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| If the Dems pass their left-wing fantasy version of the bailout . . . |
| 2008-09-29 |
| . . . it's likely to be a bad thing for us all. But then again, Jim Geraghty at National Review proposes a more favorable scenario: Just about very vulnerable House member voted no today. If House Democrats want to pass a left-wing, ACORN-heavy, union-proxies, salary-setting bill, fine. Let Senate Democrats pass that one, too. Let Barack Obama go on record in favor of it. At the heart, the rescue plan is a phenomenally unpopular proposal that is necessary to avert disaster that, for some reason, the public doesn't quite think is real yet. Let the Democrats pass the bill and let the unpopular Bush sign it. The Republicans running for House and Senate — and McCain, for that matter — can denounce it until their throats are hoarse every day from now until Election Day. Every voter will no that at a moment when most Americans were struggling, the Democrats voted along party lines to "bail out Wall Street." The bailout might save Wall Street, and ensure a Republican tsunami on Election Day to strip out the worst parts of the bill in 2009... |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #6 The real problem is the fact that people believe in that mindset that this is Grandpa's Democratic party. Suprise! It is not. It takes Americans a long time to look at what is really happening. They study it eventually (I Believe), and they are studious of some very diverse history. Give them time to do their homework. Assign it often. They are bored with keeping up and resigned their fate to anyone they see everyday. Also understand that the VP pick is just an average American Housewife who happened to join the pta that led to state government. They can relate to that. I can in a way find it comforting. |
| Posted by: newc 2008-09-29 20:37 |
| #5 Pubbies brought a pocket knife to a Chicago gun fight. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2008-09-29 19:25 |
| #4 THE STUPID PARTY BLEW IT AGAIN. THEY SHOULD BE SCREAMING THIS ISN'T THE BILL BUSH sent - they would have signed that. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2008-09-29 19:17 |
| #3 If House Democrats want to pass a left-wing, ACORN-heavy, union-proxies, salary-setting bill, fine. Let Senate Democrats pass that one, too. Let Barack Obama go on record in favor of it. Obama doesn't have an opinion on the bailout package until he gets elected and then he will follow the dictates of the left-wing donk ideologs in his party and Congress. He is not the messiah of change. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-09-29 19:01 |
| #2 Timing is everything. If Obama wins, with a rubber stamp congress and a big media tailwind he can do anything he wants next year. Hillary to SC, reinstate the "fairness doctrine", ANYTHING. And the democrats are stretching this crisis out because they figure it's to their benefit, and increases the chances of the above happening. |
| Posted by: Minister of funny walks 2008-09-29 18:29 |
| #1 This will be absolute politcal suicide for the democrats. I doubt they have the courage to undertake such a move. What we are witnessing is econ-class warfare, ie, the working man, earner and American taxpayer vs the entitlement class, non-earner and greedy carpetbaggers led by the democrats. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-09-29 17:12 |