Posted on 09/26/2008 11:36:00 AM PDT by Revel
How do you conclude the Pubbies caved from what Senator Bunning just said?
It’s not that I necessarily believe it to be untrue, but you provide no evidence for that conclusion.
McCain’s going through with debate tonight could mean precisely that or something entirely different. So far as I know he has not restarted the rest of his campaign.
I fully expect him to use the debate tonight to press this issue. Despite dem whinning it was McCain who interrupted the little dance going on between Pres. Bush and dems. And I think it was McCain who triggered public outrage about the so-called remedies being pushed by both those entities. Outrage so intense that voters are contacting their representatives and telling them not only no, but hell no. That’s exactly how one dem Senator described the correspondance from his constituents. He said “it was about 50-50. 50% no. 50% hell no.”
This thing isn’t over until the fat lady sings. You also fail to know or remember that dems have not had any pubbie roll overs since they assumed majority in Congress. Remember the so-called comprehensive Illegal Immigration Bill? Public outrage killed it. Most recently dems lost fight to prevent off shore drilling. The ban expires on Sunday—I think. Have you forgotten already Dingy Harry going before the microphones and cameras proclaiming “we killed the Patriot Act”. Not.
Get a grip Stockpirate.
Look, we know that some sort of bail out is inevitable, it is just a matter of how bad this bill is going to be. At this point the Republicans have the upper hand. The Democrats are trying to force the Republicans to approve something that they absolutely oppose and that the majority of the voters oppose.
The Democrats wanted to hang this on Republicans and try to say that they were forced to do it by the circumstances, so they tried to make it as “progressive” as possible. In reality the whole thing is socialist/progressive.
The first paragraph in the ABC article says basically that Bush and McCain are trying to get House republicans to support the bailout bill.
Ya baby! That’s a senator with chestnuts and statesmanship.
We can either let the people who made bad decisions bear the consequences of their actions, or we can spread that pain to others. And that is exactly what Secretary Paulson proposes to do – take Wall Street’s pain and spread it to the taxpayers.
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Lt the people who made bad decisions bear the consequences of their actions.........simple solution....DO IT!
However, Rush per usual was right today -- he said the House Repubs had better get their mugs on TV and start trumpeting some of the truth of what's happened/happening. Stop waiting for the reporters to come to them in their spare time; hold an hour long press conference tonight before the 6:00 news and HAMMER THE TRUTH HOME.
Thank you Senator Bunning for ALWAYS being at the top of your game.
The GOP moved from tragedy to farce years ago. He's 72 (with respect to all the seniors here) and not in good health. This was damn foreseeable months ago.
Anyone know where we can see this letter from the “economists”? I read that L.A. Times article from 1999
I called my GOP Congressman’s office (Todd Platts). His aid said that he hadn’t yet decided what to do. I told him that no Republican should vote for any bailout, unless they wanted to give cover to the guilty Democrats.
Called his office and asked they tell him thank you for standing up for us! Think everybody needs to do this.
How do you figure that? ACORN will use the money to hire more thugs to perpetrate more voter fraud.
Hannity was talking with Pence(Ind). Pence thanked the people that have flooded email, fax & phones for their support and asked we keep up the good work.
Radio time was running out and Sean asked directly where John McCain stood on this issue.
Pence said he had not talked to John but McCain does not support the Paulsen bailout.
This from my memory of what was said as I was listening on car radio.
stockpirate you have freedom of speech, but you need to get a grip before you have a stroke or something.
It's true the democrats can vote the Paulsen bailout, but they want the Republicans to vote with them to CTA. As far as I know now that hasn't happened.
They tried to cast Bunning as senile during the last election, He is anything but.
Thanks for the ping!
Glad at least one of our Senators has a pair. Of course I’m still fuming that McConnell’s office told me yesterday that “he hadn’t made up his mind how he was going to vote.”
Spreading the pain for bad decisions. We also need to be spreading the wealth more widely rather than concentrating it through oh, so clever, tricks that almost no one understands or can track.
Realistic, full of common sense, truthful - I'm glad I voted for this guy.
but it is just plain wrong to blame failures of our regulations and regulators on the markets
I couldn't agree more. The ironic thing is if they had just let these corporations pursue wealth or be greedy as some call it instead of turning these lending institutions into charities, none of this would have happened.
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