Neil Cavuto makes Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT) look like a fool on the Big Bailout
By John Amato Friday Nov 14, 2008 2:00pmThere is a lot of frustration to go around over the way the funds are being used by the financial institutions after the bailout was approved. Even Neil Cavuto is getting into the act. He didn't even have to do too much to make Chris Cannon (R-UT) look like a buffoon. Mentioning the name of Barry Goldwater isn't much of a defense. He complains that there isn't much of an oversight staff to keep an eye on the bailout. Then sucks up to Cavuto (his words). Then says that actually Paulson is keeping a good eye on it and tries blaming Democrats:
Cannon: If Steny Hoyer is still listening, we need more oversight staff in Congress. That's something that is vitally important.
Cavuto: ...but didn't you know this when you voted for this?
Cannon: Sure I did.
Cannon: We have congressional oversight, and if I can blatantly suck up for a minute, we have you. In fact I love your program. You let reasonable people talk and develop their ideas and you let unreasonable people... when that happens you sometimes ask these puncturing questions.
Cavuto: Wouldn't it have been a reasonable assumption to assume that before anyone approved this package that the I's were dotted, that the T's were crossed and there was someone looking at that?
Cannon: There are people looking at it, in all fairness.
Cavuto: Who?
Cannon: Hank Paulson has done a great job.
Cavuto: Hank, Hank just changed the rules, Congressman, he just redid...
Cannon: Well of course he changed the rules.
If we have to depend on talkies like Cavuto to watch the store ... we are in big trouble. Right-wing talkers already broke the store by never doing anything when Bush was in power. And this man is in Congress.
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Unfortunately, this buffoon is much better than the fascist who replaced him in this year's election.
His GOP replacement Jason Chafets, or "Chavez" as Utah dems calls him, want to put illegal immigrants in tent cities, pending their deportation.
Oh how I wish we still had Chris Cannon.
By the way, when you live in a state where no democrats ever win, you have to pick between two evils.
n/t
You have my sysmpathies.
If aging memory is correct, Hoyer was, at one time, voted "Dumbest Man in Congress".
Is Cannon opposing him and running for Hoyer's position?
Typically GOP stuttering, muttering, uttering liar who ran out of bullshit so he commences to kissing Cavuto's fat ass.
That was nasty.
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Republicans want to outsource government to Fox News, while still drawing their paycheck, health benefits and pension.
When was the last time the bush administration demanded something be passed and it turned out to be good for the country? I'm not sure it ever happened and if it did, I don't remember it.
Don't you dare knock Fatherland Security. Act like a patriot!
Should I smack myself in the face or something? ;)
He did include $$$$ to update the vaccines once. Then the repukes tried to take the money out to cut spending (this was during the avian flu scare) but the dems and about 20 moderate repukes wouldn't let them. These GOP assholes really are fucking nuts!
Then Cavuto and a bunch of wingnuts on his show said "why do we need vaccines for everyone? Chances are good nothing will even happen anyway, and if it does, then the market should determine who gets them." These psychopathic rich assholes actually said that. If you are rich, there should be enough vaccine for you to buy it. I guess the rest of us could just die off.
When I was growing up back in the 60's and 70's, this would have been a major story, and these Fox idiots would have been hammered! Today however, it passes for objective news, thanks to the "librul'" media.
was targeted specifically to a donald rumsfeld company
either. and I checked the googles.
First it's praising Shep Smith---now it's Cavuto! Wow--who's next? Billo? Hannity??? I agree that Cannon was an ass---but you guys were 100% WRONG about the Ralph Nader story. Nicole Belle LIED and said Nader CALLED Obama an Uncle Tom, and she never detracted it.
cue the nuthuggers to attack your post in 3,2,1..
RETRACTED.
And yes, I wish they would.
The Repugs are getting more desparate every single day. It's Karma kicking ass.
That was painful to watch.
He not only sucks up, he sucks, too.
That was painful to watch but I must admit that I secretly enjoyed it.
Karma, baby!
So does Larry Craig!
Why oh why don't these republicans take responsiblity for their actions instead of always blaming the democrats? Even last yr I heard someone blaming Clinton for something that happened 8 yrs ago. For once even O'Liar at Fox said stop blaming Clinton. Its your administration that is in there now.
