Oct 13 2008
Bratton Would Have Voted for Bailout
GREENSBORO — Teresa Sue Bratton seems to savor questions, sloshing them about like a connoisseur swirling wine in her glass before pouring out an answer.
So it was with a question the Greensboro Democrat was asked about the financial industry bailout package that her opponent, Republican incumbent Howard Coble, had first voted to reject before changing his mind four days later. Bratton said she would have voted for the bill on its first go-round.
“It seems to me that a number of politicians had a choice between listening to the anger of their constituents or using their position and their access to more knowledge to make leadership decisions and that they chose a political vote as opposed to a leadership, statesmanlike vote,†Bratton said.
Well that blows. I hardly call voting for the $700 billion Wall Street give away leadership. Leadership would have been opposing the bailout and demanding that the Congress take some more time to develop a more responsible plan that didn’t involve almost a trillion dollars of corporate welfare. They rushed through this bailout package and what good did it do? The DOW Jones has tanked thousands of points anyway.
