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McCain: Bailout a 'tourniquet'
The Hill ^ | 03 Oct 2008 | Sam Youngman

Posted on 10/03/2008 2:52:03 PM PDT by BGHater

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To: river rat

It’s looking more an more like Palin was just a ploy to get conservative votes. She’ll either be “neutered” so to speak by Washington, or she’ll have to get out. I feel bad for her. McCain threw us a bone and expected to be good lap dogs.


21 posted on 10/03/2008 3:11:14 PM PDT by djsherin (The federal government: Because your life isn't screwed up enough!)
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To: BGHater

Tourniquet, eh? More like a garrote.


22 posted on 10/03/2008 3:13:19 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Cure CINOism- Write in proven conservatives at all levels on the ballot)
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To: djsherin
It’s looking more an more like Palin was just a ploy to get conservative votes. She’ll either be “neutered” so to speak by Washington, or she’ll have to get out. I feel bad for her. McCain threw us a bone and expected to be good lap dogs.

LOL! Ya think?

23 posted on 10/03/2008 3:14:59 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Cure CINOism- Write in proven conservatives at all levels on the ballot)
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To: djsherin
I agree with you.

When I saw the joint couric interview of mccain & palin, mccain commented on the overwhelming reaction to the ticket. Interestingly, he stated he would like to think it was because of him but acknowledged the palin factor.

It struck me that perhaps he is jealous of palin and he still doesn't get it - conservatism wins elections.

24 posted on 10/03/2008 3:15:14 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: BGHater

McCain handled this entire issue so badly, he should just shut the hell up about it, get it behind him, and hope that voters forget about it. He could have won the election on this issue had he handled it differently. Instead, he did the exact opposite of what needed to be done to make this issue work to our favor.

The moment Fannie & Freddie got taken over by the government, McCain should have called it the Democrat’s ‘Enron’ and hammered them on it. McCain could have hung this entire thing around 0bama’s neck during the first debate and would have won the election that night. Instead McCain continues to aimlessly bash “Wall Street”, and still has yet to call out the democrats and 0bama on this.

It’s a dammed shame!!


25 posted on 10/03/2008 3:16:17 PM PDT by KoRn ("Change": Come Help A Nitwit Get Elected)
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To: BGHater
McCain said "we must stop the damage to our economy done by corrupt and incompetent practices on Wall Street and in Washington."

The cause is plain and simple, the Democrats, with Republicans acquiescence, forced social engineering decisions on the home finance industry's business decisions.

And now the Democrats are going to try and line the Republicans up against the wall for the blame on this $700 Billion travesty.

Guess what? I have no desire to step up and help the Republicans in any way, they played "go along & get along" with their Democrat friends, now they can look to their Democrat friends for help.

26 posted on 10/03/2008 3:16:41 PM PDT by RJL
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To: skeeter
I noted that also....

'Bout time too.....

Now the next step is to start naming names.

27 posted on 10/03/2008 3:18:33 PM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: BGHater

Will the next debate have Obama and Mccain patting themselves on the back?


28 posted on 10/03/2008 3:24:57 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (THE NEW MILLIONAIRES CLUB : YOUR FRIENDLY NIEGHBORHOOD CONGRESSMEN)
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To: BGHater
'McCain said "we must stop the damage to our economy done by corrupt and incompetent practices on Wall Street and in Washington."'

Thanks for the laugh, then why did you sign the bill then?

Btw, Sen. McCain, it's a 'tourniquet' around the taxpayers neck.

McCain was handed a great gift last week - he was given an opportunity in which he could easily have turned this around.

He discard that gift like so much garbage.

McCain could have said that he was stepping into a position of leadership in his party, and he could have led the GOP away from this pork-laden monstrosity of a bill. Instead, in the middle of this crisis,he attended Clinton's event with rock stars last Thursday, then blew into Washington DC, where he said he wouldn't debate unless there was a working bill.

The bill he shouldn't have supported in the first place failed to pass, but he still went to Mississippi to debate.

Mr. McCain squandered his chance last week, jumping on the bandwagon of porkers this week, all the while giving interviews about how when he's president, things will somehow be different.

I supported John McCain in the 2000 election. I believed that the time that he was the best candidate for the job, but do not think so now. McCain isn't the same crusader for low taxes and a free-market economy he once was.

John McCain joins the rest of the entrenched Democrats and Republicans in Congress who show a disdain for their fellow Americans when he supports a bill like this.

There are untold numbers of hard-working Americans who sway under the burden of ever higher taxes. Thanks to this bill, they'll have even more. This "bail out" and the audacious, reckless addition of pork barrel projects is a direct slap in the face of the people John McCain needs to become president.

There was a time that he would not have supported this bill.

29 posted on 10/03/2008 3:32:55 PM PDT by mountainbunny ("I've got a plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a weasel!" Blackadder)
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To: BGHater

Why fight any of this.... just let the country go down without pretending that we have any chance at all?

