-for-play Rick Perry will almost certainly support the new big bank fees and increase his fundraising from banks.

Gotta hand it to Perry. He actually tells the truth and says many Republicans lack heart. Then he reverses course, and says they do have heart. Perhaps Perry, who gobbled up the Obama stimulus to cover his deficits, before opposing the Obama stimulus, was for heart before he was against it.

Rick Perry's impersonation of Ron Paul is caused by Perry's panic while his campaign collapses, while terrified Republicans try to entice the freshman governor and unqualified Chris Christie to enter the race.

At least Christie won't be a quitter and resign, like a certain former freshman governor we know.

Perry's impersonation of Ron Paul is giving him “Saturday Night Live” status. Soon Perry may dye his hair gray (or more accurately, stop dying his hair dark) to look more like Ron Paul. If Perry gets desperate enough, perhaps he will offer to make Dennis Kucinich his vice president, to top Ron Paul.

It won't work. If people want to crash the economy and be the boys of the big bankers, they will go with the real deal with the real hair and the real mind: Ron Paul.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren will surge for the Senate in Massachusetts, because she is the true champion of red, white and blue Americans who want nothing more than a fair deal from the big banks.

As for Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Chris Christie and many other Republicans, they are the bailed-out bankers’ boys. If you are a voter who wants these rip-offs to end, there ain't a dime's worth of difference between them.

[1stAmendguy]

Brent Budowsky's email: brentbbi@webtv.net :mad:

[bluesc]

Don't flood him with emails damnit. He will just put another blog up. They don't really seem to care what he puts up there. The man seems mentally unstable.

How much harm can he do from his keyboard? Not a lot. Angry letters and emails is what turns these guys against us. He openly welcomed people to debate him in his latest blog, so do that. Don't send him angry emails.

[freejack]

Brent Budowsky's email: brentbbi@webtv.net :mad:

webtv? no wonder this guy's ill-informed. he's stuck in the 90's.

[carmaphob]

Lol @ webtv!

[1stAmendguy]

Brent Budowsky's email: brentbbi@webtv.net :mad:

Forgot to mention my source: hxxp://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/brent-budowsky.html

[beardedlinen]

ROFL. Someone has had some fun on Mr. Budowsky's Wikipedia page:

Brent J. Budowsky (born February 1952)[1] is an American political opinion writer and blogger for publications including The Hill and The Huffington Post. Brent is most known for his slanderous articles against Ron Paul that contain lies, deceit and exaggerations.

[enjerth]

It may seem to imply that Paul has taken donations from banks, but if you read it carefully it doesn't say that.


Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Chris Christie and those Republicans who take big money from big bailed-out banks
Note, it doesn't not say "those other Republicans" as to imply that the former are necessarily a subset of the latter.

It also doesn't say that Ron Paul supported the bailouts. It does say that, to the bailed-out banks, Ron Paul is a close friend. Heck, the author makes it seem like Paul should be their BEST friend. Of course, that doesn't make any sense, if you follow the money. There is no love between Paul and the banking industry.

Although Paul probably wouldn't condemn BofA for their recent decision to add a debit card fee. He got that much right.

[freejack]

ROFL. Someone has had some fun on Mr. Budowsky's Wikipedia page:

Brent J. Budowsky (born February 1952)[1] is an American political opinion writer and blogger for publications including The Hill and The Huffington Post. Brent is most known for his slanderous articles against Ron Paul that contain lies, deceit and exaggerations.

Blowback baby!