By Sam Youngman

Posted: 09/23/08 01:47 PM [ET]

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that any lawmaker who votes for the Bush administration's $700 billion bailout package, which he called a “dead loser,” will face defeat in November.

Gingrich (R-Ga.) said he thinks Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is trying to scare lawmakers into ( Read more... )

Banks to make massive profits from this proposal.

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Paulson eyes rescue plan backing

Henry Paulson on the plan to rescue the US economy

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The Nation.

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By William Greider

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If this gets on the air watch for mega nationwide consumer bank runs. I think we're getting played.

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