It sometimes puzzles me as to why so many members on FR, recently, put so many words in their posts when it would suffice it to say...”VOTE FOR OBAMA”

The libs must be very pleased when they read so many damn defeatist posts on here. Let us all work hard to keep the libs happy and scream together....”VOTE FOR OBAMA...VOTE FOR THE ONE....SAVE US FROM McCAIN/PALIN AND DO THE RIGHT THING...VOTE FOR OBAMA!!! “


30 posted on 10/03/2008 3:35:12 PM PDT by Gator113 ("Noli nothis permittere te terere.")
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To: newfreep

***conservatism wins elections***

Which is why I think McCain will lose.


31 posted on 10/03/2008 3:37:43 PM PDT by djsherin (The federal government: Because your life isn't screwed up enough!)
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To: Gator113

Can you tell? Some of you folks, even when I may agree with your logic... are driving me crazy!! ;>)


32 posted on 10/03/2008 3:38:48 PM PDT by Gator113 ("Noli nothis permittere te terere.")
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To: BGHater
McCain said "we must stop the damage to our economy done by corrupt and incompetent practices on Wall Street and in Washington."

I would have preferred this:

McCain said "we must arrest, then frogmarch the bastards who did the damage to our economy, all the corrupt and incompetent practitioners on Wall Street and in Washington, then imprison them for a very long time -- as a lesson to the next generation."

33 posted on 10/03/2008 3:43:26 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I am a monument to all things wildly inappropriate.)
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To: djsherin

That’s how I see it as well. It’s also why I never got very excited and jumped on the bandwagon.


34 posted on 10/03/2008 3:43:56 PM PDT by 383rr (Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither- GUN CONTROL=SLAVERY)
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To: BGHater
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Friday that the financial rescue package is a "tourniquet," not a solution to the ongoing financial crisis, but he was "glad" he suspended his campaign last week and returned to Washington.

I thought a tourniquet was essentially a permanent solution (a proper amputation is still required, but whatever infection was below the tourniquet will get killed off along with everything else.

Unfortunately, what was needed was a tourniquet and this bailout wasn't it. A tourniquet would have involved forced disclosure of pending bets in the CDS market (no bet is payable until e.g. a week or two after it is disclosed) which would have resulted in a revaluation of credit default swaps and a restoration of market sanity. Instead, what we got was a transfusion which does nothing to fix the completely shredded limb which is unsalvageable but is hemorrhaging like crazy.

35 posted on 10/03/2008 3:47:08 PM PDT by supercat
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To: rwilson99
Palin 2012.

Thanks for playing John.


It is my firm belief that, if Obama wins this year and the democrats build upon their house and senate majorities, that democrats will become so entrenched in Washington and elsewhere that it will be next to impossible to get Palin or any other republican elected in 2012 or 2016 or many elections after that.

In fact, with the socialists firmly in control, they may even be able to get away with outlawing all parties except the "democratic" party. With Obama and a democratic party congress with a veto-proof majority, and with a "new" liberal Supreme Court, they will in fact be able to change the constitution and the bill or rights, which has been their desire for ages.
36 posted on 10/03/2008 3:47:32 PM PDT by adorno
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To: BGHater

A GOP Congress is the only hope. McAzzhat is a senile dupe.


37 posted on 10/03/2008 4:08:45 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: BGHater
Emergency? Tourniquet? Crisis? I don't believe any of it. IF we really were in some sort of financial crisis, then the congress and the president would have passed emergency measures and would not have pushed the HUGE pork laden spending bill and then loaded it up with even more spending before finally passing it.

This is a scam and we have been taken once again by the very people who caused the problem and by an administration too inept to fight them. I'm glad he was able to beat Algore and Kerry, but I take back my opinion that one day Bush 43 would be remembered well as a great president.

38 posted on 10/03/2008 4:13:15 PM PDT by GBA
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To: adorno

I think Rush put it best today when he talked about the cabinet under McCain...

Al Gore in charge of ‘Climate Change Initiatives’

Excuse me while I hurl....

Obama wins this year... aligns himself to the left of the 8% favorability Democratic Congress... Republicans who voted add a trillion in national debt get primary challengers or are too embarrassed to come back after getting beat this year.

Carter gave us Reagan... and Clinton gave conservatives a majority in both houses of Congress.

America will be just fine starting in 2010.


39 posted on 10/03/2008 4:33:19 PM PDT by rwilson99 (New McCain Ad: Barrack Obama's Half Billion Dollar Campaign is Financed by Freddie Mae & Freddie Mac)
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To: BGHater
Thanks for nothing, John "The Maverick Sellout".
40 posted on 10/03/2008 5:05:21 PM PDT by adm5 (YOU CANNOT FIX CAPITALISM WITH SOCIALISM! -Glenn Beck)
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