Congress at work: $1 billion an hour

[Spider-Dan]

Yeap & show me where I attacked them?  I just ask if you think supplying an article written by a Dem is proof?

You just did it again.  The fact that you keep pointing out who it was written by makes it an ad hominem attack; precisely the kind of attack you were complaining about when people dismissed your posts because of who was posting them (you).

Reason:   From what I gathered from the article it did not tell me what the money was actually for.  Did I miss that in the article?

A Republican staffer claims someone at an unnamed agency said $30 million might go to federal wetlands restoration. Since San Francisco Bay has wetlands and some are home to an endangered species called the salt marsh harvest mouse, he naturally concluded, "The bottom line is, if this bill becomes law, taxpayers will spend 30 million on the mouse."

My understanding & I'm not saying I'm 100% on this.  Was they were looking at nationalizing the entire banking system.

Correct?  Wrong?

Wrong.  At no time have they proposed nationalizing banks that are fine.

You have not found where Obama mocked him on the quote during the campaign for making his comment.

You need to get your timeline straight.

McCain originally said, "the fundamentals of the economy are strong."  Obama (among others) blasted him for it.  McCain later tried to walk it back by saying that the fundamentals of America are strong (the quote you cited).  Obama never criticized McCain for his revised, re-spinned quote; he criticized him for the original quote.

And again, there is a difference between saying that the cornerstones (i.e. fundamentals) are strong, vs. saying that there are some essentially (i.e. fundamentally) sound components.

[Dphins4me]

You just did it again.  The fact that you keep pointing out who it was written by makes it an ad hominem attack; precisely the kind of attack you were complaining about when people dismissed your posts because of who was posting them (you).

  Jackie Speier is a sitting Dem. Representative. This is a Dem. Bill.  She has a direct link to the bill.   I'm simply pointing out a fact.   I did not attack her & start calling her names & such.  I merely stated that I could not take what she had written as 100% the gospel & that the opposition was wrong.  Where is the money actually going.  She took the time to try & counter the Rep comment, but still did not specify where the money is actually going if it is not going to the mouse.

A Republican staffer claims someone at an unnamed agency said $30 million might go to federal wetlands restoration. Since San Francisco Bay has wetlands and some are home to an endangered species called the salt marsh harvest mouse, he naturally concluded, "The bottom line is, if this bill becomes law, taxpayers will spend 30 million on the mouse."

  This tells me what?  I see the word " Might" in there.   It might go to numerous things.

Wrong.  At no time have they proposed nationalizing banks that are fine.

I'll try to double check this.

You need to get your timeline straight.

McCain originally said, "the fundamentals of the economy are strong."  Obama (among others) blasted him for it.  McCain later tried to walk it back by saying that the fundamentals of America are strong (the quote you cited).  Obama never criticized McCain for his revised, re-spinned quote; he criticized him for the original quote.

  We disagree.  I recall Obama standing up there saying McCain has said 16 times that the fundamentals of the economy is strong, then going on to mock him more.