Posted on 09/26/2008 9:49:43 AM PDT by Hillary'sMoralVoid
McCain has gained a lot of respect for going to Washington to help sort out the financial crisis. He cannot afford to squander that respect by caving to the Democrats plans.
Latest polls indicate that only 30% of the American public support this bailout. McCain can make a powerful case that he is representing the people by voting against this with the rest of the Republicans.
McCain should not try to be the hero and craft a "bipartisan" solution, it would never pass a Democratic Congress. He will lose his base if he does this.
Have you read Boehner’s letter to pelosi. That spells out the House GOP position and McCain has staked out a position with them.
Consider this also: opposing the bailout is even cheaper, politically speaking, than we are hearing. Only 30% support the bailout. This 30% is probably made up largely of the type of unproductive, gimme-gimme-gimme, want a handout instead of a job, expects the gubmint to do everything for them type of losers who a) took out these loans and got unto this mess in the first place and, b) overwhelmingly vote Dimocrat. McCain won't be losing much (if any) political capital by siding against these goobers.
If McCain were going to cave and vote with the Dems, it would have happened last night.
He’s going to be a maverick, and bipartisan, and reach across the aisle.
Just watch.
RE: “.......Only 30% support the bailout. This 30% is probably made up largely of the type of unproductive, gimme-gimme-gimme, want a handout instead of a job, expects the gubmint to do everything for them type of losers.....”
AGREE. NON-supporters of this bail-out atrocity are on all sides of the political spectrum. Citizens have taken to the streets with their complaints and have flooded Congress’ e-mail boxes and phone lines with negative commentary. McCain has nothing to lose by going against the ultra-flawed plan by Dems and Bush — a plan that included $$ for the highly-scrutinized and constantly-in-court-for-bad-behavior ACORN group long affiliated with Obama.
There has to be compromises, the Republicans are in the minority. Don’t “throw the baby out with the bathwater” and expect Senator McCain to do EVERYTHING the conservatives want and condemn him if he does not perform up to your expectations. He cannot do that, he can do his best, but logically Republicans cannot have their way on the whole thing.
What are we going to do, vote for Obama?
He knows that. The stinking liberal.
Conservatives are too smart to fall for this article. When faced with times like these, one is forced to choose the least of two evils, not that McCain is evil. There is not a single Conservative, with a Capital ‘C’, that would vote for Obambi over McCain and any reasoning against it is faulty and dangerous.
Yeah? Why is it always we who compromise?
He cannot do that,
He can. But he won't.
he can do his best, but logically Republicans cannot have their way on the whole thing.
No, but we can have much more than you seem to be willing to conceive.
Over the past week, other threads had people worried about what this bailout is doing to the stock market. IMHO, the stock market is taking hits because investors what to sit this out until the dust settles. This is OK but also presents the opportunity for a fast rebound, especially if the House Republicans win out with their plan of having private investors foot the bailout. True, the private investor runs risk, but if their reward is avoidance of capital gains for a handful of years, then the 100s of billions of dollars sitting on the sidelines will start flowing into their plan.
Phone, write and email your Representatives and Senators.
But a bill needs to pass.
McCain needs to be out front saying that we should pass the House GOP alternative. It wont go far since the Dems have the majority, but then he has cover to vote no on the final bill.
Alternatively, he votes ‘aye’ on the final bill for the sake of unity.
The play here, IMO, is for McCain to talk about the need to craft a plan that is FAIR to the American People, the need for bipartisanship etc etc. As the Dems finally get around to passing a bill and it is up for vote, McCain and the house GOP vote NO, knowing the bill is going to pass.
The influx of money to the system should stop an economic collapse...at least for 40 days, but what most of America is going to think is “THERE WAS NO CRISIS”. I don’t think the Democrats and the MSM “get” the hatred for this situation right now. It is anger that isn’t going to listen to any argument. The only thing that would change that view, is to let the system crash, which they won’t do.
So the Dems would pass the bill that allows everyone to say “see there was no real crisis” while the GOP and McCain can say the democrats and Bush passed the WRONG bill and is saddling the country with another huge debt and McPalin will ride to Washington to fix it.
Will McCain roll the dice and try that? Or will he just go along and hope the issue fades?
Ironically, if this falls JUST right, the Dems might pass the bill that buys us time, while simultaneously cutting their own and Obama’s throat, which allows McPalin to actually push through needed reform.
Assuming McCain is serious about actually taking a flamethrower to Washington.
1) Repeal the Move To Market portion of Sarbanes/Oxley (Repeal the whole thing if we can, but this portion is what is really killing everything)
2) Extend HUD-loan insurance to the sub-prime loans.
Dave Ramsey says it a lot better than I can. Look here for more.
Then call your congresscritter.
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