Now there is a perfect example of a human being talking out of both sides of his mouth. I almost felt sorry for him as he set the traps that were catching him.
This "bailout" not only makes the Bush adminstration look even less competent than we thought, it makes the USA look like everyone is asleep at the wheel, and no one is running things. What a disaster. World faith in America is eroding by the minute.
I think it's the biggest theft ever perpetrated on the American people.
was truly painful. Lehrer didn't even squeeze him that hard, and all he did was obfuscate for about fifteen minutes--seemed like hours.
I have been a big fan of C&L for years now, but I find those anti-progressive push poll banner ads for SodaHead distracting and offensive. Are they really paying you so well that you don't mind if I stop coming to your site?
Maybe Cavuto will fearlessly fill the republican power vacuum?
"Just stop everything until you figure out what you are doing."
As much as I hate to admit it, I agree with him. For once he isn't just toting the NeoCon party line and trying to convince everyone things will be just fine and dandy on this one as long as We give up the dough like the WarPig says. This is why I was against any bailout of any of the Wall Street fat cats, and more have their hands out. The economy is going to crash...no matter what is done. All that is being accomplished now is postponing the inevitable. I'm sorry to say it, but more people are going to lose their jobs as even more companies go bankrupt and/or go under. Why keep pouring money, Our money, into a system that no longer works? This guy and Congress as a whole don't have the first clue as to what to make of any of it and as usual it's the People who are paying for the consequences of an out of control banking system and the worst Administration this country has seen in it's history.
Don't forget that all the networks, especially CNN, sold this bailout HARD.
They tried to make you think that your kids couldn't go to college and you'd lose your house if the bailout didn't go through.
Now look where that got them.
Info Chris Cannon gets curiouser and curiouser
Rob Inglis | Nov 02, 2008
Loyal readers have already read the tale of Chris Cannon, the ultra-conservative, oil-shale-promoting U.S. House member from Utah who got beat in this year's Republican primary after he made the mistake of being open to compromise on immigration. Well, it turns out that Utah hath nothing weirder -- or sadder -- than an uber-conservative scorned. The Times of London is reporting that Cannon -- acting in concert with his brother-in-law -- recently contacted an Oxford professor who has created a computer program that can detect when two works are written by the same author and offered him $10,000 to determine whether Obama's memoir Dreams From My Father might actually have been written by ... William Ayers! As in William Ayers, the washed-up radical who may have sneezed on Obama while they served on the same nonprofit board in Chicago, thereby infecting him with terrorist cooties. The professor said he was happy to do an analysis of Obama's book, but warned that he would make the results public whether or not he found a connection. At that point, Cannon and his brother-in-law apparently lost interest.
Allegations of an Obama-Ayers book connection have been making the rounds on talk radio and the conservative blogosphere for the past few weeks, but the fact that a sitting congressman was willing to pay for a private investigation of the matter certainly ups the bizarre factor by a few notches. But perhaps Cannon is just laying the groundwork for his next career. After losing the services of Chris Cannon the congressman, can the people of Utah look forward to the appearance of Chris Cannon the talk-show host?~~~~~~~High Country News
What a babbling, boot licking idiot. Glad he doesn't represent me, but God help us if we are being led by such "intelligence" in our Congress. No wonder we've been getting screwed for the past eight years.
Morons.....leading morons.
THE Buck stops no-where anymore. There is no accountability, no one to blame, this is a nightmare, how did we ever run this country before. I am shocked we have made it this far with people in charge like this looser.......WE ARE IN DEEP TROUBLE!
The righties you have Cannon on all the shows, but he's such a dim bulb, they put him out to pasteur. I suggest, they send him right back out. He's no good unless he's able to attack the Dems.
WOW! One of the few times I like Neil Cavuto. Cannon is an idiot.
So, now Republipukes like Cannon are crying for Steny Hoyer to have more oversight?
Now there's a belly laugh. These were the same fuckheads who were backing Phil Graham when he was destroying the oversights that had been put in place since the "Bucket Shops" that caused the Panic of 1907:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/26/60m...
the blame the democrats
the asshole did a bad job. that's all.
this is fux we're talking about.
Paulson is doing a good job of it! A good job of making sure those taxpayer funds get circulated back into future Republican election campaigns that is!
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