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not just semantic
Shall we move on?
That TARP and ARRA were inextricably linked would be far less about semantics than any popular notion of what nick names are given to the bills. The fact is TARP paved the way for ARRA, the "bailouts" made the "stimulus" possible.
Before we got side tracked on your fixation with a petty semantic argument, I was pointing out that Obama not only bailed out the banks, he made sure his Wall Street buddies got away with their crimes.
To further demonstrate that it makes perfect sense to claim that Obama bailed out the banks, I would also point out that Obama was one of the senators who created TARP. You can't just blame that on Dubya. You can blame Dubya for causing a need for such measures though.
As of yet, he has failed to bring justice to Wall Street.
"Well, first on the issue of prosecutions on Wall Street, one of the biggest problems about the collapse of Lehmans and the subsequent financial crisis and the whole subprime lending fiasco is that a lot of that stuff wasn’t necessarily illegal, it was just immoral or inappropriate or reckless…" ~Obama
It is just like the CIA interrogators. Maybe they started during the Dubya years, but they were used just as much, then absolved of their criminal behavior by the current president. It is a slap in the face to the people who voted for him.