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the house republicans are trying to distance themselves with this very unpopular bail out......initiated by a republican president in behest im sure of republican lobbiest.

they raise a stink, and reluctantly go back to the table, and in the media it comes out like they are playing ball with a DEMOCRATIC plan. they want to turn all that negativeivity about this autrocity of a plan against the dems.

they are playing politics with the bail out plan.

its a huge gamble. i dont really think they are going to be able to convince the public that its a dem plan to swing voters into their camp who are against it. its a republican mess, with a republican quick fix.

and the dems are doing a GREAT job of placing not only the mess at the repubs feet, but the inability to even come to the table to figure out a fix.

and they NEED to keep hammering it home every time they step in front of a microphone too. they need to make sure the repubs DO NOT get a sound bite laying this very very unpopular atrocity at the dems feet.

this is the election changer. if the repubs can lay this bail out at the dems feet as a dem plan, its over for the dems. if the dems can keep people focused on the fact that this mess is a republican mess, and this bail out is a republican initiated plan, and that the impass is a republican impass who cant seem to even get a team together at the table for a fix.......by by mccain.

so far, the dems are doing a fantastic job. mccains hard roll of the dice on this issue is backfiring.

the ONLY thing that could possibly stop a dem presidency at this point is for obama to really ***** up, or for the dems to have underestamated the tide of racial prejudice in america still. a stigma tainting this country that will be blown out of the water in front of the whole world if he does win.

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I think the OP was about the campaign and not about the economic mess. You, however, much in the same style as your candidate, want to use the economy as a means to make you seem more caring about america's financial future...because you are a republican.

Should you really be posting here when the country is in the crisis that it is? What kind of citizen are you anyways?!!

Heard something that made me cheer.

Legal immigrants and permanent residents are taking the oath of citizenship in droves this year, some after living here for decades, so they can vote for Obama. (Mostly so they can vote AGAINST McCain, but the next effect is the same.)

While this is a highly opinionated statement and I have no cite or statistic to back it up, I think it's safe to say that a good majority of American's voting in favor of Obama aren't so naive as to believe that "One President is going to save the world".

The Presidential selection as it is today is more or less selecting the lesser of two (or three...poor Independents) evils. No one is coming to save America in a four year term. Not Obama OR McCain. The idea is to elect the person best suited with the best long-term outline to put America in a better situation in, say, 10 years...than it is today.

Essentially, your statement (above) sounds a lot like a Rebuplican statement, even though you state you're not a Republican. Just in case your having an identity crisis.

Lol... Funny. What you're seeing is a media that's blindly repeating the Dem talking points literally word for word. Sad really. Sadder that so many are so easily influenced by perception while missing the reality right in front of them.

McCain has actually been doing work, not just giving press conferences like Obama has. Now, since all you're seeing is the press conferences you think that means Obama's somehow doing something while McCain is off in the background.

The deal fell through because the Dems added a half dozen pet objectives into it. I'd suspect it was done deliberately. Look up "poison pill" if you're not sure what I'm talking about. Reid and Frank getting upset was a show for the masses. They deliberately walked into that meeting with a "plan" that they had concocted, then acted shocked when the Republicans didn't agree to what they wanted.


The party playing politics here is the Dems. Blatantly so. Why do you think you hear what you're hearing? Because it's a planned media event. They planned to have the meeting blow up and planned to have the conferences and interviews lined up so that they could throw their version of events in front of the people immediately. It's clever, and it's apparently working, but they're playing around with a situation that actually does need to be resolved.

What so, exactly?

Look, Samira, for five and a half years, John McCain couldn't visit Katie Couric. Show some God damned respect.

I just choked on my coffee. Have I told you, lately, that I love you?

Nexa

Restraining order?

Actually meeting with Republican and Democrat members of Congress to hammer out a real deal instead of the farce that was presented in yesterday's meeting. Um... But that's not getting much press now is it? Meanwhile, Obama is hanging out in a hotel lobby giving interviews to any reporter who walks up and talking about how McCain is somehow making things worse.


What I find amazing about this whole thing is how liberal pundits talked for days in a sarcastic tone about how Republicans were supposed to be against big government, so why was Paulson and Co pushing this big bailout deal, and yet now they're shocked when Republicans actually oppose the very big government plan that the Dems attacked them for not opposing.

You don't get to have it both ways. Either it's wrong for Republicans to go along with a big government plan, or it's not. How about you guys pick a position for once instead of standing on the sidelines sniping? What happened here is that the Dems took a plan that had some serious spending in it that most sides weren't happy with but was considered necessary, then invented their own version which included stuff like paying off mortgages for people who shouldn't have been granted them in the first place, and elimination of CEO packages (some of which may be reasonable, but they were pushing it far too broadly), along with additional packages that essentially do more of the same thing that got us into this problem in the first place.


When will the Dems realize that the reason we're in this problem is that we attempted to use the lending institutions of this country as a social engineering construct by giving people loans they couldn't afford to pay off? By bundling yet more of that sort of spending into the very package designed to pay off the difference, they're just pushing the problem further down the line. It's the same mistake that's been made for the last 20+ years. How about we actually do the right thing for once?



And for those thinking that no-one saw this coming and tried to correct it. You're wrong. I found some blog page that has a pretty decent rundown of events. It's actually missing a couple of earlier pieces, but does do a decent job showing who did what and when. Basically, this issue has been split on party lines, with Republicans wanting to overhaul the lending system to prevent the exact problem we're now facing and Dems blocking those attempts right across the board.


As I've been saying all along. The Dems want those systems to work the way they do so they can use them for their social agenda. What's happening right now is that we're paying for the money they've been spending without us noticing. That's 700 Billion dollars of our money that they've handed away and want us to pay. And we might have to just to clean up the mess. But I think it's reasonable that we change the systems so that we're not continuing to use them in this manner going forward. If we spend this money and don't address the problem, we'll just hit the same thing 10 or 20 years from now. And it'll likely be worse then now.


So yeah. Republicans are right to block the Dem version of this. Not only are the Dems really the ones's most responsible for the problem, but they're attempting to use the "solution" to just do more of the same thing that got us into this mess in the first place.